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RE: Today - A Trick of the Brain
The green ones? Where I live in Venezuela, the green ones are the worst. We mostly see them during mango season, and they're no good. Even if you touch them, you can get a fever. Not even birds eat them.
But everyone has their own tastes, and if you like the green ones, it's because you see something beautiful in them.
More this one. I remember a statue in a different area I went to as a child. Itvwas covered with them. I liked them. As children we let them crawl allover us. I doubt we were even aware it would be butterflies one day.
I never saw that many after my childhood.
I don't dislike toads or frogs; I pass them by, and they don't mess with me, I don't mess with them. It's a deal I make when I see them. They scare me but I don't hurt them.
Like, when I see the caterpillars; I don't take them with my hands, because I know from first intention that some are poisonous. In other words, many caterpillars have particles in their hairs or villi that can cause hives. So I approach them, take photos, I love their colors. If they are butterfly caterpillars, they are beautiful colors, if they are moth caterpillars, the colors are darker. Some are of the day and others are of the night.
All creatures of creation, If they do not harm me, I leave them where I find them.
How can a frog or toad mess with you? It's a small animal. With us they are protected. Unlike during my childhoid it's no longer allowed to eat them.
If the toads start moving with us people help during this period of the year the toads crosding the road. Harming them is not allowed. For sure they are animals we need. I like their funny faces and feet.
Just like crocodiles who always seem to smile if you study the shape of their mouth.
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It happens that when you are afraid of an animal, instead of jumping in the opposite direction, it jumps towards you. This happened to me long before, because I was afraid of all animals. Not now, I try to tell them not to hurt each other and so they never jump towards me but somewhere else. Or they wait for me to pass by and they stay very still. Something that didn't happen before I learned to converse with them. This, without knowing if they understand me or not. I don't mind. I just want them to understand with the tone of my voice that we will not hurt each other.
In some plain regions of my region there are people who keep alligators as pets, in their backyards or in street food places.
It must be hard to be afraid of all animals. I've been attacked and bitten by many, at times in a very painful harming way but I never felt really scared. I do believe that animals understand. If not the words they feel what you mean.
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I would never have let anyone climb on my body, or even on my hands. Now, of course, just as I don't like caterpillars, there are many who don't like frogs either, and since I was a child I have never felt repulsed by touching them. I find it strange that caterpillars are pleasant to some people, but I'm sure @gertu doesn't think the same.