Snake Thread (formerly Cape York residents horrified and perplexed as deadly snakes make themselves at home)

[TheGreatBuzz]

38 minutes ago, China said:

Single snake sparks power outage for nearly 10,000 homes in Fukushima

 

For about a week now, the air conditioner has become a lifeline for many across Japan struggling to do anything in this intense heat. For example, in Nagoya a school’s AC broke down, causing 25 students to complain of heatstroke-like symptoms and classes being cancelled for the rest of the day.

 

So, you can imagine the disturbance in the force caused by 9,800 voices crying out at once when their air conditioners all got cut off at the same time. The incident occurred in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, on 29 June when a blackout swept through a large section of the city.

 

Normally, in cases like this, one would assume that there was too much load on the power station, but actually everything was running fine until about 2:10 in the afternoon. Tohoku Electric Power traced the outage to a substation in the city, and when they investigated it they found the charred remains of a snake. Smoke from the burning serpent had also caused six fire trucks to be dispatched to the scene.

 

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Meh.  Not the first time it has happened.

[Ball Security]

 

 

[Captain Wiggles]

That wasn't an episode of COPS at all. More like MTV Cribs NW Florida. 🥴🐍

[China]

15-foot snake shot and killed by police as it was strangling man

 

Police in Upper Macungie Township, Pa., shot a snake to death in order to save a man it was strangling Wednesday afternoon, CBS Philly reports.

 

Police said officers were called to a Fogelsville home for a man in cardiac arrest with a snake wrapped around his neck.

 

When officers arrived at the house, police said, the 28-year-old was lying on the floor unresponsive, with the middle portion of a large snake wrapped around his neck.

 

According to police, one of the officers was able to shoot the snake in its head without causing further injury to the man. After the gunfire wounded the snake, police say, they were were able to pull the man to safety.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Another case involving a good guy with a gun. 🤭👍

Edited July 21, 2022 by Captain Wiggles

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[Bang]

Darwin in action in Pennsylvania. 
A snake isn't a pet. If it thinks it can eat you, it will try.

 

~Bang

[GhostofSparta]

1 hour ago, Bang said:

Darwin in action in Pennsylvania. 
A snake isn't a pet. If it thinks it can eat you, it will try.

 

~Bang

That's why it's important to establish dominance early. You always buy 2 snakes, and then you eat one in front of the other so it understands the hierarchy. That's just science.

[China]

How do you get rid of snakes in your garage? This homeowner is trying to find out

 

When Adam Liboiron moved into his new home along the Humber River in west-end Toronto last winter, he was told his house would have its "own ecosystem."

Then summer arrived.

 

"I didn't know what that meant until recently," he said. 

 

Since then, Liboiron says he's been finding an average of half a dozen snakes each day in his garage, backyard, on his roof and in the vines on the sides of his house.

 

Some are garters, others are Dekay's brownsnakes — which he says can be close to a metre long, although one expert says snakes in Toronto are usually not as big as people imagine them to be.

 

Now, he's looking for a solution that will keep the snakes happy, but let him enjoy his backyard with his wife, infant and toddler.

 

"I've tried to remove a few of them myself, and they will fight back, let's say that," said Liboiron.

 

But according to wildlife biologist Nathalie Karvonen, removing them isn't a solution at all.

 

"Unless you actually change the environment ... you cut down the forest, you dry up the river, you remove the natural food sources," there will always be snakes there, said Karvonen, the executive director of the Toronto Wildlife Centre.

 

Karvonen says while it's unusual that so many have taken a liking to Liboiron's home, snakes native to Toronto are actually beneficial to the ecosystem. She also states they're harmless to humans unless provoked, and even then their bite is mild.

 

The best solution, Karvonen says, is coming to terms with sharing your property with the local wildlife.

 

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Unusual Carolinas: Rattlesnake spotted in the surf at Myrtle Beach State Park

 

Residents and visitors of Myrtle Beach witnessed an unusual sight at Myrtle Beach State Park Tuesday.

 

Michelle Robert took a video of a snake in the surf and said it kept going back in the water even after the waves washed it ashore.

 

Russell Cavendar, who owns Snake Chaser, said it was a canebrake (timber) rattlesnake and got a call from the park asking him to pick it up and relocate it.

 

 

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Stayed for about five days at Myrtle Beach State Park my senior year in high school for spring break. Was a nice place to camp. Didn't see any rattlesnakes thankfully. 

[China]

Black rat snake found inside bag of popcorn at Virginia store

 

A shopper at a Virginia store was taking a bag of popcorn with a hole in it to the front of the business when a snake poked its head out from inside the snack container.

 

Kimberly Slaughter said she was at Shoppers Value in Kenbridge when she noticed a bag of popcorn had a hole in the upper right corner.

 

"As soon as I went to put the bag in my basket to take it up front, because you know, they can't sell it. The thing had popped out, and you know, I was like, 'Oh, well, hi,'" Slaughter told WTVR-TV.

 

Photos Slaughter posted to Facebook show the "thing" in question was a live snake.

 

Slaughter said the snake slithered out of the bag and around her cart before going back into the hole.

 

"It was the full length of the cart," Slaughter said. "It had prime real estate though."

 

 

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[Die Hard]

14 minutes ago, China said:

 

 

[China]

Watch snake walk using robotic legs

 

YouTuber and engineer Allen Pan built four robotic legs for a snake so it can walk. His video shows how he set about undoing millions of years of evolution to give snakes their legs back.

 

 

[China]

Tracking device attached to invasive python found inside larger, hungrier snake

 

Scientists in the US who attached tracking devices to invasive pythons in order to observe their behaviour have found the gadget instead inside totally different snakes.

The researchers implanted radio transmitters inside baby Burmese pythons which had been captured from national parks in Florida and then re-released.

When they returned to the forest to find one of the Burmese pythons, they instead found a fully grown pitviper, known as a Florida cottonmouth.

 

X-Rays found the transmitter in the cottonmouth's digestive system, indicating the baby python had ended up as an easy meal for the bigger snake.

The X-Ray also shows the python's spine within the cottonmouth.

 

The cottonmouth was kept by the scientists for a week until the transmitter was "expelled". The snake was then released back into the wild.

The researchers then tracked a second cottonmouth who appeared to have eaten a Burmese python with a transmitter inside it.

 

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On Snake Road, thousands slither into migration at Shawnee National Forest

 

It’s almost time for the Great Annual Fall Migration to begin. No, not the famous one in East Africa, where wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and other ungulates go on the move.

 

This lesser-known-though-impressive migration also occurs twice a year, spring and fall, but takes place a lot closer to home — just a hundred miles south of St. Louis, at the LaRue-Pine Hills in the Shawnee National Forest.

 

Stretching along the Mississippi River to the Ohio River in Southern Illinois, the 289,000-acre Shawnee is a diverse landscape of flatland prairie, rolling hills, hard-wood forest, lakes, creeks, rugged 150-foot high limestone bluffs and some 2,000 acres of swamp. The migration takes place between the bluffs and the swamp.

 

The landscape here could hardly be more different from the wide-open plains of East Africa. And the Shawnee’s migrating animals bear little resemblance to their African counterparts: no hooves or paws here, and no walking involved. These animals — snakes, thousands of them — slither. Mark Vukovich, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, says there are nearly two dozen different species that make the migration. He had agreed to meet us there on a warm, sunny afternoon last April, when the migration was underway.

 

 

In fall, when temperatures have begun dipping into the 40s, longer nights alert the animals that it’s time to again get on the move, he says, and they retreat to the towering bluffs. On each trip the snakes must cross LaRue Road (Forest Service Road 345), which follows the base of the bluffs.

 

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Gluttonous rattlesnake in Arizona becomes the butt of jokes. ‘Anyone missing a cat?’

 

One of Arizona’s western diamondback rattlesnakes is taking a merciless ribbing on social media after a photo showed it was rendered immobile by overeating.

 

 

Exactly what it ate remains a mystery, but it was clearly big.

 

A photo shared by Bryan Hughes, the owner of the Phoenix-based Rattlesnake Solutions, a rattlesnake removal service, shows the snake’s midsection was nearly triple its normal size.

 

The image was taken by Derek Carlson, a rattlesnake prevention specialist, who was summoned to remove the snake from the porch of a west Tuscon home.

 

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[stoshuaj]

https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/live-snake-stuck-in-womans-ear-in-bizarre-viral-video/amp/
 

“Shocking footage captured the alleged moment that a “surgeon” tried to remove a live snake that infiltrated a woman’s ear”

yes, there’s a video…..

[China]

Crazy Aussies...

 

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[China]

Snakes and mice are falling from the ceiling of a Lexington high school

 

Warning: if you’re squeamish, this may not be the post for you.

 

A Lexington high school has a major pest problem. Yesterday, Nathan Spalding, an English teacher at Henry Clay High School, posted a picture on Facebook of a snake curled up on his phone, which he says is just one example of how pests have invaded the building. Kentucky Fish and Wildlife staff identified it as a baby rat snake, which fell through a gap in the ceiling tiles. Spalding told the Herald-Leader that on the same day, a mouse fell from the ceiling of a different classroom and another colleague has had three mice fall from the ceiling of her classroom since school started last month.

 

 

“Our school is infested with roaches, spiders, and mice,” Spalding wrote on Facebook. “Our school now seems to also have a nest of snakes living in the ceiling. Just another day living the dream…”

 

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Well, if you leave the snakes alone they'll take care of your mouse problem...

[China]

Black Mamba Kills Man's Wife, Daughter and Nephew in Single Attack

 

A black mamba snake has killed a Zimbabwe man's wife, daughter, and nephew in a single attack.

 

The man, named as Tapiwa Musiiwa of the Hurungwe District according to a local report, says he and his family are still coming to terms with the tragedy.

 

The black mamba inhabits a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa and is found in several countries across the continent including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and many more.

 

The snake has a fearsome reputation and is referred to as "the deadliest and fastest snake in Africa" by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).

 

Black mambas are known for their extremely potent neurotoxic venom. The African Snakebite Institute states the venom is capable of causing death within three to 16 hours if untreated.

 

Black mambas can grow up to 14 feet long, though the average size is about half that. The snakes reside in savannas, rocky hills and open woodlands and like sleeping in hollow trees, rock crevices, and burrows.

 

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[China]

A Reptile Breeder Was Killed by One of His Snakes, the 911 Caller Said. Then Bullet Wounds Were Found

 

The unique color combinations and patterns he produced at Renick Reptiles in rural New Florence, Mo., created "designer pets" that could sell for upwards of $100,000, says his friend and fellow breeder David Levinson. "Ben was doing stuff nobody had ever seen before, and he had a lot of 'world's first' over the years," he says.

 

But reptiles also can be dangerous. When, on June 8, 2017, Ben's wife, Lynlee, called Ben's brother and screamed that she'd found Ben face-down at the breeding facility in a pool of blood, Sam Renick raced over and reached the most logical conclusion.

 

"My brother's skull was crushed," he says. "In my wildest dreams I would've never imagined someone would hurt Ben."

 

With Lynlee by his side, Sam told 911: "It had to have been a snake."

 

But Ben, 29, hadn't been strangled by a reptile, the coroner told Sam on the spot. He'd been shot eight times — at least once in the head.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Shot eight times n they still needed the coroner to be like hey yeah it wasn't a snake. 🤣

 

That lady only gets 16 years for killing her husband but the "boyfriend" gets life in prison. Bogus.