Among the rental items: a two-meter-long snake, an orangutan and some lizards and tarantulas. (The island is home to such creatures as pythons, macaques and fruit bats.) While the castaways need to be mentally and physically fit, wilderness experience isn't a must.

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That put him to sleep, but in between doses he woke and cried again, saying that a gator had his leg or a bear was hugging him to death or a snake had wound itself around the long part of his arm and was crushing it.

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"The Apostle" is as long as a crawlin' king snake in the Garden of Eden.

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Snake has come a long way since being the quintessential TI-86 title, and although Nimblebit is straying far from their sim offerings such as Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes, the title has a lot going for it.

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The RSPCA was called back to Baxenden and District Golf Club, near Accrington, on Wednesday, a day after the first snake was caught in the long grass.

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The vast array of sleep tech is a long catalog of devices and apps that promise better nights, but beware of snake oil.

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