I grew up with alligators, sharks, boar, 6 deadly snakes, panthers, bears, black widow spiders, and who knows what else all in a 3 mile radius. And in my 18 years there I encountered a rattlesnake twice, once a friend was bit and that was a scarey ride I tell you, a coral snake once, the neighbor shot a water moccasin that was chasing me with his bow and arrow, an alligator camped out under my swing set for a day and a half, and my friend was bit in the ass by a hammerhead because he was fishing along the shore with bait in his back pocket. All the rest I saw in a zoo like everyone else.