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Category Archives: wild kingdom
don't get an iguana!
National Iguana Awareness Day isn’t until September 8, but the caller informed me that it was never too early to start preparing.
“I don’t have an iguana. Will that be a problem?” I asked, because I was intrigued. And bored. And I don’t have an iguana. Luckily, not owning an iguana does not make me ineligible for the festivities, so i stayed on the line to hear more.
Eventually, the caller realized she had the wrong number, apologized for taking up my time, and went on her merry way. Early on in the conversation I suspected she wasn’t one of my garden variety crackpots and might actually be on the up-and-up so I did more research. Not only is National Iguana Awareness Day a real thing, there’s a really good website for it. Live and Learn.
we’ll see who’s laughing when we’ve all been eaten by giant snakes
Burmese pythons have been quietly advancing their quest for world domination since at least the early 1980s. I slept better when I was a kid, before my father’s herpetologist friend shared this with me soon after they caught an escaped burmese python named Julius Squeezer in our neighborhood. I wish the archives of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune were online, I remember the article being screamingly funny to my brother and I.
The herpetologist’s doom and gloom about nature being devoured by invasive species of snakes? Less funny.
an earlier version of this post stated that Squeezer went to live out his days at Jungle Gardens, but I’m fairly certain that is incorrect and he was returned to his owner, so I’ve removed that information.