OMFG snake

Howdy.

Anyhow long story short i was cutting through a park and the next thing i knew i was doing ninja flips backwards. ;)
Anyhow i looked at the ground where i was about to step and this is what i was about to step on.

http://imagestore.ugbox.net/aview/sn...03b1402a451e73
http://imagestore.ugbox.net/aview/sn...faec4227ac00b4

I'm not sure what type of snake that it is but a few people on an Irc channel think it's either a taipan, or a brown and yellow belly black..

and my backs been sore all day since i did those ninja type moves ;)

cheers
f2b

Hmmmm,

Doesn't look like a Taipan to me. And you are not really in taipan territory? besides, they are quite shy unless you p1$$ them off?

My money would be on the common (eastern) brown snake. They are pretty plentiful over the whole of Eastern Oz.

How big was it?

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He's in aussi land, he's in their land. To be honest they do look quite a bit like a taipan. I'm not familiar enough with Aussie snakes to be certain it couldn't be something else, but that looks a lot like one to me (But you can't tell what kind of head it has which means a lot here) it could be a brown snake though.

http://www.faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=294

http://www.wildlife-australia.com/eastern%20brown.htm

Because the head looks slender I will agree with Nihil.. Eastern Brown..

I hope you've had a chance to change your undies..

Yeah, shame the pics aren't from the front, however if i'm honest there would be no way i would go round the front of it, in its path just for a pic.

In fact being the wimp i am i think if it was me any pic i would have taken wouldn't have been anywhere near that quality :D

Hey! That's not an Adelaide Trouser Snake, is it?

:D Couldn't resist. Sorry.

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Originally posted here by nihil

How big was it?
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It was big enough to give me a fright, anyhow i imagine if i picked it up and stood it next to me then it would of reached my hips..
I'm about the same height as a door so it would probably would of been half a door long, if that makes any sense.
and close to the thickness of a 600ml bottle...

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Originally posted here by zencoder
Hey! That's not an Adelaide Trouser Snake, is it?

:D Couldn't resist. Sorry.

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Nah the only think that they have in there trouser's in adelaide are baggies of drugs..

f2b

It's looks about the same as our garter snake and about as long...we used to hunt them down by the river all the time as kids...

my question is...do you always carry a camera doing back-flips :D

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my question is...do you always carry a camera doing back-flips :D

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Nope and my backs really hurting from the acrobatic routine i did while dodging the snake. :(
and the pictures were taken with my PDA, it's a HP thingy cost a fortune but the picture quality is awesome..

the snake didn't really seem interested in my presence, i could of gotten a few more photos, but i didn't want to temp fate and get bitten..

Hmmm,

About 3 feet or one metre...................I would expand my guess to a 12 month old female Eastern Brown.

They don't normally attack, and that one was obviously discretely leaving?...............you forgot to send her a Valentine's card didn't you?..................Have you thought of sending your pics to the herpetologists at Melbourne Uni?

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herpetologists

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one who study herpies?

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Hey! That's not an Adelaide Trouser Snake, is it?

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at one metre, it would rate as a small queensland trouser snake.

How do you know so much about the size of other people's trouser snakes Undies? ;)

I feel your pain with the snake. I walked outside barefoot one night during the summer here and stepped directly on a ratsnake who was apparently enjoying the still-warm sidewalk. He didn't like being stepped on and wrapped himself quite firmly all the way around my foot and ankle. I'm not sure who was more surpised or horrified, me or the snake, but if he was nearly as ****-scared as I was, I really feel bad for him. The bad part was that the more I screamed and yanked at it, the tighter it wrapped itself around my leg. It took 2 of us to finally get him off of me, although I will admit to not being particularly calm or rational by that point, so it's possible that I could have done it myself if I'd calmed down a bit.

Hmmm,

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at one metre, it would rate as a small queensland trouser snake.

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Now I know why big reds can jump so far ;) :D :p

Whatever kind of snake it was, it looks poisionous to me! I would leave it the ***** alone! lol

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... I'm not sure who was more surpised or horrified, me or the snake, but if he was nearly as ****-scared as I was...

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Instant "Charmin Moment" ! I'd be loading the undies if that happened to me. I don't do snakes.

cheers

I didn't realize until that point that it is possible to go straight past a Charmin Moment into something altogether different.

Fortunately, snakes have never really bothered me...I'm not at the head of the line waiting to pet one, but they don't really bother me that much. In that scenario I was less than pleased, but if it'd been a lizard or frog of some type (honest to god, they scare me worse) I would have probably had a heart attack and died right there on the spot.

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Whatever kind of snake it was, it looks poisionous to me!

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the statement is "VERY" and, if the information I have is correct, it would rate as number 2 or 3 in the world...

As for length of a T-Snake.. Where i currently work.. all the buildings are of thge transportable type.. The Gents was imported from interstate.. the trough is at about Waist height.. too dambed high. needs to be at about floor height.. all the Euro imports, tanks, asian and southerners ar happy with it.. but for the locals and some africans it is way to high

Hey Fronties~ good job you didn't get bitten. They found out three months ago that the antivenin doesn't work properly.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...1/s1506704.htm

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if the information I have is correct, it would rate as number 2 or 3 in the world...

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That's right Undies~ it is #2. You also have #1 which is the "Inland Taipan" or "Fierce Snake"

I am talking venom toxicity, and the Inland Taipan is way ahead of anything else in the World.

The strange thing is that there are no recorded deaths from it at all, and that even before advanced treatment techniques the Eastern Brown only had around a 10% mortality rate.

On the other hand if you get a good Taipan bite and it remains untreated the mortality prospects are >90%.

A lot depends on the quantity of venom and the efficiency of the delivery. I guess it is nature's way of compensating, the guys with the poor delivery mechanism are more toxic.

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