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Show Children Fear Snakes Only When Misinformed Is the fear of snakes born in us? Science says not. No child fears snakes unless he has been previously previous-ly frightened about them. When we are too young to remember, we catch the fear from older persons, asserts a writer in the Detroit News. Among many absurd ideas is that a snake stings with its tongue; that a milk snake milks cows; that a hoop snake rolls; that any snake has power to "charm" and that a fe-male fe-male swallows her young. : There is some slight evidence for the last statement, although the fact that a snake when cut open is found to contain young is no sign she swallowed swal-lowed them. Some snakes are viviparous vivi-parous (bearing their young alive) while others are oviparous (egg laying). lay-ing). The several kinds of garter snakes, water snakes and the little brown snake give bith to living your.g. The black snake, milk snake, and the grass snake are among the egg-laying species. |