Is the sentence in bold the main idea or a detail?

Some cowboys try to protect themselves from snakes while they sleep on the ground by encircling themselves with a horsehair rope. They believe that snakes will not cross the rope, but they are wrong. However, snakes do avoid objects which bear the scent of humans.

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