Smart one lol

[Borgpython]

My snake did a funny thing today which my wife and I thought was pretty clever. But basically, we feed her f/t rats and I blow dry them in the same room, and as you guys know the blow-drier makes a very loud noise and this is when she usually comes out looking hungry. We thought its because she smells the rat being warmed up by the blow-drier but now we dont know. Today my wife was vacuuming the room and the snake came out acting like its feeding time, only because the sound of the vacuum is similar to a blow dryer!, how clever!, my wife and I thought this was pretty cool that she associates that noise to feeding time.

[anicatgirl]

How goofy. Must be a good eater

[BallPython.Fanatic]

that's strange because snakes cant hear

[Atrox]

that's strange because snakes cant hear

Indeed.

The snake may have just noticed your wife and thought she was going to be fed.

[The Golem]

that's strange because snakes cant hear

That myth has been refuted.

http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/12/v...lp-snakes-hear

[Borgpython]

IF it's not the sound then I'd what could have triggered it. She never acts that way, only in feeding time , she completely emerges out her enclosure acting crazed lol. Any other time she just chills in her hide, sometimes with her head poking out but that's about it. I don't think it was triggered by seeing my wife either because she sees us all the time as her enclosure is in our room with us and she never acts on it. And our vacuum certainly doesn't smell of rats. Maybe sound vibrations from blow dryer and vacuum are similar or close ?

[DennisM]

That myth has been refuted.

http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/12/v...lp-snakes-hear

Well, I read the article, and it could be debated whether this is hearing or not (no, I'm not interested in having that debate). The same structure that senses ground vibrations also senses airborne vibrations. Nonetheless, in this case the snake is possibly sensing something similar in both appliances. Or it's responding to the vacuuming person's movements and the scent of rats at feeding time. Only the snake knows for sure and it won't be sharing that info with us.

[AlexisFitzy]

I've had a similar experience. I use a hair dryer to warm up my rats for feeding too and I've always thought that the sound is what gets them going. One day I had the hair dryer on in the living room not warming rats but just had it on to see what would happen (my snakes are in my bedroom) and when I returned to my room I had a lot if hungry faces looking at me lol. I think I posted something like this once and got some sarcastic comments like "Snakes are deaf when did yours start being able to hear?" And "You know snakes can't hear right?" But no one had an answer for why they thought it was feeding time. It would be cool to really know what was going on in situations like these though thanks for sharing your experience makes me feel better about my silly snakes lol.

[DVirginiana]

Anything that makes a loud sound is also going to make vibrations though. If you're using a vacuum or holding a hairdryer while standing in the room, the snakes are going to be able to feel those vibrations. Heck, people can feel them and I imagine a snake is much more sensitive to that sort of thing. They probably even know when we're talking while we hold them to some extent bc of the vibrations it sends through our bodies.

[Reinz]

Some folks think that just because snakes don't freakout with noise like a cat or a horse that they must me deaf.

Just spend time observing and you will see that they detect sound from the air.

Is that hearing? That's debatable.

A deaf person can feel as well as hearing folks by picking up vibrations through our mastoid bones in our skull.

Deaf people "hear"/feel music through their bodies and mastoid, no lyrics but the music. Yes, Deaf people dance!

Bottom line is, our snakes have Sound Detection.

But never think of "deaf" as in defenseless with our snakes in dealing with sounds.