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Long slim and slender. Dark as homemade thunder. Keen eyes and peaked nose. Scares the Devil wherever it goes.
What creature starts yellow inside and white outside, then becomes its first five before becoming the whole?
I am the only animal to have the same Latin and common name.
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
Black and scary, small and hairy. In the night you hear it preach, Through its noisy high pitched screech.
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.