Cultural Herps

In our society, the media influences the public's perception of different animals, either by associating them with the villains or as heroes for their owners. The most influential story about a herp comes from the biblical story of Adam and Eve. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent which symbolized temptation and disobedience, convinced Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Since then snakes and reptiles have been seen as evil doers, conniving and dangerous. Various action and horror movies like anaconda and snakes on a plane utilize snakes as villains subsequently arts such as the snake path in the university of California designed by Alexis Smith and Lair of the Serpent by Elihu Vedder are famous pieces that promote the beauty of reptiles. In some cultures, due to the skin shedding ability of snakes they are seen are immortal and a symbol of male fertility.
Not all media pieces portray Herps badly, frogs and turtles are always depicted as intelligent, graceful with welcoming personalities. World wide personalities like kermit the frog, the geico gecko and the transcending teenage ninja turtles. Just as snakes have a tale, turtles are part of folk lore as using their wit to outsmart its competition the hare.Their trials include a race between the turtle and the hare, although the hare is faster but the turtle uses cunning genius to win the race, from this the tale "slow and steady wins the race".
In conclusion, snakes are general seen as bad but they only show these qualities when provoked, or their habitat under attack while frogs and turtles are considered easier to incorporated into our society.

Vincent Essien

Resources

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Sa-Sp/Serpents-and-Snakes.html#b