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Brazil's 'Snake Island' Is The Place Of Nightmares, We're Pretty Sure. This just may be the most terrifying place on Earth -- at least if you happen to suffer from ophidiophobia, aka fear of snakes. Scientists estimate that up to 4,000 snakes live on the 110-acre island, with some reports indicating that you can find one snake for every six square yards. The island is more packed with snakes than the Spanish midfield is with talent, according to a Wall Street Journal article published ahead of the World Cup.
These traps are among 119 placed under or near trees on Guam and the nearby island of Saipan to determine the distribution of tree seeds. In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators.Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific island of Guam.The brown tree snake has often been used as a textbook example for the negative impacts of invasive species, but after the loss of birds no one has looked at the snakeâs indirect effects,â said Haldre Rogers, a UW doctoral student in biology.