{"id":37251,"date":"2023-09-13T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/?p=37251"},"modified":"2024-11-18T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:39:24","slug":"poisonous-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/serpientes-venenosas\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisonous snakes in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
The devil in the form of a snake tempted Eve in Paradise, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder likened these reptiles to fire-breathing dragons that lived in faraway India, the jellyfish, which according to classical mythology turned everything it looked at into stone, had a mane made of snakes and the popular imagination associates these animals with witchcraft, malignity, the capacity for hypnosis (like the snake Kaa in The Jungle Book) or grants them mysterious healing powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But are snakes as bad as we have been led to believe and do they lie in wait for unwary humans? Evidently not, as we will see below, they are a very important cog in the wheel of ecosystems and if left undisturbed, they refuse our company. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n