OK, so I'd like to say that I've never really been afraid of snakes.
He raised a gothic menagerie: hundreds of snakes, a crow, and white rats that he sometimes snuggled with in bed.
Professionally, at least, Scrushy and Andrews have for years been as intertwined as a pair of snakes on a caduceus.
And as soon as someone with a phobia of snakes actually touched a snake in that room, they were fine.
But as so often in this game of snakes and ladders, the leap up was followed by a slide down.
Of the 22 species of snakes within the Morganza Spillway, three -- the copperhead, cottonmouth and canebrake rattler -- are venomous.
Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) and acrophobia (fear of heights) afflict the majority of specific phobia sufferers, according to Weaver.
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The idea is prompted by evidence that people may be innately primed to notice and be wary of spiders (as we seem to be of snakes).
Say you have a fear of snakes.
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"The venom gland of snakes appears to be a melting pot for evolving new functions for molecules, some of which are retained in venom for killing prey, while others go on to serve new functions in other tissues in the body, " he said.
Dan Bartlett said a neighbor spotted one of the snakes and called police to Cobb's home last week.
There could be as many as 2 million of the snakes on Guam, where they have no natural predators.
Fortunately, there were no injuries and all of the snakes were recovered.
They are from the family of constricting snakes, which kill their prey through asphyxiation and can grow to more than 9 ft long.
Crack open Lady of the Snakes on the beach, and I predict your funny bone and brain will be exercised while your bathing suit stays dry.
Rachel Pastan's novel, Lady of the Snakes, came out in February, but I've been saving it, because I had a hunch that it would be my idea of the perfect summer book and was I ever right.
Personal rows, the ups and downs of careers, the snakes and ladders of the academy (Mr Menand is especially good on these) are scrupulously noted.
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David R Ellis, the former stuntman who later enjoyed success as the director of 2006 release Snakes on a Plane, has died in South Africa at the age of 60.
The creak of ancient waterwheels turning in the cool water of the Orontes, which snakes through this city of 800, 000, was the only sound in the still hot air during the daytime last weekend.
He said they had also had to find homes for turtles, birds of prey, snakes, and lizards that had been left outside the shop.
The US banned the import of the carnivorous snakes last year.
The two young women emerged from their stall, both of them thin as snakes.
Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, and then they came into the United States and became NBC executives.
She said a "substantial" number of reptiles - including snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises - had died, along with meerkats and and an ant colony.
Na drove into thick rough at the final hole and had to lay up short of the water that snakes around the entire banana-shaped green.
These unsung passages function as the smaller veins feeding into the main artery of the Grand Canyon, the up-to-18-mile-wide, mile-deep gash in the earth through which 227 miles of the Colorado River snakes.
He said he has invited all of the council members to his house to see the snakes firsthand, but as of Friday no one had taken him up on the offer.
The dead mice will target snakes in a fenced-in area of the base, he said, so officials will be able to determine the effectiveness in that area versus an adjacent area that the snakes could move in and out of.
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