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16-Mar-08, 11:19 AM
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I am not a snake keeper, but have a query and am hoping someone out there with a good knowledge of snakes will be able to enlighten me to a few facts?!?!? I live on a cattle station in far north west NSW ('Back o Bourke") and have noticed a snake track frequently coming and going from under our old shearing shed and heading towards our house yard. King Browns, Mulga snakes and Fierce snakes are resident to our area. Are they habitual by nature? This snake seems to come out from under the shed in almost the same spot and take a very similar route (about 200m) toward our house yard every time. My neighbour thinks that king browns get about aimlessly in search of food etc. but that pythons/carpet snakes are more habitual in the movements. I am really interested to learn more...... Oh, and how do you tell which way a snake track is heading?
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16-Mar-08, 12:15 PM
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bump because this could be very interesting!
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16-Mar-08, 10:21 PM
| | | | Carpet snake???
I have spoken with a couple more people (Not experts) and general consensus is that such habitual movement means most likely a carpet snake ???
Can anyone tell me how you tell which way a snake track is moving ???
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17-Mar-08, 09:35 AM
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You need a tracker!.. that would be fun!
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17-Mar-08, 09:49 AM
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G'day muella,
I've spent a bit of time out your way. There's no records of Fierce Snakes from NSW that I'm aware of, and "King Browns" are actually Mulga Snakes.
The most common species of large snake out there would be Western Browns and Mulga Snakes. If they come across an environment that provides them with food, shelter and water, then they will stick around. There's a multitude of possibilities as to what it could be (Austrlia has a couple of hundred species of snake), but without photo's or an accurate description it's all going to be guess work.
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17-Mar-08, 10:00 AM
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iirc. As a snake moves forward through dirt. Etc. You will get an S pattern. On the outer parts of the bends there will be a higher mound of dirt on the trailing edge. That's how to tell direction.
Hard to explain.
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17-Mar-08, 10:03 AM
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When you sat snake track, do you mean you watch the snake traverse the same path reugularly or is there just a small path formed. If the latter i would hazard a guess that any snakes using it are following the real constucters of the road, small mammals of the rodent family, and not doing so habitiually. Then again if there is little other shelter around and there is an abundant food source why not.
Dont suppose there ae footprints on either side like those of a monitor lizard?
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17-Mar-08, 10:09 AM
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Well if you consider the means by which snakes move you can work it out. In the conventional "Serpentine" method of locomotion they throw their coils out in opposing directions and the resulting force cancels out to give a net forward movement. That is, the left and right sides of the "s-shape" that twenty B mentioned push on each other and the snake is propelled forwards.
One of the first google results gave me this, which isn't bad: http://science.howstuffworks.com/snake3.htm
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