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Why it's wrong to kill snakes ...
See this? This is a yellow rat snake doing what snakes do best ― eating rodents and preventing disease. Some people think a wild snake will only eat once a week or so, but that’s a myth. They are opportunistic feeders and will often eat multiple prey items in one meal, such as entire nests of rodents!
This is why humans need snakes. This is why, no matter how you feel about snakes, you should never kill one. Snakes perform an invaluable service just by doing what they do ― asking nothing in return but to be left alone.
The only good snake is a live snake! (This one is multi-tasking.) 🙂

Chimpanzees Attempt to Domesticate Penguins in the Kango Basin. In a bizarre twist of nature, researchers in the Congo Basin have documented a troop of chimpanzees seemingly trying to domesticate a group of penguins. Photographs show chimps leaving the shoreline with penguins clutched in their arms, while game trail cameras later capture the same chimps arriving back at their forested home, still carrying the birds.

So far, more than 30 penguins have been “relocated.” To the surprise of scientists, none appear distressed. In fact, the penguins are being fed fruit, groomed, and even petted by their new hosts. Even more astonishing is the role young chimps have taken in this odd cross-species experiment. They’ve been spotted chasing down any strays and escorting them back to the group, almost like shepherds in training.

“All 30 penguins are accounted for, and the troop seems intent on keeping them together,” one researcher noted. “It’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” Experts are now closely monitoring the situation.

A man in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, stood just a few feet away from a bear and its two cubs as it climbed into the bed of a truck, stealing his family’s bag of food.