A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science looks at research with infants and young children and finds that we are not born with a fear of snakes and spiders but are rather taught to fear them. Research shows that we can just the same be taught to fear flowers but of course the fear of snakes and spiders is learned faster and lasts longer. To view the full text of the findings Click Here.
This is a story that will become all to common to us if PETA and the HSUS get their way with banning exotic snakes as pets. A home in Cleveland was raided and 20 Pythons, some measuring 15 feet in length were taken from the home. It is not legal to have exotic snakes in Cleavland without a permit and authorities say no one at the home had one so they walked in and took everything. It boggles my mind why an organization with the name “Animal Protection League” would take the snakes from a home where they were being cared for properly knowing and stating that they do not have the facilities nor do the zoos have the facilities to care for the snakes so they will dump them off at serpintariums around the area.
A 14 year old Crocodile is the only thing in the world that loves Nokia cell phones. In fact she loves them so much that she ate one. The phone was dropped in the water by a careless viewer where it was promptly eaten by the Croc. Caretakers for the croc in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk didn’t believe the claims until the called the phone and heard it ringing in the belly of the animal. The croc has been refusing food however surgical intervention will not be done unless she continues to refuse food for another week. At press time there is no word as to weather the phone was insured.
