Interesting articles thread

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Hunter–gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes

"Relationships between primates and snakes are of widespread interest from anthropological, psychological, and evolutionary perspectives, but surprisingly, little is known about the dangers that serpents have posed to people with prehistoric lifestyles and nonhuman primates. ... Here, we show that 20th century hunter–gatherers had intense, complex interactions with giant serpents and then evaluate our findings in the context of the natural history and phylogenetic relationships of primates and snakes."

[Enters Laughing]

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