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Can Snakes Hear?

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Can Snakes Hear?

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Short Yes. Although snakes lack an external ear or ear drum, their skin and bones pick up vibrations and transmit them to a functional inner ear. It was once believed that snakes could only detect vibrations transmitted through the ground, but is now known that they can indeed pick up even airborne sounds this way.

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Snakes lack ears, but are sensitive to vibrations in the air and on the ground. These vibrations are transferred to the lever arm of a snakes’ jaw upon which an ear bone, the columella, rests. Thus, snakes feel vibrations rather hear them.

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