Scientists in Australia put 19 snakes in a noise-proof room and tested the reptile's responses to various sound frequencies. What they found might surprise you. (via FieldandStream)
. “But we’ve puzzled over whether they can also hear airborne sound vibrations, and particularly over how theyZdenek and her colleagues approached this conundrum by bringing 19 different snakes, representing seven different species, into a sound-proof room at the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Creative Practice.
“Death adders are ambush predators. They wait for their prey to come to them using the lure on their tail , and they can’t travel quickly,” she wrote. “So it makes sense they trended away from the sound. For them, survival means avoiding being trodden on by large vertebrates such as kangaroos, wombats or humans.”
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