Animal of the Month
What’s #Scary in the Animal Kingdom?
Terri has recently started a new theme for the Sunday Stills challenge called Animal of the Month. This month this theme is focusing on What’s #Scary in the Animal Kingdom?. For this challenge I have chosen the scary or sometimes no so scary (depending on your outlook) of Slithering Snakes.
Here are my contributions …
“There’s a snake lurking in the grass.”
Virgil
in San Diego, California
When are Snakes seemingly scary to me? Not when they’re encased in glass or cage encounters, then they are interesting to observe. However, when a Snake slithers across my path close to me, then my scary senses are on high alert.
seeming to hiss at us.
“No matter how brave a man is, he will always look twice at a snake.”
—African Proverb
Whenever Coleman and I are hiking along trails in the woods, I keep my eyes on full alert. You never know what might be lurking under the leaves and sticks on the side of a trail.
Belmont, North Carolina
Snakes and Spiders are the animals that humans think are the most scary to them. The smaller, everyday creatures (like snakes & spiders) are the ones that triggers the highest levels of raw, visceral fear and dread.
Columbia, South Carolina
“The snake is an absolute coldness. It has no warmth, no love, no voice. You can never tell what it is thinking, and that is why it terrifies us.”
— Unknown
Would you hold a few Snake in your hand(s)? I’d rather not, regardless if the snake was harmless or not.
Gastonia, North Carolina
“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”
– William Shakespeare
Why are some of us scared of Snakes? There are several possible reasons including evolutionary innate perceptual predisposition to quickly spot and easily learn to fear them. Other possible factors are unique physical traits, cultural stories, and learned fears; unfamiliarity with snakes, social conditioning, pop culture and/or movies, as well as myths and folklores about them.
“A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip – only direct perception.”
Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)
To me, when I see snake on a trail, by my home, or on any path I might walk I am leery, not sure if I should perceive it as scary or whether I should ignore it and keep moving forward. When I see snakes at Zoos, or museums, then I am not afraid. Why not? They are enclosed in cages or glass enclosures and I know I am safe to observe and admire them within a safe environment.
Scary Snakes
My grandson, as yet, doesn’t have fear of snakes, he finds them fascinating and enjoys reading about them in books.
A National Geographic Kids book
borrowed from our local library.
“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”
– Kate Seredy
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Terri’s Sunday Stills-Animal of the Month-What’s #Scary in the Animal Kingdom?
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