My biggest gripe, and honestly i think its the root of all "snake hype", is that for some reason people cant get in their heads that there is more than one species of snake. I always get: is it poisonous?does it bite? Isnt that thing gonna get like 10 feet long? What if it gets big and tries to eat you?
And people always say: thats a boa? Anaconda? My friend had one just like that amd it got 15 feet long.
Then i feel like the "knowitall" that has to educate them about the difference between all those snakes amd how this one is harmless.
I use the idea that it would be like assuming that a canary would one day grow into an ostrich. Its 2 different animals completely.
This kind of thinking groups all the bad things about some snakes into 1 animal.
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