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The following excerpt is from the US
Government Peace Corps Manual for volunteers working in the Amazon Jungle. It details what
to do if an anaconda attacks you.
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- Related to the boa constrictor, the anaconda
is the largest snake species in the world. It grows to thirty-five feet in length and
weighs 300 to 400 pounds.
- If you are attacked by an anaconda, do not run. The snake is faster than you are.
- Lie flat on the ground. Put your arms tight against your sides, your legs tight against
one another.
- Tuck your chin in.
- The snake will begin to nudge and climb over your body.
- Do not panic.
- After the snake has examined you, it will begin to swallow you from the feet end --
always from the feet end. Permit the snake to swallow your feet and ankles. Do not panic!
- The snake will now begin to suck your legs into its body. You must lie perfectly still.
This will take a long time.
- When the snake has reached your knees slowly and with as little movement as possible,
reach down, take your knife and very gently slide it into the side of the snake's mouth
between the edge of its mouth and your leg, then suddenly rip upwards, severing the
snake's head.
- Be sure you have your knife.
- Be sure your knife is sharp.
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Submitted by Gr8SmokyMt
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Some snakes hear through their
tongues.
Submitted by Bubba
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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
-- George Carlin
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What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered
plant? -- George Carlin
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It is a common belief that
it's possible to determine the age of a rattlesnake by closely examining
the number of "rattles" at the end of its slithery body, just as
one can date a tree by counting its "rings." This is a
myth. The snake does create more rattles when it sheds its skin. But that
shedding happens more often than once a year.
Besides, if you try to figure out how many birthdays this lethal little thing has had by closely examining it, you may not have any
more yourself.
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In Cleveland, Ohio, it's
illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Submitted by Cupycake
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The Rodent
One night at about
3AM my wife was getting up from the throne to return to bed when she heard a little noise.
It was a suspiciously rodent like sound that seemed to be right in the bathroom with her.
She of course froze and listened attentively for any further sign of invaders. After a
moment, satisfied that she was alone, she took a step for the door. Rodent scratchy sounds
again! She froze, not breathing. Silence.
Her heart beat fast as she once again tried to retreat from the
bathroom. This time the noise was accompanied by something touching the back of her leg!
That was, of course, too much to bear. She literally flew the 8 feet to the bed, clearing
the foot board by a couple feet, to land screaming by my side.
This is not a pleasant way to wake up. Scrambling into
consciousness, now scared half to death myself, I managed to get the light on. The culprit
was right there in plain sight, a trail of toilet paper neatly marked the path from bed to
bath.
Submitted by ARareJewel
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A rat can last longer without
water than a camel.
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The early bird gets the worm but
it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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Did You Know? Skunks can shoot
their spray 6 to 10 feet
and the odor can be smelled up to 2-1/2 miles away!
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Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Gun-Toting Panda
A panda walks into a bar, sits down and orders a sandwich.
He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead.
As the panda stands up to go, the bartender shouts, "Hey! Where are you going?
You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"
The panda yells back at the bartender, "Hey man, I'm a PANDA! Look it up!"
The bartender opens his dictionary and sees the following definition for panda:
"A tree dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring.
Eats shoots and leaves."
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Did You Know? Polar bears are left-handed.
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One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo
and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a
crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office.
The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular
attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo
will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get
another one. The mime accepts.
So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters
the cage before crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he
wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime.
However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He
begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to
his. Not wanting to lose the attention
of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles
from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd
loves it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a
raise for being such a good attraction.
Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the
lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he
is dangling over the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion
gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round
and round the cage with the lion close behind.
Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, Help
me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back
looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to
get us both fired?"
Submitted by Moodybluze
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