Clams, Snakes and Rabbits

[Jan McArthur <hartley@PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET>]

Regarding happy clams...

I was JUST wondering the EXACT same thing the other day as I was unloading
my dishwasher!! :)  A friend noted that it is impossible to ascribe with
certainty human emotions to an animal....as his 6 ft. burmese python had
just spent 2.5 weeks with a miniature black rabbit in it's cage purportedly
to be it's dinner.  But...the snake having not eaten the bunny in that
amount of time...and having begun to snuggle up with it fuzzily perched
atop it's coils and actually having been witnessed *kissing* it's little
wiggly nose....I perhaps erroneously assumed that the two had become
friends and shared some animalian form of mutual love and admiration wholly
unrelated to reproduction.  My friend corrected me stating that the snake
was probably just not hungry....even though he exhibited all the classic
signs of snake hunger...and upon removal of the rabbit and it's replacement
with a white rat....ate the rat within seconds.  SO...go figure.  Perhaps
clams *can* be happy. Who can know for sure???  Maybe it is because the
meeting of the bivalves resembles a grin....that we assume they are
blissful creatures...???  Has one ever witnessed a sad clam?  I certainly
have not....they all seem to be smiling to me!!!  :)

Have a great day!!!  :)


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Jan Rice McArthur, LMS
Matilda Hartley Elementary
Macon, GA
hartley@peachnet.campus.mci.net
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