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Sneak snake
Snakes: I am going to evolve to have perfect camouflage so I am undetectable by all.
Also snakes: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU STEPPED ON ME ARE YOU BLIND
Wow, you live somewhere that looks cool as fuck from inner city England. Should probably wear high boots when you’re out for a walk tho. Safe and sexy.
Man snakes are so cool
Regular snakes are pretty dope too, but enjoy the lifestyle.
First thing I noticed was the cactus that is wanking one out behind the bushes there
Fun Fact: Pervy Cactuars are indigenous to Southern Arizona!
I absolutely cannot explain why, but at first glance I keep seeing an elephant.
Something’s living in that hole, isn’t it?
Fun fact:
Snake venoms are generally classified into four main functional types: neurotoxic (attacking the nervous system), hemotoxic (disrupting blood clotting and destroying red blood cells), cytotoxic (destroying local cells and tissues), and myotoxic (causing rapid muscle breakdown).
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/snake/snake-facts/4-types-of-snake-venom/So fun!
I think he misspelled “scary”.
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@anon6789@lemmy.world’s been doing a killer job with it. 🙂
I love my slithery friends! Met a chonky python at the zoo yesterday and got to give him pets. Even came home at night to a wiggly garter snake on the welcome mat. Glad I saw him in the shadows, I’d have felt terrible if I hurt it.
I’d be happy to include some more snakes. They could always use positive coverage.
Sounds good!
One thing I get a certain naughty kick out of is the way domestic cats (originally African wildcats) startle so easily when they see snake-like objects in the area. Makes perfect sense to me, though, as they’d be natural prey to various snakes across the greater range of their habitats.
OTOH, on our end, we seem to be unusually scared of some animals, such as spiders, even though spiders for the most part are natural allies, especially in our homes. We so silly…
Those poor cats get spooked by those cucumbers… 😂
The wife and I have reached a peace deal with spiders. She knows I leave them in the house, I just need to make sure she doesn’t see them.
My coworker and I have both been ensuring spiders get moved out of high human traffic areas.
Excellent!
There’s also the fact that most spiders have mouth-parts completely incapable of breaking human skin, so a little diagram or example of such might be worth finding and sharing with the wife?Now, whoever’s reading may hate me for this, so go ahead and hate, but there’s some interesting ideas here I wasn’t aware of: (includes a boatload of high-quality supporting links, not unlike a good Wikipedia entry)
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a876492-d118-83ea-9835-17f1868c8248
This seems to be what she falls under. 😅
She understands they are good, she just does not wish to knowingly share space with them due to her mind categorizing them as creepy-crawlies.
Much like with most of my other friends, she’s happy I have them, but she wishes to spend no time with them. 😂
Those were some fun facts! Thank you 👍
This is why I stay on the walking paths in my neighborhood. They’re supposed to be here in NM, too, but I’ve never seen one where I live. I don’t want to meet one. Where I am it’s sagebrush and sand, maybe they’re closer to the mountain where the ground rocky like in this picture.
Oh. I thought you were talking about the masturbating cactus.
I would not have seen that, before it was to late.
They would probably rattle before you too got close.
Me with my headphones in, on my last day on Earth… 😬
Wear tall boots if you’re hiking in rattlesnake territory
that’s when they go for the balls
Tall boots and a cod piece it is then.
Just tall boots and a codpiece, if you’re feeling confident
What?
You’re right, arousing them is the way to go.
Wear tall boots while hiking regardless. Ankle support is important when you don’t have the infrastructure to make it easy to get to you.
Except, naw, Crocks.
You deserve to be flogged and then bit!
It never ceases to amaze me how little survival instinct many people have these days. Like you ride on your bike with your headphones on and your eyes on your phone and delegate all responsibility for keeping you alive to other people.
I have the same opinion.
I think that as a society, we have become far too dependent on having something playing in our ears at all times, almost as if we’re afraid of being with our own thoughts.When I am out walking, it’s just me and the sounds of whatever is happening around me. Don’t just hear, but listen to the birds, distant vehicles, a dog barking, wind in the trees, and in this case, a rattlesnake looking for something to nibble on.
You are describing me. It stops my own thoughts from being too bleak.
Lemme be real here: I do not make it a habit to go places where there are rattlesnakes. As far as I’m concerned, I spent a lot of money on my house, and see little reason for leaving it, least of all for places far from EMT support.
I was just noting that my city-smarts-only self would be the one having a “let me go find myself with a hike” moment and absolutely get bit because it never occurred to me to leave the headphones at home so that I could hear the rattlesnakes.
I was talking specifically about city people in cities.
This is where the phrase “If it had been a snake, it would have bit me.” comes from.
It was the second one that got me!
I can’t tell if this was a joke, because I couldn’t find a second one! I’d be doomed lol.
You have to respect that rattlesnake warn you before biting. It’s very polite.
Well, actually unfortunately generations of poaching have selected for rattlesnakes that don’t rattle before they strike. It’s like a big problem and stuff :(
But the pos sat itself in the middle of the fucking road?
I’d love some augmented reality glasses that do only like vector graphics to outline things or project text over reality, with advanced cameras to measure and map things. I bet you could see tons of interesting things in nature that you wouldn’t notice.
Of course you can also just train yourself to see more!
Not so fun fact, because people out right killed every venomous snake they could see or hear, the venomous snakes evolved to be quieter over time.
