Whoever wrote that article has never actually watched an episode of "The Simpsons".  Call it a hunch.

I had a similar thought just the other day at a museum where a pair of injured Timber Rattlesnakes were on display.  Reading the posted sign, it turns out rattlers are basically extinct in New England due to extirpation (a euphemism that essentially means humans killing animals they don't like), even though they posed…