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Rivets55
at Tue Sep 5 19:30:01 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rivets55 ]
>>That's a Digiphotus multipixalatis or northern LEGO snake...
Sorry, but I must disagree. The brightly colored Northern LEGO snake (Digiphotus multipixalatis) is strictly non-aquatic, and in fact is found most often nocturnally, strewn about domestic household floors. There they employ their unique defensive strategy of deliberately getting underfoot, inflicting briefly painful but non-venomous injuries. They freeze motionless when suddenly exposed to light, pretending to be inanimate plastic building blocks.
Clearly, this is a Cube Snake (Antimpressionistodon angularis picassoini). The unicolored rectangular body segments are diagnostic. These tend to resemble the LEGO snake. but the colors are more muted. The dead giveaway is the general appearance, which is meant to confuse potential predators by only suggesting that it may be a snake. Since most snake predators lack the mental capactity for abstract thought, they soon tire of trying to figure out excatiy what they are looking at, and move on to prey requiring less refined sensibilities.
Cube Snakes first appeared in Central France, during the Abstractocene, where they thrived for about two decades. However, they failed to prosper, being unable too angular for the subsequent Streamlineozoic Period. This particular Cube Snake was found in an aqueous environment, as implied by the bright blue color and abstract wave forms. However the liquids they most often occured in were purple and smelled of fermented grapes.
Today Cube Snakes are rare and expensive; Seldom found other than preserved in museum collections, they continue to puzzle herpetologists, who wonder at their apparently pointless existence.
Nohj D
Professor of Applied Abstract Hepetology
Psycotic State
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RE: michigan snake - Rivets55, Tue Sep 5 19:30:01 2006