Name Rattle Scientific Snake


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Name Rattle Scientific Snake

Name Rattle Scientific Snake

Inside Nature’s Giants, otherwise known as the animal autopsy show, is a little tough to watch at times when large chunks of carcass are opened up in the name of science. But the June 15 edition would have been a little harder for anyone out there who suffers from ophidiophobia. That’s the irrational (try telling them that) fear of snakes.

Which means only one thing: the slithering reptiles are the latest creatures going under the knife so Mark Evans and the Inside Nature’s Giants team can get a better understanding of how snake bodies have adapted over the years. However, their destination for finding a specimen isn’t an African jungle but the US state of Florida.

Pythons have been a terror in the swamps of Florida after somehow being introduced in the area so Evans and co. take this as an opportunity to hunt down a snake for their own scientific investigations.

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Although the initial search draws a blank, a local man donates a reptile that died in a warehouse fire which introduces a strange scene of a group of men struggling to pull a dead snake out of a freezer. Other, less icy samples are found in the wild and soon the dissection begins.

The Burmese Python, the species on display here, is an extraordinary feat of nature with its stretchy skin, eye/eyelid fusion and using its tongue to smell out prey, and that’s all before the crew begin to cut open the animal. Perhaps the biggest misconception about Inside Nature’s Giants is that it’s just about slicing up cadavers but more about literally getting under the skin of life to show just how wonderful and diverse the animal world is.