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You can find more details on [http://web.archive.org/web/20050618073622/http://homepage.mac.com/swhenneberry/OnMyMind/C40673818/E1060299329/ this bygone blog] from an American living in Japan who was bitten by one. (He has not yet died from nighttime mukade attacks and now blogs [https://www.stephen.henneberry.net/about/ here].) According to that page, the mukade can "see" you in the dark by sensing your vibrations. | You can find more details on [http://web.archive.org/web/20050618073622/http://homepage.mac.com/swhenneberry/OnMyMind/C40673818/E1060299329/ this bygone blog] from an American living in Japan who was bitten by one. (He has not yet died from nighttime mukade attacks and now blogs [https://www.stephen.henneberry.net/about/ here].) According to that page, the mukade can "see" you in the dark by sensing your vibrations. | ||
Speaking of vision, many centipedes do not have eyes, and some do not even have photosensitive eyespots, so how do they see at all? Scientists only [https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/how-to-see-without-eyes-or-a-protein-that-senses-light/ determined in 2022] that the Chinese red-head centipede, a close cousin of the mukade, "sees" light by sensing heat. This was not obvious before now because the amount of light that they can sense is well below the amount that should heat them up. Apparently their antennae have a special property that causes them to heat up quickly under light ({{ | Speaking of vision, many centipedes do not have eyes, and some do not even have photosensitive eyespots, so how do they see at all? Scientists only [https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/how-to-see-without-eyes-or-a-protein-that-senses-light/ determined in 2022] that the Chinese red-head centipede, a close cousin of the mukade, "sees" light by sensing heat. This was not obvious before now because the amount of light that they can sense is well below the amount that should heat them up. Apparently their antennae have a special property that causes them to heat up quickly under light ({{Temp|8|C|0|r}} in 10 seconds, in one experiment), and the centipede then responds to that peculiar heat. This has never been observed in the animal kingdom before and the mechanism is still under investigation. Whether this form of "vision" is used by the mukade is not clear at present. | ||
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