can bps hear?

[mlededee]

it doesnt seem like they have any kind of hearing orifice that i can see. like on lizards there is an opening with a membrane or something in it, but you can definitely see it. do snakes have a sense of hearing or do they just feel vibrations or something?

[kontron]

yes... in there own snake sort of way. they respond to sound. so they can hear. i think... i think i remember a late night on the couch, seeing something about snakes have hearing, but i cant remember exactly how it worked. i think it had something to do with vibrations picked up somewhere behind their jaw bones... but it could have been a certain type of snake too....i guess my fuzzy memory is not much help...

[Brandon.O]

From what i heard they dont hear at all. I think they can sense vibrations and things like that.I guess i wasted all that time and effort telling people to be quiet when they came into my room and making sure there were no loud noises around him.

[rex322]

they dont hear sound. they are sensitive to vibrations. thier jaw does pick up vibrations

[Smulkin]

I've seen this same text printed a couple places - check this:

So how can a snake hear, lacking external ears? By having equivalent structures on each side of its head. The skin and muscle tissue on each side of the head cover a loosely suspended bone, called the quadrate, which undergoes small displacements in response to airborne sound. The quadrate motion is transferred by intermediate structures to the cochlea, which produces electrical signals on its hair cells that correlate with the airborne sounds (within a range of intensity and frequency determined by the ear system) and are transferred to the brain. . . .

According to Porter [2], the auditory response of snakes in the range of 200 to 300 Hz is superior to that of cats. Hartline and Campbell [3] investigated the transmission of airborne sound through the snake's skin and lung into the inner ear. Wever's results show that this type of transmission, called the somatic mode, is much reduced compared to that through the skin to the quadrate, which is the main mode of hearing.

How are the cochlear responses to be interpreted? Wever points out that it is often difficult to determine the role of hearing in lower forms such as reptiles. It is possible that snakes make less use of the auditory sense than other animals. He notes that the maximum sensitivity occurs in the frequency range of noise made by movements of large animals, so detection of such sounds could function as a warning to snakes to be motionless, a common defensive action with animals. (Although not discussed in the references I was able to check, there is also the question of how the cochlear signals are used in the snake brain. Is it possible that the ability to process this information has been or is being lost?)

http://www.worldofpetsni.com/snake.htm
http://coloherp.org/cb-news/Vol-29/cbn-0201/index.php

[kontron]

200-300 hz? what do you assume humans hear?

[Smulkin]

Humans hear 20-20,000 HZ.

BUt it was talking about their response to the 200-300 Hz range - not stating those were the limits.

[snakeys1996]

i dont care if ball pythons hear or not, im still gonna play them songs lol

[Smulkin]

make sure you play em some bass lol.