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  2. Binocular vision - Wikipedia

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    Some animals – usually, but not always, prey animalshave their two eyes positioned on opposite sides of their heads to give the widest possible field of view. Examples include rabbits, buffalo, and antelopes. In such animals, the eyes often move independently to increase the field of view.

  3. Fang - Wikipedia

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    (The largest two teeth of the top and bottom rows of teeth.) A fang is a long, pointed tooth. [1] In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh. In snakes, it is a specialized tooth that is associated with a venom gland (see snake venom). [2] Spiders also have external fangs, which are part of the chelicerae.

  4. Spitting cobra - Wikipedia

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    The spitting cobra has evolved to aim the venom that it spits into or as close as possible to the antagonist’s face and eyes. [1] The cobras can measure and adjust the venom dosage being delivered, based on the size and relative distance of their target, in order to ensure the highest envenomation potential possible.

  5. Compound eye - Wikipedia

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    Compound eye of Antarctic krill as imaged by an electron microscope. A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.It may consist of thousands of ommatidia, [1] which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells which distinguish brightness and color.

  6. Spider - Wikipedia

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    The Mygalomorphae, which first appeared in the Triassic period, [96] are generally heavily built and ″hairy″, with large, robust chelicerae and fangs (technically, spiders do not have true hairs, but rather setae). [114] [105] Well-known examples include tarantulas, ctenizid trapdoor spiders and the Australasian funnel-web spiders. [13]

  7. Tentacle - Wikipedia

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    While arms are distinct from tentacles (a definition specific to the limb featuring peduncles), arms do fall within the general definition of "tentacle" as "a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ" and "tentacle" could be used as an umbrella term. The tentacles of the giant squid and colossal squid have powerful suckers and pointed teeth at the ...

  8. Insect mouthparts - Wikipedia

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    Some moths do not feed after emerging from the pupa, and have greatly reduced, vestigial mouthparts or none at all. All but a few adult Lepidoptera lack mandibles (the superfamily known as the mandibulate moths have fully developed mandibles as adults), but also have the remaining mouthparts in the form of an elongated sucking tube, the proboscis.

  9. Snake - Wikipedia

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    Pit refers to special infrared-sensitive receptors located on either side of the head, between the nostrils and the eyes. In fact the pit looks like an extra pair of nostrils. All snakes have the ability to sense warmth with touch and heat receptors like other animals; however, the highly developed pit of the pit vipers is distinctive.