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A snake has been saved by surgery after mistaking four golf balls for a meal of chicken eggs.

A couple had placed the balls in their chicken coup at Nobbys Creek in New South Wales state to encourage their hen to nest.

They found the eggs missing last month and a lumpy carpet python nearby.

They took the 80-centimeter (32-inch) non-venomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake's intestine.

 

Pyne said the snake was making a speedy recovery.

'Those golf balls weren't moving any further; they were stuck where they were,' Pyne said.

'If it hadn't been found, it would have died for sure,' he added.

 

Crinkly the swan was born with such pronounced kinks in her neck that she struggled to fly or attract a suitor.

But this Christmas, one chap has decided that she's turned into a truly fanciable swan.

Taciturn, a Bewick's swan like Crinkly, is showing all the signs of being smitten with her, according to staff at the Gloucestershire sanctuary where the birds are wintering.

Jools Mackin, of the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, said: "Since she arrived two days ago, they have been proudly hanging out and feeding together and sitting side by side on Swan Lake.

"We call it loosely associating, but you could say they are dating.

Guo Yue holds an IBM first laptop computer PC5140 year 1986 model while being surrounded by his collection of other IBM laptop model at his home in Beijing Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. Guo, who works for Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce Foreign Investment, started his collection of IBM laptop computers since 2004. Majority of the laptops he bought are from the second hand market. He have collected more than 80 different models and he fixed them by himself, and most of them are still in working condition