Most of ours are harmless or close to it - gorgeous pythons up north
- but we lack the common, small non-venomous types like Garter snakes.
I'm quite fond of the Red-bellied Black Snake and the Australian
Copperhead. Lovely docile snakes and you'll only spend a couple of
days in hospital if bitten. :-)
The Taipan is big, assertive and best admired from a distance - about
5 kilometres - and our Brown Snake is fidgetty, twitchy and gives me
the creeps.
But there are very few deaths here from snakebite. A young girl was
bitten twice by a Tiger Snake the other day and that made the news -
she was hardly harmed by the experience.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/01/2009, at 3:18 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> But I would not recommend that you play with most of the snakes in
> Oz or
> a select few in the US.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|