• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Anywhere that casually lists spiders and centipedes along with reptiles is not somewhere that I wanna be.

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    9 months ago

    2/5 isn’t great. Also why would anyone have to watch out for lizards? I’m doubtful Godzilla is just over the hill

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    9 months ago

    “Scorpions are my favorite reptile”

    (Sarcasm aside, what’s so worrying about lizards? Only a couple types are venomous, only a few more are big enough to seriously hurt you (and most of those live in tropical forest sort of places), and anything smaller is probably just going to run away and hide it you get close to it. Lizards are pretty non-threatening.)

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      9 months ago

      The majority of spider-related injuries are self-inflicted by people panicking and hurting themselves.

      In most lizard-related fatalities, the lizard is the one who is killed