Snakes have very good eyesight, as every snake catcher knows. The snake sees a person from afar and if it does not crawl away, it is only because it hopes to remain unnoticed. Snakes have poor hearing. They do not have an outer or middle ear at all, and snakes, in our understanding, are simply deaf. However, light shaking of the soil under the feet of not only humans, but also rats and snakes is detected very sensitively. In addition to vision, rattlesnakes also have sensitive thermolocators - pits behind the nostrils. With their help, a snake in absolute darkness detects a warm mouse at a distance of up to 10 meters and not only detects it, but also sneaks up on it and strikes it with amazing accuracy. But snakes have the best developed sense of smell. The snake sniffs, after all, not with its beautiful nose. In the snake's mouth there is a steam pit - the Jacobson organ.

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