The intentional rattle of a rattlesnake is an effective acoustic alarming gesture: anyone who knows what is good for them and what venom can even be dangerous to humans, prefers to quickly disappear as soon as they hear a normal rattle. We do. This helps the snake to snap as close as you get – and eventually resorted to an effective acoustic trick that had previously been overlooked, as now discovered by a team of researchers from the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Technical University of Munich at the University of Munich. In the case of the team. Graz Report in the Journal “Current Biology”.