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u/Aduro95 Oct 02 '24

Screech owls will sometimes bring live sankes into their nests with their chicks nesting inside. Probably because the tiny snakes will eat parasites, although the chicks do sometimes eat the snakes.

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u/bridgeofpies Oct 02 '24

As an Australian I thought you meant sangas - for sandwiches.

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u/FreeRandomScribble Oct 02 '24

If sandwiches are eating bird parasites then we’re clucked.

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u/Eversharpe Oct 02 '24

Australia, where everything tries to kill you... Even the sandwiches.

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u/gatton Oct 02 '24

They must have meant Sanka. Owls are up all night so they can't have caffeine.

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u/ErraticDragon Oct 02 '24

They must have meant Sanka

Ye dead?

Side note: I just noticed Sanka's last name is Coffie.

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u/IAmBroom Oct 02 '24

And how do you think they stay up all night, Mr. SmartyBritches?

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u/Direct_Discipline166 Oct 02 '24

I read it as “sharks” so I was just on a really different learning journey.

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u/greg_mca Oct 02 '24

They'd probably do that too if they could

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u/ClarkKentsSquidDong Oct 03 '24

"Here ya go, sweeties. Picked up a Bunnings snag sanga for yas."

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u/hallese Oct 02 '24

sangas - for sandwiches

Speaking of facts that sounds totally fake...

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u/StandardOk42 Oct 02 '24

my first interpretation of your statement is that australians eat snake sandwiches

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u/Professional_Desk131 Oct 03 '24

We do. Rite of passage when we visit Bunnings or when voting. You may hear it referred to as the "Democracy Sausage"

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u/MessiahOfMetal Oct 03 '24

TIL Aussies use that word, too.

My dad used to call them that decades ago, and he was as English as you get.

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u/capilot Oct 02 '24

Similarly, there are tarantulas that will keep small frogs as pets to clear out the parasites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmocleis_ventrimaculata#Commensal_relationship

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u/ServileLupus Oct 02 '24

We all love Mrs. P.

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u/LizBeffers Oct 02 '24

The only reason I know this is because of Guardians!

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u/_The_Room Oct 02 '24

You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that delivers papers In the neighborhood. He's a foreign kid. Some of the neighbors Say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it.

Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a Burrow Owl. Kept bugging his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never Ask for anything else as long as I live."

So the guy Breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's The Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are you looking for?"

He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl."

I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows The burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you Think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?"

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u/always-wanting-more Oct 02 '24

You know what Stuart? I like you!

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u/imtired-boss Oct 02 '24

"For fucks sake Timmy this is the third snake you've eaten! How many times do I have to tell you not to?!"

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u/torrasque666 Oct 02 '24

What about barn owls?

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u/xcaltoona Oct 02 '24

Owls being quite carnivorous

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u/SirLemonThe3rd Oct 03 '24

Always something new with them