If I’m wandering around on some lost planet, and my robot starts flailing its arms while saying danger, danger, I know enough to go back to the spaceship and chill for a while. Not everyone does.
For example, Steve Irwin likes to interact with crocodiles and poisonous snakes. I like to watch him doing this. If some wild animal latches onto his leg, it doesn’t hurt me at all.
If someone does get bitten by a poisonous snake, it’s good to know some facts to help calm them:
Do not allow the victim to become alarmed, excited or agitated, as this will only increase blood flow and the chances of getting poison to the heart.
Snake heads have been documented as capable of biting and injecting poison an hour or more after decapitation.
I can watch Steve play with crocs and snakes all day, but getting out there and doing it is not for me.
It’s the same thing with sharks.
Noted shark expert, Dr. Erich Ritter, has said that he has never been bitten by a shark because he understands shark behavior. Ritter, the chief scientist for the Global Shark Attack File (part of the Shark Research Institute), has even said he can keep them away just by modifying his heart rate.
Ritter was badly bitten by a shark in the Bahamas.
Now here:
http://www.cdnn.info/news/article/a020430.html
Not to mention bears.
I remember seeing Treadwell’s “Grizzly Diaries” on TV and thinking to myself that he was eventually going to get taken by one of the bears he got so close to. And that’s exactly what happened.