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Documented examples have included California condors, Komodo dragons and yellow-bellied water snakes.

"I thought this creature was a water snake, that it would attack everything, that eating it would be bad for you, that it might be poisonous," he recalls.

Boxes containing water snakes, garter snakes, woodland salamanders, dusky salamanders and other species arrived last month.

The couple said they have visited the lake since 1998, picnicking or walking the lake’s perimeter, where they’ve spotted water snakes and raccoons.

Bottles of water are available in stores, but many residents, impoverished by war, depend on bottled water donations from abroad, even as pools of water snake onto streets from leaking mains.