SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA If monster movies have taught us anything, its that it rarely works to simply outrun what is chasing you, whether thats an alien invader or a giant stone rolling menacingly through a booby-trapped tunnel.
Its usually best to employ some sort of cunning rather than just rely on the swiftness of ones feet to outpace an encroaching predator. Whether thats setting a trap of ones own or creating some kind of clever diversion, the likes of archeology professor Indiana Jones and Ellen Ripley survived their respective movies because of that very logic.
A recently uploaded YouTube video may have inadvertently provided the kryptonite to a ball python: a fleece blanket.
In the video, the python is shown shimmying as if attempting to make his or her way across the surface, only to be thwarted by its fuzzy wuzzy texture.
He thinks hes cruising, huh? the person making the video asks as the other onlooker giggles at the pythons arrested progress.
So the moral of the story is: When traveling through python-infested areas, like sub-Saharan Africa, always carry a fleece blanket.
Its usually best to employ some sort of cunning rather than just rely on the swiftness of ones feet to outpace an encroaching predator. Whether thats setting a trap of ones own or creating some kind of clever diversion, the likes of archeology professor Indiana Jones and Ellen Ripley survived their respective movies because of that very logic.
A recently uploaded YouTube video may have inadvertently provided the kryptonite to a ball python: a fleece blanket.
In the video, the python is shown shimmying as if attempting to make his or her way across the surface, only to be thwarted by its fuzzy wuzzy texture.
He thinks hes cruising, huh? the person making the video asks as the other onlooker giggles at the pythons arrested progress.
So the moral of the story is: When traveling through python-infested areas, like sub-Saharan Africa, always carry a fleece blanket.
