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Exciting new species: Our new pair of juvenile Southern vine snakes (Thelotornis capensis) are adorable little rascals. Slightly flighty and potentially lethal (no antivenom available), but still adorable.
Saw these for the first time in Dvur Kralove last week (also your source?), they really are fascinating snakes. But I can imagine they can be hard to work with
Not really; they're actually more flight than fight.But I can imagine they can be hard to work with
S. Venaticus
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What will happen if someone gets bit by them?
Also really cute (must resist to not boop them
)
What will happen if someone gets bit by them?
Also really cute (must resist to not boop them
Nothing good whatsoever; in all likelihood I fear Batto would lose Welt der Gifte and the bitten individual would lose their life.
I advise you hope very hard that it doesn't happen, and that your joke hasn't put you on a visitor blacklist.
Clinical features of twig snake (Thelotornis capensis) envenomation - PubMed
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Depending on the situation, an intentional sabotage act or gross negligence would still be covered by our insurance. The southern vibe snakes are too flighty for nose booping.
The visitor black list mostly includes people who did not show up without an excuse. Quite a lot of English names among them, I'm afraid. Today's English visitors were on time, though.
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S. Venaticus
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Of course I do... I don't like people getting hurt or worse... Also I hope WdG doesn't close. It looks really cool(and yes I do want to visit some day). Sorry if my humour was inappropriate
.Thanks for that
Unfortunately I didn't understand all that was written since English is not my mother tongue and my medical vocabulary is pretty poor, but I do appreciate it.
Another go at offering a Halloween special at WdG
Das ist der gruseligste Halloween-Ort in Salzburg
Das ist der gruseligste Halloween-Ort in Salzburg
Halloween worked quite well for us guest-wise this year, but yesterday we received a slightly more realistic "shocker": WdG is now home to a young male terciopelo (Bothrops asper), also known as Fer-de-lance. The species has quite the fearsome reputation in Central and NW South America, which, given the number of reported serious bite accidents and human fatalities associated with it, doesn't surprise. The previous private owner was a bit overwhelmed with its temper, so he was glad to leave "El Chapo" with us.
A wonderful species, and one I got quite familiar with when I visited Costa Rica earlier this year. They are common everywhere there and basically everyone is afraid of them. The locals basically all wear thick boots or snake gaiters at all times.
Let's play a little guessgame: this week, I'm going to pick up a new animal from a German zoo. Hint: it could be described as a "BBC", however, it is not
- A British public service broadcaster
- A cryptid British black cat
- An acronym for the shortcomings of communications between men and women
- NSFW.
- A British public service broadcaster
- A cryptid British black cat
- An acronym for the shortcomings of communications between men and women
- NSFW.
My guess is Naja melanoleuca, potentially from Munich.
Brown-banded cobra?
You got one word right...^^
Given the re-classification of N. melanoleuca as several species by Wolfgang Wüster a few years ago, my reply could be a taxonomic "Maaaaybe"...
Given the re-classification of N. melanoleuca as several species by Wolfgang Wüster a few years ago, my reply could be a taxonomic "Maaaaybe"...
Could be, but to my knowledge the only proven individuals from the split species are already in Austria
although it would naturally be very good news if further individuals have been located!
Time will tell; I might ask Wolfgang for his professional opinion regarding Hellabrunn's Big Black Cobra the next time I'll meet him (very friendly chap, btw.).Could be, but to my knowledge the only proven individuals from the split species are already in Austria
He is indeed - I was lectured by him at Uni and went with him on a group tropical field trip during my Master's (indeed his hand has a cameo appearance in at least one of my photos in the gallery here - holding a reptile, of course
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