I saw this Fer-de-lance by the storage shed on my way home last night. Everybody around here says that you need to be most careful between about 5:30 - 6:30 pm when the sun is setting. It brings a lot of insects out, which brings a lot of frogs and lizards out, which brings a lot of snakes out, and down the line. And then there's the fact that we have a lot of bamboo leaves on the ground which tends to be a great place for snakes to slither around.
I saw this before I was too close. But this morning, Roger, Juan's son who is about 3 years old, nearly stepped on this same snake which had made its way to the other side of the shed. I was about to say that he has already learned about the danger of snakes, but I remember reading somewhere that the fear of snakes is an innate phenomenon that is not taught nor learned. Show a snake to a baby monkey and see how it freaks out.
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