![]() ![]() What It’s Really Like to Be Bitten by a Redback Spider 244.4k views | 487 comments | posted on May 4, 2010.The Huntsman Spider: Is His Bite Dangerous to Humans? 284k views | 205 comments | posted on November 5, 2010.10 Reasons Why NOT to Move to Australia 349.5k views | 1k comments | posted on July 1, 2011.498.4k views | 282 comments | posted on February 26, 2010 Possums and Opossums: Australia and America.6 Ways to Emigrate to Australia 700.9k views | 1.7k comments | posted on March 19, 2009.Here’s some absolutely stunning footage of Steve with THE most venomous snake in all of Australia, the Inland Taipan, also known as the Fierce Snake. For the record, the Coastal Taipan is the third most venomous snake in Australia and the Eastern Brown is second. That’s the zoo made famous by much missed Steve Irwin, who was also known as “The Crocodile Hunter”. This is an image of a Coastal Taipan, courtesy of AllenMcC and taken from the Wikipedia page about Coastal Taipans.īy the way, the top two photographs were taken by me, some time ago, during a visit to the Australia Zoo. Now you might be thinking “Oh, come on Bob, one’s got a smooth skin and the other one’s scaly!” And that is the problem with snake identification, even snakes of the same species can look very different from each other.Įastern Browns, for example, come in many shades of brown as well as shades of other colours like grey and charcoal. Eastern Browns, quite common around here, and the Coastal Taipan, presumed to be rare, look remarkably similar. I’m not surprised there have been many false sightings though. When local snake catcher Bryan Robinson caught a Coastal Taipan at a property there, it was the first ever recorded in the Brisbane Western Suburbs and the closest Coastal Taipan to inner Brisbane that’s been found to date. There are no shops in Pullenvale as far as I’m aware, the only commercial building appears to be the above photographed Pullenvale Hall. Pullenvale is very rural, it’s a suburb with very large and often expensive houses on huge plots. There have been many reported sightings of the Coastal Taipan in this area, but none have officially been recorded as being found here.Ībout 5 kilometres from where I live is a suburb called Pullenvale. I had a snake in my house recently, you may recall. Where I live, which is Western Suburbs of Brisbane, we have plenty of snakes. This very reclusive reptile is rarely spotted, even up north where it is believed to be much more common. The Coastal Taipan is one of Australia’s most dangerous snakes. Okay, let’s kick off 2012 with my favourite subject. To put things into perspective, the coastal taipan is considered to have the third most toxic venom of any of the world’s land snakes, but what contributes to its reputation as being more dangerous than its inland cousin is that it’s found in areas where more people are likely to come across it.Life in Australia – Moving to Australia – By BobinOz ≡ Menu ![]() Before the development of the antivenom, a taipan bite meant certain death. The coastal taipan, however, is considered far more deadly to humans having been responsible for the death of many people, including possibly 5 in Australia since the mid-1950s development of an effective taipan antivenom. Captive snakes are known to live for 10–15 yearsĪs the name suggests, the coastal taipan has highly toxic venom, although it’s not quite as potent as that of its famed cousin, the inland taipan, which has been famously labelled “the most venomous snake in the world”. ![]()
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