Wow, first of all I was even surprised you could stand and take a pic of it 😂, Me the way I will so run, it will be like the entire wild animals are chasing me, I hate the sight of snakes
From your analysis I think my hindbrain usually takes the better half of me ...
Thanks for the lessons
Ah, but it also depends on where you live and what you know, right?
I have spent quite a lot of time learning about snakes and know more about snakes here in Australia than most people. So that helped me feel safer.
Also, venemous snakes in Australia all have very short fangs. So if someone gets bitten (rare) and if that snake actually injects venom when it bites (also rare, because it just wants to scare the threat off not waste its precious venom) then the venom will only go into the lymphatic system just below the skin. This means it's a very slow process before the venom hits the person's heart. Which gives most people heaps of time to get to a hospital.
And we have lots of hospitals here and lots of anti-venom so that person will probably live - and have a good story to tell!
BUT I recognise that MANY people don't have all those things. Maybe it's totally sensible for you to be so scared if your snakes have longer fangs than ours, and/or you have less hospitals, and/or there is less anti-venom available, or it is very expensive.
Sometimes fear keeps us alive. In these cases, it's a good friend to have indeed!
:)