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": "assistant", "content": "I hate snakes, they are carnivorous reptiles and they are nasty"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If they are poisonous then I definitely fear them, but they look cool to me and don't seem so nasty to me like bugs and stuff. I respect your view though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They are ectothermic, and covered in overlapping scales. So gross."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess I can see the gross aspect since they crawl around all the time. non venomous snakes kill either through eating prey alive or constriction."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Most snakes can swallow their prey that is much larger than them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, that is an ability that I find impressive. Their fossil records however, are generally poor because their skeletons are usually small and fragile."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Legless lizards can sometimes be confused with snakes, but they aren't the same."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was not aware of that. I have heard that all modern snakes are grouped in the suborder of serpentes in Linnean taxonomy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I didn't know that! Snakes are found on every continent except Antartica!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's fascinating the environment is extreme there. Some examples of legless lizards are the slowworm and glass snake."}]