i am terrified of spiders , but love snakes.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty five times indepenently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So snakes scare the stuffing out of me but I want to learn more about them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A snake can be somewhat terrifying I can understand. They are legless, elongated, carnivorous reptiles."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Carnivorous?  So they don't just eat plants.  That's why I'm scared!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's right. They are also covered in overlapping scales and they are ectothermic."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Geez.  If it bit me would I die?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well that would depend on the species of snake. Many species have skulls with more joints than the lizard ancestors. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow.  So there are lots of different species of snakes to watch out for. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Its best to know what snakes live in your area. Those extra joints in their skull help them to swallow prey more easily."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I live in Florida.  Snakes and gators for days. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I would imagine. That is terrifying. Snakes have paired organs to accommodate for their narrow bodies. Their kidneys for instance are one in front the other."}]