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How sensitive are corn snakes to vibrations?

Haya Tha'baan

Haya Tha'baan

my little worm
It seems like each time my boyfriend starts playing his guitar, Haya comes out to have a peek. He thought that he was charming her to come out, but I let him know snakes can't hear...but they can feel vibrations. I just don't know if she could feel the vibration from that far away...at least 5 feet or so. So could she feel the vibration from his guitar that far, or is it coincidental that she comes out to say hi?
 
Well, Yoshi comes out to say hi when we get home for the day. More often than not when we enter the room that the snake is in, he comes to check out whats going on. I assume he's aware of our movements.
 
My 2 new little guys love it when i come near then ! Especially when i talk ! I have a deep and loud voice haha
 
I don't know the answer to the OP's question. I'm hoping one of the [insert word describing people like Kathy L & Rich Z in this space] will tell us. But I suspect they are sensitive to vibrations after this weekend. I had friends staying with me & we spent a lot of time in the living room where the vivs are, and we had little snaky faces poking out of all 3 hides all the time! It was very cute. Even the little hateling was out looking at us from concealment behind her fabric flowers.
 
They can indeed feel them further then 5 feet away. Think about hunting, they feel the animal moving around sometimes before catching the scent. That may also be the reason. New smells=new food?
 
Haya Tha'baan said:
It seems like each time my boyfriend starts playing his guitar, Haya comes out to have a peek. He thought that he was charming her to come out, but I let him know snakes can't hear...but they can feel vibrations. I just don't know if she could feel the vibration from that far away...at least 5 feet or so. So could she feel the vibration from his guitar that far, or is it coincidental that she comes out to say hi?
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Don't forget that ALL sounds are vibrations anyways. The way humans hear is of course based on vibration, however in a quite different way than snakes.

But yes, your snake can hear/feel the guitar.
 
One night all my snakes did the weirdest thing I had ever seen. It was so strange that I made a note of it at the time they started doing it. They all stretched out on the floors of their vivs and put their heads down and buried their heads in the substrate. They stayed that way a long time, almost 5 hours, until....suddenly there was a movement of the earth that felt like a shiver, strong enough that it knocked some items off of shelves. This happened at around 5 am.
I immediately went to the pc to open up the USGS earthquake site to see if there had just been an earthquake in the area (I'm in central Indiana and the New Madrid fault area occasionally has produced quakes strong enough to be felt up here.) Sure enough, there had just been a quake, 5.2 on the Richter scale. More details of the quake at the below link.
http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/wabashvalley.htm

After that, the snakes went and curled up in their hides normally.

I've never seen my snakes show that particular behavior before or since that night.

Clearly they felt or sensed SOMETHING about that impending earthquake at least approximately 5 hours before it hit.
 
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