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bladesparkI have several new words for the day. One is "boid" which I can see why it hasn't entered the common lexicon, because it's so ridiculous, but that's the proper term for the snake family that includes pythons and boas together. I just called them constrictors, but really all non-venemous snakes constrict, so that's misleading. (Even little garter snakes and cornsnakes are constrictors.) There are a great number of snake families, although most snakes you're ever going to see are colubrids. The majority of the other families have only a handful of members, but there are hundreds of colubrid species.
Another new word is ophidiphobia, which is the fear of snakes.
And although I don't think I would ever actually do it, the image of my waving my python at somebody who is deathly afraid of snakes is really quite amusing. *grins*
Another new word is ophidiphobia, which is the fear of snakes.
And although I don't think I would ever actually do it, the image of my waving my python at somebody who is deathly afraid of snakes is really quite amusing. *grins*