Do snakes love music?
Snakes that love music
The snakes do not have a auditory structure. They have a bony rod called columella auris. This bone extends from the fenestra ovalis to the quadratebone. This bone has a special structure which hepls it to detect the ground vibrations. But it can not detect vibrations in the air. Due to this a snake detects an approching ball. In order to verify whether snakes can detect the vibrations produced in the air or on the ground a number of experiments have been conducted with different species of snakes by PJ. Deoras at the Haffkins Institute Bombay. He put a snakes inside a tin box and studies the effect of soft music near the tin box. He found that any sound that caused the tin to vibrate made the cobra to raise its head. He took a snake charmer inside his snake farm and found no response for air borne music. However it responded to ground music.
Experiments on five other species were also conducted. And agian the findings were that the snakes did not respond to air-born music. However they responded to the music of drum which creates vibrations in the box or earth. In sort it can be said that snakes are very sensitive to sound that create vibrations on the ground. Because of this fact the snake charmer hits his pipe with the ground to make the vibrations reach the snakes. A snake charmer also hits the snakes with the pipe and tries to excite him. Actually it moves its body only to keep an eye on the moving pipe.
