[a fool in paradise]

"I was stunned when I saw it," Wilson says, "because, sort of leaping out at me, were the peculiar articulations between the vertebrae of a snake, and so I had no idea that there would be a snake there but there it was sitting in front of me."

If it'd been a snake, it woulda bit me!

[MissNomer]

Wonder why they are so sure that the snake supposedly waiting to devour the newly hatched babies wasn’t actually already dead, a gift from Mommy to her sure-to-be hungry babies? I had a female cat that used to bring our family food offerings, including the occasional snake.