Better hope you don’t get bit by any of these venomous snakes. Top row: Robert Hamilton/Alamy; Wiki Commons; Sam Yue/Alamy. Middle row: Scott Travers; Design Pics Inc/Alamy; Dimitry Orlov/Alamy.
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