I tried to think of some funky snakes I haven’t talked about on this blog before, and here’s a fun one - Hydrophis peronii, the horned sea snake (they live in the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean)! They’re unique among sea snakes for their spiny scale pattern and the scales that look like “horns” on their heads!
My favorite thing about them is it looks like they have Seen Some Things.
And have you ever seen the horns on desert horned vipers (native to Northern Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and the Levant)? Look at these things!
On this day, 26 March 1953, Mau Mau guerrillas fighting British colonialism in Kenya attacked the Naivasha police station. They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the police and released 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjoining detention camp. While the uprising was eventually crushed by mass repression and murder by British forces, independence was achieved just a few years later.
This is a short video history of the rebellion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk3RWZ-ufAA
Pictured: Mau Mau women https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1950225295162611/?type=3
