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15-Mar-08, 03:22 PM
|  | << ~Go turtle GO!~ Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Karalee, SE QLD Age/Gender: 15  | | |
Hey All When my mum and dad came home from shopping today, so I went down to help them unload the car... When I got down there, I saw they both weren't moving. So, I followed their gaze and I noticed this little guy: DSCF1050.JPG DSCF1055.JPG Why would he have been puffing up his neck like this?: DSCF1058.JPG He was a quick little bugger too. In the end, I just let him find his way to the garden where I took these pics: DSCF1068.JPG DSCF1062.JPG I told my parents it was a GTS and it wont hurt them... was I right?  Hope you like the pics and hope to hear your comments cheers Trouble
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15-Mar-08, 03:27 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, QLD Age/Gender: 18 | | | ooh nice wish i found these guys around the place!
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15-Mar-08, 03:27 PM
|  | Subscriber | | | | Yes your right and it was good to let him kick on. He was puffing his neck out saying " look out im big and tuff , dont mess with me " all bluff , nice snakes. Matt |
15-Mar-08, 03:29 PM
| | << ~Go turtle GO!~ Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Karalee, SE QLD Age/Gender: 15 | | | Thanks Matt
Yeah it looked like he was trying to look tough... he knows how to whip around too
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15-Mar-08, 03:39 PM
|  | LEHOOO ZE HURRRR ^_^ Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: herpin on the gold coast ;D Gender: | | | yep u were right, and a nice looking one too! well done 
Nat
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15-Mar-08, 03:47 PM
|  | Q Dog Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Redlands, SE Qld Gender:  | | | | Hey, great pics Trouble, well done
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15-Mar-08, 04:08 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Sunshine Coast Age/Gender: 18 | | | Its a green tree snake
harmless to humans
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15-Mar-08, 04:12 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-07 Location: Toowoomba Gender: | | | | I have seen two out and about in the last three weekends, one really firey and one that let me hold him for a bit , sorry no good pics noone was game to get my phone out of my pocket till i let it go lol! then he was too quick to get decent pic of. |
15-Mar-08, 04:52 PM
|  | Herping Freak! Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: mid north coast of NSW Age/Gender: 15 | | | | wow cool snake, love gts |
15-Mar-08, 07:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Gold Coast Age/Gender: 15 | | | | i heard that gts are non venomous but i also heard that they are rear fanged why would they have fangs if they had no venom?...can anyone help me out?
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15-Mar-08, 08:01 PM
|  | herp addict Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: werribee Age/Gender: 19 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by snakes01  i heard that gts are non venomous but i also heard that they are rear fanged why would they have fangs if they had no venom?...can anyone help me out?
Harley | they are venomous but its only mild and they will very rarely get their fangs into you anyway due to their position. |
15-Mar-08, 08:11 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by alex_c they are venomous but its only mild and they will very rarely get their fangs into you anyway due to their position. | I think you might be confused with a brown tree snake.
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15-Mar-08, 08:17 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | i wish i could see another wild snake again.. they are so cool!
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15-Mar-08, 08:18 PM
| | LEHOOO ZE HURRRR ^_^ Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: herpin on the gold coast ;D Gender: | | | gts are not venomous, think your confusing it with Boiga irregularis, which is rear fanged (proteroglyphous) however green tree snakes just have teeth (aglyphous) (well thats what ive been told anyways, feel free to correct me if you know better )
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15-Mar-08, 11:19 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Gold Coast Age/Gender: 15 | | | i searched gts and i found that they puff their neck up to look as big as they can when intimidated they can also release a bad odoured gas to try and make the enemy go away
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