How Do Snakes Hear Ssssssounds?
Whats the connection between nautical physics and snakes? According to the Discovery web site, researchers in the U.S. and Germany employed the physics of bobbing boats to determine that snakes don’t have one hearing system, they have two distinct auditory systems. For many years scientists did not think snakes could hear due to the lack of external ears and eardrums. Now scientists have shown despite the lack of external ears and eardrums, snakes can in fact hear. Its all in vibrations. Ssssnake Ssssounds Its amazing how little we know about the biology of snakes, stated Bruce Young, a biology professor at Wasburn University and an author of the study. For many years, scientists believed that snakes couldnt hear. Herpetologists (researchers who study reptiles) believed snakes gathered information about lunch and their surroundings through smell, taste and special heat-sensing organs near the nose. Rudimentary experiments in the 70s indicated that snakes could, indeed, hear but researc
