enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_sounds

    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .

  3. Rattlesnake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake

    The amount released depends on a variety of factors, including the condition of the snake (e.g., having long, healthy fangs and a full venom sack) and its temperament (an angry, hungry snake that has just been stepped on vs. a satiated snake that was merely surprised by walking near it). [94] About 20% of bites result in no envenomation at all.

  4. Columella (auditory system) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columella_(auditory_system)

    The columella form thin, bony structures in the interior of the skull and serve the purpose of transmitting sounds from the eardrum. It is an evolutionary homolog of the stapes, one of the auditory ossicles in mammals. In many species, the extracolumella is a cartilaginous structure that grows in association with the columella.

  5. Infrared sensing in snakes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_sensing_in_snakes

    Some neurons appear to be tuned to detect movement in one direction. It has been found that the snake's visual and infrared maps of the world are overlaid in the optic tectum. This combined information is relayed via the tectum to the forebrain. [9] The nerve fibers in the pit organ are constantly firing at a very low rate.

  6. Tail vibration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_vibration

    The speed of tail vibration is directly correlated with temperature, at least for rattlesnakes.The warmer a rattlesnake, the faster it vibrates its tail. [6] Rattlesnakes tail-vibrate faster than other snakes, with some individuals nearing or exceeding 90 rattles per second.

  7. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_onomatopoeias

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  8. NASA offers explanation for bizarre 'trumpet noise' phenomena

    www.aol.com/news/2015-05-22-nasa-attempts-to...

    Videos of eerie noises erupting from the skies have recently surfaced on YouTube, sending people into a panic around the world. The video above shows a particularly frightening episode of this ...

  9. Bellow (sound) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellow_(sound)

    It's a form of roaring and reverberating sound. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Also, the bull snake bellows and hisses as its defensive sounds, It bellows at first in a short period high amplitude, followed by a longer period of low amplitude before it maintains a constant sound.