I can understand that and personally, it will give me a terrible fright too. I think it is innate in all of us as posited by Carl Sagan in his book The Dragons of Eden. Except for circus guys and gals, professional herpitologists and restaurant cooks (it's delicious, I had a serving of phyton before; I couldn't afford the cobra because of the medicinal claims made by the Chinese of the vigor-giving cobra bile, it is very expensive).