When I was younger I once let a friend hold a completely tame kingsnake. He got scared and dropped it as soon as it touched his hands.

This snake had literally never bitten anyone. But two weeks later this kid sacked up to try again. As I went to hand him the snake, the king lunged at his face! Never done anything like that before or since. I don't think that dude will ever go near a snake again. HAHAHAHA. But that snake sure remembered him.

Animal intelligence is just completely different from our own. Just because a bird can go bury 10,000 nuts in the woods, and find most of them by memory that winter, doesn't make him smarter than a person. But dang if I could do anything like that.

great post frank. I will die laughing when I see you with that racer eating a mouse sitting on your shoulder.

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