Hi Stompsy, very much so. The Brown would have been pumping venom in order not to be eaten. You can see in places in the video a residue left on the Red Belly after the Brown lets go, that is venom.Very persistent Red Belly! Would the Brown have been able to actually inject any venom?
Red Belly Black Snakes and Pythons kill and eat Browns and other Venomous Snakes, in this case, the Brown would have lost out to the Red Belly Black. Farmers out west like the Red Belly Black and Pythons because they kill Browns and Coppers etc which kill Live Stock, they regard them as friends.
I tend to put a little weight behind what they say. I have noticed it myself living on the Northern Gold Coast. Browns snakes are becoming more prevalent with more and more being caught every week. There is a population living on the Spit at Main Beach.Personally, I feel it's a fallacy to believe the old farmers addage, "If you have RBB's, you wont get Browns". Generally, they tend to utilise different habitats, RBB's generally prefer a local water source, texty's are more of a dryland species.
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