#OzWatch: Eastern Brown Snakes and RedBellied Black Snakes (nd their friends) can hear you talking.Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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#OzWatch: Eastern Brown Snakes and RedBellied Black Snakes (nd their friends) can hear you talking.Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2023/02/lisssssten-ear-snakes-have-better-hearing-than-you-might-think/
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| 0:56.2 | Given that you were told as I was told, snakes can't hear. |
| 1:01.1 | That's exactly right, John. This was a childhood. It was actually in our education programs at school. |
| 1:06.8 | This is how serious it was. And it was that snake's cart here. And that's where also the |
| 1:11.9 | discussion about if you see a snake, don't stomp on the ground. Basically move away slowly, |
| 1:16.1 | but no mention was made about not making any noise. But I always thought there was something |
| 1:20.8 | slightly wrong with that. And that was really from pure experience. And I'll tell you what happened. |
| 1:25.1 | Occasionally from time to time in the house that I lived in, which was next to a national park, |
| 1:29.2 | we would get brown snakes on the roof because we had an iron roof and they loved the |
| 1:34.0 | heat of the day. Their most venomous snake in all of Australia on his roof. Okay, carry on Jeremy. |
| 1:40.2 | That's exactly right, John. That was something you tried to avoid. But when you could see it there, |
| 1:44.6 | when you knew it was there, you would stay away from it. And so what we would do is we would |
| 1:48.8 | gingerly go inside the house by, you know, trading very, very lightly, get through the front door, |
| 1:53.6 | by not slamming the door, not making vibrations because the common understanding was that vibrations |
| 1:58.9 | would set them off. But I noticed on at least more than one occasion that we would be coming down |
| 2:05.2 | the stairs towards the house and we would just be having a conversation. And it would almost be as |
| 2:09.2 | if the snake was picking up on the conversation because all of a sudden it would start to rear its |
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