Posted on 10/12/2016 11:38:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A hunt is underway for dozens of highly-poisonous snakes after a mass escape from an unlicensed breeding farm in China.
A hunt is underway for dozens of highly-poisonous snakes after a mass escape from an unlicensed breeding farm in China.
About 200 monocled baby cobras escaped from the farm in Nanjing. So far about 150 of them have been caught or killed.
Monocled cobras are highly poisonous and their venom can prove fatal if not treated.
The snakes escaped in August, but the authorities only became aware when a villager discovered one in his home earlier this month.
Snake parts are used in a variety of traditional Chinese medicines.
August?
If they’re “poisonous”, all people need to do is not lick them.
:)
LOL
Good point.
It’s great as unintentional comedy.
Most of the snakes are CGI.
However, to see grown people fleeing in terror as a flipping *Ball Python* “chases” them down the aisle is delightfully bizarre.
Wow!
Now that is talent!
Grab a flute, sit down cross-legged, and start playing.
Snippets from Mark Twain’s “Roughing It”, about some neer do wells who were turned in surveyors and sent out in the wilds.
“They brought in great store of prodigious hairy spiders—tarantulas—and imprisoned them in covered tumblers up stairs in the “ranch.”
“The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room. Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute.”
There was as usual a furious “zephyr” blowing the first night of the brigade’s return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. There was a simultaneous awakening, and a tumultuous muster of the brigade in the dark, and a general tumbling and sprawling over each other in the narrow aisle between the bedrows. In the midst of the turmoil, Bob H—— sprung up out of a sound sleep, and knocked down a shelf with his head. Instantly he shouted:
“Turn out, boys—the tarantulas is loose!”
Holy Toledo! I can’t think of any other midnight shout that would get someone’s attention REALLY fast. :-) Whenever I knock something over, I yell “Turn out boys!” - family Joke, but some others look at me in a strange way..
The chapter is at: http://www.online-literature.com/twain/roughing-it/22/
So are the snakes poisonous or are they venomous? Crucial difference there.
I’d like to know the evolutionary reason why the monocled cobra survived and dominated the bi-focal cobra.
How awful!
I walked out on my drive a few years ago and thought I had walked up on a cobra!
I got my snake book out, after I killed it of course, and discovered I had killed a spreading adder!
I like it!
Saved money on their vision correction? Still works if you lose an eye?
Snakes on a plain?
That’s a zipper!
More wild ideas for me!
:D
Lick one and let us know.
:)
Like you needed more wild ideas!
I live for them.
:D
I have some children like that.
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