Why are humans inherently afraid of spiders and snakes?

You know what this video made me think of instantly... it was like, a soul reborn again but driven purely by impulse... and then it encounters its visage. It was like, is that me?

Colour morphs perhaps

same here. 2 days ago, I found a wolf spider in our bathroom. So I caught him in some tissue, and took him outside.

pretty common around this way, so it's not really a big deal

(mine didn't have babies like the one in video)

Okay well that one is kind of cute. It if showed up at my patio door I might put some tuna out for it or something.

...happens to the best of us....

I am scared of spiders, I have that phobia

Scorpions are freaking scary too, but the ones here are not as deadly, but they did make my mouth numb for days. Found a black widow on our porch too. Snakes, uhhh *shiver*

As I already mentioned, makes determining the exactly chronology kind of tough to fix an exact date Still, the age of the earth is probably closer to 7000 years than 7 billion years.

You wanna hear something funny? I live in central AZ and this should be scorpion central but I haven't seen a single one!
And even back in the 2007 boom where construction was going on right outside my apartment for months building up commercial real estate. You'd think they'd be all over the place protesting. Not one!

*counts blessings*

If you drum lightly directly in front of them, they come out and play.

This is reminding me of a song my dad used to play.

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:bird eaten by sp :

it goes back to the garden of eden, the serpent

My license plate says AJNA. :D

I want one in German



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A very long, custom one....

Last Edited by pi on 03/15/2013 01:38 AM

"A Tale of Two Spiders: A Love Story"

lol there's nothing magical about it.

Snakes and Spiders are both venomous. Natural selection has lead us to be mostly born with the natural instinct to be fearful, cautious of ALL of them - regardless if the venom that they possess is harmful to us or not. Because, we do not yet have the capability to naturally determine that yet. Maybe we will someday.

This is just like the fear of heights - fear of water when you're young and can't swim

Why bad things that have bacteria on them 'stink' to us. So we know to steer clear of them.

Same with animals - most are born with the instinctive knowledge to fear their predators. As the species matures through the course of natural selection it becomes more and more aware and smarter at ways to avoid the predator - while the predator gets smarter and smarter at finding ways to get his prey.

Everything continually improves because of these sorts of things. It's what keeps life going instead of being glitched and burning out after a few generations.

I think I just marked myself for the DHS. Halp!

I could not give a rats ass about a spiders or snakes, i used to catch brown snakes for fun at 10 years of age...

Maybe that's just an Aussie thing :P haha

Entirely too much for me in this thread.

I had no idea that was hidden within that as well...

x2

i really wonder this!
i am SERIOUSLY afraid of spiders. Irrationally, even! I don't know where it comes from, but it is very strong. I need an explanation!!!!

I've always found the above to be a very odd statement....

sweet Jesus

My husband asked me if I wanted to move to Australia once, and all I could think about was this post I read somewhere about a girl that always had snakes crawling through her front door into her house. One day, I went into my kid's playroom and right where my toddler was playing I moved the toybox back to get a toy and you know what was there??? A SNAKE!!!!

I screamed and by the time I came back with a garden stick thingy, it was GONE...freaking in my house somewhere. OMG I called my father in law crying, cause I was freaking out. He never found it..three weeks later, it was in our blanket in our bedroom. My husband stabbed it in the head with something. It was just a little bitty baby rat snake..but I swear in my mind it was like a python or something.


Makes my invisiballs go into my stomach.

Just look at them!

I had thought the exact same rhing, and did a little research on it. Insects were indeed HUGE at one point in the Earths past. But this was during the earlier days, iirc, when there were many more trees and the environment was of a higher concentration of oxygen. Insects grow larger with more oxygen.

Heres a quick link I found to briefly explain this

[link to m.wisegeek.com]

However, this cannot be the reason that humans fear the spider, as we did not co exist when they were this large.

I believe there to be another reason for our hereditary fear.