Write a story on a topic: Your encounter with a snake
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Ihad promised they would be safe: “No snakes will bite your legs, they’re just not interested in you.” Then a bramble slashed back against my son’s shin. Blackberry red beads of blood decorated his skin. “Are you sure we’ll be OK?” he asked, fighting back tears.
Safely through the undergrowth, we carefully raised the corrugated iron sheet and peered underneath. A grass snake, fluid as quicksilver, exited left. The children jumped instinctively, yet all we’d seen was an electric flash of green and yellow.
Two slow worms were also making their escape, living up to their name by doing so in an altogether more sedate manner. The larger was a male, glinting of burnished gold in the afternoon sunshine. His metallic glow was emphasised by the dark soil where he lay curled like a Cumberland sausage. He had evidently decided to bury his head in the leaves and earth, and wait out this rude attack on his home.
There was sense in this approach. The slow worm’s scientific name, Anguis fragilis, means “fragile snake”, and had I allowed one of my children to reach out and grab its tail – all fear gone, they were desperate to touch the smooth, gilded skin – it might have fallen off. The tail would then have continued twitching to distract predators such as a fox or hedgehog. Conveniently, a replacement would grow over the next couple of weeks.
The smaller female was keener to leave, which meant we were able to observe her delicate head and small, dark eyes as she headed for the safety of the bracken. We saw the ear openings and eyelids that help differentiate these legless lizards from snakes.
Meanwhile, having continued with the steady burrowing, the male slow worm eventually heaved the last part of his tail out of sight and the scene was empty, except for the ants diligently removing their eggs to a new nest.
So much action and movement yet barely 60 seconds had passed. We carefully returned the corrugated metal to exactly the same position and felt how warm it was from the early autumn sunshine
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Safely through the undergrowth, we carefully raised the corrugated iron sheet and peered underneath. A grass snake, fluid as quicksilver, exited left. The children jumped instinctively, yet all we’d seen was an electric flash of green and yellow.
Two slow worms were also making their escape, living up to their name by doing so in an altogether more sedate manner. The larger was a male, glinting of burnished gold in the afternoon sunshine. His metallic glow was emphasised by the dark soil where he lay curled like a Cumberland sausage. He had evidently decided to bury his head in the leaves and earth, and wait out this rude attack on his home.
There was sense in this approach. The slow worm’s scientific name, Anguis fragilis, means “fragile snake”, and had I allowed one of my children to reach out and grab its tail – all fear gone, they were desperate to touch the smooth, gilded skin – it might have fallen off. The tail would then have continued twitching to distract predators such as a fox or hedgehog. Conveniently, a replacement would grow over the next couple of weeks.
The smaller female was keener to leave, which meant we were able to observe her delicate head and small, dark eyes as she headed for the safety of the bracken. We saw the ear openings and eyelids that help differentiate these legless lizards from snakes.
Meanwhile, having continued with the steady burrowing, the male slow worm eventually heaved the last part of his tail out of sight and the scene was empty, except for the ants diligently removing their eggs to a new nest.
So much action and movement yet barely 60 seconds had passed. We carefully returned the corrugated metal to exactly the same position and felt how warm it was from the early autumn sunshine
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- My most memorable snake experience was in Queensland, Australia. In my twenties I went through just about a year going from homestead to cultivate in the Outback, filling in as a vagrant worker. Of the considerable number of occupations I did, the most physically rebuffing was picking water melons. You invest hours at an energy culling them (a conventional water melon weighs more than 50 pounds) from the beginning tossing them to a daisy chain of individuals stacking them on a truck.
- The intriguing thing about water melons is that they warm up toward the evening sun and hold their warmth into the night, which makes them alluring items for warmth-adoring snakes to rest under. Furthermore, there each snake rests, until next morning when you pluck the rooftop from its room. We never realized what snake we would discover under a melon, and in an unreasonable way, the speculating became a lottery to ease the burdensome monotony. Until you found a taipan.
- Nothing centers the mind like going over a taipan. It is viewed as the world's deadliest earthbound snake, with venom sufficiently intense to execute up to 60 individuals and the propensity for striking over and over. Yet, luckily for us pickers, water melons are additionally great at holding the cool of the night into the day. So as long as we picked the melon right on time, before the sun was high, the resting snake would consistently be too cold to even consider making a quick move. Furthermore, when in doubt, we never picked water melons after late morning.
- The main time I was nibbled hard was by a darker tree snake. These snakes have caused pandemonium by hitching rides on boats and air ship to wind free islands in the Pacific. The island winged creature populaces, being innocent of snakes, have to a great extent been cleared out by darker tree snakes, which are forceful trackers.
- A companion of mine examinations darker tree snakes with the desire for discovering approaches to control them, and I inquired as to whether I could photo one of his creatures. We set it on a branch, held by an aide. Everything was working out in a good way until I waved my hand, marginally, to get the associate to move the branch. This was all it took to affront the darker tree snake, which propelled itself through the air to immerse my turn in its jaws. I never had the opportunity to see it coming, and it hit with such power that I was pulling polished shards of its wrecked teeth from my hand for quite a long time a while later.
- Fortunately for me, dark colored tree snakes are not venomous (albeit a chomp can positively be increasingly genuine for little youngsters), and on the off chance that you are pondering about the poor snake losing some teeth, these are supplanted normally as a feature of working together. What stunned me was the speed of the snake chomp. Medical aid manuals educate you to remain quiet and abstain from raising your pulse. However, actually adrenaline floods into your circulation system. My heart beat so quick I nearly dropped.
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