122. Chomp Berries
usedbooks on June 9, 2019
This week at work, I had the opportunity to handle (with a stick) an amazing animal, a canebrake/timber rattlesnake. We had a training session to learn how to safely (for the animals and the visitors) deal with bears and snakes. The timber rattlesnake is decreasing in population throughout its range. This is mostly due to roads/traffic and partly due to their difficult life history. (Timber rattlesnakes do not reach maturity until nine years old, and females reproduce only once every four years – fasting sometimes for OVER A YEAR through hibernation cycles and internal incubation. And SO MANY animals eat young rattlesnakes) Timber rattlesnakes are the least aggressive species of snake in the region – although their last resort defense is nothing to take lightly.
Anyway, my brain got this image stuck in it after a visitor last week asked me why opossums don't get sick from eating “the poison.” I tried to tell my brain I had no outlet for this image. But the ol' brain said, “You never set an update schedule or technically went on hiatus from Gelotology.” Every fifth June? Could that be an update schedule?
plymayer at 5:08PM, Aug. 17, 2023
:)
PyThomas at 5:58PM, Jan. 9, 2022
Sounds like the update schedule I settled into. D:
LanceDanger at 2:09PM, July 10, 2019
Yes! Total worth the wait!
usedbooks at 4:54PM, July 10, 2019
Lol. I'll draw another one in a few years.
plymayer at 10:59AM, June 15, 2019
Had a friend who worked at Venom's back room bar. A biker place but not really poisonous. Gelotology has been hibernating.
usedbooks at 11:24AM, June 15, 2019
It's on a cicada life cycle.
meemjar at 5:26AM, June 10, 2019
Its been SO long since you did a gag for Gelotology. Thank you for the laugh!
usedbooks at 4:00PM, June 11, 2019
Not dead, just in frequent extended stasis. Like a cicada. Or a tick.