4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Kill Snakes

In this video, I talk about why you shouldn't kill snakes, with a special reptilian guest. Here is the script and the link to an article: Are you Scared of snakes? There's a reason why and it's the same reason why cats are scared of cucumbers. (knowledge with Nik intro) Back in the days of hunter-gathering where our species has spent the majority of our time if you got bit by a venomous snake you would die. So naturally, we have a built-in fear of snakes. However, we have this thing called classification and we can now tell if a snake is venomous or not. Regardless you shouldnt kill a snake. Here to help me is Susan the Colombian Red Tail Boa. Reason 1: They are more scared of you than you are of them. No snake is seeking you out to bite you. In fact, the majority of people that suffer venomous snake bites are purposefully provoking them by attempting to catch or kill them. If you leave a snake alone it will leave you alone. Reason 2: Snakes reduce pests. Fun fact if one male and one female rat were left to breed unchecked within a year there would be 1250 rats, within three years that number could reach 500 million. So what’s keeping the world from being engulfed by rats like new york city? Predators (insert to catch a predator “have a seat”) the predators I am talking about are creatures like birds of prey, cats, and snakes of course. We need snakes to keep the rodent population under control. But snakes can get where birds and cats can't. Nooks and crannies of structures and rodent dens. For example, when we were younger my brother and I bred rats, one escaped into a little gap between a built-in desk and the wall in the corner. We couldn’t catch it luckily I read the lady who swallowed the fly when I was a kid so I knew what to do. We sent special agent Delilah in and she ate the rat. Yes, she did take a 3 hour nap in the gap before coming back out but she got the job done. Reason 3: Snakes reduce disease, Pope Gregory the Ninth was spooked by Halloween and declared cats to be signs of witchcraft so naturally, everybody massacred cats. But there's this thing called the bubonic plague that spreads by fleas on rats, fewer cats mean more rats and more death. Well, cats may possess some witchlike abilities with their ability to coax infinite forgiveness out of their owners (show cat knocking over glass video) they don't deserve to be killed except for in Australia and new Zealand where they are running rampant but that’s a tale for another time. It is contested whether or not the pope Gregory cat ban impacted the plague but I’m no scholar I was just trying to make a point. Anyway, Snakes serve a similar purpose, if a rodent is spreading disease and is eaten, by by disease. Reason 4: Snakes are nice, look they are just doing theri thing, if you are nice to snakes they will be nice back unless they feel threatened. Snakes deserve to live undisturbed by human presence, unless we’re talking about burmese pythons in florida, as the population is growing out of control. The problem with invasive species is they have no predators in the area’s where they’re invasive which leads to overpopulation and upsetting the balance of the ecosystem. So if a snake is native don’t kill it, if it is invasive like the burmese python go right ahead. Together we can make the ecosystem perfectly balanced as all things should be.   / did-pope-gregory-ixs-hatred-of-cats-lead-t...