This man-eating, mutated anaconda attacked our class after just having devoured an entire town a few miles down the road, or you would think to hear the squeals of fright when this six foot, completely non-venomous eastern rat snake (
Elaphe obsoleta,) slithered out of a pile of stone and towards the nearby woods on the farm of my Hist. Ecol. professor. This guy, whose name I am so embarrased not to remember (I've been in this class for eight weeks now,) did his best Australian naturalist impression, grabbed the snake, and ran with it away from the outbuildings where it was free to go on its merry way.