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by thenovice on August 12, 2006
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hey, i hope that you enjoyed the article, feel free to use it in whatever way you wish.
p.s. the narrative account in the beggining was from 2 years ago when i was just starting herpetology, i never freak out any more, just get a little nervous
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by Voided37 on September 27, 2006
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The reason it's the number one fear is because ignorance is the number one dis-ease! Simple as that.
Our brains are homo-sapien [human] over mammalian over reptilian. The same fundamentalism that keeps us ignorant about our origins keeps us ignorant about those species we came from and up with.
Our experiences are still recorded in our DNA and the memory of being eaten by our forbears is a powerful one. As it should be. But we as a specie shoulda long ago got past THAT collective memory.
HEY FOLKS, THEIR TOO SMALL TO EAT US ANYMORE! GET OVER IT! LOL
steve
PS, yeah i saw the python pic's on the net eating the guy... STILL! LOL
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by AquaHerp on October 8, 2006
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Actually, the #1 Fear listed by people is "the fear of speaking in public". Snakes rank between #8 and #10.
DH
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by AquaHerp on October 15, 2006
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I'd be interested in seeing that reference because it goes against every other phobia-based standard out there. Not to say it wasn't quoted, just that it may have been misrepresented or taken out of context.
As well, as another post before eluded, the fear of snakes is not "ingrained" nor "inherent" being passed down from some ancient cave-dwelling biped. The fear is taught or brought on through some negative experience, but not an instinctual behavioral reaction. Primates are taught to react to snakes (and other potential predators) from the troop, yet those not brought up in that environment are fairly indifferent to the animal overall.
Doug Hotle
General Curator
Abilene ZOOlogical Gardens
Abilene, Texas
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by canuck on October 29, 2006
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I must agree with Doug.
I own a squirrel monkey. We raised him from a baby.
He does not fear snakes at all (or much else for that matter!)
He often watches me through my hot room window when
I attend to my snakes with no adverse reactions.
Iam quite sure If I or someone else in the family were to show fear He would definatly sense that and would react accordingly which would be either fight or flight.
Regards,
Tom Thieme
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by H20mocasin on November 3, 2006
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I have been around snakes since I was 4. If you ever been to the Hershey Park Zoo in hershey, Pa back in the early 80's. They had some really cool reptile displays, in cluding one that would come to be my favorite snake of all time the timber/canebrake rattlesnake. I do remember growing up my parents would scold me on vacations in florida for going up and down daytona beach chasing after anoles and looking for small snakes and critters, well my dad pushed me aside and said a 5 foot snake was under a bush that i had not seen, but being 8 at the time i already knew my major no-venomous snakes and ended up smart talking "Dad this is a Non-Poisonous Southern Pine Snake. And then he took me and whoopped my butt and told me i couldnt look for lizards the rest of vacation. So both experiences really envelopped me into the realm of the serpent...and my fears since then have never crept upon me. no matter how much i find myself crawling in low hibernaculas, caves after timbers and copperheads to shoot photos, or walking through deep sand umongst thick tall grass in Eastern Diamondback country, I am at my one true self. I passed the torch to my daughter, hope, when in one morning in Congaree np, SC, a 5 foot eastern cottonmouth swam right under this little foot bridge and hope and i watched with amazement, but hope did not budge an inch, and she was barely one year old, and she still remembers that encounter when i ask her. she's now 5 in kg and she tells her teacher about how to hold a snake and which snake is her favorite: her milksnake, and neonate copperheads are her second. That's all folks....
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by JeauxMc on November 15, 2006
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I still say that if a rabbit had given eve the apple instead of a snake giving it to her, we would be running around in the woods saying "Oh and they have big ugly teeth"
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by rocker on December 5, 2006
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it was great....a li'l info to share....snakes strike to humans because of their own drive....what is their drive that makes them agressive?...a drive to protect their territories.......so,if ever you encounter a venomous snake crossing your path,just put in mind that the beautiful creature will try to protect his territory if they feel threatened.....
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by MikeB on December 7, 2006
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A characteristic that is fairly widespread in any species or population over time most likely has some genetic basis, which means it has evolved for a good reason related to survival. Examples: People are territorial and tribal because it was an evolutionary advantage to be thta way during our hunter-gatherer period, which spans most of human history. Also, males are sexually aggressive and somewhat polygamous to spread their genes most widely, while females are more monogamous because they have historically had the primary responsibility for nurturing and raising children . . . they want Daddy around to bring in the meat and protect the cave.
So it is hardly surprising to me that a species (Homo sapiens) that evolved from a long line of smaller tree-dwelling mammals would have two widespread fears . . . heights (when you live in trees you can fall and get killed if you are not cautious and wary) and snakes (they crawl up the branches and eat the young.) I have seen video of monkeys panicking en-masse when exposed to a garden hose that looks like a snake. It's genetic, folks, a once-useful evolutionary adaption that is largely obsolete today.
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