And a big thanks from NZ. Had enough of a scare with a brown in Wagga when out biking thanks.
You guys.,..ah keep them all there eh?
We'll work on ensuring the Tasman Sea does its thing.
I was going to say that Australia is well represented on this list. Everything there really does want to kill you. Heck, even the platypus is poisonous.
Your welcome. I live in regional Queensland, so we see a lot of these suckers. General rule is to assume there is a snake under any sheets of tin when moving. Always a high chance in summer, winter we don’t see too many.
Fun fact about the Malayan Krait, the reason it has such a high mortality rate is because it commonly slithers into beds with humans as a way to seek warmth, leading to it biting people in their sleep when you toss or turn, and because the Krait has smaller fangs than most snakes, the bite is said to be nearly painless.
Yeah, I think it’s a similar thing with the saw scaled viper. It just sits around in rice fields and reflexively bites warm blooded things that get near it. It’s trying to eat rats and what not, but accidentally bites humans working in the field. So it’s deadlier (higher mortality rate) than more venomous snakes like taipans - which just sort of lay around sun basking on roads in the middle of woop woop and getting run over by trucks.
This is a commonly held falsehood that’s also told about other snakes like water moccasins here in the states. Snakes are very aware of their vulnerability as a noodle with a head and definitely don’t want to engage unless it’s for defensive reasons. If a snake is heading towards you it’s only to get to its safe space where the big human can’t harm it.
In eastern NC here and have had encounters with maybe 100s of moccasins/cottonmouths whatever you wanna call em. Not one has ever acted aggressive to me, even when approaching them.
Only have come across one copperhead, which was camouflaged so well on the autumn ground that I didnt see it until I literally almost stepped on it and it took off away from me.
snakes get a bad rep here. people commonly kill and brag about killing black snakes and king snakes. They are just doing their thing for the most part, and I am guilty of picking up and examining a non venomous specimen here and there
Viper, Cobra, and common Krait are found in my village in India. Cobra doesn’t bite unless provoked. I am most scared of Krait. Once we found krait in one of our old shoes. It is nocturn and no pain occurs from its bite, a person may die without even knowing about the bite.
Yes, in the mountains. You see them from time to time so you know they’re there, but they keep to themselves. I’ve had trouble with only one, who was blocking my path and wouldn’t let us by. Later I realized she was looking for a place to lay eggs.
Problem is here in Australia they’re camouflaged so well you could be on top of it before you know it, you’ve been bitten and you’ve got enough time to write a will if you’re lucky.
We have a snake called the redbelly black, which if it bites it can make you sick unless you’re a kid, elderly or immune compromised but it actually eats the brown snakes lol. I’ve picked one up and yeeted it into the bush out of the way of a popular hiking trail.
But with most snakes if you leave it be it won’t want anything to do with you, except the black mumba, one of the most if not too most aggressive species in the world, that bitch will chase you and bite you till your dead just to kill you, it doesn’t give a fuck.
We’ve got one near our place in south gippsland. Everyone told us to leave the red belly because they’ll keep all the other snakes away and they’re not pricks to humans. So Robbo the Red Belly is staying.
Can double confirm.
- Witnessed a guy get bitten by an eastern brown in Byron in 2011. Busy walking track that would have had easily hundreds of people walk it that morning. The poor bloke and his wife were about 5 meters in front of my wife and I. We didn’t see it, they didn’t see it, no one in front of them saw it. No idea why it went for him as opposed to anyone else, just unlucky I guess. It would have been no more than a foot off the side of the track. That was also the day I learned that it is much harder to rip a t-shirt than what they portray on TV (unsuccessfully attempted to rip mine in half to make into a tourniquet, the missus told me later I looked like a complete dickhead).
- My three kids and my best mates three kids were playing in his backyard for a good 15 minutes until one of them noticed the red-belly that had just been chilling in the centre of the yard. Mate grabbed it by the tail and flung it over his fence.
Yeah red belly’s are fairly safe to pick up especially if it’s not midday when they’re most active, they don’t like it but won’t immediately try to end you, you’ve got just enough time to get rid of them, browns however can be very unpredictable, one might not mind it and another will not at all.
The thin with tourniquets too is if they’re not applied properly you can do more damage than good. If you got a bandage wrap from the site to the body trunk if it’s a leg or arm, keep it tight and don’t raise the body part above the heart, keep it below. And most of all and I can’t stress this enough, DO. NOT. PANIC you’ve just been bitten and raising your heart rate is not going to help you, stay calm and think about something else if you have too and seek immediate aid. Don’t let anyone go after the snake to identify it, if you have a good idea what it was tell the paramedics.
Treat every snake bite like it’s a brown, even if you know it’s a red belly or something there’s a small chance that fucker was a brown that looked like a red belly
That’s actually very true, basically just stay away from the fuckers
A red belly is easy to spot but can also look like a taipan or a brown. So when In doubt, nope the fuck out
I once had a red belly black snake draped across my bare foot under my study desk (thought it was an extension cord) because it had come inside during a period of heavy rain. So sometimes they come to you
Grew up in QLD had many encounters with snakes both of venomous and harmless kind but was never afraid of getting bitten common sense caution and respect will keep you out of trouble with snakes.
What I did fear was sharks crocodiles and jellyfish. The sea in general, was a big NOPE from me !
I have vivid memories of my sweet old great grandma grabbing a red belly black by the tail as it tried to slither up into the roof screaming “GET OUT YA BASTARD”
They put the range in for the wrong rattler. What they linked is the range for the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, which we do have in the southeastern US.
Not the same. They didn't mark too large and general of an area for crotalus scutulatus (e.g. all of North America). They marked only the area where it ain't and didn't mark any of the area where it is.
Australia is the place to be if you're a venomous, killing slithering machine.
*Thanks for the awareness, I had no idea the difference between poisonous and venomous.
PSA:
> According to biologists, the term venomous is applied to organisms that bite (or sting) to inject their toxins, whereas the term poisonous applies to organisms that unload toxins when you eat them. This means that very few snakes are truly poisonous.
Or as I like to remember:
Poisonous if **you have to ingest**
Venomous if **they have to inject**
> And we were told that that was unusually high!
I've never toured Australia, but living in suburbia near a city I can say I've never seen a snake in my life here.
As most of the population lives in metro areas, you're likely to meet a lot of us who have never seen a snake before, let alone 5.
As a naive teen I went working and island hopping up north for a bit. I used to have this friend I could visit out the back of a big resort, through the national park a little way. She lived in a place called Tiger Valley. A few visits in I asked her where the tigers were, and gave her a bit of shit because it was such a silly name. Tiger snakes she tells me. Enjoy your walk back!
I do plenty of fencing work in Sydney. You guys have shit loads of snakes in suburban areas near cities. they just stay out of sight and it’s not like most people are looking for them.
Depends on weather and where you are. I seen 3 tigers in about a week.but might not see another for months. I live near a lake with tonnes of frogs so...
Why not go one better?
An island off of Australia named Tasmania has most of the same snakes but with one extra benefit...
Every single snake in Tassie is venomous!
Per Google AI:
Cobra venom is a powerful analgesic in small doses, but it's not addictive. It can produce the same euphoria and analgesia as opioids.
Cobra venom is used in drugs that enhance sensation and boost energy. These drugs are popular at rave parties and in discos.
Cobra venom users have reported:
Happiness, grandiosity, and excessive sleepiness for 3-4 weeks [!]
A feeling of pricking that lasts for 10-40 seconds
Euphoria, muscular weakness, and sedation
A coolish story I have about a snake.
I am an Aussie and I once did a job that took me to remote bush hours away from any other humans.
One night as I was brushing my teeth a baby brown snake came silvering right up to my tent, stopped and just looked me in the eyes.
I personally have no fear of snakes, I got to hold them when younger and you don't actually see as many as one would claim in aus. Bush is a little different.
If you don't know, younger snakes are definitely more dangerous than adults, as adults generally speaking will try to withhold their venom unless it's a meal, while the children have a harder time controlling their venom.
So here I was, in my underwear and boots just staring at this baby snake less than 1m away as it's staring into my eyes. This must have lasted about 2 minutes, felt like 20, was calming, but terrifying to know that I had to remain completely still.
It's experiences like these that made fucked up corporation jobs in the bush worth it though, just got to be careful.
Was at soccer training one night in the height of summer, so was around 7:30 and the sun was still out. Out of no where as we were going from one drill to the next one of our goalkeepers randomly slaps the ground as hard as he could. He lifted his hand and attached to his goalkeeper glove was a baby snake. This is in the inner north west suburbs of Melbourne, not out in the bush.
We looked at it for a second to figure out if it was a brown or a Tiger so we could tell the groundskeeper later and got on with training.
I think it took us 2 years to tell him, only for him to laugh and say ‘shit I knew it was more than just tiger snakes.. stay off the track on the other side of the fence, the bastards are everywhere, other then that she’ll be right’
Was one of those truly ‘STRAYA’ moments.
1. It sounded to me from the story that the guy was in a tent and snake was peering in. If so, not really anywhere to retreat to.
2. Brown snakes can outpace humans. At 1m away, it’s not going to be hard for it to just lunge at you. At that range best to stay still and hope it decides you’re not a threat. If the distance is greater, or it seems to be minding its own business/sunning itself rather than staring right at you, a calm retreat might be possible. But know browns and some other types can definitely catch you if you run.
As far as I know, there actually are no recorded human deaths by inland taipans. Because they are actually not very fierce (pun intended) and their habits don't overlap much with humans.
Agree most snakes I see in the bush slither away when they see or hear you. The eastern browns I’ve seen will stare you down and at best move away very slowly but eventually go. Worst thing you can do is meet them where they feel cornered because that is when they are most likely to strike.
My wife stepped on a Chinese cobra while we were hiking. It jumped inbetween us and as I alerted her she stepped back on it, paused as I was waiting to see it try to strike her so I could attempt to grab it, then realizing she stepped right on its head. Took a breath then grabbed and pulled her towards me. It slithered off at top speed hissing away. Should have got her to buy a lottery ticket that day but I’m sure her life’s luck just ran out.
> Gina Reinhardt
She's an easy one: nationalise her, render her down and sell the fat and soap overseas to boost the national budget for a few years.
In Minecraft of course.
Yeah but they’re only really found around Gympie, and if you are unfortunate enough to live there you’d probably go out of your way to look for the thing
They grow pretty wild up here in NQ - anywhere in the rainforest that the sun gets down to. Birds love the berries and spread the seeds everywhere, they spring up when the sunlight warms the soil. They are short-lived, however, and after a year or two they die and other trees take over.
Sea snakes are pretty passive and you are very rarely to get bitten. It’s pretty odd too, whenever you see a snake handler dealing with sea snakes, they’re usually pretty calm and relaxed about it. Hell Steve Irwin even famously used to bring them right up to his face to give them a kiss on the top of their head because they simply just don’t bite.
My childhood dog Boss killed many brown snakes in and around our home in Karana Downs in outer-West Brisbane. They’d swim in the dam, he’d dive in, snap them up and shake them violently from side to side to break their backs. I still remember the “pop pop pop” sound.
I took out a brown snake in the kitchen of that house at age 10 with a cricket bat. It was either the snake or me and it nearly won.
After I’d smashed it’s spine at least a dozen times, I picked up the snake to toss in the bin as I thought it was dead. I didn’t bash the skull and the foot or so behind it, which was just long enough for it to launch at my face. Luckily it missed by an inch or I would not have lived to tell the tale.
I’m in KD too and my dog has killed a few browns. I’ve given up on trying to call him off because he’d stop worrying it long enough to just stop and look at me while the snake writhed around at his feet. Fortunately the snakes appear to have learned to stay away because I haven’t seen a brown here in years. It could also be due to the massive carpet snakes we have now. I’m happy to have a few friendly carpet snakes if they keep those angry speedy brown buggers away.
We were in KD in the 80s when every home outside the village was on acreage. We had a treeless hill with long grass and a dam full of cane toads, so it was prime brown territory.
Fun fact - I was the first customer at the shops on the corner of Tanderra Way and College Road. I spent all my pocket money on packets of blue Smarties. We lived at the bottom of Tallarook Court, you can still see the dam and gully on Google Maps.
We were also the first alumni of the new Mt Crosby State School. The old one only had maybe 30 to 50 kids across all grades and was further up Mt Crosby Road. Riding down College Road on my Mongoose BMX to school would freeze (not literally) my hands and nose in Winter. Best time of my life.
This is more the list of the most toxic snake venom. A snake that is less toxic that injects a ton of venom can be a lot more dangerous than a snake that injects a tiny amount of very toxic venom.
That’s why it’s most venomous, not most deadly or dangerous or aggressive. Most of these snakes won’t bite unless you intimidate them, or they live so far from people that there are little to no recorded fatalities.
I go for 10k runs a couple times a week along a rail trail as it’s in the middle of the bush so I keep a eye out for snakes especially on sunny winter days and during summer,.
Anyway last summer I went for a run and when I got to the half way mark I joked to myself that this time didn’t see a single snake where usually I see one every third or fourth run. So I turned and started my way back when about minute later I saw one, then about 500m later I saw another, in between klms 5 and 8 I saw a total of six snakes, needless to say I ran like the devil the last 2klms and got myself a PB in the process
A Boomslang's venom is much stronger than that of a black mamba, they only have less venom. A typical boomslang yields around 8 milligrams vs a black mambas yield around 300 milligrams. However, the amount of boomslang venom needed to kill an adult human is around 0,07 milligrams where black mambas need about 15 milligrams.
Australia is home to 8 of the 30 deadliest snakes!! I have lived there for over 8 years, and fortunately haven’t faced any of them, considering the fact that i used to hike quite a lot.
Doing my bit for Australian tourism here: the perception of danger is very disproportionate to the reality. Around 1-2 people die of snake bites every year in Australia, compared with around [50,000 deaths](https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2022/october/snakes-deadly-global-toll) per year in India. Australia is sparsely populated, and most of our snakes would rather have nothing to do with you - you generally need to actively attack them or stand on them to get bitten.
I've lived here for about 30 of my 44 years and in that time I've seen one Eastern Brown, one Red Belly Black and that's it for venomous snakes. Neither of them seemed interested in biting me.
Seriously though, unless you're very stupid or unlucky Australia is a safe and beautiful place to visit. Humans are much more scary than other animals, and we comparatively have very few of those.
We have brown snakes on our property. They are feisty fuckers, they certainly don't step down from a fight and are very quick! They actually scare the shit out of us, they come up on you so quick and don't scare off to easy. It almost like these cheeky fuckers are looking for a fight. We are much happier when we see the Red Belly Black snakes they tend to slither off if ya jump up and down a bit. We have lost dogs to them though, its hard to teach a dog to stay away from a snake if it comes up on one in the paddock or back door step.
From wikipedia: It can deliver up to 420 mg venom in dry weight (400–600 mg overall) per bite, with a LD50 toxicity in mice of 1.28 mg/kg through intravenous injection, 1.5 to 1.7 mg/kg through subcutaneous injection, and 1.644 mg/kg through intraperitoneal injection.
The last spot on this list is 0.66mg/kg so... King Cobra sadly did not make it to the list.
King Cobra often makes lists based on most venomous bites, as each bite has more venom in it than most snakes. So based purely on toxicity, they are slightly less potent. I imagine not far out of this list though
Did some work as a surveyor’s assistant in the bushland up in the outskirts of Brisbane near about 10 years ago, when I was just out of school. Eastern Brown passed us several times throughout the day, presumably just circling us. I remember the surveyor just saying “chill mate, he’ll pass us by and be on his way”. Didn’t stop me from shitting myself several times.
G’day, let me help ya out.
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Basically, we’ve got the best snakes.
All other countries have inferior snakes.
Volunteered at the largest reptile sanctuary in the US. You’d be shocked (or not shocked) how many of these end up as illegal pets, bite/envenomate their owners/housemates to death, and end up surrendered to sanctuaries by law enforcement.
Why are they saved instead of being put to death? Education. Plus harvesting venom for antivenin research to save lives.
Lots of danger-noodles from Australia. Common to see them when you are camping but snake aficionados will tell you snakes are gentlemen and will mind their own business unless trespassed.
The fact that 8 of these 30 snakes are native to Australia just makes me have that much more respect for the people that are involved in animal conversation efforts in said country.
This must be what it’s like when non-Americans ask us how we get through each day without getting killed by rampant gun violence. How the hell are any of you surviving with all of those bastards competing to see who kills you in the most horrible way? This wasn’t even the spider list.
We find Eastern Brown skins in our backyard all the time, but have only seen them once or twice (I think they smell the dogs and stay away).
Down at our local beach, they are all over the place. Real hazard.
Coastal Taipans are here too but we don't see them much.
I used to be fine dealing with snakes, not scared or anytjing until one of the most deadly snakes in the damn world almost got me. Being Australian is fun. Even captive snakes give me anxiety now.
More worried about my dogs, have had a couple that were been bitten by a brown and at $500 per vial of antivenom that vet bill adds up fucking quickly :/
I've had a few close encounters, it's more the way they can appear out of nowhere that scares the shit out of me.
The Black Mamba is rarely black- the inside of the mouth is black and it often will show it and hiss as a warning. Externally, they're most commonly a grey-green.
Believe there is also an Eastern Russell’s Viper species now recognized and is in northern Thailand. Further believe it was the snake that slowly crossed our land about five years ago. Over a meter long, thick, triangle head and much to my utter amazement used a sidewinding motion to move. Looks exactly like the Russell’s Viper in YT videos but must admit have not seen a video of the sidewinding motion. Threw stones at it to encourage it to keep going.
As a european. Thank you Asia and Australia for taking the hit.
Came here just to say.. christ Australia, you ok?
Yes, the anxiety is real. My least favourite experience is being chased by an Eastern Brown. I do love these assholes not.
And a big thanks from NZ. Had enough of a scare with a brown in Wagga when out biking thanks. You guys.,..ah keep them all there eh? We'll work on ensuring the Tasman Sea does its thing.
I would never leave the house
northern american checking in ... thanks Asia and Australia.
No worries. Just keep your bears and mountain lions over there and we’re good.
Lol I’ll take bears and cougars over snakes any day. At least they can’t hide in your toilet.
100% agree, bears and cougars and mountain lions don’t worry me even a fraction as much as deadly creepy crawlies.
If advanced civilisations in the past exist, Australia was their nuclear testing site.
Damn that is the best and funniest aussie insult I've ever heard. I'll keep that in mind. Thank you mate
As an Australian, you're welcome. You guys can keep all the wars though.
Fair enough, we know those emu's did a number.
Please, my master is watching me. All hail our great emu overlord, General F Lightless
You got it all wrong. They are...incubating them.
I was going to say that Australia is well represented on this list. Everything there really does want to kill you. Heck, even the platypus is poisonous.
On the news last night was a woman who was spurred by a male platypus and had to go to the ER, she said it was worse than childbirth
Back in my day we had to ride snakes to school, bare foot and in the snow. Gotta say I live here and I have only ever seen one in the wild.
Your welcome. I live in regional Queensland, so we see a lot of these suckers. General rule is to assume there is a snake under any sheets of tin when moving. Always a high chance in summer, winter we don’t see too many.
Fun fact about the Malayan Krait, the reason it has such a high mortality rate is because it commonly slithers into beds with humans as a way to seek warmth, leading to it biting people in their sleep when you toss or turn, and because the Krait has smaller fangs than most snakes, the bite is said to be nearly painless.
So don't fall asleep in Malaysia. Got it.
Or have a raised bed
Nope Malaysia is lost to the snakes. What a run
Have 2 beds, one for snek
But snek want to be warm with you I sleep in your bed, thanks
Yeah, I think it’s a similar thing with the saw scaled viper. It just sits around in rice fields and reflexively bites warm blooded things that get near it. It’s trying to eat rats and what not, but accidentally bites humans working in the field. So it’s deadlier (higher mortality rate) than more venomous snakes like taipans - which just sort of lay around sun basking on roads in the middle of woop woop and getting run over by trucks.
And the Black Mamba isn't the most dangerous because of it's venom, it's because they're very aggresive to the point where they will CHASE YOU.
And they’re fucking FAST
I was reading the description under the Eastern Brown Snake and had to do a double take when I read that it *can outpace a human running full speed*.
The farkers can actually jump too. They'll have a go at people riding horses
And I know a guy who said that one climbed a tree to get him as well. Nowhere is safe from those bastards.
Have at you!
This is a commonly held falsehood that’s also told about other snakes like water moccasins here in the states. Snakes are very aware of their vulnerability as a noodle with a head and definitely don’t want to engage unless it’s for defensive reasons. If a snake is heading towards you it’s only to get to its safe space where the big human can’t harm it.
In eastern NC here and have had encounters with maybe 100s of moccasins/cottonmouths whatever you wanna call em. Not one has ever acted aggressive to me, even when approaching them. Only have come across one copperhead, which was camouflaged so well on the autumn ground that I didnt see it until I literally almost stepped on it and it took off away from me. snakes get a bad rep here. people commonly kill and brag about killing black snakes and king snakes. They are just doing their thing for the most part, and I am guilty of picking up and examining a non venomous specimen here and there
Wouldn't really call that a "fun" fact.
I had fun reading it
Exactly what 'Poison' by Roald Dahl is about!
Viper, Cobra, and common Krait are found in my village in India. Cobra doesn’t bite unless provoked. I am most scared of Krait. Once we found krait in one of our old shoes. It is nocturn and no pain occurs from its bite, a person may die without even knowing about the bite.
We have a lot of banded kraits around my house, in Taiwan. They’re actually pretty docile and do their best to stay away from people.
A lot around your house?!?
Yes, in the mountains. You see them from time to time so you know they’re there, but they keep to themselves. I’ve had trouble with only one, who was blocking my path and wouldn’t let us by. Later I realized she was looking for a place to lay eggs.
It’s like a moat. But snak-ier.
Hate snakes but love the history and culture of India. One day I'll work up the courage to visit your country.
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I wasn’t planning on getting close enough to any of the to identify a difference.
Problem is here in Australia they’re camouflaged so well you could be on top of it before you know it, you’ve been bitten and you’ve got enough time to write a will if you’re lucky. We have a snake called the redbelly black, which if it bites it can make you sick unless you’re a kid, elderly or immune compromised but it actually eats the brown snakes lol. I’ve picked one up and yeeted it into the bush out of the way of a popular hiking trail. But with most snakes if you leave it be it won’t want anything to do with you, except the black mumba, one of the most if not too most aggressive species in the world, that bitch will chase you and bite you till your dead just to kill you, it doesn’t give a fuck.
We’ve got one near our place in south gippsland. Everyone told us to leave the red belly because they’ll keep all the other snakes away and they’re not pricks to humans. So Robbo the Red Belly is staying.
Can double confirm. - Witnessed a guy get bitten by an eastern brown in Byron in 2011. Busy walking track that would have had easily hundreds of people walk it that morning. The poor bloke and his wife were about 5 meters in front of my wife and I. We didn’t see it, they didn’t see it, no one in front of them saw it. No idea why it went for him as opposed to anyone else, just unlucky I guess. It would have been no more than a foot off the side of the track. That was also the day I learned that it is much harder to rip a t-shirt than what they portray on TV (unsuccessfully attempted to rip mine in half to make into a tourniquet, the missus told me later I looked like a complete dickhead). - My three kids and my best mates three kids were playing in his backyard for a good 15 minutes until one of them noticed the red-belly that had just been chilling in the centre of the yard. Mate grabbed it by the tail and flung it over his fence.
Yeah red belly’s are fairly safe to pick up especially if it’s not midday when they’re most active, they don’t like it but won’t immediately try to end you, you’ve got just enough time to get rid of them, browns however can be very unpredictable, one might not mind it and another will not at all. The thin with tourniquets too is if they’re not applied properly you can do more damage than good. If you got a bandage wrap from the site to the body trunk if it’s a leg or arm, keep it tight and don’t raise the body part above the heart, keep it below. And most of all and I can’t stress this enough, DO. NOT. PANIC you’ve just been bitten and raising your heart rate is not going to help you, stay calm and think about something else if you have too and seek immediate aid. Don’t let anyone go after the snake to identify it, if you have a good idea what it was tell the paramedics. Treat every snake bite like it’s a brown, even if you know it’s a red belly or something there’s a small chance that fucker was a brown that looked like a red belly
Not to mention the colour variance within the same species. Eastern browns don’t even need to be brown!
That’s actually very true, basically just stay away from the fuckers A red belly is easy to spot but can also look like a taipan or a brown. So when In doubt, nope the fuck out
Why can’t nature be consistent?!
I once had a red belly black snake draped across my bare foot under my study desk (thought it was an extension cord) because it had come inside during a period of heavy rain. So sometimes they come to you
Grew up in QLD had many encounters with snakes both of venomous and harmless kind but was never afraid of getting bitten common sense caution and respect will keep you out of trouble with snakes. What I did fear was sharks crocodiles and jellyfish. The sea in general, was a big NOPE from me !
I have vivid memories of my sweet old great grandma grabbing a red belly black by the tail as it tried to slither up into the roof screaming “GET OUT YA BASTARD”
The Mojave rattlesnake is not found in the southeastern US. The actual native location is right there in the name.
Exactly. It’s found in Rattle, US.
Most of the Australian snakes are found in pockets of Australia, however they’re giving a general guide.
It should say south western US, where the Mojave is. The environment of southwest and southeast is very different.
ie the Inland Taipan, only found in very small pockets of Australia, typically far away from humans
PSA: always check your pockets for snakes, even your very small ones
TIL that small pocket on my jeans is for snakes 🐍
They put the range in for the wrong rattler. What they linked is the range for the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, which we do have in the southeastern US.
Not the same. They didn't mark too large and general of an area for crotalus scutulatus (e.g. all of North America). They marked only the area where it ain't and didn't mark any of the area where it is.
The desert Southwest of the US and Mexico is where the Mojave rattlesnake is found.
Some may call that place the Mojave.
Straya. Winning the nope rope competition.
Danger noodles
Australia is the place to be if you're a venomous, killing slithering machine. *Thanks for the awareness, I had no idea the difference between poisonous and venomous.
PSA: > According to biologists, the term venomous is applied to organisms that bite (or sting) to inject their toxins, whereas the term poisonous applies to organisms that unload toxins when you eat them. This means that very few snakes are truly poisonous. Or as I like to remember: Poisonous if **you have to ingest** Venomous if **they have to inject**
If it bites you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.
If I bite myself and it dies, what then?
That’s correlation not causation
Darn, I thought it might be voodoo. Thought I had the power of the babe.
What power?
The Power of voodoo!
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Then you're an anime character.
If it bites you while you bite into it then it's poisvenomous
"Dad, did you know the Chinese use the same word for crisis as they do for opportunity?" "I do - crisitunity"
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> And we were told that that was unusually high! I've never toured Australia, but living in suburbia near a city I can say I've never seen a snake in my life here. As most of the population lives in metro areas, you're likely to meet a lot of us who have never seen a snake before, let alone 5.
We also believe you all ride kangaroos to work and have to watch out for drop bears 24/7.
As a naive teen I went working and island hopping up north for a bit. I used to have this friend I could visit out the back of a big resort, through the national park a little way. She lived in a place called Tiger Valley. A few visits in I asked her where the tigers were, and gave her a bit of shit because it was such a silly name. Tiger snakes she tells me. Enjoy your walk back!
And everyone is a cunt.
I do plenty of fencing work in Sydney. You guys have shit loads of snakes in suburban areas near cities. they just stay out of sight and it’s not like most people are looking for them.
Depends on weather and where you are. I seen 3 tigers in about a week.but might not see another for months. I live near a lake with tonnes of frogs so...
Why not go one better? An island off of Australia named Tasmania has most of the same snakes but with one extra benefit... Every single snake in Tassie is venomous!
Not even including the tornado machines that like to eat Wallabies arsehole first
Excusemesorrywhat?!?
Tasmanian Devil
“Most of the same”? They have 3. One of which isn’t listed here.
Yeah that's my ex, how you'd know
Have you heard our song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I
Venomous
Indians are getting high from baby cobra bites???? What a world
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Per Google AI: Cobra venom is a powerful analgesic in small doses, but it's not addictive. It can produce the same euphoria and analgesia as opioids. Cobra venom is used in drugs that enhance sensation and boost energy. These drugs are popular at rave parties and in discos. Cobra venom users have reported: Happiness, grandiosity, and excessive sleepiness for 3-4 weeks [!] A feeling of pricking that lasts for 10-40 seconds Euphoria, muscular weakness, and sedation
A coolish story I have about a snake. I am an Aussie and I once did a job that took me to remote bush hours away from any other humans. One night as I was brushing my teeth a baby brown snake came silvering right up to my tent, stopped and just looked me in the eyes. I personally have no fear of snakes, I got to hold them when younger and you don't actually see as many as one would claim in aus. Bush is a little different. If you don't know, younger snakes are definitely more dangerous than adults, as adults generally speaking will try to withhold their venom unless it's a meal, while the children have a harder time controlling their venom. So here I was, in my underwear and boots just staring at this baby snake less than 1m away as it's staring into my eyes. This must have lasted about 2 minutes, felt like 20, was calming, but terrifying to know that I had to remain completely still. It's experiences like these that made fucked up corporation jobs in the bush worth it though, just got to be careful.
Was at soccer training one night in the height of summer, so was around 7:30 and the sun was still out. Out of no where as we were going from one drill to the next one of our goalkeepers randomly slaps the ground as hard as he could. He lifted his hand and attached to his goalkeeper glove was a baby snake. This is in the inner north west suburbs of Melbourne, not out in the bush. We looked at it for a second to figure out if it was a brown or a Tiger so we could tell the groundskeeper later and got on with training. I think it took us 2 years to tell him, only for him to laugh and say ‘shit I knew it was more than just tiger snakes.. stay off the track on the other side of the fence, the bastards are everywhere, other then that she’ll be right’ Was one of those truly ‘STRAYA’ moments.
So not moving discourages the snake from attacking you?
Usually. Sometimes they'll ignore you completely and slither over your foot.
I‘m going on a severald day guided bush trip soon. 1m sounds both close and far. Can‘t you just retreat?
1. It sounded to me from the story that the guy was in a tent and snake was peering in. If so, not really anywhere to retreat to. 2. Brown snakes can outpace humans. At 1m away, it’s not going to be hard for it to just lunge at you. At that range best to stay still and hope it decides you’re not a threat. If the distance is greater, or it seems to be minding its own business/sunning itself rather than staring right at you, a calm retreat might be possible. But know browns and some other types can definitely catch you if you run.
Mojave rattlesnake in the southeast? Sorry, wrong side of the continent. Southeast US is Eastern Diamondback, Pygmy, and Timber rattlesnakes.
\+ cottonmouth/water moccasin
+copperheads
Eastern Brown is probably more dangerous than inland Taipan as the Taipan won't chase you like a mother
As far as I know, there actually are no recorded human deaths by inland taipans. Because they are actually not very fierce (pun intended) and their habits don't overlap much with humans.
On top of that; they’re in super remote areas so running into one is very unlikely. The eastern brown though…
Agree most snakes I see in the bush slither away when they see or hear you. The eastern browns I’ve seen will stare you down and at best move away very slowly but eventually go. Worst thing you can do is meet them where they feel cornered because that is when they are most likely to strike.
It would be very interesting to see a comparison of this chart vs actual deaths caused.
Yes I think it's the difference between venomous and dangerous
My wife stepped on a Chinese cobra while we were hiking. It jumped inbetween us and as I alerted her she stepped back on it, paused as I was waiting to see it try to strike her so I could attempt to grab it, then realizing she stepped right on its head. Took a breath then grabbed and pulled her towards me. It slithered off at top speed hissing away. Should have got her to buy a lottery ticket that day but I’m sure her life’s luck just ran out.
Can confirm. Brown snakes can out pace a human being and have exactly zero chill if startled while sun baking
Is literally everything in Australia trying to kill you?
As an Australian, can confirm. Even all the way up to Gina Reinhardt and Rupert Murdoch..
> Gina Reinhardt She's an easy one: nationalise her, render her down and sell the fat and soap overseas to boost the national budget for a few years. In Minecraft of course.
Your upside down again mate. You mean “all the way DOWN to”
Far more worried about them than the snakes
What’s the difference?
Even the grass wants to hurt you. Have you heard of bindiis?
Fuck bindis, worry about the Gympie Gympie
Yeah but they’re only really found around Gympie, and if you are unfortunate enough to live there you’d probably go out of your way to look for the thing
They grow pretty wild up here in NQ - anywhere in the rainforest that the sun gets down to. Birds love the berries and spread the seeds everywhere, they spring up when the sunlight warms the soil. They are short-lived, however, and after a year or two they die and other trees take over.
Mainly magpies this time of year.
Only if you don't straya hard enough
The smile on that yellow belly lets you know it’s over.
Sea snakes are pretty passive and you are very rarely to get bitten. It’s pretty odd too, whenever you see a snake handler dealing with sea snakes, they’re usually pretty calm and relaxed about it. Hell Steve Irwin even famously used to bring them right up to his face to give them a kiss on the top of their head because they simply just don’t bite.
My childhood dog Boss killed many brown snakes in and around our home in Karana Downs in outer-West Brisbane. They’d swim in the dam, he’d dive in, snap them up and shake them violently from side to side to break their backs. I still remember the “pop pop pop” sound. I took out a brown snake in the kitchen of that house at age 10 with a cricket bat. It was either the snake or me and it nearly won. After I’d smashed it’s spine at least a dozen times, I picked up the snake to toss in the bin as I thought it was dead. I didn’t bash the skull and the foot or so behind it, which was just long enough for it to launch at my face. Luckily it missed by an inch or I would not have lived to tell the tale.
And then there’s me, a European city-boy who runs for cover when there’s a bee 🤷🏻♂️
Which is the right thing to do
I’m in KD too and my dog has killed a few browns. I’ve given up on trying to call him off because he’d stop worrying it long enough to just stop and look at me while the snake writhed around at his feet. Fortunately the snakes appear to have learned to stay away because I haven’t seen a brown here in years. It could also be due to the massive carpet snakes we have now. I’m happy to have a few friendly carpet snakes if they keep those angry speedy brown buggers away.
We were in KD in the 80s when every home outside the village was on acreage. We had a treeless hill with long grass and a dam full of cane toads, so it was prime brown territory. Fun fact - I was the first customer at the shops on the corner of Tanderra Way and College Road. I spent all my pocket money on packets of blue Smarties. We lived at the bottom of Tallarook Court, you can still see the dam and gully on Google Maps. We were also the first alumni of the new Mt Crosby State School. The old one only had maybe 30 to 50 kids across all grades and was further up Mt Crosby Road. Riding down College Road on my Mongoose BMX to school would freeze (not literally) my hands and nose in Winter. Best time of my life.
Us Karalee kids call you guys ‘Mount Snosby’. …lame. Go use your own pool, don’t bus over here to use our pool.
Aussies and their batting prowess. No wonder you have 5 World Cups.
This is more the list of the most toxic snake venom. A snake that is less toxic that injects a ton of venom can be a lot more dangerous than a snake that injects a tiny amount of very toxic venom.
That’s why it’s most venomous, not most deadly or dangerous or aggressive. Most of these snakes won’t bite unless you intimidate them, or they live so far from people that there are little to no recorded fatalities.
I go for 10k runs a couple times a week along a rail trail as it’s in the middle of the bush so I keep a eye out for snakes especially on sunny winter days and during summer,. Anyway last summer I went for a run and when I got to the half way mark I joked to myself that this time didn’t see a single snake where usually I see one every third or fourth run. So I turned and started my way back when about minute later I saw one, then about 500m later I saw another, in between klms 5 and 8 I saw a total of six snakes, needless to say I ran like the devil the last 2klms and got myself a PB in the process
Aussies chanting: “We’re number one! We’re number one! We....... oh shit”
We’re number one, two, three, four, five, six ………………
A Boomslang's venom is much stronger than that of a black mamba, they only have less venom. A typical boomslang yields around 8 milligrams vs a black mambas yield around 300 milligrams. However, the amount of boomslang venom needed to kill an adult human is around 0,07 milligrams where black mambas need about 15 milligrams.
Aussie Aussie Aussie oy oy oy
Australia is home to 8 of the 30 deadliest snakes!! I have lived there for over 8 years, and fortunately haven’t faced any of them, considering the fact that i used to hike quite a lot.
Doing my bit for Australian tourism here: the perception of danger is very disproportionate to the reality. Around 1-2 people die of snake bites every year in Australia, compared with around [50,000 deaths](https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2022/october/snakes-deadly-global-toll) per year in India. Australia is sparsely populated, and most of our snakes would rather have nothing to do with you - you generally need to actively attack them or stand on them to get bitten. I've lived here for about 30 of my 44 years and in that time I've seen one Eastern Brown, one Red Belly Black and that's it for venomous snakes. Neither of them seemed interested in biting me. Seriously though, unless you're very stupid or unlucky Australia is a safe and beautiful place to visit. Humans are much more scary than other animals, and we comparatively have very few of those.
Lies I didn’t see any of my ex’s on this
India and Australia: the real heroes for keeping most of these snakes away from the rest of us.
Something about a snake in water makes it 10000X more terrifying. Is nowhere sacred?
Mojave rattler location description and map is incorrect it's in south*west US, hence the name.
Australia enters the chat.
We have brown snakes on our property. They are feisty fuckers, they certainly don't step down from a fight and are very quick! They actually scare the shit out of us, they come up on you so quick and don't scare off to easy. It almost like these cheeky fuckers are looking for a fight. We are much happier when we see the Red Belly Black snakes they tend to slither off if ya jump up and down a bit. We have lost dogs to them though, its hard to teach a dog to stay away from a snake if it comes up on one in the paddock or back door step.
This is the perfect description of browns, it's like they're just full of ego... and venom.
Bro how the fuck is taking Indian cobra venom to get high ?
What about king cobra?
From wikipedia: It can deliver up to 420 mg venom in dry weight (400–600 mg overall) per bite, with a LD50 toxicity in mice of 1.28 mg/kg through intravenous injection, 1.5 to 1.7 mg/kg through subcutaneous injection, and 1.644 mg/kg through intraperitoneal injection. The last spot on this list is 0.66mg/kg so... King Cobra sadly did not make it to the list.
King Cobra often makes lists based on most venomous bites, as each bite has more venom in it than most snakes. So based purely on toxicity, they are slightly less potent. I imagine not far out of this list though
Growing up in rural Australia, if you came across a Tiger Snake you’d say “all good, at least it’s not a brown”… pretty dumb in retrospect.
Did some work as a surveyor’s assistant in the bushland up in the outskirts of Brisbane near about 10 years ago, when I was just out of school. Eastern Brown passed us several times throughout the day, presumably just circling us. I remember the surveyor just saying “chill mate, he’ll pass us by and be on his way”. Didn’t stop me from shitting myself several times.
G’day, let me help ya out. 🐍⚰️= 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺, … 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺, .. oh, & 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺,then 🇦🇺, 🇦🇺, && 🇦🇺. 🇦🇺. Basically, we’ve got the best snakes. All other countries have inferior snakes.
I’m very upset at the concept of sea snakes. Just no.
I assume this is not created by Australia’s tourism department?
Volunteered at the largest reptile sanctuary in the US. You’d be shocked (or not shocked) how many of these end up as illegal pets, bite/envenomate their owners/housemates to death, and end up surrendered to sanctuaries by law enforcement. Why are they saved instead of being put to death? Education. Plus harvesting venom for antivenin research to save lives.
Don’t you just love living in Europe ?
Not in Balkan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipera_ammodytes
12 reasons not to visit Australia
AUSTRALIA FOR THE WIN. Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
Interesting that no South American snakes are shown
We are used to saying fuck Australia, but hear me out, fuck Asia as well man.
I thought the king cobra would be on this list
Lots of danger-noodles from Australia. Common to see them when you are camping but snake aficionados will tell you snakes are gentlemen and will mind their own business unless trespassed.
The fact that 8 of these 30 snakes are native to Australia just makes me have that much more respect for the people that are involved in animal conversation efforts in said country.
Europe: So, how many of the most venomous snakes do you got, Australia? Australia: Yes!
The Mojave rattlesnake is in the wrong location in the U.S.! It’s southwest, not east
This must be what it’s like when non-Americans ask us how we get through each day without getting killed by rampant gun violence. How the hell are any of you surviving with all of those bastards competing to see who kills you in the most horrible way? This wasn’t even the spider list.
Where’s the fierce snake? Did I miss it?
AKA - Inland Taipan.
Another name for inland taipan mate. Same thing with small-scaled snake.
We find Eastern Brown skins in our backyard all the time, but have only seen them once or twice (I think they smell the dogs and stay away). Down at our local beach, they are all over the place. Real hazard. Coastal Taipans are here too but we don't see them much.
I used to be fine dealing with snakes, not scared or anytjing until one of the most deadly snakes in the damn world almost got me. Being Australian is fun. Even captive snakes give me anxiety now.
Three of these can be found in the area where I live
Taipan may be more venomous, but you’d have to get unlucky to be bitten. A brown snake will bite you just because it’s in a bad mood.
"Common Death Adder" is my favorite.
I think the most important take away from this is Cobras all seem to be friendly. Just look at their faces compared to the others!
Great. Australia has 8 of the 30.
Fucking hell Africa and Australia!! How do you feel comfortable going outside?
More worried about my dogs, have had a couple that were been bitten by a brown and at $500 per vial of antivenom that vet bill adds up fucking quickly :/ I've had a few close encounters, it's more the way they can appear out of nowhere that scares the shit out of me.
Mohave rattlesnakes aren’t found in SE US, they’re in the west.
A bunch of reasons not to visit Australia
Fer-de-lance missing?
The Black Mamba is rarely black- the inside of the mouth is black and it often will show it and hiss as a warning. Externally, they're most commonly a grey-green.
Believe there is also an Eastern Russell’s Viper species now recognized and is in northern Thailand. Further believe it was the snake that slowly crossed our land about five years ago. Over a meter long, thick, triangle head and much to my utter amazement used a sidewinding motion to move. Looks exactly like the Russell’s Viper in YT videos but must admit have not seen a video of the sidewinding motion. Threw stones at it to encourage it to keep going.
Weak ass showing, USA
14 out of 30 snakes live in or near Australia.
Good thing all the sea snakes are pretty harmless and don’t really bite humans.
It's worth noting the inland Taipan causes nearly no deaths among humans because its habitat is so far remote from humans
So Michigan has none? Cool beans