Can’t read about the snake. So I found another I could read.
https://www.insider.com/fedex-driver-battles-rattlesnake-during-package-delivery-in-nebraska-2023-8?amp

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I hope that it doesn't get an inferiority complex.

An extremely rare spotless giraffe – the only one in the entire world – has been born in a US zoo.


Cheers.

The mystery has been solved.

Hope for Tathra Wharf's big-belly seahorse colony following disappearance.

I'd relocate to a quieter place too if my house was being renovated.


Cheers.

Do you like snakes?

Family mortified over shocking carpet python act on house roof.


Cheers.

That's a cool snake. I've held several carpet pythons, and that's the largest I have seen.

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Ha! Kids always say the darndest things.

However, a little kid, flummoxed by the tree-scaling constrictor, inquires, “Is it a tree snake?” “No he’s a carpet snake, darling,” an older woman responds, to which the kid astutely asks, “Then how can he climb trees?”

Ha! Kids always say the darndest things.

However, a little kid, flummoxed by the tree-scaling constrictor, inquires, “Is it a tree snake?” “No he’s a carpet snake, darling,” an older woman responds, to which the kid astutely asks, “Then how can he climb trees?”

That is a perfectly good and sensible question.

... Why do we have the names that we have?...


Keep searchin',
Martin

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Well Martin. Welcome to the world of misnomers.

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Well Martin. Welcome to the world of misnomers.

Which is itself eponymously a nom de plume for "misnamed"!!

It's enough to send ChatGPT into hallucinations...


Keep searchin',
Martin

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66666687
If I were a bee I think I'd be more than a bit miffed if the straps holding me onto the back of a truck came loose....

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

There are even greedy buggers in the animal world. :-O

Claude the koala eats thousands of nursery seedlings intended for NSW wildlife corridor.

When Humphrey Herington realised something was stealing his seedlings, he did not expect to come face-to-face with Claude the leaf thief.

Mr Herington said the true crime drama started several months ago at his South Gundurimba nursery, near Lismore in New South Wales.

"I noticed some of my seedlings were being chewed off and I thought it was probably a possum," he said.

"Every night, there'd be a few more and a few more [missing]."

But soon the culprit was caught in the act.

"One morning we came out to work and Claude was sitting on a bench next to all these plants, just wrapped around a pole," Mr Herington said.

"It seems like he'd had a really big feed that night, so I think he was too full to go and climb up his tree."

Claude – so named in recognition of his impressive claws – was not invited to stay.

"I wrapped a towel around him and carried it down into my neighbour's paddock 200 or 300 metres from the nursery and let him go in a tree," Mr Herington said.

"But a couple of days later he was back."

Mr Herington alleges the leaf thief consumed several thousand seedlings over the course of his crime spree and cost the business up to $6,000.

He said he was building a koala-proof fence to permanently deter the likes of Claude......

Cheers.

The spotless 1 has a rival.

First 'spotless' giraffe seen in the wild in Africa.

The first spotless giraffe has been seen roaming the plains in Africa, just weeks after a Tennessee zoo announced the birth of a giraffe that also lacked the markings.

A photographer captured images of the young calf running alongside her mother on a private game reserve in Namibia.

The last time a spotless giraffe appeared in the spotlight was in Tokyo in 1972.

While seeing a solid-colored giraffe may be exciting, experts have warned that the lack of patterns puts the animal at risk of predators.

The spots are unique to each animal, making it confusing for predators to narrow in on a single prey.....

Cheers.

An odd animal storyline...
Gilligan The Pig Is Living His Best Life At Belmont Harbor

BELMONT HARBOR — Chicago has a sailing pig.

Gilligan, an adventurous and at times prissy pot-bellied pig, has become the most famous first mate at Belmont Harbor’s docks.

The 160-pound oinker is most at peace on the water, where he likes to chill in his private suite under the hull of “The Penalty Box,” a 41-foot houseboat owned by Mt. Greenwood couple Tom and Michele Serbin.

Gilligan celebrated his 9th birthday in late August surrounded by sailors, deckhands and adoring fans. He marked the day by shoving his snout into a mound of blueberries, his favorite food.

“He’d knock you down for a blueberry,” said Tom Serbin, a firefighter and the boat’s skipper. “But I’d say he’s asleep for the other 23 hours of the day. It’s the perfect life.

“He’s my sea hog.”

It just wanted to have some fun...
Bear spotted inside Disney's Magic Kingdom, prompting closures

It just wanted to have some fun...
Bear spotted inside Disney's Magic Kingdom, prompting closures

Food, Yogi want food
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-captured-in-sierra-madre/

Asian hornets nests could fall
I guess I'd be more than a little upset if my home fell from a tree in a storm.

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

It just wanted to have some fun...
Bear spotted inside Disney's Magic Kingdom, prompting closures

Food, Yogi want food
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-captured-in-sierra-madre/

Drive home from the Pub this evening, juvenile ran across the road in front of me. Looks like too many people are feeding them, even if they don't know it.

I hope that those animals activists/terrorists are proud of themselves after the slaughter that they've caused to those that they're suppose to protect. ;-(

Up to 8,000 minks are on the loose in Pennsylvania after being released from fur farm.

Thousands of minks are on the loose after one or more people cut holes in a fence and released them from a fur farm near Sunbury in central Pennsylvania.

6,000 to 8,000 minks escaped from Richard H. Stahl Sons Incorporated on State Route 890 in Rockefeller Township between midnight and 6:50 a.m. on Sunday, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

Police say the culprit or culprits cut holes in the mink farm's fence and freed around 6,000 to 8,000 minks from their enclosures.

Officials warn residents not to approach thousands of aggressive minks roaming the area near Sunbury Animal Hospital.

Several minks were found dead along the roadway near the fur farm, presumably hit by passing vehicles.

"The number of bodies that line the roads just keeps growing by the hour," one resident wrote in a Facebook post. "These creatures are scared, confused, and hungry, with no idea how to survive. They were born and raised in captivity and now will die slow, painful deaths through diseases they've never seen, cars they never knew existed, and starvation when they have never went without food before or have had to hunt or fight for food in their lives."

State police and farm staff from numerous state agencies are working to capture the escaped animals. Sunbury Animal Hospital advises caution around aggressive animals in outdoor areas.

If you encounter a mink, it's recommended that you keep a safe distance as they can pose a threat despite being small in size.....

Stupid does what stupid is. There is a special place for these people when they die.

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Do gooder's disease.