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18-Jan-07, 09:30 PM
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Does anyone know how far a snake would / will travel for food?
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18-Jan-07, 09:31 PM
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oh and by the way..
my mother owns a farm half way between brissy and tawomba...
she gets browns,blacks and tigers...i have caugh all three on the same day within 500metres of each other..the same night i caught a carpet and a brown tree....
if theres food theres snakes
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18-Jan-07, 09:31 PM
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toongabbie reserve aye? interesting! never seen wild elapids that close to my area.
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18-Jan-07, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by dragons75  Does anyone know how far a snake would / will travel for food? | as far as it has too
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18-Jan-07, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by dragons75 Does anyone know how far a snake would / will travel for food? | depends on the species
a death adder..............about 10 metres a year hahaha 
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18-Jan-07, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by dragons75 Does anyone know how far a snake would / will travel for food? |
what about the darwin carpets that end up in melbourne in mango boxes
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18-Jan-07, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by najanaja what about the darwin carpets that end up in melbourne in mango boxes | haha
we (well i was at a mates house) got a GTF in a box of bananas once hahaha
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18-Jan-07, 09:45 PM
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Growing up around Toongabbie creek I have seen seen a few RBBS's over the years but never a brown snake.
A friend worked at the childrens hospital at Westmead and told me of a juvenile RBBS that turned up in the foyer, sunning itself on the carpet. A rescuer was called and found other babies around the area also, turns out a gravid female moved into the atrium and gave birth inside the building.
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18-Jan-07, 09:47 PM
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well in my grage there is alot of mice and i live near a bush land park thing would there b any snakes near my house or in my garage
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18-Jan-07, 09:50 PM
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hmm, where do you live, i guess it depends.
i live in eastern melb and my cat regularly has mice that hes playing with (strange cat i know) but i hav never seen a snake anywhere near hear yet i hear of em in nearby suburbs
go figure
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18-Jan-07, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Reptile_Boy well in my grage there is alot of mice and i live near a bush land park thing would there b any snakes near my house or in my garage |
you never know..
depending if your living in NZ..
but chances are
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18-Jan-07, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by TOMatoPASTE haha
we (well i was at a mates house) got a GTF in a box of bananas once hahaha |
a dainty green tree frog turned up in sydney today with some bananas..
even made the news up here
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18-Jan-07, 10:19 PM
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When I do my shows I always tell people just how valuable RBB's are to the enviroment due to the fact they are living carbage bins, eating any animal they can fit into their mouths. Of course, frogs are their favourite food, but as with all Blacksnakes, they are highly canobolistic.
One of the snakes most often eaten by RBB's are the Eatern Browns. They are without a doubt the Browns most major natual predator. Over the years so many millions of RBB's have been killed by people believing they are Australias most dangerous species(actually the opposite is true of the large elapids) and this has allowed the Browns to breed up in plague numbers.
Unfortunately, as the general public always seem to do, where they are being told RBB's keep Brownsnakes numbers lower, it is now twisted that if there are RBB's , then there are no Browns around. How do they eat them if there is none around.
I am now being told another great one. If there are Bluetongues around, there are no snakes. Where do they come up with all this crap from.
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18-Jan-07, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by bigguy I am now being told another great one. If there are Bluetongues around, there are no snakes. Where do they come up with all this crap from. | I do enjoy the misbeliefs/theories and "I've heards" about our poor venomous friends. We in the reptile world are lucky enough to be able to set the records straight when ever possible. And at the same time appear to have some intelligence (even if it maynot be the case at times).
All the best
Last edited by Rumpleseed; 18-Jan-07 at 10:48 PM.
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18-Jan-07, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ex1dic toongabbie reserve aye? interesting! never seen wild elapids that close to my area. | Trust me my friend, down in the creek bed that runs through Toongabbie lives a miriad of interesting crittas. I have pulled many a RBB out of that area.. The place is lousy with them.
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