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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 06/23/2010 : 14:17:40
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Lightning fast reflexes on both sides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWeldHtJgI
A question, filthy... What kind of snake is that? How hot is it, in terms of biting the sqirrel?
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 06/23/2010 : 15:37:21 [Permalink]
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Okay. Something really weird just happened and now I must apologies to sailingsoul. He had posted a duplicate post, which happens sometimes, and when I see them I make sure they are exactly the same and then delete one of them. But this time something went wrong. Both posts were deleted! I have no idea why or how that could happen, but it did.
He did leave a similar post at the link that Mab provided. It reads:
| That snake was slow, for a reason. This is most likely out in the desert, on the road side. The sun's shadow is low, so I'd say it's early morning, before 8:30am. Being cold blooded, desert snakes are very vulnerable in the early morning light after a cold night, when they come out to warm up. At the end you can see how motionless it is. A sure sign of low body core temperature. Looks like the squirrel knows his biology. If#65279; that snake was up to temp, that squirrel wouldn't be doing that. SS |
So there you go. Now I would like to know what went wrong... |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2010 : 15:41:24 [Permalink]
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| And yet another weird twist, the above post posted twice. Hmmmm.... |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2010 : 16:03:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
I've seen this on a BB forum that I moderate. I believe it's caused by a bad read from the database that gets cached, or the cache gets screwed up somehow. It will fix itself with time when the bad entry is eventually removed from the cache.
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Nope, it's evil spirits. We never should have sent those guys to the Moon, buggered up everything. |
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
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Posted - 06/23/2010 : 17:12:37 [Permalink]
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What are the odds of that happening? Unless God or some supernatural governmental cover up conspiracy is involved. I would say I'm not worried. After I posted it, I too noticed that there was a double post so I deleted one and left. Fact 1, We both saw the double post, Fact 2, We both report trying to delete one. Seems like it was at the same time. Maybe Kil and I deleted within the same few seconds. I wouldn't worry about this single event, without further problems. That reply you found was close enough Killer!! SS
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/23/2010 : 17:26:33 [Permalink]
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I'm not entirely certain due to the slightly fuzzy photography, but I'm betting-sure it's a Bull snake, Pituophis catenifer sp. It's a non-venomous constrictor and in fact, once the hissing & striking threat display is over with and the snake settles down, it makes a dandy "pet" snake.
They are excellent climbers, and this one seems to have had the ill luck to run afoul of a squirrel defending it's nest and young. It doesn't look to be quite large enough (they grow to 6 feet +) to swallow the squirrel or that's probably what it would be doing.
Edited to add a clear photo:
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
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Posted - 06/24/2010 : 10:39:16 [Permalink]
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/28/2010 : 15:57:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
snake looked pretty wounded at the end, I wonder if it survived.
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Probably. As long as no internal organs are damaged, they can survive some pretty dreadful wounds. A squirrel's jaws and teeth lack the gape and the the shape for deep penetrating-bites.
I once found a big Northern Watersnake (Neroida sipedon) with a scar that looked to be some 9 or 10 inches long.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Squirrel vs Snake...
