Happy #WorldSnakeDay. #Snakes have an unfair reputation as being poisonous/ aggressive. Our fear of snakes may come from Christianity. Satan took the form of a snake tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden. Yet snakes aren't bad at all! They're critical to ecosystems around the world
#Snakes evolved 130 million years ago in the Cretaceous period from a common ancestor that they share with #birds and other #reptiles. They have cloacal spurs or vestigal limbs, which shows their shared ancestry with limbed reptiles. #WorldSnakeDay 🐍🐍🐍
#Snakes see on the infrared spectrum using heat receptors called pit organs making them epic predators with natural night vision goggles to see prey. Snakes have a detachable jaw which can swallow food whole that is much larger than its own body weight. #WorldSnakeDay 🐍💚
In 2017 - in the aftermath of a study linking #palmoil to cancer, @Ferrero_EU maker of @NutellaGlobal one of the world's biggest buyers of #palmoil launched an advertising campaign to convince the public of Nutella's #palmoil being safe.
“Making Nutella without palm oil would produce an inferior substitute for the real product, it would be a step backward,” Ferrero’s purchasing manager Vincenzo Tapella told Reuters.
Yet, the real reason for @Ferrero_EU's aggressive marketing of #palmoil is purely financial. Ferrero used 185,000 tonnes of #palmoil in 2017 replacing it would cost them around $8-22 million. via @Reuters reuters.com/article/us-ita…