The snakes observed appear to accept the robot as real, with one snake even biting the robot's head, according to researchers.
For excitement it may not have matched the Samuel L Jackson film, Snakes On A Plane, but passengers on a Qantas flight watched with fascination as one snake fought out its own drama.
"While I'm taking a picture of all the chaos going on around us, one of these snake charmer guys came up and put his arm around me, and in his hand he has the head of a cobra, " Santelices, 35, remembers.
"You can go out there for days and days and days and not see one python, " snake hunter Justin Matthews said.
"You can go out there for days and days and days and not see one python, " snake hunter Justin Matthews said last month.
Stafford has been so snake bitten that he fanned on a one-time attempt while facing a wide-open side in the loss to Ottawa on Tuesday.
On the menu in a smart restaurant in Yaounde, one can find beef and pork - but also snake, pangolin and monkey - all products of a vast bushmeat trade that has now become the single biggest threat to wildlife in central Africa.
Less than one percent of Califonia's energy supply comes from the lower Snake River dams, conservation groups note.
That's because the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to pack each one with acetaminophen, the generic equivalent of Tylenol, which can kill a snake in 72 hours.
One of them tries to charm me by touching me with a talisman, a snake head.
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Many small steps later, eventually they wouldn't just be in standing in the same room as a snake, they'd be wearing leather gloves, getting ready to actually touch one.
The Year of the Snake is forecast to be challenging for Hong Kong after the city drew number 95, one of the most inauspicious fortune-telling sticks, at a temple ceremony on Monday.
However, while it may be another ten years before snake robots are consistently used in search and rescue operations or in medical situations, Choset believes they will one day be hugely valuable devices.
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