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This poor bugger was in the road this morning. Looking at my book of Australian wildlife, I reckon it's a King Brown?

It's about a metre long

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I'm no expert, but it looks like an eastern brown to me. Highly venomous so lucky it was on the road and not in your car :eek: Poor thing, it's well and truly squished :(

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Hard to say, but i dont think it is a king brown (mulga snake). Looks more like a dugite (brown snake) where was it as mulga are not really found everywhere.

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it's not a King Brown. They are a lot fatter than that. The King Brown is in fact part of the black snake family and they tend to have flatter and fatter bodies and not much of a neck on them. That does look like an Eastern Brown, but it is on its back and makes it difficult to tell

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Still it's going to be one of the top 5 Venomous snakes in the world, no matter which version of a Brown snake it is LOL.

My wife goes after them, which is very disconcerting for me. At our Caravan site we had at Nagambie on the Goulburn, a Tiger snake swam across the river to the long grass on the river bank about 20 meters from the back door of our annexe. 10 minutes later, the wife was out there with some shears and a shovel, saying they wont f...ing well hide here again, she reckons she was protecting our then two kids under 6.....It's times like that that I fully realise there are generations of Bush Aus in my missus. :eek:


I've got some growing up in the bush stories that would make most UK migrants head spin if you want ?

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they tell me out here that the number one reason for a snake bite is someone trying to catch a snake they've seen....

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your wife sounds like Badge's wife

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Plenty of Aussie Bush Chicks are like this.

What do you expect when you grow up on a outback sheep station with 5 brothers as your main influence.... Like the times they used to get "Shags" wild birds that is, and make her put her hand down their throats to get the fish out..... dozens and dozens of stories like that. Then there's the sheep marrow...

I'll stop now though ;)

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Yes that is absolutely correct and serves them right. They are all protected species and arent allowed to be touched or harmed. The trouble is there are so many loopholes in the law none of the heroes ever get prosecuted.

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I think it's a dugite.

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A tiger snake

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A one-eyed trouser snake.

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Almost definitely a King Brown. Not an Eastern Brown, the clue is in the name ;)
Dugites have a spotted ventral surface. Definitely not a Tiger.

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Its a squashed snake :unsure:

Some snakes can bite for a period of time even after being decapitated:eek:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/vid...s-itself-video

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According to my book we don't get the Eastern Brown in WA?

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The crows were getting stuck into too

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Another point of (possible) interest is that we don't go on the visual appearance of the snake to help try and identify it. The experts we can phone usually know what the likely snake is from the location and description of the incident. I'm told they're rarely wrong

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Then I'll change my guess to a western brown. Or an eastern brown that stowed away on a road train ;)

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It's a belt that's been chucked out of a car.

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Awful lot of stuffing in that belt!

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Who gives a crap what it is, it's a snake, it's probably venomous :)

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I think I'd give a crap if I stumbled across it, and I mean that literally! :o:lol:

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If I saw a snake I wouldn't care what it was. I don't know the statistics but in my mind all snakes are venomous and I would run a proverbial.

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Many of us care what it is and are also saddened to see it needlessly killed on the road.

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Sadly with the ever increasing urbanisation of our cities native wildlife will unfortunately perish.

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nah, it is too slender to be a tiger snake

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except the King Brown is completely and utterly unrelated to the Eastern. They are not even part of the same sub species. The King Brown is part of the Black snake family, hence why it is now going by its other name now, the Mulga, to avoid confusion.

That photo appears to show a slender type snake with a pronounced head on it. The Mulga does not have much of a neck on it and the head is almost a continuation of the body. It could well be the Mulga, but that is the slimmest Mulga I've ever seen

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...It's a dugite, look at this:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bush/dugite.html

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bush/AFF-1.JPG

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Doesnt matter really what kind of snake it was.

It used to be a magnificent and intriguing creature. Now its just a mess on the road :(:thumbdown:

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Could be a juvenile tiger snake

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I think you're probably right there. I believe they are quite common in WA too

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Isnt it illegal to harm these snakes unless they pose a real and present danger?

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did the Google Auto Alert system bring you to this thread

[search for threads with words "brown" & "snake"]

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I was referring to the fact that an EASTERN Brown isnt found in WESTERN Australia, hence the clue is in the name ;) Also I think you mean it isnt part of the same genus not sub species. It is more likely to be a King Brown than anything else, the Dugite for example has a pronounced spotted belly. Its very hard to tell from the belly of a mangled snake but I can only use my 40+ years of keeping and studying reptiles to give my best opinion.

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Yes, to me knowledge noone has ever been prosecuted for killing one as the law is full of loopholes and the wildlife authorities are extremely apathetic.

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[QUOTE=chris955;10959082]I was referring to the fact that an EASTERN Brown isnt found in WESTERN Australia, hence the clue is in the name ;) QUOTE]

:lol: It's all brian's fault, if I'd known he was in WA I wouldn't have guessed an eastern brown and made an egg of myself :lol:

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I didn't know Utopia was in WA either (and it was Amazulu, not brian - have another egg :lol:)

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I'd better stop posting for awhile, any more eggs and I'll be clucking :o:lol:

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Except my wife is not a country girl. ..a city girl!

She has her moments.....