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- - Brown Snake? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/brown-snake-812955/)

Amazulu

Oct 22nd 2013 7:56 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 10957192)

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 :(

The crows were getting stuck into too

DML	Oct 22nd 2013 8:13 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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

chris955

Oct 22nd 2013 8:21 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 10957446)

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

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spouse of scouse

Oct 22nd 2013 10:02 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 10957446)

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

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

Bernieboy

Oct 22nd 2013 11:20 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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

spouse of scouse

Oct 22nd 2013 11:23 pm

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by Bernieboy (Post 10957693)

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

Awful lot of stuffing in that belt!

northernbird

Oct 23rd 2013 3:19 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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

spouse of scouse

Oct 23rd 2013 3:21 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by northernbird (Post 10958079)

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

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

northernbird

Oct 23rd 2013 3:24 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 10958085)

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

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.

chris955

Oct 23rd 2013 4:41 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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

northernbird

Oct 23rd 2013 4:48 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10958228)

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

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

Broad Shoulders

Oct 23rd 2013 8:49 am

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Originally Posted by bitzenpces (Post 10957342)

A tiger snake

nah, it is too slender to be a tiger snake

Broad Shoulders

Oct 23rd 2013 8:55 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10957384)

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.

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

renth

Oct 23rd 2013 9:51 am

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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

DadAgain

Oct 23rd 2013 10:05 am

Re: Brown Snake?

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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