Dayum Nature, you scarey!

[Free]

The guy's voice-over where he's going on about how the python has enevr bitten anyone, in contrast to his cat.

Is this is the guy we're OK with on the point of supervision?

 

[Clara D.]

It's not biting you need to be worried about from constrictors. Ours are nowhere near that big and we wouldn't introduce them to small children, even the ball pythons who are basically potatoes.

At least he does say she's never left unsupervised with the snake.

When I was young and silly (instead of old and silly) we somehow ended up baby-sitting a ball python over the summer.

It liked me. And slept around my neck . . .

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Is this is the guy we're OK with on the point of supervision?

I don't think "OK" is quite the term I would use. More surprised that he was willing to make that concession to sanity.

It liked me. And slept around my neck . . .

I had a ball python in my bed for the Houston freeze earlier this year. In a knotted pillowcase, not loose.

 

[Beebo Brink]

...the ball pythons who are basically potatoes.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Snake shocks Sydney shoppers by slithering along supermarket spice shelf

Shopper Helaina Alati, who happens to be a former snake catcher, was luckily on hand to return the three-metre python to nearby bushland

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

Snake shocks Sydney shoppers by slithering along supermarket spice shelf

Shopper Helaina Alati, who happens to be a former snake catcher, was luckily on hand to return the three-metre python to nearby bushland

www.theguardian.com

Super.

 

[Free]

What the what is this?!



Maglink

 

[Fionalein]

What the what is this?!



Maglink

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I would say it's CGI.

 

[Fionalein]

I would say it's CGI.

Maybe, but whirlwinds are indeed known to suck up water and drop it once the angular momentum got converted. While this might be CGI or not, things like this really happen.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Is This Dangerous Waterspout Video Real?

Waterspouts are very real, but this video....?

www.snopes.com

I've seen a waterspout forming and it's a different kind of flying altogether.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Packs Of Ravenous Wild Boars Are Ransacking Rome

Entire families of wild boars have become a daily sight in Rome, as groups of 10-30 beasts emerge from nearby parks to trot down city streets in search of food in Rome's overflowing trash bins.

www.npr.org

 

[Free]

More wild boars. Oy.

 

[Fionalein]

More wild boars. Oy.

could have been Frontex agents too - they are hard to tell apart... or so I've been told

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Rose Karuna]

This is positively horrifying

The tongue-eating louse does exactly what its name suggests

It's the stuff of nightmares, or science fiction: a parasite that wants to get inside an animal's mouth, where it attacks — and replaces — the tongue.

www.npr.org

I'm glad it hasn't moved on from fish into mammals and I hope it doesn't!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I'm glad it hasn't moved on from fish into mammals and I hope it doesn't!

That's the plot of one of Charlie Stross's novels in the Laundry series, give or take some evil elder gods and mind control.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Polar bears took over an abandoned island and moved into empty houses (bgr.com)

 

[bubblesort]

Polar bears took over an abandoned island and moved into empty houses (bgr.com)

The first house they found was too big, and the second house they found was too small, but the third house they found was juuuuust right! They lived happily ever after, until... a burglar named Glidilocks broke in one day!

 

[Beebo Brink]

Monkey 'queen' led a violent coup to become her troop's first female leader. Now her reign is in jeopardy.
The young female fought her own mother and 4 top-ranking males to seize control of her troop.

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) — also known as snow monkeys for their habit of basking in hot springs when the weather gets snowy — live in strictly hierarchical societies, Kaigaishi explained; higher-ranking monkeys get greater access to food and mates.

Huh, sounds vaguely familiar... like I've encountered that dynamic before... I'm sure it will come to me eventually.