I'm so glad I found this video!!! I always talk to my snakes (probably more "baby talk" than they'd like..lol) but always assumed they were just hearing some static/fuzzy sounding vibrations. I've honestly never really heard anyone talking about a snake's internal ears and the pitch and decibels at which they can pick up on and hear. Great video/info an thanks for making it!!
Oh Boy !!! One of my favorite topics my friend !!! It drives me crazy that people think snakes are deaf and that they have no feelings and that they only tolerate people handling them !!! My snakes recognize their names when I address them by voice because I use a different voice tone when I address each of my snakes. They can indeed pick up airborne sounds according to the latest research and unlike humans snakes can also hear in stereo depending on if both jaws are closed or relaxed. I've done tons and tons of research on these topics and I'm SO GLAD to see someone making a video on this topic !! Are you aware that science and medicine has found a way to put an implant in the human ear that now enables deaf people to hear for the first time based upon the snakes auditory anatomy?
That is very interesting that you use tone with your snakes, that does make sense to me, apparently with humans most of the meaning we intepret from communication we interpret from body language (say 80%), then the next biggest one is tone (say 15%), then the actual spoken words/language (say 5%). Can't remember the exact percentages but these percentages should be fairly close. I'm sure you already know better than me what I'm talking about anyway. This is why I think dogs are so reactive to tones, they can know our intended meaning from our tone far more than the actual words we speak, they are very reactive to tone. I would surmise that the more "primitive" the brain of the animal is, the more they would be body language and tone dominant. And even in humans, if we didn't know any language, we would still be able to identify meaning from tones, which would include identification markers.
@@alantaylor6691 Very wise and perceptive and intelligent and you are someone I could talk to all day about this topic !!!! It goes way beyond tones but that is a starting point because each of my 21 snakes respond to vocal commands and recognize their own names and if I raise my voice and change my voice tone my snakes will retreat and try to flee !!! ruclips.net/video/kNrclJv7-Ic/видео.html ruclips.net/video/B5j_-4CE-jY/видео.html
My friend invited me to where she works at a reptile sanctuary and I was a little hesitant to handle the snakes. When she told me they were "deaf" I considered communicating using vibrations of my voice and very quickly they were all over me lol and I have seriously found an animal I connect with very easily.
Haha And I certainly did notice that right off the bat my friend :) Just being curious as they all tend to be !! I've noticed over MANY years the air from us speaking will attract them to our faces as well :)
all this time i'd been taught snakes were completely deaf, this must be pretty recent science cause none of my books or animals shows I watched as a kid ever suggested this, they always said snakes were essentially deaf and relied entirely on their heat sensory and vibration to hunt and survive
Hip hip hooray, l have always said they can definitely hear things. Thank you for sharing this information, my snakes can certainly hear me and recently l did a video of my girl Tessa and you can clearly see her turn her head to where she heard my dog barking at the front door. I talk to my snakes all the time and l know they recognise my voice and react when l do talk, often seeing them turn around if l say their name and give me head movements like my dogs when l talk to them. Loved this and will be a favourite for me.
Gotta love carpet pythons glad you enjoyed the video :) I do get around to watching most of yours even though I'm terrible at commenting haha just being so busy I'm often watching a few mins at a time! You know what it's like with all these Animals!
Haven't got as many as you, but l spend a lot of time with each and everyone of them as you know. I can always find something to do when it comes to my snakes and right now l am caring for a wild duck who walked in through my front door (only a baby) so just letting him get bigger before l find him a home in a duck pond somewhere. Ahh the wonderful life of caring for animals, big and small and all types. Lol.
Gotta love carpet pythons I actually find the most labour intensive part for me is possums and birds who get fresh branches all the time, and maintaining my ears and mice to keep the reptiles fed!
I don't get why people are so scared of snakes, as with any animal if you respect it and with some species, if you don't bother it too much, you should be alright... I love snakes and think they are beautiful... really interesting video :)
glad you liked the video :) while i think a fear of snakes is certainly a very natural thing (studies show even chimpanzees in zoos who have never seen snakes react to them fearfully) i have a hard time dealing with people who refuse to listen to facts or acknowledge the truth about it fear is understandable but ignorance is inexcusable in my humble opinion
I think humans fear snakes for the same reason every other mammal on the planet fears snakes, whatever that reason may be. I think it's rational to fear snakes, I certainly do, but it doesn't reduce my admiration and affection for them, I don't want them wiped out to reduce my fear, I'm happy to experience my fear so the snakes can thrive as the world shouldn't revolve around and change to accommodate my own fear. I think it's when people seek to completely suppress or eliminate their fear, not take responsibility for it, that the problems arise, as this results in changing the snake so there they no longer have the fear stimuli. They are unwilling to live with fear and that is what is dangerous. It may be somewhat different from person-to-person, but for me I trail hike through forest paths everyday (also regularly at night) and I'm fairly paranoid of snakes while doing so. But I don't stop doing it because I feel fear, and I don't kill snakes on the trail as well. But a lot of my fear is largely because of a condition, severe chronic daily migraine, and a body-pain condition called fibromyalgia, where if I were to be envenomated by a medically signficant snake I would experiece a supernatural level of pain exponentially more than the normal person, and it would take a long time for the pain to get back to normal levels, which are already very high. I fear 'pain' as just in normal life I've been on and above my pain threadhold for so long that additional pain from say an injury is a big deal. So for me it's not about dying, but about pain during the event and recovery process, I have had close calls already so now wear knee-high gaiters and leather hiking shoes during my trail hikes. People do get tagged accidentally, in fact most snake bites don't come from people trying to catch or kill snakes like we're told, but from accidentally startling snakes while walking (47%). The NEXT highest is people trying to catch and kill snakes (14%). People sometimes get tagged for example while walking along a forest trail and being tagged by a snake "hiding" in the grass or brush directly adjacent to the path. We are constantly stepping on or next to that bush next to the path and it is easy to startle a snake if one is hidding there. In most cases it won't strike but will bolt, but in some cases they do give a defensive strike. Sometimes snakes also sit on the trail and we may not see them and step right on them or find ourselves on top of them, so I am constantly scanning the trail in front of me as I walk. I guess I have more than the average paranoia about snakes, but at the same time, I probably have a reason, as my injury is a lot worse if I get envenomated by a medically signficant snake. The gaiters help and shoe help enough so that I feel safe enough to get out there everyday and trail hike the forest paths. I think it's 90% of snake bites happen below the knee. And people do get bitten. Very few die, but a lot more still get bitten, and that is what my concern is, the sickness, not the dying. If I was healthy I probably wouldn't be that concerned, but with my current health I am. Fear may help me be more healthy, but it would be wrong to turn that fear on the snake and blame the snake for that fear, fear is a good part of being human and a part of the growing process.
One bit has gone whoosh over my head lol. At 2:30 you say snakes can only hear 10,000-times the quietest noise we can hear, but at 2:58 you say that due to a limited amount of pepilae in their ears they can't pick up tiny little noises. So on the one hand they can only hear 10,000-times the quietest noise we can hear, but on the other hand they can't pick up tiny little noises. This to me sounds like two completely contradictory statements that can't both be true at the same time.
@@WickedWildlife Oh pefect, thanks very much. That makes complete sense then. When watching some snake handling videos I've sometimes been a bit worried when the handler is shouting and exclaiming extremely loudly indoors, especially when it's constant over a very long period of time, as I worry it would be quite disturbing to the snake, which are quite sensitive creatures. However I observably see an indication that they are upset by it even though I worry about that, so perhaps that is because loud shouting to a snake is coming across as reasonably quite. Perhaps I'm projecting my own hearing onto the snake, assuming the snake would be hearing what I'm hearing. Anyway thanks for the video, it's been very eye-opening, or ear-opening I should say XD
Snakes are able to hear, the hearing is not all that great , especially compared to mammals, but they can hear and they can feel the vibration of our voices, they can recognize sounds
I have a question; what determines, advantages, or otherwise infer from the shape of an animal's snout? Width, height, length, tapered, pointed, rounded, flat?
I'm, studying about snakes now at my house. And, it was said in (Psalm 58 : 4) "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they are like the deaf adder [cobra] that stoppeth her ear." For many years, scientists have been interested in the way snakes hear, because snakes have no ears! Snakes hear by keeping up their heads near the ground and picking up vibrations from the ground with their sensitive jaws and tounges. Snakes cannot hear sounds in the air. When the Bible calls the cobra an adder says it is deaf, it is scientifically accurate. The cobra, or adder, is deaf. What an amazing God we have that would include details such as this in His Word hundreds of years before scientists in the field of zoology discovered them to be true. Thank me later👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👍
アメリ・レイソニア except we now now snakes can hear airborne noise, that’s been published in several papers, so no, snakes are in no way shape or form deaf, so the bible is not accurate at all
My bank manager can only hear "ka-ching " ....its in his range then ... &...he"s def- a "middle C" .....otherwise , that particular snake is as deaf as a post
This is amazing, earth shattering news, especially when it's common assumption snakes couldn't hear. I've been keeping snakes for 22 years. Ive notice my snakes will respond to low vibrations like from the vacuum or when the washer is in spin cycle. Why don't my snakes ever respond when I call their names?
@@WickedWildlife They can feel vibration when we walk or any other animal's Movement.How can they hear something😐.Every scientific Journal says they cant Hear but they not deaf also they can fell vibrations..If i tell something or play a music they can hear??😐
Mahamudul Hasan Mithun that was the thinking until a few years ago, however simply search the words “can snakes hear” and you will find lots more recent science on the topic
Very informative. I was having a debate with a friend. This settled it.
phaelin always glad to help mate
So snakes can't hear low noises. I guess there's no point calling a snake whisperer then.
I sure hope my snake can hear me say “I love you!!” Everyday.
Me too I hope noodle can hear me say I love you noodle
I'm so glad I found this video!!! I always talk to my snakes (probably more "baby talk" than they'd like..lol) but always assumed they were just hearing some static/fuzzy sounding vibrations. I've honestly never really heard anyone talking about a snake's internal ears and the pitch and decibels at which they can pick up on and hear. Great video/info an thanks for making it!!
tasha 111 glad to get some information out there people might not get in their normal animal planet or something :)
Very nice video! This really answered just about anything I've wondered about for the last while! Good job!
Oh Boy !!! One of my favorite topics my friend !!! It drives me crazy that people think snakes are deaf and that they have no feelings and that they only tolerate people handling them !!! My snakes recognize their names when I address them by voice because I use a different voice tone when I address each of my snakes. They can indeed pick up airborne sounds according to the latest research and unlike humans snakes can also hear in stereo depending on if both jaws are closed or relaxed. I've done tons and tons of research on these topics and I'm SO GLAD to see someone making a video on this topic !! Are you aware that science and medicine has found a way to put an implant in the human ear that now enables deaf people to hear for the first time based upon the snakes auditory anatomy?
That is very interesting that you use tone with your snakes, that does make sense to me, apparently with humans most of the meaning we intepret from communication we interpret from body language (say 80%), then the next biggest one is tone (say 15%), then the actual spoken words/language (say 5%). Can't remember the exact percentages but these percentages should be fairly close. I'm sure you already know better than me what I'm talking about anyway.
This is why I think dogs are so reactive to tones, they can know our intended meaning from our tone far more than the actual words we speak, they are very reactive to tone. I would surmise that the more "primitive" the brain of the animal is, the more they would be body language and tone dominant. And even in humans, if we didn't know any language, we would still be able to identify meaning from tones, which would include identification markers.
@@alantaylor6691 Very wise and perceptive and intelligent and you are someone I could talk to all day about this topic !!!! It goes way beyond tones but that is a starting point because each of my 21 snakes respond to vocal commands and recognize their own names and if I raise my voice and change my voice tone my snakes will retreat and try to flee !!! ruclips.net/video/kNrclJv7-Ic/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/B5j_-4CE-jY/видео.html
My friend invited me to where she works at a reptile sanctuary and I was a little hesitant to handle the snakes. When she told me they were "deaf" I considered communicating using vibrations of my voice and very quickly they were all over me lol and I have seriously found an animal I connect with very easily.
Most definitely made it into the top of my favorite videos and shared on my Facebook and Thank You Again !!
Thrilled you like it! :)
Indeed !! You sure covered this topic with an excellent presentation and facts !!!
1softkiss just had a lot of jump cuts thanks to the highly venemous snake constantly wanting to come say a closer hello!
Haha And I certainly did notice that right off the bat my friend :) Just being curious as they all tend to be !! I've noticed over MANY years the air from us speaking will attract them to our faces as well :)
all this time i'd been taught snakes were completely deaf, this must be pretty recent science cause none of my books or animals shows I watched as a kid ever suggested this, they always said snakes were essentially deaf and relied entirely on their heat sensory and vibration to hunt and survive
That's science for you
Hip hip hooray, l have always said they can definitely hear things. Thank you for sharing this information, my snakes can certainly hear me and recently l did a video of my girl Tessa and you can clearly see her turn her head to where she heard my dog barking at the front door. I talk to my snakes all the time and l know they recognise my voice and react when l do talk, often seeing them turn around if l say their name and give me head movements like my dogs when l talk to them. Loved this and will be a favourite for me.
Gotta love carpet pythons glad you enjoyed the video :)
I do get around to watching most of yours even though I'm terrible at commenting haha just being so busy I'm often watching a few mins at a time!
You know what it's like with all these Animals!
Haven't got as many as you, but l spend a lot of time with each and everyone of them as you know. I can always find something to do when it comes to my snakes and right now l am caring for a wild duck who walked in through my front door (only a baby) so just letting him get bigger before l find him a home in a duck pond somewhere. Ahh the wonderful life of caring for animals, big and small and all types. Lol.
Gotta love carpet pythons I actually find the most labour intensive part for me is possums and birds who get fresh branches all the time, and maintaining my ears and mice to keep the reptiles fed!
l can imagine, not that l have had any possums but have had birds in my life and mice, not to feed my snakes though. lol.
I thought they couldn't hear i thought they could only feel vibrations
I don't get why people are so scared of snakes, as with any animal if you respect it and with some species, if you don't bother it too much, you should be alright... I love snakes and think they are beautiful... really interesting video :)
glad you liked the video :)
while i think a fear of snakes is certainly a very natural thing (studies show even chimpanzees in zoos who have never seen snakes react to them fearfully) i have a hard time dealing with people who refuse to listen to facts or acknowledge the truth about it
fear is understandable but ignorance is inexcusable in my humble opinion
and obviously i adore snakes swell :)
I think humans fear snakes for the same reason every other mammal on the planet fears snakes, whatever that reason may be. I think it's rational to fear snakes, I certainly do, but it doesn't reduce my admiration and affection for them, I don't want them wiped out to reduce my fear, I'm happy to experience my fear so the snakes can thrive as the world shouldn't revolve around and change to accommodate my own fear.
I think it's when people seek to completely suppress or eliminate their fear, not take responsibility for it, that the problems arise, as this results in changing the snake so there they no longer have the fear stimuli. They are unwilling to live with fear and that is what is dangerous.
It may be somewhat different from person-to-person, but for me I trail hike through forest paths everyday (also regularly at night) and I'm fairly paranoid of snakes while doing so. But I don't stop doing it because I feel fear, and I don't kill snakes on the trail as well.
But a lot of my fear is largely because of a condition, severe chronic daily migraine, and a body-pain condition called fibromyalgia, where if I were to be envenomated by a medically signficant snake I would experiece a supernatural level of pain exponentially more than the normal person, and it would take a long time for the pain to get back to normal levels, which are already very high. I fear 'pain' as just in normal life I've been on and above my pain threadhold for so long that additional pain from say an injury is a big deal.
So for me it's not about dying, but about pain during the event and recovery process, I have had close calls already so now wear knee-high gaiters and leather hiking shoes during my trail hikes. People do get tagged accidentally, in fact most snake bites don't come from people trying to catch or kill snakes like we're told, but from accidentally startling snakes while walking (47%). The NEXT highest is people trying to catch and kill snakes (14%).
People sometimes get tagged for example while walking along a forest trail and being tagged by a snake "hiding" in the grass or brush directly adjacent to the path. We are constantly stepping on or next to that bush next to the path and it is easy to startle a snake if one is hidding there. In most cases it won't strike but will bolt, but in some cases they do give a defensive strike.
Sometimes snakes also sit on the trail and we may not see them and step right on them or find ourselves on top of them, so I am constantly scanning the trail in front of me as I walk.
I guess I have more than the average paranoia about snakes, but at the same time, I probably have a reason, as my injury is a lot worse if I get envenomated by a medically signficant snake. The gaiters help and shoe help enough so that I feel safe enough to get out there everyday and trail hike the forest paths. I think it's 90% of snake bites happen below the knee.
And people do get bitten. Very few die, but a lot more still get bitten, and that is what my concern is, the sickness, not the dying. If I was healthy I probably wouldn't be that concerned, but with my current health I am. Fear may help me be more healthy, but it would be wrong to turn that fear on the snake and blame the snake for that fear, fear is a good part of being human and a part of the growing process.
Fantastic video! New sub, binge watching your epic and informative content!
I have a snake and i love holding him he doesn't bite all he does is crawl a round
One bit has gone whoosh over my head lol.
At 2:30 you say snakes can only hear 10,000-times the quietest noise we can hear, but at 2:58 you say that due to a limited amount of pepilae in their ears they can't pick up tiny little noises.
So on the one hand they can only hear 10,000-times the quietest noise we can hear, but on the other hand they can't pick up tiny little noises. This to me sounds like two completely contradictory statements that can't both be true at the same time.
Arahorn sorry I mean for sound to be audiable to them it it’s to be 10,000 ones LOUDER then the softest noise human ears can detect
@@WickedWildlife
Oh pefect, thanks very much. That makes complete sense then.
When watching some snake handling videos I've sometimes been a bit worried when the handler is shouting and exclaiming extremely loudly indoors, especially when it's constant over a very long period of time, as I worry it would be quite disturbing to the snake, which are quite sensitive creatures.
However I observably see an indication that they are upset by it even though I worry about that, so perhaps that is because loud shouting to a snake is coming across as reasonably quite. Perhaps I'm projecting my own hearing onto the snake, assuming the snake would be hearing what I'm hearing.
Anyway thanks for the video, it's been very eye-opening, or ear-opening I should say XD
*NOT upset by it, I meant, I observe no indication that the snake is upset by loud shouting.
MATE you legend!
Snakes are able to hear, the hearing is not all that great , especially compared to mammals, but they can hear and they can feel the vibration of our voices, they can recognize sounds
This was well worded and easy to understand 👍✨
I’m glad you liked it mate
What an informative video. This channel is going to take off in no time!
Dark-Stormy- Sky thank you! :)
Nice man
Ohhhh, so that explains why boa constrictors like to dance to reggaeton music! 😮
I have a question; what determines, advantages, or otherwise infer from the shape of an animal's snout? Width, height, length, tapered, pointed, rounded, flat?
I knew it. I've been trying to tell people this for years. Thanks mate!
No, Snakes have Internal Ear
So Mr. Pickles was wrong.
Can snakes hear stomping on grass or on house floor
I'm, studying about snakes now at my house. And, it was said in (Psalm 58 : 4) "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they are like the deaf adder [cobra] that stoppeth her ear." For many years, scientists have been interested in the way snakes hear, because snakes have no ears! Snakes hear by keeping up their heads near the ground and picking up vibrations from the ground with their sensitive jaws and tounges. Snakes cannot hear sounds in the air. When the Bible calls the cobra an adder says it is deaf, it is scientifically accurate. The cobra, or adder, is deaf. What an amazing God we have that would include details such as this in His Word hundreds of years before scientists in the field of zoology discovered them to be true.
Thank me later👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👍
アメリ・レイソニア except we now now snakes can hear airborne noise, that’s been published in several papers, so no, snakes are in no way shape or form deaf, so the bible is not accurate at all
Wicked Wildlife ooh, ok...but I know that from the book I'm learning.
God Bless You.
Ken Regan thanks...
Throw another shrimp on the Barbie ! Mate
2:30
My bank manager can only hear "ka-ching " ....its in his range then ...
&...he"s def- a "middle C" .....otherwise , that particular snake is as deaf as a post
Bwaha
OMG
Birds have ears?????
This is amazing, earth shattering news, especially when it's common assumption snakes couldn't hear. I've been keeping snakes for 22 years. Ive notice my snakes will respond to low vibrations like from the vacuum or when the washer is in spin cycle. Why don't my snakes ever respond when I call their names?
Ey mate
Can you help me explain this for my science project
That snake just want to go xD
you are wrong.snake can't Hear brother
Mahamudul Hasan Mithun well they can, it’s scientific fact, not opinion
Sorry brother
@@WickedWildlife They can feel vibration when we walk or any other animal's Movement.How can they hear something😐.Every scientific Journal says they cant Hear but they not deaf also they can fell vibrations..If i tell something or play a music they can hear??😐
Mahamudul Hasan Mithun that was the thinking until a few years ago, however simply search the words “can snakes hear” and you will find lots more recent science on the topic
death adder in your face, living on the edge
and of course. hes austrailian.
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