The 10" long adder was found during a quality check by a worker at Orchard County Foods in Craigavon.

The grapes were imported from Spain.

The staff member did not panic and raised the alarm with management.

The USPCA was called to the scene and took the snake away to a specialist reptile shop in Belfast.
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Wayne said the reptile is poisonous and dangerous to anyone who is allergic the bee stings.
He added: "You can tell that it is some sort of adder because of the shape of its head. It turns into a diamond shape when it gets annoyed. This is because it has venomous glands on either side."

HABITAT DAMAGE CATEGORIES
High - main trunk pushed over and/or uprooted
Medium - damage to the main trunk (not pushed over) and more than 50% of branches and foliage damaged
* Low - no damage to the main trunk and minimal damage to branches and foliage
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"They will do everything from digging with their front legs, pulling up grass to knocking down big trees. So they actually change the shape of the landscape."

He added that elephants' digestive system was not very good at processing many of the seeds that they eat.
"As the faeces are also a great fertiliser, the elephants are also able to rejuvenate the landscape by transporting seeds elsewhere," Dr Schulte told BBC News.

"Eighteen herpetofaunal (amphibians and reptiles) species... were sampled in areas of high elephant damage. Medium damage areas were comprised of 12 species, while areas of low damage had 11 species.
"The control site (fenced area) had the lowest species richness with only eight species."

"She can cover some ground," he said. "She walks 2, 3 miles an hour. So, in a single day she can potentially walk 10 miles easily."
Robin said this is typical of Sulcata tortoises, which are native to North African deserts.
"She was seen by several people in Brighton. They put her in a field, believing she was wild," he added.
Even more stunning, Lucy briefly found her way back home.
"She followed her scent all the way from Brighton back to our house," Sheila Rockley said.
Alas, the couple was out of town when Lucy crawled up.
"There was no one there to let her in. So she walked over to the neighbor's house, where a new family was moving in," Sheila said.
"A mover saw her, picked her up and took her to his house," she said. "The mover's wife said that she didn't want her. So he went and dropped Lucy off at a pond in Lafayette."
But Lucy, not being a water-loving turtle, wasn't thrilled with pond life.
She's likes people -- and food.
"She walked over to the Lafayette feed store, because she's very, very smart. She's like, 'I'm not eating this outdoor crap,'" Sheila said.

The croc had been hidden in a passenger's sports bag - allegedly with plans to sell it - but it tore loose and ran amok, sparking panic.

A stampede of terrified passengers caused the small aircraft to lose balance and tip over in mid-air during an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The unbalanced load caused the aircraft, on a routine flight from the capital, Kinshasa, to the regional airport at Bandundu, to go into a spin and crash into a house.

A lone survivor from the Let 410 plane told the astonishing tale to investigators.

Ironically the crocodile also survived the crash but was later killed with a machete by rescuers sifting through the wreckage.

But over the years, Timberline has spent time, effort and more than $100,000 to protect Cheat Mountain salamanders living adjacent to the ski trail, as part of a mitigation effort for habitat loss that occurred when the trail was cleared, opening the forest canopy, back in the early1980s.

Timberline is the only ski area in the Mid-Atlantic area to operate on U.S. Forest Service land, although only about 40 acres of Monongahela National Forest property is crossed by the ski trail, according to Tom Blanzy, the resort's mountain manager. The first major turn on Timberline's Salamander run is known as Government Curve by the resort's staff, since it marks the point where the trail enters federal property.
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This year, the resort completed its most ambitious mitigation project, designed in cooperation with Monongahela National Forest environmental biologist Terri Evans. A 20-head sprinkler system that simulates an inch of natural rainfall over a four-hour period showers a five-acre chunk of known salamander habitat twice a week.

The three new species, dubbed Callulina laphami, C. shengena, and C. stanleyi, were discovered by an international group of scientists, including Tanzanian scientists. Dwelling in forest habitat, Callulina frogs spend their days hidden away in trees or under the leaf litter; at dusk they climb into the trees where they spend the night before descending again to the ground.

The researchers recommend that each of the frogs be categorized by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List as Critically Endangered, given their incredibly small ranges: C. shengena has the largest habitat of the three at 13.5 square miles (35 square kilometers) and C. stanleyi the smallest at 3.7 square miles (9.7 square kilometers). The remaining habitats are threatened by forest clearing due to agriculture.

Crews did not find any dead Eastern hellbender salamanders, an endangered species that lives in Captina Creek, Shelton said. They found and relocated three hellbenders to uncontaminated parts of the creek.
But Lipps, who studies hellbenders, thinks the relocated salamanders won't survive.
"Hellbenders live under giant rocks. You don't find them in the middle of the stream," he said. "The only reason (the crews) found these hellbenders is because they were dying."
Murray Energy will pay cleanup costs and fines assessed for each animal that was killed, Shelton said.
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This was the sixth large spill blamed on the company in the past decade.
In 2000, the company paid a $100,000 fine for a spill. In 2005, the company paid a $50,000 fine after slurry polluted 2,300 feet of the creek and killed thousands of fish. In 2008, a plume from a spill reached the Ohio River. The EPA is continuing to investigate that spill.
"This is like the drunk driver that keeps hitting kids in the crosswalk, yet the state keeps giving him his license back," said Jack Shaner of the Ohio Environmental Council, an advocacy group.