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18-Jun-04, 08:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | |
This poor chap is ( was? ) proberly a Gwardar or the Western Brown Snake Pseudonaja nuchalis, I'm sure I'll get heaps of differeing opinions ( but it isn't a deaf adder afro ).
He had been hit by a car and was in the centre of the road. I put my boots on ( I NEVER assume road kill is dead ) and grabbed the hook and went and had a look. The snake moved feebly as I approached. She had no noticable damage marks, I gently moved her off the road using the hook to lift her but she was very weak and didn't put up a struggle.
She had full movement for the first third of her body but lacked co-ordination further down but seemed to get better as I watched.
I left her at the side of the road near cover. I did debate if I should put her down but thought she was recovering. Transporting the animal was not an option. |
18-Jun-04, 08:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | hey fuscus nice pic mate and was just wandering are you doing a road trip mate?
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18-Jun-04, 08:22 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | Another view |
18-Jun-04, 08:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: sydney | | | | looks like a mulga to me! |
18-Jun-04, 08:38 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Perth W.A | | | | doesnt look like a gwarder fuscy,
looks more like a mulga P. australis - (southern form)
where abouts was it ? |
18-Jun-04, 08:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | Near Ularu.
You could be right Westie, while the animal looks like the photo of Pseudonaja nuchalis in Wilson & Swan but Ehmann states that the Mulga has a red-brown eye, like that animal.
Both species are found in that area ( and both species are found near Adelaide ) |
18-Jun-04, 09:01 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | | i take it the snake died? |
18-Jun-04, 09:37 PM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: May-04 Location: Pilbara Region W.A. | | | | Nice photo and like WestAussie said, definitely a mulga Fuscus. Two temporal scales between labial and parietal (Pseudechis) single temporal (Pseudonaja).
Cheers Dave |
18-Jun-04, 10:06 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: sydeney | | | | what camera were you using ? |
18-Jun-04, 10:18 PM
| | | | hey soulweaver he said that he left it and went away. and he also said it was recovering. y do u assume it died? |
18-Jun-04, 10:27 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | Thanks guys, I stand corrected - its a mulga.
Soulweaver, the animal was alive when I lsft. |
19-Jun-04, 12:32 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender:  | | | | nice pics Fuscus. |
19-Jun-04, 09:03 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by basketcase what camera were you using ? | http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/PDF/d100.htm |
19-Jun-04, 09:53 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 29 | | | | Very nice looking mulga, Ive only ever seen red ones, which most people seem to prefer in captives, but i love the darker ones it makes the lighter leading edge of each scale stand out more, giving that great reticulated pattern.
craig | |
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