Poor tree snake.....

[deebo]

Was driving out to my mates place today and saw this fella get clipped by the car in front of me, they did swerve to miss but still got him. I pulled over to get him off the road but was not in a good way at all and died shortly afterwards.

I measured him at 143cm which I thought was quite large for one of these, or at least longer than any i had seen before.....is this bigger than normal/average for a GTS?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[grannieannie]

Poor little thing, at least you did the right thing and stopped to see if you could help...good for you.

 

[deebo]

yeah, was gonna drop him to a vet I know that does native wildlife on my way home, if nothing else get him off the road so it doesnt attract more animals onto the road.....

 

[abnrmal91]

That's no good mate. I have only ever seen 1 GTS and that way dead as well. Don't know what killed the one I found as it had great condition so looked nice and healthy, it didn't have any marks/bleeding/skin torn/nothing visual to give a reason. It was a fair size probably 1.2m or so.

 

[Revell13]

That's no good mate. I have only ever seen 1 GTS and that way dead as well. Don't know what killed the one I found as it had great condition so looked nice and healthy, it didn't have any marks/bleeding/skin torn/nothing visual to give a reason. It was a fair size probably 1.2m or so.

Sounds like rat bait, or maybe fox bait, 1080 does horrendous things to the wildlife in this country

 

[Wrightpython]

Gts don't normally eat rat bait or 1080

 

[Revell13]

But they might eat a rat who's eaten rat bait, ok fine I'm out of my knowledge base, I keep dragons not snakes, but the whole "no physical markings" thing just sounded like poison to me.

 

[Jande]

Good job trying to help it. Was such a nice looking snake too. Such a shame.

 

[Wrightpython]

Gts eat frogs and skinks mainly in the wild but I get where your coming from with the poison and no sign causing death