While snakes may seem like the scariest animals around, they often find themselves getting taken down by their own predators. Mongooses, foxes, coyotes, wild boars, birds, other snakes and even raccoons are known to eat snakes. However, the greatest thing snakes have to fear is humans. 

Humans capture and kill snakes for a variety of reasons. Humans will kill them for intruding on their property. Humans also tend to capture snakes to sell them to other countries as pets. This is how pythons got to Florida, and why they are such a problem down there.

Snakes can also be killed by humans so their skin can be harvested for fashion like purses, belts and shoes, among other things. Venomous snakes are also captured and sometimes killed to produce antivenom, to save the life of humans that were bitten by them. 

Snake habitats are also being destroyed by humans for various purposes, which can lead snakes into conflict with humans. Snakes have many different ways of protecting themselves, including using their natural scale color to camouflage themselves among the ground, grass, sticks and leaves. Snakes will also try intimidation before biting, which can include hissing and attempts to make themselves look bigger. Some snakes will even play dead like an opossum.