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Common Snakes of South India & Information on Snakebites

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