Whether hundred-pacers really do have a voice is an unanswered question of biology. But perhaps the aborigines 'open attitude toward and involvement in the natural world, as revealed in their legend of the nose flute, is something even harder to imagine for modern people who received a rationalist education and operate in a mechanized culture.
百步蛇會不會「發聲」，仍是生態上的謎題，但在鼻笛傳說中，原住民對荒野的開放態度，與對自然的參與，可能是運轉於機械文明、受教於理性主義的現代人難以想像的。