Who's scared of snakes? Me!!.

Your probably right!, but at the time the brain is sure in top gear

....lol.

I think the other end of my body would have been in top gear!

Agreed Bonz - I think snakes don't like the smell

hahahahaha hadnt thought of it like that ROFL, I was just thinking of hasty retreats

YOUR KIDDING!!.

You're not a herpetologist are you Bware?

Axle

That snake is venomous but rear fanged .

It's a brown tree snake is aggressive, It lives in the same tree it's whole life and will come out at night and sit on the same branch every night and take it's chances.

A rear fanged venomous snake is not considered dangerous to humans as it can't deliver a harmful bite.

Cheers Steve.

Andrew,
No, but I think I might have caught a dose of it in my wild years LOL

Thanks for the info Steve. If confronted by one at any stage i'll try to remember .....lol.


Axle.

Steve, are you a herpetologist? LOL If not, I'm impressed. I love wildlife and enjoy observing in the wild and identifying everything.

Cheers,

Brian

Being a tour guide in the top end,It is my job and obligation to be able to identify wildlife.

I was once scared as sh1t with snakes as I was nearly bitten by a Red belly black as a child.

I have over come my fear as I can now handle the legless, I came face to face with a Coastal Taipan once, it looked like a King Brown but once I put my hand on the back of my neck and the hairs were standing up, I realized it was a Taipan.

I grabbed an 8 foot King brown once, thinking it was a Olive Python, I sh1t for a week, thankfully I was able to let it go without harm to it and myself.

To all that are afraid of the legless, My tip is.

Venomous snakes have between 12 to 14 scales between the belly scale to belly scale, non venomous have small scales, so large scales are venomous and small scales are non venomous.

Remember 98% of snake bites are non venomated bites which means get out of my way, if you stick around for the next one well you get what you deserve.

99% of bites are when people try to catch or kill them.

Proper first aid is paramount.

Front page of the NT News today, mother saves 6 year old boy from a king brown bite using proper first aid.

How many people actually knew that the King Brown is actually a Black Snake?

Cheers Steve.

LMAO - whats the glove for -- effect ?????



Boc

Ozboc,
You mean if it wasn't dangerous there is no need for a glove and if it is dangerous the glove isn't much protection? I've wondered that myself LOL

Watching a show on Foxtel the other week about ants, in Tassy there is a species of ant that will kill you with a single bite if not treated and I think they said 2 million people a year die from ant bites around the world.

The worst thing about bee stings is that you don't know if the next one will be fatal.

Richard

but bees aren't the most dangerous animal in Australia!

Horses are.

Cheers
Andrew who doesn't talk about the snake.

Don't know what you fella's are carrying on about.....A strong willed women is far more dangerous than some piddling snake!

LOL

Regards

Kim

stuff the animals im more scarecd of the blacktop. people crap themselves at the sight of a snake but yet take to the road wirhout a care?
i think the WA road toll is 3-400 per year

Davoe, you're on the money.
It's all about the 'fear factor'; you know, killer sharks, funnelweb spiders, the psycho in the bush..... but the deaths per year from snakes, sharks, spiders, bogeymen etc doesn't even come close to the road toll. It's all in the mind and completely irrational.

Andrew
I reackon the most dangerous are others of our own species

Eh Willem!!, Yeah! i'm a Woos, But don't tell me the ol trouser snake" dosen't scare ya at times!. .......:)))))

Cheers Axle.

are u talking about pollies?

HaHaHa!, good one Bonz, Some pollies do resemble a snake!, Low, and slimey.,,,,,lol,

And Methinks Ill just stick to St. Patrick's ,"only good snake is a dead snake " , to be sure to be sure none of the devils spawn in the Emerald Isle ,, lol.