Another Snake ID Requested

yep westerns are poorly banded at the best of times

I will have a better look with my books but I reckon juvinille/poorly conditioned western tiger

Altho the Oils had something to say about them:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/midnight+oil/king+of+the+mountain_20093292.html

Cheers

May I suggest a Black Whip Snake?

Rear Fanged but venomous, It may make you sick if bitten but not considered lethal.

Most sites claim it to be a snake from the East but I have seen them in the Top End and the West.

John,

Well there ya go......Thanks mate!

Browny

G'day swaggie.

Yes my wife would agree with you. But I was never closer than 1.5 metres and it was always going away from me.

I use a Panasonic Lumix digital pocket camera with a 10X zoom. Great little camera.

Cheers.

Meant to add I'm no snake handler either so could be something else.

Cheers

D

I aint no herpetologist but I have a long green tree snake in my backyard in Brisbane, 4101, but it is long and green, do green snakes come in colours other than green? I suppose geckoes change colour (not the asian ones I catch and feed to my chickens)

Apparently they do as per here

http://www.reptilesdownunder.com/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Colubridae/Dendrelaphis/punctulatus

Thanks Graham

Thanks Greg. I'm inclined to agree.

Cheers.

It did give me a scare Mazcan.

I was half a step away from walking onto it. I said "****!!" and backed off like real quick.

I was wearing shorts too. I won't be making that mistake again in tiger country.

Cheers.

So !

who's game enough to pick one up to count the scales, especially anal ones or to check their fangs ?? <(:-o))

Those tigers can be really aggressive if they want.

Tony

OK, after you've counted the anal scales, report back! I'll just wait over here.

Years ago I worked at the local animal park, primarily in the reptile section.

One day the police showed up. They had a bag with them. They handed it to me and asked me to get the drugs out. Apparently they had picked up somebody that had hitchhiked from Perth with drugs in his bag. On the way over the hitchiker found some snakes and put them in the bag as well.

I emptied one of the tanks that we kept snakes in. Turned the bag upside down, and unzipped it. The police were standing at the furthest wall.

Out fell needles, bongs, drugs, and three pillow cases.

Hitchiker failed to tell the police he had put them in seperate bags. He was probably laughing his head off in the back of the van. (yes I believe he was still in the van)

Cops got their drugs. I got myself a Desert Death Adder, Western Brown, and a Western Tiger. Had to do a scale count on them all for requirements of the licencing people for zoos.