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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:54 AM Mar 2017

Whats should Nebraska's state reptile be? Public can vote for 6 animals

You may know the Nebraska state bird, the western meadowlark. Maybe you know the state flower, goldenrod.

Maybe you even know that our state fossil is the mammoth, and our state tree is the cottonwood, and our state gem is blue chalcedony.

So what’s the Nebraska state reptile?

Well, we don’t have one. At least not yet.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is holding a public vote on which critter should become the state’s official reptile. Nebraskans are invited to choose from six options on the commission’s website, http://outdoornebraska.gov/reptilevote/


More: http://www.omaha.com/living/what-s-should-nebraska-s-state-reptile-be-public-can/article_e4cc6e78-5272-5edf-8bd4-07233a48279b.html

















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Whats should Nebraska's state reptile be? Public can vote for 6 animals (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 OP
"snake in the grass" nt msongs Mar 2017 #1
I voted for the turtle... Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #2
SnakeintheGrassley is our state reptile senator IADEMO2004 Mar 2017 #8
Snake liberal N proud Mar 2017 #3
Which one? Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #4
I love hognose snakes TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #7
He is definitely the cuter one, LOL Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #9
I believe one of those lizards are from the UK... Cooley Hurd Mar 2017 #5
You know, I had the very same thought about the green one! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #6

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
2. I voted for the turtle...
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 05:10 AM
Mar 2017

I've always been partial to turtles. We had one for awhile as a pet when I was a kid, a friend of my Dad's rescued it when he saw it in the road driving over the mountain. But my Dad said we couldn't keep it forever, that it needed to be free, so we let it go by a stream in a local artist's colony. It's a beautiful place and I've often wondered if my turtle is still there.

IADEMO2004

(5,538 posts)
8. SnakeintheGrassley is our state reptile senator
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 09:15 AM
Mar 2017

Stolen from tv interview of Katrina vanden Heuvel Editor and Publisher of The Nation.

TexasProgresive

(12,148 posts)
7. I love hognose snakes
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 08:30 AM
Mar 2017

We use to get them to "perform" for us. It's quite a show, and they have that cut little upturned nose.

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