CLICK HERE to Support this Project / Snakebite Victims Snakes Senses Snakes probably don’t see color. Many are near-sighted, included the vipers and all the burrower. Tree snakes, rat snakes and the king cobra all have good vision and can see you coming from quite far away. Some sea snakes have light sensors in their tail. Snakes can smell with their nostrils but they rely mainly on the combination of their sensitive tongue and the jacobson’s organ in roof of the mouth The heat sensitive “pits” between the nostrils and the eye in pit vipers can detect temperature change as slight as three thousands of a degree Centigrade (0.003 deg.c) Pits are very helpful in finding warm-blooded rodents or birds or even slightly warm frog or toad on a cool dark night. Pythons have similar infrared receptors along their upper lips. Snakes can actually “hear” very low frequency sounds in the 200 to 500 Hz range. They have no ears or eardrums but low sounds that hit the sid
Awareness on Myths and False beliefs on Snakes and Snakebites In India - every year 80,000 people are reported as victims of snakebite and about 25,000 to 50,000 face agonizing death or permanently maimed, snakebite is considered as a disease of poor farmer & agricultural workers the down trodden of tropical developing country like India… NSI is the first Organized Effort- addressing the Neglected Tropical Disease