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Thanks Eric.  I heard a somewhat similar report from a colleague years ago, and I chalked it up to personal experience.  Perhaps it was more than "skin deep."

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> On Oct 29, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Erich Rose <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In a similar fashion I remember the first time I encountered the sound of a rattlesnake in the wild. It was a big Timber Rattler in upstate NY and I heard it before I saw it. I had never experienced the sound live and it had that  "hard-wired" effect.  I froze in place despite the chills running up my spine.  And I was the kid who collected snakes right and left and generally had no fear of snakes so it really surprised me.
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>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Charles Carlson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/38053/title/Snakes-on-a-Visual-Plane/
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>> Hi All,
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>> A very cool observation and discovery that's consistent with my experience, and probably others of you as well.  About 15 years ago, I was jogging on a hilly trail in the East Bay.  My pointer sweeping the ground around me.  As he crossed the trail several feet in front of with a single bound, I instantly saw a snake, a gopher snake reveal below her leap. She paid absolutely no attention to it.  For me however, I came to grinding halt with an almost neon snake against an earth background.  It was like it had been silhouetted.  I did a quickly processed snake identification, and deftly leaped over the snake.  I so vividly remembered the event.  
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>> What surprised me more than anything was how quickly I had picked up the form of the snake, and how oblivious my dog had been.  How could we be so different.  Well, it turns out it may be a unique inherent aspect of our primate visual systems.
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