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kathleen clark-gelburd's avatar

Total fear of snakes, creeps me out when I open our chickens nesting box and see a black snake with an egg making its way in its mouth…

And now, after reading your story, each time I hear a motorcycle I will chuckle and be glad no hippos live in the Rivanna River

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Deb Kelner, she/her's avatar

And now I’m imagining a hippo charging down the 4th Arondissment.

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Jean Richards's avatar

I’ve heard that they are dangerous but never that they sound like a motorcycle.

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