Snake Sizes Strike up a conversation about snakes with any bloke at a rural Queensland pub and more than likely you will be regaled with horror stories of 6mtr Taipans and 8mtr King Browns! Claims like these fall squarely in the category of ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn’, […]
At the mention of snakes many people envision a mindless killing machine hell bent on biting them for the mere sake of it! This couldn’t be further from the truth. Snakes are incredibly secretive animals that avoid humans at all costs and will only bite when they are threatened and feel they have no other […]
Eastern brown snakes (Pseudonaja textilis) venom toxicity is the second highest of any land snake in the world. This snake also happens to be one of the most common large venomous snakes encountered in the greater Brisbane area and caught regularly by snake catchers. This snake has always had my respect as a quick, pugnacious […]
Eastern Brown Snake Pseudonaja textilis As a snake catcher and wildlife ecologist from brisbane I get contacted all the time to remove the infamous and highly venomous ‘brown snake’ from a persons home or business. More often than not I arrive to find that the snake has been misidentified by the caller and amazingly they […]
