Harmless African PYTHONS


What's with the royal pythons on the cover?

The only way they could possibly harm a human is by boring them to death on account of them being a rather boring (if cute) snake which spends 90% of its time hiding (mine only shows herself on feeding day)

Even if they did decide to constrict someone they usually only grow to a maximum of 5ft long

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Because they needed a large, distinctly patterned snake and didn't want to use the Burmese Python, as it is easily recognizable. This also explains the decision not to use an actual anaconda on the cover.

Either way, it was a digitally made snake so they could have made at least some effort to make it unique or at least vaguely related to an actual anaconda.

In any case, they were probably just betting on the fact that the average person wouldn't know it was an actual, relatively harmless snake, as most people see a snake and that is enough for them to freak out about it and/or try to kill it.

It's a shame really that pretty much all snakes are commonly seen this way and suffer because of it. Most people don't even know why they're afraid of snakes...if they did, then they would have done the research and realized that this is a completely irrational position. Only in the most extreme cases are certain snakes dangerous and they are EASILY IDENTIFIED.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but answering your question made me think about this issue since it plays into why these so called "filmmakers" would put a harmless snake on the cover of a horrible movie about fictional snakes of a completely different family.

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