(05-14-2018, 07:58 AM)Catherine Wrote: I don't know about hypnotizing a snake. They tend to see a heat signature rather than detail. They hear through vibrations and have no external ears. I am not sure you could get a snake's attention long enough to hypnotize it. If you did have its full attention it might think food and strike.
A small correction here, only the vipers and certain pythons and boas have heat sensing pits, all other snakes do not possess this trait. vision is important for snakes (except in blind species of course where vibration detection, hearing, and use of the vomeranasal organ is more important).
Snakes lack external ears due to a fossorial ancestry but possess well developed inner ears and are quite capable of hearing airborne sounds - albeit in a limited frequency.
