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Saturday was a day of snakes. Fed my darlings in hand, and they did so quite well even if neither of them bothered constricting their food because of it (oh well).
Took a walk with the roommate and found a Texas threadsnake flailing about on the sidewalk along Lakeline (which runs through some fairly dense woods, all mesquite and Lebanon cedar and live oak); caught it (carefully!), had the roommate take some photos, set it down on the other side of the walk away from traffic. There's something really awesome about holding a vertebrate so small it could curl up on a dime and have room left over.
On the way back, another threadsnake doing the same thing! We thought it was the same snake but there were slight differences in markings and it was in a completely different location along the way; helped that one across the sidewalk too.
X shared a link about an extinct genus of constrictors whose size is honestly a little difficult for me to imagine. "[R]esearchers estimat[e] that the T[itanoboa]. cerrejonensis reached a maximum length of 12 to 15 m (40 to 50 ft), weighed about 1,135 kg (2,500 lb), and measured about 1 m (3 ft) in diameter at the thickest part of the body." As much as I love snakes that's just slightly terrifying, in an awe-inspiring way.
I don't have a clever wrap-up for this entry.
Took a walk with the roommate and found a Texas threadsnake flailing about on the sidewalk along Lakeline (which runs through some fairly dense woods, all mesquite and Lebanon cedar and live oak); caught it (carefully!), had the roommate take some photos, set it down on the other side of the walk away from traffic. There's something really awesome about holding a vertebrate so small it could curl up on a dime and have room left over.
On the way back, another threadsnake doing the same thing! We thought it was the same snake but there were slight differences in markings and it was in a completely different location along the way; helped that one across the sidewalk too.
X shared a link about an extinct genus of constrictors whose size is honestly a little difficult for me to imagine. "[R]esearchers estimat[e] that the T[itanoboa]. cerrejonensis reached a maximum length of 12 to 15 m (40 to 50 ft), weighed about 1,135 kg (2,500 lb), and measured about 1 m (3 ft) in diameter at the thickest part of the body." As much as I love snakes that's just slightly terrifying, in an awe-inspiring way.
I don't have a clever wrap-up for this entry.