{"id":43548,"date":"2015-02-04T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=43548"},"modified":"2015-02-04T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:04:09","slug":"snake-fence-hanging-dead-snake-photo-real-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/snake-fence-hanging-dead-snake-photo-real-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake On A Fence — Hanging Dead Snake Photo, Real Or Fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some images of what appears to be a very large dead snake hanging on a electric fence have been making their way around the net lately. Given the profusion of utter crap, lies, and just plain nonsense, on the internet it can sometimes be hard to tell exactly what’s real and what’s not. And this is one of those times. At first glance anyways…<\/p>\n

Those who are having a hard time telling whether the “dead snake on a fence” images are genuine or are photoshopped aren’t alone in that regard — at the very least, the images would appear to be of far higher editing-quality than those that typically accompany viral memes. <\/p>\n

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But in this case, the images are<\/em> in fact quite real. Despite the various locations mentioned in various versions of the viral email, the images of the dead snake were actually taken at the Silent Valley Ranch in the Waterberg mountains of South Africa — not<\/em> in Iraq, the UAE, Angola, or Illinois.<\/p>\n

And the prey animal which was obviously consumed not long before being killed by the fence was apparently an impala, not a sheep as mentioned in the viral meme.<\/p>\n

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Here’s some of the original text accompanying the images:<\/p>\n

How would you be finding this in your back paddock. The snake has tried to get through the electric fence and then become stuck at the fence when the electic fence has shocked him.<\/em><\/p>\n

For once, some information accompanying a snake meme<\/a> that’s not actually wrong\/false, too bad the rest of the information is\/was — it’s actually quite refreshing, hope it catches on.<\/p>\n