Interesting - is that a Red Belly? They're generally the ones I'm the most cool with seeing as their general MO is getting the fuck away from people as fast as possible.Had a talk with this little red belly about the dangers of hanging about on the trails. The snake gave no fucks and continued to lay there and I swear it had a smile on it's face.
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Yeah a little red belly. I find the opposite, that red bellies laze about are not skittish, browns bolt like crazy and tigers, well I've only come across two and they eye you off daring you to make the first move. I'm more cautious of tigers than any other snake.Interesting - is that a Red Belly? They're generally the ones I'm the most cool with seeing as their general MO is getting the fuck away from people as fast as possible.
Still remember seeing a brown snake that - no shit - would've been close to 3 metres in length up near the Mt Osmond Golf Course. That one had zero interest in moving.
I find Browns really unpredictable and range from bolt to CBF to getting pretty aggro. Still never seen a Tiger out in the wild but not looking forward to when I do - from what I've heard they sound well sketchy.Yeah a little red belly. I find the opposite, that red bellies laze about are not skittish, browns bolt like crazy and tigers, well I've only come across two and they eye you off daring you to make the first move. I'm more cautious of tigers than any other snake.
copperheads are pretty bad, saw heaps out back country trout fishing when I lived down Canberra way..they would coil up on top of the tussock grass and sun themselves, when you walk by they spring off the tussock and launch themselves at you..fuckers!
On the contrary, I've heard & read that Copperheads are usually pretty benign, like Blacks.Even when they're provoked enough to retaliate, they'll tend to headbutt rather than bite. Some years ago I went to a presentation by a local professional snake catcher; he told of one call-out he attended where a kid was literally standing on a snake and it was repeatedly going at her. It was a Copperhead, and didn't lay a single bite on the kid, just headbutted a lot to say "get the fuck off me!".copperheads are pretty bad, saw heaps out back country trout fishing when I lived down Canberra way..they would coil up on top of the tussock grass and sun themselves, when you walk by they spring off the tussock and launch themselves at you..fuckers!
Are you sure they weren't brown or king brown snakes, that really doesn't sound like a copperhead.copperheads are pretty bad, saw heaps out back country trout fishing when I lived down Canberra way..they would coil up on top of the tussock grass and sun themselves, when you walk by they spring off the tussock and launch themselves at you..fuckers!
Thats a nasty death for the snake...
There is a video in the comments on the facebook link, looks like they had to call out a snake catcher in order to recover the bike lol.Thats a nasty death for the snake...
Really? That snake is surely very dead... Or at least will be soon. They're very fragile. Poor bloody thing...There is a video in the comments on the facebook link, looks like they had to call out a snake catcher in order to recover the bike lol.
It looks very alive in the video!Really? That snake is surely very dead... Or at least will be soon. They're very fragile. Poor bloody thing...
Then put the poor bloody thing out of its misery...It looks very alive in the video!
not saying it would be easy...They can still turn around enough to bite you when they have a broken back. I picked up an eastern brown with a stick that was run over on the road, it was almost chopped in half and it was able to turn around and bite itself. The fucker played dead too.