jedam
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I have recently purchased a Morlia Spilota (Coastal Carpet Python). I have heard that they can hear and I have also heard that they can't. please can someone please tell me the truth!!!
Coastal carpet python is Morelia spilota mcdowelli (incase you put the wrong info in your fauna book)
Does each sub-species have their own title or are they all lumped under Morelia spilota?
There are several sub-species of "Carpet Python"
- Jungle carpet python - Morelia spilota cheynei
- Southwestern carpet python - Morelia spilota imbricata
- Coastal carpet python - Morelia spilota mcdowelli
- Inland carpet python - Morelia spilota metcalfei
- Diamond python -Morelia spilota spilota
- Northwestern (Darwin) carpet python - Morelia spilota variegata
I disagree....snakes do have ears and can indeed hear. It's a matter of specifics and semantics.
They have no external ear opening, but they have the internal organs of ears or ear like organs.
As for "feeling vibrations", well that is what hearing is by definition. Ears detect vibrations and create a signal from them.
Clearing audio is not their strongest sense but it is still a sense they have. Perhaps it's like comparing human sense of smell to a blood hounds....compared to a blood hound humans have no sense of smell.
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