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From the article, "That was the prevailing attitude then - they are venomous and no good, so get them out. It is a sad thing. The snake can't help that it is venomous."

So why don't scientists get bitten and eaten by these posionous snakes-or feed themselves to hungry sharks?? Poor hungry shark, can't help themselves. No wonder this nation has fallen so far.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/may/04/eastern-massasauga-rattlesnakes-illinois

The idea is to breed the reptiles, eastern massasauga rattlesnakes, back to a large and healthy enough population so they can be restored to area wilderness locations, including forest and nature preserves. The native species is so shy and retiring that it has managed to remain in Chicago from the city's frontier beginnings through today. "They aren't a very rattling rattlesnake," said Joanne Earnhardt, a population biologist at Lincoln Park zoo who chairs the North American species survival plan for the snake. She said there are few recorded instances of them biting humans. "They only grow up to 2 feet...

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