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Originally posted by fabbriche
Absence of snakes can cause famine, disease and death. Actually, more people die of dog bites than snake bites. Man's fear of snakes is irrational. Snakes are pretty harmless unlike dogs. Snakes won't chase and bite you for no reason. They usually only charge when they feel threatened and get cornered.
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Snakes play a vital role in the environmental cycle, they eat rodents, which can damage the crops to very large extents.
And yes, the fear of snakes has evolutionary roots. We're scared of them, because many of our ancestors in the Afrikan Savannah died of snake bites thousands of years ago when they were running around barefoot hunting their prey or gathering the berries. So this fear which had a solid basis many thousands of years before, persisted in our minds, and we are still plagued by them, even though many of us will probably never encounter a snake in the wild.
