Snakes have to be the most sinister animal evolution has ever created. Venomous, and some of them can apply skull crushing pressure if they wrap around you.
I see no reason to allow these things to live in this world.
I see no reason to allow these things to live in this world.
Wait until you find out about H. sapiens sapiens.
First, it's unbelievable human-centric.
Furthermore, out of ~3000 snake species, only ~600 are venomous and only ~200 are dangerous to humans. That's 7%!
"Sinister" implies intentionally evil-doing, which is something only advanced primates are capable of (maybe corvids and some other mammals, not sure).
It's not even the most creepy/disconcerting kill mechanism. Apart from competitors like the Komodowaran (bites you and then stalks you for days while you are slowly dying from the cocktail of bacteria in its mouth), what about stuff like viruses? They don't even live, yet they are highly effective in an evolutional sense and very good at killing lots of stuff in lots of disgusting ways.
If you have a phobia of snakes, ok, but please refrain from turning that into some pseudo-intellectual wisdom...
I thought "this word is so absurd nad definetely not German, no need to translate it". And I was wrong. Leaving it up as a fun fact.
It eats its own tail and itself when it has no choice. At the very least Komodo dragons are relegated to one island more or less, they aren’t swimming up toilet pipes.
Many more animals are more dangerous. Many more animals are more intimidating. Many more animals are more mischievous/malicious.
It's fine to have a phobia, but calling the evolutionary process that led to limbless, sleepy, reclusive dopes sinister is not rational by any measure.
We put out traps for the pack rats that invade our house from time to time. This summer, one of the traps unfortunately caught a snake - nothing dangerous to humans but big enough to have been a useful predator for other pests.
I had to fight my since-childhood fear of snakes to go out and set it free. The snake wasn't exactly wild about my attempts to open the trap with a shovel, but eventually it got the idea, slowly slithered out of the trap and scuttled away. I don't love having them around, but I felt good about having (hopefully) saved the life of an animal that almost certainly does the humans who live around here more good than bad.
These things lay eggs and you’ll never know where.
To be honest, I'm also very afraid of them, but like sharks, they are very essential to the ecosystem, and very useful for us.
If you want to pick an animal to hate, mosquitos are perfect candidates.
The usual experience is that they leave you alone if you leave them alone. Unless the only place they can find the food is your house. There is always a probability of fatal biting if a venomous snake is in the vicinity. Catch it and leave it away from the city whenever you can.
Evil implies a concept of good and bad.
I do not fuck around with snakes. If I find one near (or IN) the house, it’s going to meet a swift end.
But that doesn’t mean I’m on some kind of anti snake vendetta. I simply value the life of my family as greater than the life of a snake that’s in/around our home.
We had what I think based on size (easily longer than our car) and colour (essentially black), must have been a King Cobra come along the side of the house several years ago (MIL and I watched it from above via window/balcony), but since then it's basically all Green Pit Vipers, which can be tiny (e.g. some have a head the size of the nail on my pinky finger) but are quite venomous.
They are intricate creatures, with amazing and beautiful features and abilities.
If anything should be wiped off the face of the planet it is ticks and mosquitos.