Snakes exist just to eat.

#snakes #serpents #animals #critters #humor #jokes

This is Lazarus. He is celebrating the eve of his feast with me on the backyard swing.

#ballpython #snakes #herps

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A beautiful ball python on a blue cushion. His hindquarters are on the lap of a man wearing a salmon-colored shirt.

"No matter the circumstance, particularly in the Southern literary tradition, encounters between rattlesnakes and humans are nearly always a zero-sum game. Someone will always end up dead—sometimes a person, more often the snake." —Elsa Pearl for Oxford American

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/rattlesnakes-at-my-door

#Snakes #TimberRattlesnake #Appalachia

"Every Sunday for more than 30 years, Bill Haast would release one of his king cobras on his lawn so that he could 'fence' with it." —Mark Hay for Distillations Magazine https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/venom-in-his-veins?src=longreads #snakes #venom #history #longreads