Why Are Snakes So Creepy?
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Our early ancestors were tasty snacks for everything from carnivorous mammals to birds of prey; luckily, they had developed a basic predator pattern recognition system that quickly located general threats and gave the primates time to escape. But when predatory snakes first came on the scene, that system totally failed. That’s because snakes are essentially stick-look-alikes whose hundreds of rib muscles and huge ventral scales help them move in a way that no other predator does, which kept them incognito and helped them chow down on unsuspecting prey. But eventually, some of these primates evolved what amounted to snake detectors - adaptations like neurons devoted specifically to snake-spotting - that helped the protomonkeys ...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Our early ancestors were tasty snacks for everything from carnivorous mammals to birds of prey; luckily, they had developed a basic predator pattern recognition system that quickly located general threats and gave the primates time to escape. But when predatory snakes first came on the scene, that system totally failed. That’s because snakes are essentially stick-look-alikes whose hundreds of rib muscles and huge ventral scales help them move in a way that no other predator does, which kept them incognito and helped them chow down on unsuspecting prey. But eventually, some of these primates evolved what amounted to snake detectors - adaptations like neurons devoted specifically to snake-spotting - that helped the protomonkeys ...
