The Tiger Snake
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2019
- In a country with over 100 species of venomous snakes, the Tiger Snake remains one of the most famous yet misunderstood Australian reptiles.
Once believed to be two distinct species, made up of six seperate sub species even the taxonomy of what makes a Tiger Snake is the subject of much debate, with most people now agreeing that all tiger snakes fit within the one species, made up of several subspecies.
These subspecies have evolved in response to the unique ecosystems in which they have found themselves, with individuals on barren islands being relative dwarves compared to the giants found in other places such as the famous Chappel island tiger snake.
During European settlement in Australia the Tiger Snake was responsible for more human deaths then any other species, but today that claim belongs to the even more venomous eastern brown snake - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
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When I was a young teacher in western NSW, a little tiger snake only about 40cm long appeared on a local sports field while we were down there for sports afternoon. I kept the kids away and tried to shepherd it over to the long grass near the creek. I got a bit overconfident ( probably showing off) and got too close. It turned on a 10c piece and bit the rubber bottom part of my shoe. I managed to calmly walk away and tell the kids to go back, which was a good effort considering the size of the turd in my undies.
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I was a teacher in Goulburn NSW. A young boy had come to school holding a small tiger snake by the head like a professional. He'd picked it up on the driveway to the college. Someone helped him put it in a container to be sent somewhere . When I told the boy he might have been bitten, he wasn't worried,said he had been bitten once on the nose when swimming in the reservoir. I tend to believe it. A small town good base hospital and he had been treated quickly.
5:15 - Pretty crazy to see just how much this snake inflates/deflates in size as it breathes in and out !..
Gorgeous snake! Watching its whole body move like that while it's breathing is incredible.
I kept screaming "BACK UP!" in my head.
ME TOO
Great bit of filming, especially showing not only the flattening of the head and neck to look bigger but the amazing capacity to blow its whole body up to look bigger. I've never seen that before! Looked as if something was pumping him/her up with a pump!
Yeah this fella in particular is good at it!
Crikey, it's the new 'Steve Irwin' ! This guy is quite exceptional. Really enjoyed his podcasts.
Such an underated snake, like a cross between a cobra and a brown
I've encountered my fair share of Tigers while fossicking in the Weld River in Tassie. Most memorable was one particular snake who used to "visit" me, sunning herself on the bank. One day she came up real close, staying about 4ft away from me just watching, she was very relaxed, almost curious. I kept digging and sieving, not making any fast movements, quietly pooping myself, because, well, there's a full grown tiger snake right there. Lolol
After about 10 minutes she went back into the water.
It was an extraordinary experience.
I got video of one other encounter with her in the water.
Beautiful creatures.
And yes, I always carry a snake bandage with me.
Even years after his untimely death, you can still see the impact that Steve Irwin has had on wildlife TV presentation and just the enthusiastic approach but it still warrants an air of caution.
In and around Goulburn, NSW, over the years, I see the odd tiger snake always near the river, and saw one just the other day warming itself along the concrete pathway that follows the river walk. They are mainly all black in colour, as I have observed. If disturbed these snakes flatten their necks, put their heads up, and flee in this posture. I need only tap the ground with my foot or make any noise for them to scoot off, when found resting or warming themselves in the sun. For me, I get a thrill each time to see any snake in the wild, being mindful to give them enough space, and patiently wait for them to move off to walk on. I thank you for the information on the tiger snake.
Fantastic video, Nick. Thanks! There’s a trail on the Mornington Peninsula on which I go for runs and I see at least one tiger snake per run if it’s in the Spring, very rarely in the Summer, which surprised me because I assumed the hotter the better. Often my feet land within a metre of the snakes, but they are completely unaggressive and just slither off on their own pace - and I look around and hope that no one heard my startled scream!! I’ve never had cause to use it, but thanks to your earlier video, I always take one of those compression bandages with me. Thanks Nick
Thanks mate
They are pretty common all along the south coast, we get loads near Port fairy
A Tiger wandered into my back yard a month ago My dog wasn't at the back door like he always is, so i thought oh oh, sure enough one dead snake and a very very sick dog. I had him put down, it broke my heart as he was my best buddy, we went everywhere together all the locals knew him well, he was a absolute champion but his yard was out of bounds to anything but family.
He was a kelpie and so so intelligent a pure pleasure to train. i got him when he was 2 and was very skittish and semi timid, but love and patience won the day, he would walk past koalas and wallabies and i only had to say leave and they were safe, as was my previous Kelpie/BC cross she didn't fuss over the wildlife.
I have seen many varied colours of tigers locally, Creams to dark greys, the biggest i ever saw was well over 4feet and of a huge girth, it was grey because it lived in the coastal wattle and fed on the heath rats and small rabbits. i actually thought it was a limb off the C/wattle. All the tigers around here are very quite as are C/Heads etc.
We have only had 2 tigers in the back yard in 30= years but i should have realised we would get one this year after so much rain, plus we had blue tongues coming through, whenever we had them we have had Snakes, Its BS that if you have B/Tongues you won't get snakes, stupid old urban myths, amazing how many people believe that crap.
Amazing mate the work you put into your content is just incredible 👍
Your videos are always super informative fun to watch and very educational thank you Nick!!
Danny Smith cheers mate! Thanks for watching!
Great work once again Nick!
BigBenno26 thanks mate!
Love how he flattens out like a cobra and puffs out.. gorgeous snakes
It's funny snakes are both incredibly common and incredibly rare to encounter. I actively look for them and I live right next to a large reserve on the Mornington peninsula and I've only seen them a hand full of times. I'm sure I'd find more if I tore up more of the environment but I'm not trying to wreck the place just admire these gorgeous creatures. They're very good at keeping out of our way.
That was one feisty little tiger! Based on his attitude, I assume that was a wild one? Great presentation as always, I learned a ton about these guys, and you really drove home a great point about coexistence with snakes in Australia. Well done Nick!
The Wildlife Brothers thanks guys! This is actually a captive snake, he was given to me when his last owner thought he was too much to handle!
I can see why! I love the new intro by the way!
I felt right at the beginning before he said anything that the snake was ready to attack. Some of them (e.g. death adder) might look slow and lazy but are as quick as lightning so he had to be careful.
@@WickedWildlifeI was on a drilling rig working North West Queensland around Hughenden my colleagues told me about what they called a downs tiger. Quite small but still had attitude. Not sure of location but from what you were saying not that big in numbers in the West country. Have you ever heard of a Downs Tiger.?
I found one on our front door step when living in rural Esperance, WA. I was stepping out and looking up only saw it because I heard it hissing as I nearly put my foot on it. After nearly dropping dead with shock (I'm a kiwi) and quickly retreating back behind the fly screen door shaking like a leaf. I watched it and got some pics throught the door. It was rearing up and did a couple of strikes at the door. Had it not hissed I'm pretty sure I would have been bitten as my foot was only inches away from it.
Wow what a scary experience! Good luck that it didn´t bite you.
Very knowledgeable and well presented, a welcome improvement to most comparable videos.
Great content and presentation. Very informative. Good work.
I had a tiger snake try to follow me inside as I closed the sliding door behind me. I felt a soft obstruction, looked behind me and there's a 1m long tiger on the outside of the glass door! It could've bitten me when I walked past the opening of the door when I first stepped outside in bare feet, but it chose not to. I hope the snake wasn't too hurt by me, it seemed OK. Gave me a fright though. They're attracted to my veranda by the damn sparrows that nest in my eaves. Tassie 👍🇦🇺
Fantastic video & the right information well done
I live in south east Queensland bordering the lamington national park. There’s a gully on our property which the previous owner labeled on a local map as tiger snake gully . And it ain’t lying guaranteed every time we push the cows up the mountain we have to cross the gully to get to the back paddock and there’s always atleast 1 big tiger . One was a good 1.8-2 metre snake . Biggest iv ever seen we’ve always got babies and medium size ones in there and around the house but over the last few years we’ve seen a couple that wouldn’t be to shy of 2 metres .
Lots of Tigers down here in Tassie , LOVE the tiger snake
Thanks Nick
Would love to get down to tassie and film with their tigers!
One of my mates Justin is a snake catcher down Hobart way, holds lots of herp display / safety shows all over .
seen this one tiger few years back making his way across the highway ,8ft in length easy and as round as a beer bottle, biggest tiger I've ever laid eyes on.and I live on the west coast and its snake central there in Rosebery
I just found ur channel. I truly enjoy ur channel and my children can watch. I’m learning every time I watch ur video. Thank u so much. Can’t believe I just found u!! A beautiful snake
N M thankyou so much for watching! And I hope your kids are enjoying them as well!
I like the way he has the cranky snake focussing on his hand so he can quickly avoid a strike
Well I can move my hand a lot quicker the. I can move my head, and worst case it’s easier to bandage 😂
@@newlife8318 Yes , notice how he is watching the snake, its pretty easy to know when they are about to strike because they want you to know, they want you to leave, and yes you can move your hand quicker than he can strike but that doesn't go for all snakes, namely some death adders can strike twice in the time you can blink your eye and they can also strike the full length of their body so you don't pick them up by the tail. They worry me because my property is supposed to be infested with them and I have seen blacks and browns but never a death adder because they bury themselves in leaves and don't move and you can step on them, luckily they are not always prone to bite. Our friend knelt on one in his veggie patch and it didn't bite him. A year later he was bitten twice in his veggie patch by a brown snake, his property is really remote but he survived.
Im 70 years old, I dont stick myself near any snake, I own a property, and have been a life long prospector. I have had interactions with literally thousands of snakes, probably 95% blacks the rest browns or as you say maybe tigers and one broad headed snake and one taipan. Ive run over and skinned a black with a ride on lawnmower, a couple with bulldozer and more with cars,. I hate hurting them. I jumped down the stairs of my shed and almost landed on a brown snake, a number of times i've jumped over logs or small boulders and almost landed on black snakes, my kids at 4 years old turned over a rock and found a brown snake, they just walked away as they had been taught. I had a king brown crawl past my toes without knowing i was there, but they are really a kind of black snake, I got my car airborne over a cattle grid and jumped over a taipan. One interesting time on the central coast in a place that was alive with brown snakes that came from a melaleuca dry swamp, they congregated under the floorboards of our annexe , however playing in the swamp we never saw any until one day my sister, cousin and I were walking to the beach on a tar road when my cousin leaned over as we were walking and whispered in my ear "there's a snake on your foot". The way he said it I thought he was joking, but when I looked down a brown snake about 2 feet long had the middle of its body wedged between the tongue of my sneaker and my foot. I kicked it almost to the height of the electricity wires. So Yes. But the point of this is - despite all the interactions, all the unintended pain and fright i have visited on these creatures i have never once had one try to bite me, they just try to get away. Not so with funnel webs, in the same caravan park I was walking beside a woman and she kicked a can, a funnel web jumped out and latched onto her toe with its fangs , she couldn't kick it off, so she grabbed it and it bit her on the thumb. It was only a month or 2 since antivenom had been first delivered to hospitals and the hospital in this case was almost directly across the road@@WickedWildlife
Wow beautiful snake.. Great video
Brilliant video,really interesting. Wicked Tiger snake 💕 So got to go to Ausse one day. 😊
Thanks Spacey, they are very cool snakes!
Fantastic channel, great presenter!
Wow, beautiful snake, informative video. Thankyou! My favourites are the red bellied black snakes, they're so gorgeous!
ya my new best channel man .
spot on .
Thanks mate!
Used to live in Australia and in my opinion snake bite first aid should be taught in school.
Fantastic information. Well done.
Always a really informative video Nick and certainly one of our beautiful venomous snakes to show everyone.
Thanks!
I nearly trod on a Tiger snake near Kariong on the NSW Central Coast a couple of years ago. It was enormous. I'm no stranger to snakes in the bush, I have been camping and bushwalking since I was a little kid. This bloke was jet black, nearly as thick as my wrist. I saw from the end of his tail to where the rest of him was in the grass around 1.5 metres away. I reckon he was at least 2 metres long. He must have heard my exclamation of surprise, because he slid off into the grass. I never saw the whole of him, tho I've been back there to hopefully see the rest of him. I think I'm in love!
I once lived on King Island for a few years. The Tiger snakes are black and big. The locals like to go Mutton birding to get their legal quota of birds, where you put your arm into quite a long burro and hopefully retrieve your dinner. It is quite a delicacy if you cook them right. I went with them one afternoon, and they said to me if you feel something that feels like a snake, pull your arm out. Easy. I am not a chicken but I guess you have to be born into this kind of thing, and I chickened out. I did notice over there that there are many Tigers that have had their eyes pecked out by birds. Although they are blind, they seem to know where they are and where they are going and are very fat and healthy looking. Must have great smell and other senses. I also noticed that they are even more chilled compared to their mainland cousins, despite their large size. Now I live in the Snowy Mountains near the Errinundra National Park and we have a variety of Tiger snake that is a very beautiful green colour but with the Tiger pattern. They are stunning looking, but if you go up the road a bit, not far, The Tiger snakes are the more traditional looking snake. They are a fascinating creature.
Beautiful snake - great work
Can't believe how close and comfortable you are with that tiger snake... he's very unhappy, he looks huge when he puffs himself up! Never knew they did that.
Such a magnificent reptile
Came within 30cms of one of these bad boys whilst hiking with a few mates at Cathedral Ranges a couple of months ago. Was lucky enough to turn away quick enough.
Fair to say I've never been so scared for my life.
I really like your comments about the importance of snakes for the Australian ecosystem...hopefully I can drop by one day to see and learn more about your countries great reptiles and other wildlife!
Wow... being from Northern Ireland St Patrick made sure I don't have much experience of reading snakes, but looking at that one and even I could tell it was really pi$$ed off at you lying there mate!
Thanks
Thank you!
Fascinating video and very informative.
I think the one key message is if you are going to be around these tiger snakes then plan ahead. Not a bad motto to have really.
That opening scene says it all for me. Aggressive little buggers. I come across heaps of them around the Warren River here in WA. They make me very nervous so even on a 40 degree day I wear waders with jeans underneath. Gorgeous but geez they're grumpy
Beautiful animal!
My high school in the '90's was beside a golf course and wetlands and tiger snakes were very common. Our science teacher doubled as the snake catcher. Kids would also go watch him feed the snakes at lunchtime. 👍☺️🇦🇺
Hi there I find your vids very informative. I grew up in western victoria and tigers and browns were a very common visitors around our farm. Edge of the stoney rises. Dreeite. Been tagged a couple of times, part of growing up. Very lucky. Love the snakes. Bravo from Victoria Australia
I live in western victoria too, in Dunkeld!
Very nice looking Tiger!☺️
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It’d be interesting to call them Australian Tiger Cobras, as they’re elapids which is the cobra family and plus they flatten their bodies like a cobra hooding.
So cool. Snakes that flatten out like that but don’t stand up like cobra really trip me out for some reason. Such a crazy looking snake
They make cobras look like cute little bunny's....
Like you said Nick it's actually quite hard to see a snake in oz, I lived their for 1 year and been back on a few holidays. I planted trees for a few weeks to make money when I was backpacking in Albany western Australia, I was in middle of a lot of fields in middle of know where and never once saw a snake.
Grant and Mercil Sturrock that’s it mate
I was working in outback qld catching snakes and I almost never saw one just cruising along, we where actively flipping rocks and logs to find them
@@WickedWildlife I did however see a couple Sydney funnel webs when i lived in Sydney, my bro lives in Adelaide where I been few times and saw many redback spiders their, i hope one day if you get a chance you could do a video on all oz spiders.
That myth of there being more snakes everywhere in Australia than anywhere else in the world was put to bed for me after spending 6 months in rural Thailand and cycling and hiking for 14 months through the USA. We regularly saw reticulated pythons and cobras on the farm in Thailand. In the USA, I saw more rattlesnakes in 4 months of late spring and summer than I have 60 years here in Australia. That includes living and camping in the Pilbara for 20 years. Cycling from Darwin to Perth, walking the full length of the Bibbulmun track, and school holidays at YMCA camps as a kid on Rottnest Island.
So beautiful
I would love to visit Australia, keep up the good videos and good work with the wildlife.
We are a reasonable chill lot tbh. Don't worry so much about our wildlife as it's mostly over hyped. Anyway visit us & enjoy.👍
They are very pretty snakes - I have had the pleasure (?) of seeing a few up close. The last time I was fishing on the Tumut river and one swam across and landed about a metre up the bank from me, and then slithered into the heavy brush on the bank. I wasn't sure where it went, so I stayed put for about half an hour before I got the courage up to move back up the bank. It was a bit nerve wracking, but I was mesmerised by how efficiently it moved on land and across the water.
Thanks for a great video Nick. That sure was a cranky snake lol.
Hahaha he isn’t the happiest snake I own!
Chappel Island tiger snakes are the most amazing if a bit frightening snakes I have ever seen.
agreed
There’s a bend on a local road near the river where young tiger snakes appear every spring. These ones are striped dark and light green. They cross the road heading uphill and a few are lost to traffic. I’ve seen them try and strike the tyres of passing vehicles.
Definitely made me nervous with you being that close to that cranky tiger snake
Haha that opening move by the snake would have cost me a new pair of undies haha
Beautiful snake. Love his cranky inflation. Even if it is camera angles, your proximity highlights that snakes are not just out to attack
Great vid! I didn't know that tiger snakes are viviparous. :)
Beautiful snakes. I came across one last year in Box Hill, Victoria. It was just chilling in a patch of sun near a waterway. From what I’ve read it’s very unusual to see them in this part of Melbourne, so I was pretty excited to see it.
Took a photo of one chilling in point cook Melbourne 👍
Saw an albino one swimming across the Yarra once when we dossed by the golf course one night in Fairfield. The most beautiful snake I've ever seen in the wild. I will take it slow when I lose a golf ball next time though...
I live in eastern Australia and I go bush walking all the time and go helping and I’ve never seen a brown snake or a tiger snake, I’ve only seen one venemous snake which was a red belly
That would be the
red bellied black snake
Luckily they are not as aggressive as the other venomous snakes
Beautiful animals
love snakes mate 👍
The closest call I had with one of these guys was in nsw mid north coast at halfway creek, I picked up a spare tyre being semi cautious I lifted the back side first and didn’t see him neatly coiled until I lifted it up and he sprung out towards with a mood like mine when I’m woken up for no reason! He was only about 2’ long but had big attitude several years after that I had a run in with what I believed was a tiger snake on mutton bird island in Coffs Harbour it was closer to 6-7 feet maybe longer! I first thought it was a python by the size and colour until I got closer and he wasn’t impressed by us using his path to go fishing
My dad and brother found one when fishing, I was really jealous
That's amazing it's neck flares out like the cobra
Tiger snakes are most abundant in Victoria. I had a very close encounter with one in 1980 when I was 12 years old at Studley Park Kew along the Yarra. I was riding my BMX along a dirt track and saw a twig up ahead and rode over it. It was actually a Tiger snake and it got caught in my front wheel and its head was coming around and wacking my knee so I jumped off and the bike went into bushes. A family came along and it was the mother who with the aid of a cricket bat killed the snake which was already injured.
A close shave!
I've seen several Eastern Brown snakes in the Adelaide Hills and by god they are fast movers. Unfortunately Tiger snakes are not so quick to move out of the way.
They are still there along the river in Studley Park. I run there and its insane how many times I almost tread on them. I just avoid the whole area now because it isnt very relaxing having to keep my eyes open for them all the time from Nov - March. Good on that Mum for whacking it - geez no mums these days would have the mamma bear drive to kill a snake I would say lol...
@@georginam824 Yeah agreed. I'm moving home to Melbourne in febuary so I am hopefully I won't see any snakes along the yarra bike track where I intend to ride.
Cheers.
@@garynewton1263 at least you won't be running along in shorts and bare legs. They really are terrifying when I land my foot within mm of them and the other day one literally reared up and spun around to get away from me. I was day dreaming so I didnt notice it until it did that. It was huge - 1.5m at least. I grew up on a property near Wagga and so I am used to browns...but browns are faster and they seem to get away faster than these tiger snakes.
@@georginam824 Yes.
I've just realised that my friend's youtube account has gotten mixed up with mine.
I used Jacinta's account a few years ago to reply to some videos I saw and until I got my own UA-cam account.
Anyway, funny thing is I've been living in adelaide for 7 1/2 years.
Several years ago I used to go up to Belair National Park and jog on the gravel tracks.
One summers day I was wearing my sunglasses and almost stumbled on an Eastern Brown snake.
I was jogging reasonably quickly, luckily the EB snake wriggled away once I got to within 2 feet.
An evil looking snake.
I've seen Red Bellied black snakes up in the Dandenong Ranges, Tiger snakes around waterways near Melbourne, Copperheads too.
But those Eastern Browns get me on edge.
I'm hopefully going to be living around Croydon, Mooroolbark, FTG or Mitcham so hopefully no snakes.
Maybe take up Cycling instead, the yarra bike track from Kew to the City is brilliant.
Stay safe!
I've never encountered that many snakes, despite Australia's reputation. But I did come very, very close to stepping on one of these on a golf course when I was a teenager. Didn't notice it until I was right on top of it, but fortunately it seemed incredibly chilled out and just slowly slithered away.
Another excellent video Nick, it really shows the reluctance of this snake to "attack", in fact throughout it's the snake that looks terrified,puffing itself up trying to look big and threatening. Very minor technicality; tiger snakes have bands not stripes. Bands run across the body, stripes run along it...at least when referring to reptiles; I know it's different with tigers (the big cats)
pseudechis thanks! I should have picked up on that!
1:30 Am I the only one watching that snake like a hawk, fully prepared for when it tries to strike? Oh, well, maybe Nick is...
I just love how they 'cobra' their necks. I've seen green tree snakes do similar to make themselves look fierce.
No, Im on edge, and since the video is almost over, I feel sick now with worry about him being so close to him. Too worried for too long. Thankfully he is ok.
dingo simon you where actually the first viewer mate! First view is always me checking it uploaded right. He actually struck a fair few times while filming
I bet you wouldn't be laying down in front of a wild coastal taipan like that lol! That rough-scaled look of the tiger snake is intimidating, makes it look like a hard-arse.
I'm trying to figure out whether the tiger snake is in the bushland trails I hike in. Would they be in lowland forests around Newcastle near the coast?
Pretty sure they're up in the Barrington Tops, but that is at a fairly high elevation. I think I saw one once up Barrington Tops on some river rocks, from quite a long way off it bolted into the river when it saw me. I didn't see it until it bolted.
What about a bit further inland like the Watagans on the Central Coast, or say Mt Sugarloaf?
Here in Tassie there's a lot of Tiger Snakes. I've had several encounters on my mtn bike over the years.
Our snakes are usually very dark with subtle orange markings. To me they look a lot like a RBB...(which we don't have in Tas)
Tigers are one of my favourite snakes! Love their fat heads
Totally agree, if I didn’t do displays I think I’d just be keeping tigers, red bellies and copperheads outdoors
I am so nervous with that cranky tiger near your face the whole time :D The one thing that always stood out to me in WA when it came to tiger snakes is that unlike dugites and king browns (the most common snakes I encountered in rural WA) they would often be quite fiesty, the dugites and the big browns would be far more interested in being left alone and slithering away but I encountered a few tigers that actually came towards me in a very threatening manner, I see their point, I wouldn't want anything to do with us big dumb hairless apes either :P I always wondered if the reason was actually due to their coastal location and the increase of people at said coast, the dugites and browns at the farm where i grew up had no reason to fear humans, we had to drive 5km to find another human :D the tigers by the coast have probably had 15 drunk idiots step on them this week :(
Thanks again for another great vid. We live adjacent to a few hundred acres of central coast wetland around 40 years. Every year we get our many summer visits from red bellies big and small. Our 3/4 acres is devoted to water features and native habitat, we get the bush rat bandicoot, land mullet and I reckon have 4 species of frog. My question is I have never seen a Tiger snake yet it seems like perfect country, cutty grass, paperbarks and tea tree is it due to the red bellies?? Or is it possible they co exist. Thanks and keep safe
So true about not seeing snakes unless you go looking for them. I live within 200 metres of Herdsman Lake in Western Australia, this lake is said to hold the most densely populated amount of Tiger Snakes in a metropolitan area of WA. In 7 years of living here, I aint ever seen a single one.
Just read an article about how a guy named Snake Hunter got bit by one of these snakes and now he's got 3 organ failures. Crazy what these snakes can do with one bite!
Everywhere in western Australia down south where im from , super aggressive snakes ive probably been attacked by them a dozen times.
This whole video was white noise - I couldn’t stop watching that snake!
Hey Mate,
Great video! I grew up across the road from a large lake in Western Australia. A lap around it was about 8km and each lap would have me spotting at least 3 or 4 of these snakes in the summer. I once came across 16 in 1 lap. I'm not too sure about the taxonomy of the tiger snake but I will say I've heard a great deal about temperamental variance between western and eastern tiger snakes. I found the western tiger snakes that I had so much exposure to, to be very docile and would simply slither away into the reeds if it felt threatened. These snakes were jet black with a slight pattern and grew to about a meter long. I miss them dearly as I now live in North Sydney where there is very little natural habitat.
I thoroughly enjoyed the video 🐍
I live in semi rural south Gippy and see these guys all the time. Recently I was waving at a woman on the road to avoid driving over a tiger snake. Unfortunately she took it as the opposite and drove over it on purpose. I called a wildlife woman and she put it out of its misery. Please take care of snakes people, they were here before us ❤️
I've got a block of rain forest in South Gippy. They're literally everywhere. You have to learn to live with them or else you're going to find it hard being there. Unlike brown's, they don't seem to move away as rapidly. That's the only real danger I find living around them. Oh and they like to climb so can get into some places you don't expect. Stay safe out there.
If a tiger snake bites a child its going to be very bad for the child ,he would probably die ,if a tiger snake is near children it must be destroyed its only a dangerous reptile , better a dead snake than some ones child in a coffin ,
to hell with these snakes they are too dangerous ,i say kill them who needs then
Im an Aussie but the way this guy says "Austreeeelliiieea" is hillarious
Only experienced tiger snakes once, was chilling on some rocks by a waterfall with them, they seemed pretty placid and chill even when i nearly fell on it! lol
It never felt threatened by me, or me by it!
Hi love your channel. I'm in portland south west victoria and between portland and the SA border at Nelson along the sand dunes I'd say we have the largest concentration of tiger snakes in victoria especially around the swan lake area. I've seen some 1m long but the biggest was probably around 2m they are huge and extremely vicious.
Small world! We are based in Dunkeld and my wife grew up in Portland/Narrawong
We actually do a fair few displays out Portland way too
Tower Hill is a very well known spot for tigers too
Can u compare venom potency btw blue Krait and Taipan?
I found the answer here snakedatabase.org/pages/ld50.php which I found through a simple search engine query. It's a great question, but one that you should be able to answer for yourself to be honest.
God I love snakes. Since I was a little kid. They always have fascinated me despite their dangerous nature and threatening features. I live in a country where snakes are not common but they just look so interesting to examine. I wish there were more sources, especially ensyclopedias that give you info about reptiles and focused on snakes. At least there's Mark O'shea and his analysis of amphibians and reptiles which includes many many books. These animals are really gorgeous.
What do you know about Clarence River rough scale snake ..Can you tell us about these.
Grouse work Nick, little tiger snake has some anger issues.
Right beside where I live there's a creek line and there are different skinks ghekkos blue touges shingle backs around and yes sen a couple of snakes too. But left alone they a very beautiful to watch. Love ❤️ my nature and the bitey nippy poisonous animal's are part of it. Oh never had a snake in my yard
That was one pissed off snake!
Watching him breathe is insane