No snakes in church and don't eat the frogs: the weird world of US animal laws

RFI English explores some of America's strangest animal laws—a collection that turns out to include plenty of pure fiction. The widespread claim that Massachusetts prohibits driving with a gorilla in your back seat, for instance, is nothing but an urban legend. But across the United States, genuinely unusual animal regulations do exist, creating a patchwork of rules that speaks to how differently states have chosen to regulate animals and wildlife.

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