Sssssss. Ssssss. Yes, despite not having external ears or eardrums, snakes can hear. Here's how. 🐍
Woma pythons, on the other hand, didn’t shy away at all. They moved toward the noise, curious.
“We interpret it as being because they’re large nocturnal predators, top predators in their environment,” says Zdenek. “So, less wary of something having a go at them.
There may not be much difference between detecting the vibration from, say, the belly or the lower jaw and from the surface of the head, according to Young, who referencesthat argues that snakes hear everything by detecting vibrations with their skull . “The real holy grail right now in [snake hearing] work is to figure out the pathway in the brain,” Young says. And we just don’t know that yet. “Was the sound triggering a response to sound? Or was it just triggering a response to stimuli?”Sure, snakes hear better than we give them credit for. But at the end of the day, they still kind of suck at it.
According to van Hemmen,the sound strength of 85 dB, equivalent to human screaming, at a distance of more than 1.5 meters is stillSnakes also hear lower frequencies better than higher ones, and much lower ones than humans can, says Zdenek. “Snakes don't have nearly the range of frequency and the acuteness that humans do,” she says. “I imagine it's a bit of a muffled sound that snakes might hear.”suggested snakes best respond to airborne sounds between 200 and 400 Hz.
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