Inland taipan South Wales (1882); however the species has not been observed in either state since then. Like every Australian snake, the inland taipan is protected by law. Conservation status has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List as of 8 November 2013. The inland taipan's Conservation Status has been designated by Australian official sources: According to the International Species Information System (retrieved 2004), inland taipans are held in three zoo collections: the Adelaide Zoo and Sydney Taronga Zoo in Australia and Moscow Zoo in Russia.<ref name= "Births and Hatchings / Moscow">AEZA news (January–March, 2004) . Births and Hatchings /
A Gentle Creature (film) A Gentle Creature (film) A Gentle Creature is a 2017 drama film directed by Sergei Loznitsa. The film was created as an international co-production between France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine and Lithuania. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film is inspired by the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she had sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and