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Rare Species Granted Protected Status

The Cumbrian sausage, a species of (mildly poisonous) sheep snake famously recorded in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, has been granted protected status. The name is a misnomer, the "sausage" having evolved into more or less its current form in the pre-Cumbrian period. It is classed among the so-called "sausage snakes" (technically, Eustacians) for its habit of wrapping itself into a tight planar spiral.

Hardest hit by the decision are the landed gentry, whose colorful spring sausage hunts have now been made illegal. Oscar Wilde once described the annual equestrian pageants as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the barely edible." PETA Scotland is seeking to extend such protections to the strange annelid highlanders refer to as the "blood pudding."

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