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Abu Dhabi zoo reptile keeper on why he loves the snakes most people fear: ‘They’re not mindless killing machines’

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“Abu Dhabi zoo reptile keeper on why he loves the snakes most people fear: ‘They’re not mindless killing machines’”

Say the word 'snake' and most of us already imagine the hiss. Show us a picture and we might recoil. What we know comes from what we’ve read and watched (cough, cough Anaconda franchise), so we picture venom-filled reptiles ready to strike at the slightest provocation. Even the language is against them: Call someone a snake and you’re calling them a traitor. A snake is associated with sliminess, slithery, and treacherous. Then you listen to Mohammed Bashar Hittini, and the fear starts to thaw.…

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