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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
If it was a snake, it would have bit you
I have one or two of these come to hang out near my house each year so I just load them into a garbage can and take them to the north forty so they don’t bite my dogs.
Casual badass. *no /s
Badger badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom! badger badger badger badger AH! Snake! Snake! Snake! Ooooh, it’s a snake!
Never ran into one in Phoenix but in Tucson, we ran into a green one on the way up Mount Lemmon. Beautiful but frightening.
You have to respect that rattlesnake warn you before biting. It’s very polite.
But the pos sat itself in the middle of the fucking road?
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 :(
I’ve heard them but never seen any on a trail. When I was a boy, my friends and I found a nest with a whole bunch of babies. We watched them for a bit but stayed far enough away. Thankfully we didn’t seem to excite them
angy
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God, the processing on this image is awful. Is this just a phone snap, or have you increased clarity and sharpness to enhamce the camouflage effect?
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/Those were some fun facts! Thank you 👍
Yes, I want to subscribe to Snake Facts
Try here.
@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. 😂
So fun!
I think he misspelled “scary”.
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!
Me trying to see the “little guy”
The one time where a red circle would actually have been useful…
i am no red circle camp, the search was part of the fun
I upvoted both cause I’m being a fence sitter and can’t decide which I agree with.
do you need a red circle around my comment?
If you would be so kind I’m having trouble finding it.
There you go.
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.
Sneak snake
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.
