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Okay, does anyone remember that couplet to differentiate the Scarlet Snake and the venomous Coral Snake?
Red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow.
Red touches black, you're okay, Jack.
IT COULD just as easily be:
Red touches yellow, you're okay, fellow.
Read touches black, you're dead, Jack.
SO NOT EASILY MEMORABLE! I get mixed up on these things, why you do this to me, makers of herpetology mnemonics?
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
W4LTER you probably knew this but cane toads are pretty much only known for getting you HIGH in the U.S., not as one of the huge non-native biological disasters other nations have inflicted on the delicate and wonderful ecology of Australia.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Back in April in the Mojave Desert I answered the call of nature in the middle of the night behind a bush that had what I thought was a plastic bag caught in it and blowing in the wind. It turned out to be a Mojave Desert Sidewinder rattlesnake about 2 feet from my rear end. He was mad but I couldn't blame him.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
one year passes...
The researchers named the snake Titanoboa. From the size of its vertebrae they estimate it was 13 metres long and a metre wide, which means it would have had trouble squeezing through a modern doorway. It weighed 1,140 kilograms.
im imagining this thing wiggling across a highway or spiralling itself up an elavator shaft or maybe wrapping itself around the town square christmas tree and i think we should bring them back, through science, just for all the laffs they could bring
― rent, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
twelve years pass...