GETTING CURIOUS | Should I Be Terrified Of Snakes… And What Are They Going Through These Days, Anyway? with Dr. Sara Ruane

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Sara Ruane is a herpetologist and assistant professor at Rutgers University - Newark who joins Jonathan to breakdown all things snakes! She covers their environmental benefits, the differences between constrictors and venomous snakes, and more. Dr. Ruane is on Twitter @sara_and_snakes. Her website is https://sararuane.com/. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bienos, I'm getting curious. I'm Jonathan Vanes and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:06.9	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that gets me in a very curious
0:12.0	state of mind.
0:12.8	On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Sarah Ruwan,
0:15.8	herpetologist out at Rutgers University.
0:18.6	Today, she blows my mind. We're going to talk about all things snakes, geniuses, species,
0:26.2	invasive species, non-invasive species, big snakes, little snakes, poisonous snakes
0:30.6	what to do if you find a snake, all the different types of snakes, how the snakes work.
0:34.0	You got to listen this episode, it'ses. I'm so excited to welcome to the
0:46.7	studio Dr. Sarah Ruane. Welcome. Welcome to you too Jonathan for being here to talk to me about snakes.
0:54.4	Okay well here's the thing.
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:56.8	My entire life my first full sentence was I don't like nakes.
1:01.8	Ah. I've been scared of snakes my whole life.
1:04.7	Like so really the question that I'm here to ask you about is should we be
1:08.9	scared of snakes? Absolutely not. So then my second question is what is the fucking deal with them? What is going on?
1:16.4	Did they first of all you know in the Christian faith I feel like I learned very early that
1:20.4	that snake gave Eve the apple honey and the snakes used to have legs and
1:24.1	God took them away that is in the Bible isn't it?
1:28.0	It is so I was raised as a Catholic and so I am familiar with the hatred of snakes that is thrust upon us in the Christian religion.
1:38.0	But you know what, I gotta tell you, snakes are just a very fancy kind of lizard.
1:44.0	And so if you can handle lizards, snakes are not really any different.
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