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THE SNAKE AND MANKIND
Genesis 3
New International Version (NIV)
The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made…
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14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your bellyand you will eat dustall the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmitybetween you and the woman,and between your offspring[a] and hers; he will crush[b] your head,and you will strike his heel.”
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30 April 2016
By Bernama
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Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/142515/education-ministry-issues-circular-safety-precaution-avoid-snakes
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21 April 2016
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Year Two #schoolgirl bitten by #snake in stable condition http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/140574/year-two-schoolgirl-bitten-snake-stable-condition … #Rembau
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Rusni said the school field was well maintained and not overgrown with vegetation.
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/140574/year-two-schoolgirl-bitten-snake-stable-condition
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NST
“However, it has yet to be confirmed as to whether it is a snake bite,” said the source.
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/140462/yet-another-suspected-snake-bite-incident-time-negri-sembilan
Malaysia News theSundaily: Schoolgirl who died of snake bite buried at Che Latiff Muslim cemetery | https://shar.es/1jD4uM
KOTA BARU: A Year One schoolgirl who died on Tuesday after being bitten by a snake at SK Dato’ Hashim 1, Pengkalan Chepa, here was buried at the Che Latiff Muslim cemetery in Jalan Kuala Besar, Pantai Cahaya Bulan today.
The remains of Nuriey Nadhirah Ruslan, the elder child of two siblings, was buried after the morning prayers held at the home of her parents in Taman Buaya, Pantai Cahaya Bulan.
The victim’s father, Roslan Ghazali, 33, his wife Wan Nor Izatul Azwana Mohamed, 28, and about 100 family members, friends and villagers were present.
Nuriey, who was believed to have been bitten by a snake based on a bite mark on her left calf, at about 10am during recess while playing in a garden near her classroom.
Her teacher rushed her to the Pengkalan Chepa Health Clinic but she died during treatment and the body was later taken to the Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital here for post-mortem. — Bernama
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1772424
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哥打峇魯一年級小女生在學校被毒蛇咬死 ！天氣悶熱蛇出洞避涼？
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Pusat Perubatan Islam Al-mujahidin added 2 new photos.
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27 August 2015
In Singapore
Python versus king cobra in a battle at NTU campus
Students stunned to see king cobra and python fighting on NTU campus grounds. http://str.sg/Z7as
Students at NTU were stunned to see a king cobra and a reticulated python fighting on the grounds of the university on Thursday, Aug 27, 2015. PHOTO: ABHISHEK AMBEDESINGAPORE – Students and staff at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) were stunned by the rare sight of two snakes locked in battle on a road at the school on Thursday afternoon.
One snake, which looked to be more than two metres long, was locked in the deadly embrace of another, photographs posted on Facebook showed.
Both snakes were captured by NTU pest controllers on Thursday.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/python-versus-king-cobra-in-a-battle-at-ntu-campus
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6 hrs ·
All of a sudden, a colleague announces there’s a huge snake opposite our lab building. Everyone rushes to the window and whoaaaa, there was not one but two!!! gasp emoticon
Wildlife experts from India confirmed that one is a King Cobra and the other a Reticulated Python!! grin emoticon
Enjoy the pics and let us appreciate the beauty of nature! smile emoticon
Steve Winter Photography, thank you for your inspiring talk in NTU on Aug 26th, it gave me the courage to share this story with everyone! smile emoticon
#NSFW #epic
— at Research Techno Plaza (Nanyang Technological University).
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Not enough wine on the planet to fix this problem…. Snake bites woman after sitting in wine for three months http://shanghaiist.com/2013/09/10/snake_preserved_in_wine_for_3_month.php … via @
Snake bites woman after sitting in wine for three months
The Year of the Snake proved unlucky for a woman, surnamed Liu, in Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang Province who needed hospital treatment after being bitten on the hand by a snake that jumped out of a bottle of wine.
Liu bought a live snake and preserved it in wine to cure her rheumatism. However the snake was still alive after spending three months in an alcohol filled bottle. When Liu opened the bottle to add more spirits, the snake attacked her, Global Times reports.
By Sam Canpadee
[Image Via: http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com%5D
http://shanghaiist.com/2013/09/10/snake_preserved_in_wine_for_3_month.php
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150 poisonous snakes roam Foshan village after owner ‘loses’ them http://shanghaiist.com/2014/08/27/foshan-150-snakes.php … via @shanghaiist pic.twitter.com/4cRPO9K2nK
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150 poisonous snakes roam Foshan village after owner ‘loses’ them http://shanghaiist.com/2014/08/27/foshan-150-snakes.php … via @shanghaiist pic.twitter.com/4cRPO9K2nK
A six-member snake committee has been set up to catch the reptiles in shifts.
150 poisonous snakes roam Foshan village after owner ‘loses’ them
Residents from a village in uoshan, Guangdong province began finding dozens of poisonous snakes slithering around the area after one of their neighbors carelessly “lost” 150 of the reptiles, Apple Daily reports. And no, he’s surprisingly not related to this woman.
It is reported that dozens of small snakes around 20 centimeters in length have been spotted and caught by the villagers. One such resident said he’d first discovered the snakes last week, when two kids came out from an alley screaming that they’d just kicked one of the things.
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When I killed my first cobra, I followed the advice of my Indian maid, knowing that she knew of such things as she had grown up in a rubber estate.
I cut off its head, and put the head and body into a plastic bag by using a pair of tongs. I was not to handle the head. I carried the plastic bag up to the road, and took the head and body out.
Placing the two parts on the road, I rolled over them with the tyres of my car several times until they were flattened onto the road. I had to scrap the head and body off the road with my chopper!
Head and tail were put into separate rubbish bags, and then thrown into rubbish bins far away from each other, the idea being to make it virtually impossible for the snake spirit to join head and body.
My Indian maid was Hindu and believed in the snake deity. She didn’t want it to return and take revenge.
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A chef preparing a dish from cobra flesh died when the snake’s head bit him – 20 minutes AFTER it was cut off.
Victim Peng Fan had been preparing a special dish made from the Indochinese spitting cobra, a rare delicacy in Asia where eating snakes is commonplace.
But when he went to throw the serpent’s severed head into the waste bin, it bit him – injecting him with its fast acting venom.
Police say Mr Peng died before he could be given life saving anti-venom in hospital.
Diners who were eating in the restaurant at the time have described screams coming from the kitchen as the tragedy unfolded.
Restaurant guest Lin Sun, 44, who was in the restaurant with his wife Su at the time said: “We were in the restaurant having a meal for my wife’s birthday when suddenly there was a lot of commotion.
“We did not know what was happening but could hear screams coming from the kitchen.
“There were calls for a doctor in the restaurant but unfortunately by the time medical assistance arrived the man had already died. After we heard that we did not continue with our meal.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chef-cooking-snake-dies-after-4088634
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Remember the first time you came across a snake close up? I do, and still thank God I didn’t get bitten!
I was riding my motorbike in Silibin (Ipoh) when a python crossed the path! Up went my legs automatically as my wheels went over the snake! If I had fallen off my bike!!! The snake didn’t falter, reached the bushes and disappeared from view. Phew!
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SOME SNAKES, ESPECIALLY THE PYTHON, LOVE WATER!
Have you got a swimming pool in your back yard? Well, look before you dive in. You don’t want to swim with an unexpected guest who might decide to eat you for tea?
Here was what went swimming at the Toa payoh swimming complex.
It was a python.
Python found in pool at Toa Payoh Swimming Complex on …
http://www.straitstimes.com/…/singapore/…singapore…/python-found-pool-toa…
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SEE WHAT A PYTHON CAN DO TO YOU!
A python swallows a cow
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SOME SNAKES LOVE THE CEILING! Is it because they can drop down on you, wrap themselves around you, and devour you?
You won’t see it until you lie down on your bed! That’s when you look at the ceiling to see…a snake!!!
Malaysia Chronicle
Saturday, 28 June 2014 19:29
Woman finds 5m PYTHON in her bedroom
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SNAKES LOVE TO SIT INSIDE A TOILET BOWL BECAUSE IT IS WET AND COOL!
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Worry You’ll never go without glancing down again. pic.twitter.com/4DxsROxea8
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Buzz Feed
Woman Hospitalised After Being Bitten By A Snake In Her Toilet
A cautionary tale. posted on May 26, 2014, at 7:46 p.m.
While on the toilet in her Spanish home, Iris Castroverde heard some “odd splashing”, and then was bitten on her bottom.
(These pictures are for illustration only. We suspect Iris Castroverde was too busy to photograph the event.)
She jumped up and saw a green and yellow snake disappearing from the bowl. Her bite was treated in hospital, and she was later discharged.
According to Spain’s ABC newspaper, the snake is now believed to be dead – but that hasn’t stopped Castroverde’s neighbours from pouring caustic soda regularly down the sink and investing in urinals.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/robynwilder/a-woman-was-hospitalised-after-she-was-bitten-by-a-snake-in
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BBC Nature – Cobras, kraits and coral snakes videos, news and factswww.bbc.co.uk
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WHEN WE SAW A SNAKE. WE RAN!
We were standing beside my car, he and I. His daughter of 4 and my son of 2 were playing nearby.
The sound of an object falling on the bonnet of my car turned our attention to it. “Snake!!!” he yelled and off he ran, leaving his little girl there. Fear had swift legs.
I was scared, probably as much as he was. I grabbed his daughter with my left arm and my son with my right and ran, too! Fear had slower legs in my case but still, not much slower as I ran quickly enough from that source of danger.
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“Snakes elicited the strongest, fastest responses,” said the study, co-authored by Quan Van Le of the University of Toyama and researchers at the University of Brasilia.
Free Malaysia Today
Brain has specific radar for snakes
Study shows that the brain has specific cells that fire off rapid warnings when confronted with slithery danger.
WASHINGTON: Ever wonder why snakes inspire such fear? A new study on monkeys out Monday says the brain has specific cells that fire off rapid warnings when confronted with slithery danger.
Certain neurons respond “selectively” to images of snakes, and they outpace comparable neurons that react to visuals of faces, hands or geometric shapes, the researchers said.
The report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers new evidence to support the notion that primates evolved keen vision skills so they could survive the threats snakes pose in the jungle.
“It really strengthens the argument that snakes are very important for the evolution of primates,” lead co-author Lynne Isbell, a professor in the anthropology department at the University of California Davis, told AFP.
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– AFP Relaxnews
For the full article, click on Brain has specific radar for snakes
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They found that the widespread fear of snakes stems from a perceptual bias: people recognize snakes faster than other objects. This bias toward snakes isn’t simply the result of learning to fear them. Children recognize snakes just as quickly as adults.
New York Times
Science
Afraid of Snakes? Your Pulvinar May Be to Blame
A juvenile Burmese python.
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: October 31, 2013
This week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists examines one particularly long-lasting source of fear: snakes. The researchers found that certain neurons in the brain only respond to these legless reptiles. These snake-dedicated neurons, they argue, are a legacy of our distant primate past, when the animals posed one of the greatest threats to our survival.
The new study builds on years of experiments by psychologists. They found that the widespread fear of snakes stems from a perceptual bias: people recognize snakes faster than other objects.
This bias toward snakes isn’t simply the result of learning to fear them. Children recognize snakes just as quickly as adults. In a study published earlier this year in Developmental Science, psychologists found no difference in the response to snakes when they compared children who grew up in cities with children who grew up in rural areas where they regularly encountered snakes.
Scientists find a similar bias among our primate cousins.
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The fact that we share this bias toward snakes with monkeys suggests that it evolved in our common ancestors. When primates evolved some 60 million years ago, they adapted to living in trees, searching for food at night and sleeping in the canopy during the day. Snakes creeping through those trees were among their deadliest enemies.
Afraid of Snakes? Your Pulvinar May Be to Blame
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