Snake Nostrils - haiku

I don't know - you tell me, - Thanks for posting this to Best Original Photos, Art and Writing for 2008.

very good question...

no idea.

Wow... maybe he breathes through the nostrils but smells with his tongue??? Just a thought.

Oh boy, now I'm going to have a sleepless night!

Respiration, I'm sure, but the whole smelling with the tongue thing is just one of many things that make snakes creepy.

Great picture and question.

Very cool pic!! And I wish I knew the answer!

Do some research online and TELL US!

I never realized before that snakes had nostrils, I thought in looking at it , that it was just part of his coloring, how very interesting.

That is a good question Rick!

Good haiku Rick. And good question.

GREAT haiku!!
Loved it.
very good.

I had not ever thought about that!

I can't believe that you got that close to a snake-ugh. Ick. Great shot though!

Dear Don Rico ~

This is truly a brilliant haiku ~
I am so taken with the fact that it asks the reader a question thereby spinning the reader back out into truly reflecting upon their world.

And as far as the nostrils and toungue thing for snakes go ~ ~ ~
well, I am not an authority on snakes ,so I stand open to correction, though I would gander that for an insight into an answer a person would need to think outside the "box" of human expirience ~ ~ ~
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Like how ???????

Perhaps the answer (or a clue to an answer ) lies in the idea/fact that all the kazillion billion tastes in this world are smells to a snake ~ ~ ~

snakes smell through the langusge of taste OR perhaps snake taste through the language of smell.

AND as far the snakes nostrils are concerned ???

Well ~ perhaps the nostrils of a snake function the way the pores of our bodies do ~


I believe we breath through our pores as well as our noses and we do not recieve any messages of "smell" through the pores of our bodies.