Boodarai's photos with the keyword: roadkill

Ad's Vietnamese colleague once told him the best part of a snake is the heart, and you have to swallow it while it's still beating. Ad said he thought that must be hard to do - to catch, kill and extract before the heart stops, but we all saw today you have LOADS of time. Aaron was the only one really game to swallow the still-beating heart. So far no super powers have emerged, or at least none that we could see. Who knows, Ines may be in for a big surprise when Aaron gets home.

This is what the insides of a tiger snake look like. Just so you know.

Even cut from the body, the snake's heart continues to beat. Gettin' a bit creepy.

Be still your beating heart. The snake's heart continued to beat for well over half an hour after death, even when the skin, head and guts had been removed.

Of course you can't just waste a gift like a fresh roadkill snake, so we removed the head; cut off the best remaining bit of skin to cure; and prepared the rest for eating. As Ad was gutting it, it suddenly struck at him with the neck stump - quite accurately too. It would have bitten his hand if the head had been where it ought to have been.

We heard a brief skidding of tyres and a car braking hard, then reversing. Was sure it was one of our cats being run over and anxiously sent Ad off to check. It was not a kitty. It was a tiger snake. Quite dead, but still twitching.

Cottton jersey on hessian backing, with button nose & eyes. Completed 30.06.07

Cottton jersey on hessian backing, with button nose & eyes. Completed 30.06.07