Are snakes tamed by breast milk?

Science or superstition...
12 September 2025
Presented by James Tytko

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Sva writes in, asking whether stories of snakes being tamed by human milk have any grounding in science. James Tytko took on the question with the help of herpetologist Fortunate Mafeta Phaka, and Angela Julian of the Amphibian and Reptiles Group of the UK.

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