“Vitality — that is the test; and, whatever its components, mere truth is not necessarily one of them. A dragon, for instance, is a more enduring animal than a pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every honest person believes in dragons — down in the back-kitchen of his consciousness.”
-Kenneth Grahame
Outro Song: Just A Ride by Rishloo
BOOKS
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame on Amazon
The Fruit, The Tree, And The Serpent: Why We See So Well by Lynne A. Isbell on Amazon
An Instinct For Dragons by David E. Jones on Amazon
The Dragons Of Eden by Carl Sagan on Amazon
Kenneth Graham Biography by Peter Green on Amazon
Dragons: The Myths, Legends and Lore by Doug Niles on Amazon
Dragons And Unicorns: A Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard on Amazon
Dragons: A Natural History by Karl P. N. Shuker on Amazon
Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox on Amazon
RESEARCH PAPERS
Conditioned Electrodermal Responses To Masked Fear-Relevant Stimuli
On The Automatic Nature Of Phobic Fear
Testing The Snake-Detection Hypothesis
The Hidden Snake In The Grass
Humans Recognize Partially Obscured Snakes More Easily Than Other Animals
The Origin of Snake And Spider Fear
The Narrow Fellow In The Grass
ARTICLES
Afraid of Snakes? Your Pulvinar May Be To Blame by Carl Zimmer
Fear Of Snakes, Spiders Rooted In Evolution by John Roach
When You Were A Baby, You Were Not Scared Of Snakes by Melissa Hogenboom
Why We Are Afraid Of Snakes by Ann Lukits
Are Humans Predisposed To Fear Snakes by Nathan H. Lents
Scientists Have A Scary Theory About Why Human Vision Evolved by Meghan Bartels
East vs West Dragons
NPR Lynne Isbell Snake Detection Theory
Ancestor Of All Placental Mammals
ASSET CREDITS
Fire-Breathing Dragon Sound Effect by CGEffex
Tablet V Photo of Epic of Gilgamesh by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Spanish Dragon Relief by Alexandre Perez Vigo
Gilgamesh Statue Photos by ZulaikhaN and Samantha
Eastern Dragon Gates picture by Okkisafire
Blindsight Experiment 1989
Lemurs Madagascar by Quentin Djaq Le Franc
Lemurs Madagascar r by Andrew Quitmeyer
World Map by Nicholas Raymond Changes Made
Harlow’s Studies On Dependency In Monkeys
UCF In Print – David Jones
Die Nibelungen by Fritz Lang (1924)
Artwork By
Darrell K. Sweet
Edward Burne-Jones
Bernat Martorell
George Timothy Tobin
Arthur Rackham
Briton Rivière
Viktor Vasnetsov
Qasim ibn ’Ali
Ogata Gekko
Donn P Crane
Konstantin Vasilyev
Thomas Cooper Gotch
Chen Rong
William Blake
Harold Nelson
Leonardo Da Vinci
Emil Doepler
Solomon Joseph Solomon
Sir George Ripley
Maximilian Liebenwein
Georg Jenny
Ulisse Aldrovandi
John Bauer
Gustav Doré
Caravaggio
VSAUCE CREDITS
Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Contributing Researcher & Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
VFX by Eric Langlay
Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi
Select Music by Jake Chudnow
Special Thanks Hopi Hoekstra
Special Thanks Joshua Mark
Special Thanks Paula Lieber
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