Snake

It was supposed to be an uneventful morning walk for Trish Emley when she set out with her dog Bubbles on Tuesday, October 4, but an encounter with a snake ...

“Always keep your eyes on the ground. “I think the dog saved my life because the snake was so camouflaged and I might have seen it at the last moment, and they’re on the defensive because they’re fearful and it could have got me or the dog,” she said. “The dog faltered just slightly and it made me stop and I just looked in front of me, because I’ve always got my eyes out for lost gold or jewels or something or anything I might find, and then I just saw this great big long snake and the snake was just lying there at that moment,” she said.

A venomous snake normally found only in the eastern states has been detected in South Australia for the first time, near the border with NSW and Victoria.

[article](https://theconversation.com/7-reasons-australia-is-the-lucky-country-when-it-comes-to-snakes-175188#:~:text=Compared%20to%20other%20countries%20with,Australia%20has%20two%20or%20three.) in The Conversation, despite the number of venomous snakes in Australia, compared to other countries, Australia has fewer snake bites and related deaths. Because these snakes are ambush predators, we think it may have been foraging near the surface and through chemoreception (using its tongue to detect scent particles), located and struck the frog.” In contrast, Australia has two or three. [paper](http://www.herpconbio.org/Volume_17/Issue_2/Scott_etal_2022.pdf), titled “De Vis’ Banded Snake, Denisonia devisi (Squamata: Elapidae): an addition to the elapid fauna of South Australia with notes on its ecology and conservation,” please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) De Vis’ banded snake is widespread through central and southern Queensland and northern NSW but is critically endangered in Victoria, hence the significance of the finding. “We found one De Vis’ banded snake with its head exposed and its body and tail concealed in a soil crack while biting onto the left hind limb and thigh of a large adult Southern Bell frog,” Scott says.

Venomous mud adders have been discovered trawling South Australian floodplains for the first time, after a group of keen reptile enthusiasts found them by ...

Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. Your contribution goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts. “We stumbled across this snake and we straight away knew we had found something. Scott said the snake is widespread in Queensland and northern New South Wales but endangered in Victoria, and the sighting of the first adder is also believed to be the first where the snake species has been seen consuming the Southern Bell frog. Uni SA herpetologist Shawn Scott and Regan have now published a joint paper with their mates, recording the sighting of the adders including the first that was partially concealed in a crack in dried mud on the River Murray floodplain, biting onto a Southern Bell frog. We didn’t have any reception, so the next day when we had reception in Renmark we called the curator of the SA Museum and he confirmed on the phone there had been no recorded sightings in SA before, we were the first.”

A Queensland snake catcher got more than he bargained for when he found ten snakes lurking inside the ceiling of a Gold Coast home.

Pictured is a snake inside the ceiling insulation A Queensland snake catcher got more than he bargained for when he found ten snakes lurking inside the ceiling of a Gold Coast home. People are reminded to always check in every nook and cranny inside their home as well as in the yard and in their car (pictured, Mr Harrison removing a large snake from underneath the hood of a car) The experienced reptile wrangler said if you come across a snake, take a photo and send it to a snake catcher - don't try and catch it yourself. Mr Harrison (pictured) said if you come across a snake, take a photo and send it to a snake catcher - don't try and catch it yourself [Queensland](/news/queensland/index.html) snake catcher got more than he bargained for when he found ten snakes lurking inside the ceiling of a [Gold Coast](/news/gold-coast/index.html) home. He has warned residents in south-east Queensland to prepare for increased snake sightings until the end of November - with male reptiles on the hunt for a partner during breeding season. Mitch Thorburn (pictured), a snake catcher for South East Reptile Relocations, was called out to a property in Willow Vale earlier this month after a homeowner had spotted four snakes hanging from his ceiling - Snake catcher finds ten snakes lurking inside the ceiling of a Gold Coast home In total ten snakes were found inside the roof and the call-out smashed his previous record of eight snakes in one roof cavity. But after the snake catcher got inside the ceiling, he located a further six snakes, with some even hiding inside parts of the insulation. Astonishing discovery inside the ceiling insulation of a Gold Coast home - so what is it?

The 46-year-old re-emerges on the paved trail moments later with a many-banded krait, also known as Bungarus multicinctus, a species covered in zebra-like black ...

“Where else can you go from a 50-floor building to a tropical jungle so quickly?” The result is that across China nearly all of the larger snake species are classified as vulnerable, threatened or endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List, which tracks the conservation status of the world’s plant and animal species. “You get this great feeling that you can escape from the city,” says Loïc Sorgho, a 42-year-old French banker. For his part, Sargent receives callouts every week to capture snakes everywhere from schools to prisons to homes, and once, a beach on Lantau Island to ensnare a 15-foot python. “You go from being repulsed to actively looking out for these beautiful creatures,” she explains. “This one is a real beauty, it’s stunning,” says Sargent, sweat gathering on his brow as he strains to keep the lively reptile from slithering out of his grasp. “But the chance of getting bitten is very low. Sung Yik-hei, a professor at Lingnan University and one of the city’s foremost reptile experts. “The likelihood of encountering a snake is not low,” adds Sung. Besides fulfilling his own interest, the guided tours are a way for Sargent to combat stigma, improve awareness and build appreciation of snakes. But sadly, many snakes are killed because of fear.” But this is the one you really don’t want to get bitten by.