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Animals who see infrared are cold blooded. My guess is that the hardware that evolution can easily produce to detect and process infrared gets flooded by the he
by throwaway44773 2y ago
Animals who see infrared are cold blooded. My guess is that the hardware that evolution can easily produce to detect and process infrared gets flooded by the heat of warmblooded animal and is therefore not effective for them.
- marcosdumay 2y agoWe could in theory avoid the problem if our eyes were at the top of antennas. But yeah, genetic evolution does not explore states widely different from its origin. The more complex an organism, the more "conservative" the entire process is, and we are quite complex.
- rtkwe 2y agoMost animals don't see into thermal IR ranges eitehr but the ones closer to the visible spectrum.