Just a little one, this time

[thewhitelily]

Found inside attempting to climb onto the boss's computer. It's a green tree snake: not only non-venomous, but completely devoid of fangs. We think he might be a particularly dull brownish colour in the picture because was trying to blend with the cardboard box we kept him in until everyone arrived and could have a hold. He was cool and sweet, with his little muscles gripping my skin. We released him into the bushes, and he sailed up and away from branch to branch at incredible speed, not even pausing to grip one branch or the next, just effortlessly stretching on to the next one and the next one, trying to gain height and escape from the crazy bigjobs.

Comments

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

Aww, he's so cute!

[thewhitelily]

I know! You can't even begin to tell how delicate his tiny little neck was from the photo. :)

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

No fair, now I want one! You couldn't post one, could you? Biosecurity is so much more lax in this country...

[thewhitelily]

Mine! All mine! Nyah, nyah! Besides, China might not mind, but I think Australian customs might have a problem with smuggling native animals out of the country...

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

Since I just read an article about a German guy getting a few years in jail for trying to smuggle lizards out of New Zealand, I can believe Australian customs might have a problem with it. You could just label the box "scorpions"! Scorpions aren't a protected species, right? (Some guy tried to do just that when smuggling animals, but I forgot what the animals really were, or any other details. Needless to say, "scorpions" attracted the attention of customs pretty quickly!)

[thewhitelily]

LOL! I'll have to remember that, for whenever I particularly want customs to inspect something. I bet those customs officials had protective gear on when they opened the box, though!

[rchevalier.livejournal.com]

I wish I lived somewhere that had snakes. *sad* I miss snakes. They were so much fun to stalk in the grass.

...then again, I'm terrified of rattlesnakes and that tends to ruin my desert frolicking, and Michigan might just be the only state whose snake population is virtually all garden snakes.

[thewhitelily]

There's certainly plenty here. :) I wouldn't talk about anything else if I mentioned every snake my cats brought in at home. They deposited a live one of (at the time) unknown species right under my chair the other night, which I only found out about when I looked down to discover why they were growling. Gaah!

Plenty of dangerous snakes here, too. We're constantly looking them up online so we can work out how close to get, how far away to stay, and whether I can climb down from my desk yet. :)

[rchevalier.livejournal.com]

0.0 Oh dear. Hopefully the desk you're climbing on has a computer on it.

Identifying the poisonous snakes is not a problem in most of the US. Mostly you just need to be concerned if it rattles. But that's a pretty big concern, as it means you've already pissed it off. I suppose there's cottonmouths too, but even they do a bit of a tail thumping thing even though they don't have built in rattles.

[thewhitelily]

Of course! No desk I'm at fails to have a computer on it, often several. :P

Australia has around 140 species of snakes, 100 of which are venomous (although, to be honest, only 12 or so are likely to kill you). With that kind of range, in general it's safer just to jump on the desk until I'm sure. :)