#snake mating

[ilomilodailystuff]

The male snake who is ready to mate may catch the scent and follow the trail until he finds the female.

Typical flirting then ensues once he locks eyes on the female snake –

He will court the female by bumping his chin on the back of her head and crawling over her.

The males perform a ritual known as topping, where they twist around each other.

Bonus :

The male snake gives her an anoxic kiss to induce compliance.

:')

[omanomagon]

I don’t normally post about my snakes here but I wanted to share Azazel and Isaac doing their snakey dance. Also the leaf censor was a happy accident. We should be expecting eggs in about a month. If you’re interested in baby snakes, check out my snake website (I still have hatchlings from last year I should make some posts about) https://www.thesassysnakes.com/

If this post does well I’ll make a blog just for my snakes.

[nitronarco]

When you think of snakes, now you think of this.

 I have no idea but I made today ‘Weird Animal Facts’ day. @night-of-knives @themostmagicalmoose @pourpri

[trendfire]

Two snakes dancing together and creating romance! Real Scene!

One might think having no limbs would put a damper on the love life, but not for snakes. snake mating, anaconda mating, king cobra mating, animals mating, Ev...

[slimequeenofeverything]

Mobsters, Violinists, and Terrorists, Oh My!

So I had a dream last night:

It began with me talking to a bunch of people about upcoming festivals, including the Blues and BBQ one (which is weird because they aren't even close to happening soon). We decided to go to said festival and so we set off. 

As we walked, we came upon a house that we needed to walk through to get to the festival. We tried to sneak through but soon realized that it was a front for the mob. We got taken hostage and they tried to negotiate how to get a bunch of money in ransom from us. I somehow managed to talk them in to letting everyone go in exchange for my help on their next job, so everyone left and I stayed.

The mobsters explained to me that their next job would be to kidnap Asa Butterfield off of a train that was passing through the city. We gathered around the train tracks and waited for nightfall. As the train came along, we were somehow able to keep up with it but sprinting on foot. We all jumped on different parts of the car he was in and looked inside. He had two guards and was listening to some music while reading. One mobster opened the back door, took out one of the guards, and then just stood there as another mobster and I went through the front door. The second guard, after a surprisingly large period of time noticed everyone and sounded some alarm. 

At this point I got really afraid that Asa might recognize me, as I was an extra in a movie with him, also I figured the plan had gone awry since the alarm was still going off, so I jumped off the train and hid. 

I waited for some time for the train to pass and everything to quiet down and then got up. There were cops everywhere. I ended up just trying to play it cool and walk through their perimeter unnoticed, but I was found and taken aside by an eccentric looking, high-ranking officer that gave me some long speech about the moon and how science represents the pure good in man (this was by far the most insane part of the dream). As he ended told the others officers not to bother me as he walked vertically up a weird abstract-modernist statue and into space. After staring at the disappearing man in the sky for a while, I looked down and found myself and the statue in a large, grassy courtyard surrounded by skyscrapers and other large buildings.

Confused as to how I got in the courtyard, I wandered into a small, tented off area. It was apparently a Chinese/Mexican restaurant that also taught children violin. The owners were a large Mexican woman and her Chinese husband, who was currently teaching a bunch of kids violin (I must secretly be really racist). I introduced myself to them and told them I, too could play violin. I then offered to tech them a lesson and they happily agreed. They were very nice. The kids and the woman kept teasing the man for being mean and the man would get fake angry and stomp around. After a while of this the woman offered to make me lunch, which I happily accepted, and then I went on my way.

I walked back into the courtyard and saw a bunch of the mobsters from before dressed as Taliban with AK-47s walking slowly towards the restaurant (apparently they were secretly terrorists, awesome). I yelled at them to stop and that it wasn't worth it, but they kept solemnly walking into the tent area. I heard gunshots and saw fire and I ran away.

I wandered around the courtyard for a bit more time, when the mobster-terrorists stormed back into the courtyard and attacked me. They started looking a lot like the splicers from Bioshock. I ran and jumped into a previously non-existent cannon, which shot me to the top of the sculpture thing in the center. From there I found a gun and began shooting my assailants as the climbed up. It was intense, and then I woke up. Good times.

[slimequeenofeverything]

The dream began with me on some kind of mysterious quest that brought me to a tiny, Twin Peaks-like town on a mountain (I think it was in Tibet). There was something off about its residents, and they kept dodging all of my questions, so I decided to investigate without their help. 

I'm not sure how, but I ended up searching some farmer's tool shack in the snow. After looking around a bit I found a trapdoor that brought me to a secret room. The room was lined with old stone bricks with strange runes written on them, and the floor was covered with a laser security system. At the opposite end of the room, there was an intricate box that I knew was instrumental in my investigation So I crossed the room, avoiding the lasers, and when I opened the box, a small orb of light came out and floated up the trapdoor and out of the shed. 

I followed the orb out of the shed and continued to trail it after it began floating through the snow and the trees. Eventually it brought me to a hidden cave in the side of a mountain. The cave led me down an intricate hallway inscribed with the same runes as before. After a bit of walking, the hallway opened up into a large, mostly natural cave-room. with on enormous, flat wall. The orb flew into the wall and left a shadow of a man flickering his flashlight, so I turned my flashlight off an on and the wall had a different shadow picture on it. I continued to flicker my flashlight at the wall, as the shadows a story of how there was a small village that fell out of favor with their god, who then sent a being of darkness to destroy the town. As the last few images were shown to me, I began hearing a rumbling behind me. I kept checking back but didn't see anything until after the last picture. I turned around and saw a black smoke bearing rushing towards me down the hallway. I turned back to the wall only to see the word "sorry" before the smoke overtook me.

I then woke up as a greaser kid from the town with no recollection of what happened to previous me. I went to school and there was some strange commotion that I didn't consider worth my time so I skipped class and went home. After a while my dad walked in, but he was babbling some nonsense or another and turned violent after a few minutes of my ignoring him. I jumped out of a window and ran across the village noticing that everyone had gone crazy. I figured that my only course of action was self-defense so I grabbed an ax and killed everyone I saw. Pleased with myself, I made a sign telling what happened that day and hung it outside the front of the town and then went to go see a movie in the next town over.

At the theater I saw a trailer for with the following plot: "Two people in the mountain town from before find a bike with the Smash Bros logo printed on it equally on both of their lawns. They each lay claim to it, but can't decide who should get it. So they get some wizard guy to hide it in some extremely hard-to-reach place on the globe, whoever finds it first, gets to keep it. Somehow, tons of people (including fictional character) find out about the contest and join in the massive worldwide treasure hunt."

I recognized in the dream that the premise was kind of stupid, but got really excited for it after learning that the cast and crew of the film  were some dream-team assemblage of the best writers, actors, directors, producers, and whatnot in adventure movie history.

This got me so excited for the movie that I left the theater, found myself in New Orleans and had to tell all my friends about it. As I ran down the street, I saw the Dovahkiin on a Segway. I was confused and then woke up.

[slimequeenofeverything]

This seems like quite the situation, Zach

[slimequeenofeverything]

So I had to bike back to my house this morning to pick up batteries, and when I got back, I took a nap. This is the dream I had during that nap.

I dreamed that I biked back to my house and once I got there, there was this mysterious door on the front porch wasn't there before. I walked in and it looked sort of like my neighbor's living room, except there was an iphone on the floor, and my neighbor walked in and said "You should leave. This place is for the cat." I tried to stay, but she seemed pretty insistent that I get out, so I did.

After I got back on campus I found out that everyone was playing some "marco polo"/tag variant in which the grass was off limits. Within minutes of discovering this, a 12' tall robot version of my friend from Texas began chasing me. He had his eyes closed so I could avoid him pretty well, but he kept throwing these huge rocks at me. After a while I was able to find a stack of stepping stones that I proceeded to throw into a field and run across in an effort to avoid the robot. Unfortunately, he then began walking on the grass to catch me and chanting in hims robot voice "I APOLOGIZE FOR CHEATING." After a while of this I lost him in a building and hid inside a bathroom. There were others in there hiding as well.

After staying in there for a couple hours I left to play Call of Cthulhu with my friends for a very long time. Then at around 5 am I found out that my sister followed me to campus and I was mad at her because that meant that I needed to walk her home.