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I'm not sure I'd be this calm feeding a bunch of cobras...
Snakes don't have ears, so it's debatable how much they "hear". Perhaps the whistling calms the keepers nerves?Whistling lets the snakes know their feed is coming?
Snakes don't have ears, so it's debatable how much they "hear". Perhaps the whistling calms the keepers nerves?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.../gIQAuseoWP_story.html?utm_term=.abf0054dc807When a rattlesnake shakes its tail, does it hear the rattling? Scientists have long struggled to understand how snakes, which lack external ears, sense sounds. Now, a new study shows that sound waves cause vibrations in a snake’s skull that are then “heard” by the inner ear.
“There’s been this enduring myth that snakes are deaf,” says neurobiologist Bruce Young of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who was not involved in the new research. “Behavioral studies have suggested that snakes can in fact hear, and now this work has gone one step further and explained how.”
Each time a sound was played through a speaker suspended above the snake’s cage, the researchers measured whether the nerve relayed an electrical pulse (the snakes showed no outward response to the sounds). The nerve pulses were strongest, the researchers found, with frequencies between 80 and 160 hertz—around the frequency for the lowest notes of a cello, though not necessarily sounds that snakes encounter often in the wild.
I thought the thread was going to be about storefront "financial advisors."
So why so many cobras in drawers?!!!!?!?!??
They used to have nice big offices, then the recession made everyone have little tiny cubes. [emoji35]I hope he closes the drawers all the way!
I feel sorry for the snakes having to live in those things.
I thought the thread was going to be about storefront "financial advisors."