I understand why people use snakes in books and movies. They elicit a
primal fear learned from our ancestors and their ancestors before. You
don't have to walk upright and use tools to know better than to pick up
strange slithering things. Still, can you at least get the science
right?
Movies are the worst. The anaconda, normally a creeping
thing that almost never emerges from the water in its adult form,
becomes a lightning-fast hunter. Boas and…
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