Do snakes have nose and ears? or any substitutes for these....

Question

Do snakes have nose and ears? or any substitutes for these....

Answer 1

This sounds ridiculous but I read somewhere thatsnakes and some othe  reptiles flick outtheir tongue to smell and detect sounds with. I'm not sure I believe this.

Answer 2

they do have a nose but they use their tongue for their sense of smell they do not have ears,

but they get around by feeling vibrations on the ground

Answer 3

Hearing  is one of the most acute senses in snakes.They have inner ears that allow them to hear low frequency airborne vibrations. But snakes have another more acute way of Hearing, they hear with their jaw.

Strange as it might sound, it is true. Ground vibrations are transmitted through the snakes body to the quadrate bone (the connection between the lower jaw and skull) where it later goes the middle ear bone (columella) and then to the inner ear.

This means that a snake will always hear you coming before you even see it.

Snakes, like all other tetrapods, have two nostrils with which to breathe. Other than breathing though the nostrils they don't do much else in the way of smell. Instead snakes have gone a different route, one taken by their lepidosaurian relatives a long time ago. Instead of using only their nose, snakes have adapted their tongue and sense of taste to capturing scent particles in the air and transforming it into olfactory information.

While many lizards have this ability only some truly use it to it's full extent and even then none go to the extremes of snakes. They accomplish this with the help of the vomeronasal organ or Jacobson's organ as it is more commonly called. This organ located at the roof of the snake's mouth, takes in information gathered by the tongue and transforms it into smell, thus making all snakes limbless bloodhounds with scales.

Answer 4

Ears, no.Except for picking up vibrations through the ground snakes are, well, deaf as an adder.

The nostrils are used for breathing, not for smelling. You have probably seen a snake flicking its tongue in and out. While the tongue is not used to identify scents, it does pick up particles and transfer them to the Jacobson's organ, which is sensitive to smell.

Answer 5

Well, snakes actually use their tongues to smell.