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Originally Posted by Frontier1

Curious, I've only ever seen brown and black snakes raise themselves up like this one does to strike. :-)

Perhaps it's more of a show rather than actual agression. Are these poisionous at all?

Alot of the small elapids show this behaviour. You'll get the small eyed snakes doing it as well if they get cornerd. I actually found two small eyeds while doing a "snake hunt" for my little cousin on Mothers day and one of them did the display quite nicely. I got a Woeful photo of the display on my Mobile phone camera which i will post up tomorrow.