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Originally Posted by Whitley
Apparently (see blueblaze post above) snakes will chase you down then beat the cr@p out of you (if they catch you). As much as I fear snakes, they do not even come close to my horrid fear of monkeys. Don't show your teeth. Dont let them see your eyes. Don't make any sudden moves. Those things will rip your lips and eyelids off just to be obnoxious little sh15$. One day I plan on going to the park off crystal river to confront my fears.
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I don't know about beating me up, but he sure seemed cocky about giving those birds fits. I've never had a snake try to chase me before. But I agree, monkeys and just about everything else in this world is more dangerous than a little snake.
They're usually very shy -- sometimes almost friendly. We used to keep chickens back in Texas and we had a big rat snake that used to hang out in the chicken coop and steal an egg once in a while as payment for keeping the rats away. He got so tame that I could pick him up. If I found him in the nest box, I had to shoo him out to get the eggs. And he had a weird thing going on with the chickens. One evening I came out to close the coop and he was in there probing for something under Edith's wing. I don't know what the heck he was doing, but Edith didn't seem too concerned. Maybe they all got a massage every night at bedtime.
There's just a lot more going on in the animal world than we realize.