sentence: Some salamanders use their pineal body to perceive polarised light, which helps navigation.
sentences_before: It may also do other things. Of all living tetrapods, the parietal eye is most obvious in this animal. The parietal eye is part of the pineal system. The animal's pineal gland secretes melatonin at night.
sentences_after: The new encyclopedia of reptiles and amphibians', Oxford University Press, Oxford. p52. Unlike lizards they have no eardrums or external male sexual organ.
concept_name: salamander
headings: Tuatara Sense organs Third 'eye'
categories: Reptiles Living fossils