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>According to the Beeld newspaper, Gordon Parratt of Pretoria, South Africa felt a 85cm-long Mozambique spitting cobra wind itself around his leg on several occasions while he was driving from Kruger National Park.
“He felt something like an insect brush against his leg and foot and wiped it away.”
“As he was doing so again, [...]
Meet Gigi, the Nigerian dwarf goat living in the house of a South Milwaukee family.
“She’s not really a goat. She’s part of our family,” Gail Krug said.
“She likes to watch Jerry Springer,” Gail said. “She hops up on the recliner.”
She also really is a goat, and the South Milwaukee Health Department wants her gone.
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Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they’re not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday.
State biologists are studying the temporary use of magnets to disrupt the internal navigation of federally and state-protected American crocodiles, which have been spotted most often in neighborhoods of Miami-Dade [...]
A New York boy said he and a friend were shocked when a 4-foot boa constrictor slithered from the couch while they were coloring.
“I felt something on my back,” seven-year-old Jay Jhomar said. “I was excited. I thought I found a toy in the couch. It felt like a ball.”
“It was staring and waiting for [...]
C.J. is all Lab: big, bad to jump on you, bent on chasing tennis balls.
Oh, and trained to find rare eastern indigo snakes.
On a recent romp in turkey-oak sandhills near Valdosta, GA, the chocolate Labrador roamed the forest, trailing leash and handlers Kara and Mike Ravenscroft, and answering Kara’s frequent calls to stick a nose [...]
