Fear of humans?

I once assumed that snakes are totally evil and completely dangerous to deal with. But on the contrary they are an amazing species and mostly harmless(even most deadly ones).I call snakes harmless, because they never intend to hurt human beings. The most they try to do is escape from human beings and if it bites it's only because they are cornered and scared. They say "Snakes don't bite anything they can't eat".Human beings are a too big a meal, I guess. Snakes go through so much stress when handled by human beings that they can even die out of it. I have personally seen 3-4 vine snakes die because of such stress while handling them.

I owe my change in perspective to my friend and herpetologist, Showkath with whom I spend countles hours discussing about reptiles. Snakes have more reasons to fear us that we to fear them. Feel free to give us a call at 98846 13677/99 if you find one of these most mis-understood creatures in your living room instead of killing them.