
I was slacking in a park with Gary and Andelu the other day when I suddenly turned back, I couldn’t remember why I turned, I think I wanted to sneeze or something ah?
Erm, ok that’s not the point. The point is that I turned back and something moving caught my attention.
And there this little fella was wriggling, trying to find its way back into the grass patch but unfortunately I caught him before he could escape. Mwahahahaha…
Despite it looking 89% like an earthworm it is
NOT an earthworm! Neither is it a caterpillar, legless worm, leach, milli or centipede, or black rubber band…
Believe it or not, this tiny wriggly black earthwormish thing is actually a super tiny
snake leh! A fork tongued, scaly cold-blooded
snake!!!

OMG! So tiny! (Ignore my gross nails… sigh)Super cute right?! Oh well you’ll probably disagree… but it is cute I don’t care!
Can you believe that this harmless little puny thing is actually related to gigantic pythons that could swallow you plus your entire fats or venomous cobras that could kill you in one bite?!! No right?!
But really leh! It’s a
Brahminy Blind Snake aka flowerpot snake!

Image from Wikipedia .See!!! I told you it was a snake! Not worm hor!
I Googled and find out that these petite snakes are completely harmless, tiny, blind and live almost entirely underground and thus rarely seen. Poorthing they cannot see!

Twirling around my fingers, cute!I found out something really interesting, though incredibly bizarre about this wormy snake and it’s family!
All Brahminy blind snakes are
parthenogenetic, which also means that they reproduce asexually, which also also means… the females can reproduce
without a male! In other words they can sperminate themselves leh! Omg! Hahahaha!
And what’s even stranger than strange is, this entire species of snake is female and they can both lay eggs as well as bearing live young
AND they would all be genetically identical!!! Madness!
Imagine if humans were like this…
Only the women exist. They miraculously get pregnant once they feel like it. Once they go into labor, they can choose to lay eggs or give birth and whatever it is the children would be girls that are identical! OMG SO SCARY CAN!
Then one whole entire lady-clan-family looks identical leh! Omg so scary lah!
I can go on imagining what would happen but I think I should stop cause I have to go now I have school tomorrow. Ughhhh…
I realize throughout the entry I’ve been calling it a “he”, but it’s a she! They are all shes! Ha!

Hissssssssss…

Close up! Pretty snake-ish in this photo.I’m going to let her go tomorrow in my mom’s flower pot, I hope she gets pregnant soon and lay some eggs or give birth to some cute baby girls! :D
Ok goooodnight!