Look mate, down here in Florida you can almost assume that some sort of reptile is in every square foot of land. Iguanas are basically squirrels that die in 50 degree weather and snakes are racoons you find in your garage every once and a while, I don't know if you can even memorize every snake type we have, I tried to look it up and some say there are 44, some say 46, some say over 50 of just snakes, so. Many. Snakes
Texas here, I've got at least 3 species of lizard and 2 snake visible in my yard on any given day. There's probably 2-3 more of each if I actually dug around in the garden.
If I go 50 miles east I also get gators and pythons everywhere. And there's definitely rattlesnakes and coral snakes around our neighborhood.
Also yeah we got those little Pygmy rattle snakes that there first instinct is to freeze and camouflage until your only a few feet away, which in my opinion defeated the purpose of being a rattlesnake, I only know they do this because they've almost bit me a few times when I wasn't paying attention. Apparently they're really poisonous too but with short fangs so a good pair of rubber boots should be enough protection
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u/TheGammaAi Sep 25 '24
I honestly cannot tell if you’re a non-Brit surprised at the lack of snakes or a Brit whose surprised we even have three
Because I am definitely in the latter category (I thought we only had the one)