Hearing study at UC with snakes

[ev477]

http://www.uc.edu/News/NR.aspx?ID=9569

Check it out, they're going to look at snakes brains!

I used to go to school here, I thought it was pretty interesting to see a burm on the home page of the website.

[MasonC2K]

That's one docile burm.

[littleindiangirl]

Don't most burms just lay around?

[Slim]

If my room mate was in a class like that, I would soooo rub a dead rat on their clothes while they were sleeping

[SamuraiZr0]

well it's always been known that snakes"hear" by viration... they just don't hear sound Ike humans or dogs or cats... I mean when is the last time you called your pet snake and it came slithering out to greet you lol

[Demon280z]

If my room mate was in a class like that, I would soooo rub a dead rat on their clothes while they were sleeping

That would just be awesome.

[ev477]

If my room mate was in a class like that, I would soooo rub a dead rat on their clothes while they were sleeping

Note to self: never rent an apartment with anyone on BP.net

well it's always been known that snakes"hear" by viration... they just don't hear sound Ike humans or dogs or cats... I mean when is the last time you called your pet snake and it came slithering out to greet you lol

I know they sense sound by vibration. I'm pretty sure it's through their belly scales, not through their ears. I thought I have read before that they have some sort of internal ear structure. I assumed they were able to hear things, but it would be like if you held your hands over your ears, just very muffled and not clear.