This is the Friends of History Debating Society with Jeremy Zakis.

I'm John Bachelors.

We go to our Reptile Report and Jeremy and I are both flabbergasted.

It never occurred to us to ask, is a snake colorblind?

Jeremy, not only is the answer mostly yes, but the fact that they asked this question, what

advantage could it be that a snake can see a fire truck?

I don't understand.

Can you help me?

Well, John, I think I can help you by that at the same time.

I'm just as flabbergasted.

If not pleasantly surprised to that this is an actual thing in the snake world.

Now, I guess snakes like all creatures need to hunt.

And I mean, for the most part, snakes are hunting on the ground.

So they don't need a lot of the exterior or, I guess, image quality in what they're looking

at because they sense a lot of their prey by smell and vibration and using all their

God-given talents that they need, which a lot of them aren't sight.

So the thing was that we all thought that at least from my education, that snakes are

colorblind.

Well, John, there is one type of snake that apparently means color and has apparently

developed its own color sensation just naturally in its environment.

And that's the humble sea snake.

Now, here in Australia, we have every venomous snake under the sun, on land, basically

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