Inland taipan South Wales, and William John Macleay described the same snake under the name "Diemenia ferox" (thinking it was a different species). No more specimens were collected until 1972. In 1896 George Albert Boulenger classified both as belonging to the same genus, "Pseudechis" (black snakes), referring them as "Pseudechis microlepidotus" and "Pseudechis ferox". In 1956, relying only on published descriptions and notes, James Roy Kinghorn regarded "ferox" as a synonym for "microlepidotus" and proposed the genus "Parademansia". In 1963 Eric Worrell considered "Parademansia microlepidotus" and "Oxyuranus scutellatus" (coastal taipan, named simply "taipan" in those days) to be the same species. In
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