That is not a snake that the adult burrowing owl is feeding to its chick. It's a caterpillar - which goes to show just how small they are. They are also much more relaxed around humans than other species of owls. They will happily colonize areas like airports and golf courses and have even been known to nest in larger gardens.
Many Cargoes was the W.W. Jacobs first collection of short stories in 1896. In 1897, The Skipper's Wooing was written and in 1898 Jacobs wrote another collection of stories, Sea Urchins. By 1899 Jacobs was confident enough to resign from the civil service to devote his full time to writing.
What is actually frustrating, however, is encountering such condescension from a self-proclaimed âscience guyâ as he reveals himself to be an ignoramus. The book Nye says was written â50 centuries agoâ is the Hebrew Bible â but the oldest parts of that were written at most 35 centuries ago.