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Thermal radiation enters the facial pit through its external aperture and heats a suspended membrane covered with thousands of temperature sensors that are sensitive to minute changes. Sensor responses are preprocessed and mapped onto the tectum, where vision, sound and touch are also represented and combined, providing unified spatial awareness. Neurological evidence suggests that visual and thermal images might be merged, with surface temperatures as an additional \u2018color\u2019. However, the eye lens focuses a sharp visual image, while the lens-less facial pit forms an indistinct blurry image. Mathematically, their greatly differing information content apparently prevents formation of a meaningful combined image. More likely, thermal radiation information is presented spatially but non-visually, analogous to touch and sound. 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