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Re: [OM] Listen to Moose, you fool Moose!

Subject: Re: [OM] Listen to Moose, you fool Moose!
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:04:28 -0400
The rubber boa will never bite you but, like most snakes, it knows how 
to do the "deposit musk on aggressor" bit.  You won't be bloodied but 
you will be sullied.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Moose wrote:
>   On 8/13/2010 5:39 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>>    Nor did I. Wikipedia has a pretty good write up and according to it you 
>> were in no danger Moose. I lifted this phrase:          Rubber Boas are 
>> known to never strike at or bite a human under any circumstances but will 
>> release a potent musk from their vent if they feel threatened.
> 
> My only concern was that I didn't have a camera at hand. I had friends in 
> high school who were 'into' herpetology; one 
> of whom became a professional and now lurks an office somewhere in the bowels 
> of the Berkeley Life Sciences Building. 
> Back then I tromped about in the field, turning over rocks and otherwise 
> stirring things up, looking for reptiles and 
> amphibians.
> 
> I'm familiar with and have handled rubber boas. As a matter of some personal 
> principle or other, I don't like grabbing 
> them up and disrupting their lives, so took the chance, and lost the shot, 
> rather than grab it up. For the same reason, 
> which I don't pretend to really understand, I virtually never shoot cut 
> flowers unless they have come into the house, 
> almost always at someone else's hands, for reasons other than photography. I 
> seem to prefer the vagaries of light and 
> breezes in situ.
> 
> Taking cut flowers in their vase outside for natural light? Sure.
> 
> An Odd Moose
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