Oh Em Gee! It's a JUNGLE out there!

So one of the most over-hyped news stories of the last few months (So hyped it made a Larry King top 10 list) was a story of an Egyptian Cobra escaping from the Bronx Zoo.

Big woop?

In a city where there are threats of getting hit by a taxi, mugged on the subway, hit by people throwing detritus out of there windows, severe food poisoning etc etc etc all of a sudden everyone was going nuts at the idea of one tiny (albeit deadly poisonous) snake being potentially loose in the city.

It's just interesting how city dwellers react to nature - so unknown, so dangerous, so threatening.

It's a snake people!

Is it because when we were young Fairy Tales always depicted "The Woods" and the natural as the scary, the dark, the unknown...

Cities are not safe places, maybe it's time we introduced some nature back into our urbanised lives to put it all back into perspective.