HOW MR. SNAKE GOT TO THE ZOO
The other day the Great Western Railway asked the Zoo in London; if it would like,a snake. The said snake had turned up unescorted, and created rather a sensation. It tnrned out to be a Merrem's watersnake, and ,it had come all the way from ■Brazil. Someone had packed it up by mistake, and not till London was reached did it escape from the pack-ing-case. Snakes are notoriously bad travellers. Collectors have had great difficulties in getting specimens safely to England. But this snake, by somo extraordinary luck, survived the long voyago and the great hardship of going without water. He got a great welcome in the end, for the Zoo had not'had a Merrem's •water-snake for fifty years. It was so Jrtnd of him to come!
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 18
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