//@A SNAKE handler puckers up and kisses a giant king cobra. During a live show the fearless performer risks his life going mouth to mouth with the deadly reptile.The performance, at the Krabi Snake Farm, in Krabi, Thailand, was caught on camera by American videographer Joel Pierce. Some people in the comments section allege that the Snake somehow enjoyed the kiss. What they fail to understand is that snakes do not have the same emotional range as human beings, and so the emotion of enjoyment is likely as alien to snakes as UV waves are alien to the human visible spectrum. You cannot personify reptiles and think they behave like primates. I assure you I'm not trying to make anyone feel inferior here. After observing our two closest primate relatives, Darwin asserted that "the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is certainly one of degree and not of kind." Based on that, and that reptiles are 'lower' on the scale, I am asserting that reptiles have a lower emotional range and magnitude than human beings. If you have some contrary findings I'd love to hear them.You made wrong conclusion, though. They have same emotional range and magnitude (even among people there's huge variety of intelligence levels, but nonetheless all people are capable of same emotions). What they do have lower is learning capacity. That impacts how fast and how much on grand total can they learn, and that limits highest order of intelligence development. Animal's "mental matureness" can never exceed fraction of that of human, they never become "grown up" as we know it, with needs and desires reaching far beyond simple biological necessities. You can even observe this by yourself, all you have to do is to train animal to communicate. In one experiment, apes were trained simplified version of deaf people gestures to speak english. In some other experiment, they used an glyphographic keyboard typing. You just have to select a method that an animal can effectively learn, with simpler rules and smaller vocabulary. //