So you've been bit then?
whats it like do you get bent before your nerves start vibrating?
SO you milk them and get cash for the venom?
can you buy a tiapan or other aussie snakes legally?
why is the earth round? sorry so many questions![]()
So you've been bit then?
whats it like do you get bent before your nerves start vibrating?
SO you milk them and get cash for the venom?
can you buy a tiapan or other aussie snakes legally?
why is the earth round? sorry so many questions![]()
Been bit? Yes, but not by any cobras, and the others were dry bites with no venom injected.
No I don't milk them; plenty of others do it. One guy in Australia, Dr. Brian Fry, is probably the leading venom researcher in the world.
Mate, I wish I could get some Aussie reptiles. There are a few king browns and eastern browns available now and then, but placed very carefully amongst certain better known hobbyists. Papuan Taipan's and Death Adders are fairly easy to get hold of. No coastal or inland taipans though, which ar 2 I really want, plus any of the tiger snakes. Aussie, as you probably well know, doesn't allow the exportation of its wildlife except for Zoological interests.
I have no f#cking clue why the earth is round; maybe the CREATOR was playing marbles and it was more convenient to have the planets round![]()
You'd have a ball here I could go and unearth a tiger within ten miniutes of here and a brown within a half day. plenty of blacks and copperheads if you know where to look too.
Tasmania has some nasty big tasmanian tigers darker than ours (ours are mostly grey with a whitish and yellow stripes underneath )tassies are sometimes black and up to about 7 feet if you get a king one.
Had plenty of run ins over here with snakes as we surf and plod through cliffs and tracks in search sometimes in some seasons at a place called cape liptrap we suit up beofre we walk in there.
As you walk along you see heads going along on tracks parrallell to you checking you out over the bushes that seperate you! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHI run.
MAtes have woken up with them crawling under their tents and sleeping bags for warmth at Liptrap! we wouldnt let them into the back of our panel van so they slept on the roof and the bonnet of the cars.
Yes sir; I'd definately have the time of my life in Oz. The snake most wanted by me is the Reevesby Island Tiger, jet black and has developed an even more toxic venom than the mainland or Taz ones. They have to hunt mutton birds underground and seeing as how the prey is larger and more dangerous than an average skink or rat, the venom has developed into a more potent form. Amazing stuff really, IMO.
I don't think I would mess with the Eastern Browns, fast as quicksilver and the 2nd most toxic venom in the world, and fast acting. I believe 4 or 5 people died last year in Oz, one man bit and died in 40 minutes by a juvenile. Pretty bad snakes.
The red bellied blacks are gorgeous animals; with quite the attitude so I understand. Copperheads are cool as they are true cannibals; but ugly IMO
The death adders are awesome because they share so many characteristics of vipers, though they are elapids. Very cool.
Coastal taipans are the SH#T!!! Freaks of nature man
I'm a geek![]()
Last edited by LEGION; 04-16-2008 at 12:50 AM.
No rattlers Cubber. I am not really into the vipers, except I like the desert horned vipers and South American bushmasters. Vipers are ambush hunters and tend to just lay around waiting for food. Very lazy. My cobras, and elapids in general, are active hunters and fun to watch cruising their cages looking for food. Problem is, the elapid family have such high metabolisms that they sh#t all the freakin' time; which means more clean-up. But rattlers drive me up a wall with their rattlingAnd I like a more active snake anyways.
And you should see when it's feeding time with cobrasThat is the time you have to be most careful. Psychotic doesn't even quite fit the reaction you'll get when they know prey is available. CObras are notorious hunters and will strike at any movement. Separates the men from the boys when you feed with tongs
People easily panicked need not apply
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LOL
Yeah it does look strange.
They lay all over each other to stay warm.
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