2012
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.069104
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Snakes Hear Through Skull Vibration

Abstract: . (2012). Hearing with an atympanic ear: good vibration and poor soundpressure detection in the royal python, Python regius.

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“…Now, according to new study sound waves are sensed by vibrations in a snake's skull which perhaps is "heard" by the inner ear. 26…”
Section: Bionics In Biological Structurementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Now, according to new study sound waves are sensed by vibrations in a snake's skull which perhaps is "heard" by the inner ear. 26…”
Section: Bionics In Biological Structurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Scientists struggled for a long to understand how snakes hear since they lack external ears. Now, according to new study sound waves are sensed by vibrations in a snake's skull which perhaps is “heard” by the inner ear 26 …”
Section: Overview Of Bionicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a general rule, vision is best in arboreal snakes and weakest in burrowing snakes [127]. Furthermore, snakes lack external ears and eardrums but have fully formed inner ear structures which allows them to detect vibrations traveling through the ground [128].…”
Section: Snakesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Perhaps, that is why scholars like Katharine Schlesinger, who annotated Stein's Serindia, and some oriental Buddhists called the xízhàng just sistrum directly and put them in the same category. With Buddhism entering China, the stick rattle xízhàng and its connotation in religious and well-trained sense of feeling vibrations (Knight, 2012), this interpretation is based on a mistake found in very early biologist writings, also of Charles Darwin (1871Darwin ( /1983 himself. magical rituals have spread widely into the Western regions and the hinterland of China as well, from which again derived many other rattle types, musical instruments, and ritual tools in sacred services.…”
Section: Religious Themesmentioning
confidence: 99%