Holding a snake

Eastern indigo snake

The world’s first and largest koala sanctuary. Hold a koala, hand-feed kangaroos and meet a variety of Australian wildlife in beautiful, natural settings.

*Snakes are common symbolic motifs cross-culturally, connected to feminine sexual power and spiritual knowledge.

Full: Front Pottery: red-figured stamnos. Scene in Olympos. On the right of (a) Zeus is seated to left on a diphros over which a mantle decorated with crosses and circles is laid; he is bearded and wreathed, and has long hair with two locks (parotides) on the shoulder, a long sleeved chiton thickly dotted, and a mantle, and holds up a fluted phiale in his right, and a sceptre upright in his left hand. Before him stands Hera (?) or Iris (?) in a long sleeved chiton decorated with crosses, a…

In the new film Bare, Dianna Agron stars as a young naïve girl who loses her innocence while becoming romantically involved with a more experienced woman.

Whether you're in the 'ugly' or 'adorable' camp – or you're as yet undecided - over our mutant albino turtles, one thing's for certain and that's their eye-catching oddness. Fancy a look at some other such anomalies in the animal kingdom? Then read on!