Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

Aww, don’t be scare of this one. This is one of the most friendliest snakes we ever had. This is our 1st time to have and it’s been fun for last two years. Of course, you can’t play balls or toys with it but otherwise it’s always interesting to have it crawling all over you. Hehe…

We do feed her once every 3-4 weeks with dead mouse regularly in feeding cage. She’s been doing very well.

Did you know that all snakes are deaf? If you don’t believe it, click here and it will tell you more details! Actually they haven’t figured it out if they are really really deaf? Actually they are more of hard of hearing (maybe?) — they can’t hear high frequency.

Snake is full of fun and mysterious

The 1988 edition of The New Encyclopedia Britannica says:

This fact [that there is no external ear], together with a seeming indifference to airborne sounds, has led to the supposition that snakes are deaf or that they can perceive only such vibrations as reach them through the ground on which they crawl.

This supposition is incorrect; snakes are sensitive to some airborne sound waves and are able to receive them through a mechanism that serves as a substitute for the tympanic membrane…

Although the sensitivity of the snake ear varies with the species, it is appreciably sensitive only to tones in the low-frequency range, usuallythose in the region 100 to 700 hertz.

(Volume 27, Sensory Reception)

For more information about this type of snake - ball python. Click here. (wiki)

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