Snake
This snake is one of the few live specimens in this wing of the royal alberta museum. Oddly enough, it is rather still for most of the time so we almost thought it wasn’t actually alive. But when we returned to it, it was in a different position. Pretty neat.
Modifications: there was a lot of yellow light in the original picture, so I messed a little bit with the white balance to make it look a bit more natural.
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