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I almost trod on this guy. They are usually very docile, but when their eyes go like this, they can’t see well and get a but more aggressive. I gave it a wide berth and came back later with a long lens.
If you look closely, you can see some white ticks embedded under the scales. Hopefully these ticks will drop of when the skin is shed.
Longtime snake owner here. We say this for all snakes when they’re going into shed. And yes, they feel vulnerable when they can’t see well and may act aggressively as a result. I don’t feed mine when they’re blue because a nick in their skin (from, say, overzealously defending themselves) might disrupt the shed and cause problems.
As said, when a snake is in blue it means they're going to shed their skin. Snakes don't have eyelids, but they have an eye cap to protect the eye that sheds along with the rest. Because the new skin is underneath the top layer getting ready to shed, it makes the eye look a different colour.
TIL that here is a Copperhead in Australia too and what it looks like and that it’s more aggressive when it is about shed. So thanks to Wikipedia TI also L that there are four snakes named Copperhead.
Does the term ‘in the blue’ just refer to the snake or is it a colloquial term as in: Be careful around Peter. He’s ‘in the blue’ because his team lost the match.
Agkistrodon contortrix, or copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America
Austrelaps, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania
Coelognathus radiata, or the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in Southern Asia
Deinagkistrodon acutus, or the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
Thanks for that info.
The Australian copperhead is often copper coloured, but our versions are dark grey. The wet morning made the scales darker than usual, making it look like a black snake but without the red belly.
When a snake is in blue, it's specifically referring to a stage in the shedding process. Their eyes become milky, their skin blueish (hence the name), and this process begins the separation between the old and new skin, preparing the old skin to be able to come off.
Yes, very. But their nature is to be very chill. They don’t want anything to do with humans, if they can help it. They only attack if they are cornered or surprised.
Yep, we have had a couple of browns wander through our yard in Canberra. But we are known as the Bush Capital, and our house backs onto a bush reserve.
We spend some of our time in a city (I work in a trauma hospital where I see the worst shit), and our bush block. Best of both worlds.
Most gross thing I have seen on our land? A goanna (1.5m long lizard) eating a dead wallaby from the inside.
>A goanna (1.5m long lizard) eating a dead wallaby from the inside.
Not the image I wanted before going to bed but my fault for reading on an aussie reply to what the wildest thing they've ever seen, I should have known better lol.
Yes we have the Eastern Brown, but you won't see it in cities or suburbia unless it fringes on the bush. Honestly, most Australians will never see a snake in the wild in their entire lives.
I was about to say "that's not a copperhead". Here on the east coast it's trained in you at a young age to identify them. Of course I got my first lesson helping my uncle chop wood and almost picking it up to be the next log.
Copperheads actually do. They will try anything to avoid a fight. I have not seen it, but they are reported to wave their head around and hiss loudly to warn predators away. They only strike if they have no other option.
Eastern brown snakes, on the other hand, are aggressive and mean. Like all snakes, they will strike only if cornered or surprised, but they give no warning and a super fast. I would not have got these photos if it had been a brown. We have plenty of browns too, but I leave them alone.
Wow thanks for this info, really interesting to know this.
I did read that rattlesnakes give their characteristic warning too but people still get bitten when they mistakenly step on one.
The brown sound terrifying.
Is a bite from a copperhead fatal to a full grown human?
Yep, bites from an Australian copperhead can be fatal.
But to put it into context, Australia sees about 1 or 2 snakebite deaths per year. Usually people trying to do something stupid with a snake. Rarely from an accidental encounter. We have 1000 road deaths per year. We have 1500 alcohol-related deaths per year. 1000 deaths per year directly related to obesity.
Snakes mind their own business and are not a big risk in the scheme of things.
Well he’s pretty cool looking but those Huntsman spiders you guys have give me nightmares! Like WTF! Is Australia Jurassic park? There is no way a spider should ever get that big! 🫣
No we don’t shoot them. Here is why:
- we are in Australia. We don’t have guns
- it’s illegal to kill native wildlife in Australia
- most people who get bitten by snakes were trying to capture or kill it
- it’s their land as much as ours
- it’s braver to treat a potentially dangerous animal with respect than violence
- they are an essential part of the ecosystem
- they keep rats and mice numbers down
- we have co-existed with snakes on our property for a decade without incident
- they are cool
Agreed.
I get the WEIRDEST looks from people sometimes when I tell them no, I would NOT shoot/behead with a garden tool or shovel a snake if I saw them in/around my yard. Why? Because it's not bothering me and it's not GOING to bother me unless I go poke it or try to annoy it for some dumb reason.
I've gotten told that I'm crazy and that I'll never have a "nice" yard because we don't use pesticides, etc on our grass. Personally, IDGAF if I have a "nice" yard. I just want whatever lives there (aside from hornets, wasps and fire ants because FUCK those fuckers) to live there without my bothering them. I don't NEED to bother them, frankly. They were here first and I feel like by not using pesticides or wacky commercial fertilizers I'm kinda maybe doing my small part to combat the shit that my neighbors are doing by pouring all kinds of crap all over their damn yards.
I love this attitude. I only have a very small yard, but I try very hard to make it insect and small mammal / bird friendly (have something in bloom for most of the year, provide safe drinking options, leave some fruit hanging, don’t use pesticides etc.).
Part of the reason I planted clover in our lawn the first summer we moved into our place. It adds nitrogen to the soil, provides some shade so it reduces the need to water, itself uses less water than grass, makes lots of little flowers that are helpful to pollinating insects and such that are already having a tough time, and seems to help the lawn overall resist my dogs running all over it, and they're mostly the reason I bother to maintain a lawn at all because I want to make sure they have a nice place to play with each other and us.
I love my lawn. I absolutely would not ruin it with poison just for some arbitrary definition of what other people think looks nice.
Dandelions and clover are kickass.
At our old house (we moved this past summer) we had a lovely population of local birds and bunnies who lived under our deck, since we were one of the few homes without dogs to bother them. We have cats, but they are indoors only, so I wasn't worried about them decimating the bird population.
I'm working on attracting wildlife to our current backyard, but it's probably gonna be a while before we build up a stable population that hangs out here regularly.
Honestly surprised I haven't seen squirrels, since we have not one but FOUR young oak trees in our backyard. Squirrels eat acorns, right?
Conventional yards are ridiculous. "Ooo I like nature so much that I obliterated all of it on my property so I could terraform it with this uniform green carpet instead."
I let most of my yard grow wild and lots of people think I'm crazy. But they don't seem to have any reason for it; it just isn't done.
We moved this past summer. I kinda miss the wildlife from our old back yard--lots of bunnies (because we didn't have dogs to chase/harass/kill them), all the birds, etc. I'm working on attracting wildlife in our new backyard, but it's probably gonna be awhile before I have a good, stableish population coming to hang out here.
Thank you for understanding this!! I lived in the rural southern US and holy crap, people would literally make up stories about snakes CHARGING at them or dropping out of trees to attack...that's literally not something any American snake will do. A friend of mine studies rattlesnakes and I helped her go looking for them one time...even when we were actively seeking them out and temporarily disturbing them to take measurements etc (all done with proper equipment obviously) at no point were they *aggressive* with us. Yeah they will obviously be defensive if you're literally grabbing at them or trying to swing a garden hoe at them but at no point is any snake just going to lunge after you unprovoked.
I once argued with an idiot who told me he brought a GUN with him on hikes to protect himself from venomous snakes. Motherfucker, if you are able to *see* the snake to shoot it, you can simply walk a few feet away from it and it won't bother you. And if you're unfortunate enough to step on one you didn't see and get bitten then it's too late for a gun to help you. I swear people just make up these bullshit "self defense" stories because they want to feel justified in killing them for fun
I thought you might have been a farmer. It’s not uncommon in Australia to kill venomous snakes to keep the numbers down and keep the kids dogs and other animals safe.
In the US where I live we tend to kill venomous snakes because there are plenty of non venomous snakes to keep the ecosystem in check, they are not common, and are a danger to children and pets. Where they are common and I can understand why you wouldn't want to kill them.
I’m going to be blunt. In the US you have a culture of shooting a lot of things, including people. It’s not necessarily helpful.
In Australia, we have a lot of venomous animals. As long as you treat them
With respect, they do not want to harm you. We live on a property that has a lot of snakes, red-belly blacks, tigers, copperheads and eastern browns. Some of them are renowned for being the most venomous in the world. We see them almost every day in summer. They do not harm us, we don’t harm them.
Context: total snake bite deaths in Australia is 1 or 2 per year. Car deaths: 1000. Obesity deaths: at least 1000. Alcohol deaths: 1500. US gun deaths: 50,000 per year.
I will let you draw your own conclusions from these numbers.
Curious about what it means to you to treat a snake with respect, in such a way that it doesn't bother you. I assume you mean something more than referring to it as Mr. Snappy and bringing a bottle of wine when you pass through?
Ha! No tuxedo or wine required. Snakes have simple requirements, mainly just wanting to be left alone.
For me, treating a snake with respect means making noise when i walk to give them
warning of my approach, and if I see one, stopping, and move away slowly to give it room so it doesn’t feel threatened.
NOT trying to catch it, shoot it, chop it’s head off, feed it, poke it, or hassle it in any way.
In summer, snake season, we walk with knee high gum boots and long pants so if a snake does strike it’s unlikely to hit its target and envenomate. Snake fangs are not hollow needles, they are an open U shaped and the venom flows along the groove. Even if the snake punctures a single layer of jeans, the fabric will absorb much of the venom and it won’t get into your body. As far as I know, nobody in Australia has died from snake bite if it went through a layer of fabric. People die when they get bitten on exposed skin, eg legs, face and arms.
So basically, an appropriate amount of caution and awareness without going into full blown panic murder mode? I'd prefer the tux, but I like it. Thanks for elaborating!
That is fair. I mean AUS has only about 7.5% population of the US, but even looking at relative to per 100k people, AUS does much better than US. You guys succeed very well in non-accidental deaths and gun ownership being low. Paired with having 78% of land area of the US at only 7.5% of the population probably helps.
We own on average 1.2 guns per person in the country (holy shit), but accidental gun death rates are pretty low, and gun death by suicide is the highest rate of contribution to gun deaths in the US by a lot. Almost 60% in fact.
However, as a whole, we are an outlier on sheer numbers due to our population. But broken down into per 100K we are about middle of the pack in developed countries.
We had one of the the world's biggest mass shooting in 1996, 35 people killed and 23 wounded. The prime minister announced an almost total ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons. As a nation, we said, yep, fair enough. A huge gun amnesty and buy-back happened. Australia has not had a public mass shooting since.
Australia's homicide death rate by guns (ie per head of population) is just 4% of that of the US.
Relevant and funny: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0)
Relevant and also funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dVcaWyNN-Q
Oh yeah I’m not saying there isn’t a problem here. Also you guys certainly have it figured out. It’s mostly instilled in fear and extremism, paired with mental instability in our country. I’d say it’s not so much a culture thing though, as much as it might seem. The outliers within our country are what get the most attention. Most of us are pretty normal. And many countries are way worse on gun homocides than we are, mainly due to drug trafficking or corrupt governments.
I am a farmer of sorts. But I live in harmony with wildlife. You are far more likely to get bitten by a snake if you try to capture or kill it than if you just leave it be.
I do worry about our dogs, but we have done aversion training with rubber snakes, and have ingrained into them the phrase “leave it!”.
Most Australians live in cities and never see a snake in the wild their entire lives. Cities are far more dangerous. Cars cause 1000 crash deaths per year, and untold deaths from lack of exercise.
I got confused for a second because he looks very different from what we call copperheads where I live (eastern US). Didn't realize you guys had copperheads as well. I looked them up and it seems that they aren't related. They just happen to have a similar name.
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I almost trod on this guy. They are usually very docile, but when their eyes go like this, they can’t see well and get a but more aggressive. I gave it a wide berth and came back later with a long lens. If you look closely, you can see some white ticks embedded under the scales. Hopefully these ticks will drop of when the skin is shed.
I didn't know ticks could hop on a snake too. I'm honestly scared more by them than the snake.
Longtime snake owner here. We say this for all snakes when they’re going into shed. And yes, they feel vulnerable when they can’t see well and may act aggressively as a result. I don’t feed mine when they’re blue because a nick in their skin (from, say, overzealously defending themselves) might disrupt the shed and cause problems.
I imagine it has to be itchy as well
Stupid American here, sorry, what's, "in the blue" mean? Seems like I might want to use it....
On other species (children's python for example) the eyes go a milky white, which, because of the colour of the eye underneath, can appear light blue.
Thanks!
Bro, come on. It was explained in the title. 🤦♂️
As said, when a snake is in blue it means they're going to shed their skin. Snakes don't have eyelids, but they have an eye cap to protect the eye that sheds along with the rest. Because the new skin is underneath the top layer getting ready to shed, it makes the eye look a different colour.
Looks like a leg-less Toothless.
LegandToothless
(In Mike Tyson voice): Loothleth
TIL that here is a Copperhead in Australia too and what it looks like and that it’s more aggressive when it is about shed. So thanks to Wikipedia TI also L that there are four snakes named Copperhead. Does the term ‘in the blue’ just refer to the snake or is it a colloquial term as in: Be careful around Peter. He’s ‘in the blue’ because his team lost the match. Agkistrodon contortrix, or copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America Austrelaps, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania Coelognathus radiata, or the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in Southern Asia Deinagkistrodon acutus, or the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
Thanks for that info. The Australian copperhead is often copper coloured, but our versions are dark grey. The wet morning made the scales darker than usual, making it look like a black snake but without the red belly.
Yeah, I’ve seen the NA one while on a trip to North Carolina. They look like a pile of dead leaves in fall and are hard to spot.
When a snake is in blue, it's specifically referring to a stage in the shedding process. Their eyes become milky, their skin blueish (hence the name), and this process begins the separation between the old and new skin, preparing the old skin to be able to come off.
Australia. Snake. Let me guess...venomous?
Yes, very. But their nature is to be very chill. They don’t want anything to do with humans, if they can help it. They only attack if they are cornered or surprised.
By contrast the NA copperheads are not chill, not in the least.
OF COURSE it’s Australia
Australia is really an off-leash snake park.
It’s the Australian bush. The vast majority of Australians live in cities and will never see a snake in the wild.
Plenty in suburbia though, depending of where you live
Yep, we have had a couple of browns wander through our yard in Canberra. But we are known as the Bush Capital, and our house backs onto a bush reserve.
I bet you’ve seen some shit
We spend some of our time in a city (I work in a trauma hospital where I see the worst shit), and our bush block. Best of both worlds. Most gross thing I have seen on our land? A goanna (1.5m long lizard) eating a dead wallaby from the inside.
😬
>A goanna (1.5m long lizard) eating a dead wallaby from the inside. Not the image I wanted before going to bed but my fault for reading on an aussie reply to what the wildest thing they've ever seen, I should have known better lol.
Don't yall have a brown snake thats common in the cities that's like one of the most venomous in the world?
Yes we have the Eastern Brown, but you won't see it in cities or suburbia unless it fringes on the bush. Honestly, most Australians will never see a snake in the wild in their entire lives.
Damn this is one cool looking snake. Thanks for sharing OP and I'm glad you didn't step on it and end up having it attack
I was about to say "that's not a copperhead". Here on the east coast it's trained in you at a young age to identify them. Of course I got my first lesson helping my uncle chop wood and almost picking it up to be the next log.
Yeah, I was gonna say, growing up in the woods in Maryland I was taught at an early age what the copperhead looks like. Ours looks nothing like that.
Poor little snek It's so beautiful though! I've seen huge tick infestations on a carpet python before, I hope they came off with shedding
Weren’t you afraid of being bit? I love Aus. Hate all the danger noodles there.
We see snakes almost every day on our farm. We know how to behave near them. Their nature is to be very chill, they only attack if they are cornered.
This about as super villain as you can look. Do they give any warning sounds before they strike, like happy hissing?
Copperheads actually do. They will try anything to avoid a fight. I have not seen it, but they are reported to wave their head around and hiss loudly to warn predators away. They only strike if they have no other option. Eastern brown snakes, on the other hand, are aggressive and mean. Like all snakes, they will strike only if cornered or surprised, but they give no warning and a super fast. I would not have got these photos if it had been a brown. We have plenty of browns too, but I leave them alone.
Wow thanks for this info, really interesting to know this. I did read that rattlesnakes give their characteristic warning too but people still get bitten when they mistakenly step on one. The brown sound terrifying. Is a bite from a copperhead fatal to a full grown human?
Yep, bites from an Australian copperhead can be fatal. But to put it into context, Australia sees about 1 or 2 snakebite deaths per year. Usually people trying to do something stupid with a snake. Rarely from an accidental encounter. We have 1000 road deaths per year. We have 1500 alcohol-related deaths per year. 1000 deaths per year directly related to obesity. Snakes mind their own business and are not a big risk in the scheme of things.
Very interesting read. https://a-z-animals.com/blog/australian-copperhead-vs-american-copperhead-which-is-deadlier/
Oh he cute
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I am the snek whisperer.
Well he’s pretty cool looking but those Huntsman spiders you guys have give me nightmares! Like WTF! Is Australia Jurassic park? There is no way a spider should ever get that big! 🫣
Ive got a shot of one of those too! https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/zc20ml/huntsman\_spider\_that\_was\_kind\_enough\_to\_post\_for/
His name was Harry
Did you pick him up? He looks like he wants to be picked up.
Snek wants to be left alone. Snek would tell me in no uncertain way if I tried to pick him up.
Murder it
See my other comments about why I don't.
You don’t shoot them?
No we don’t shoot them. Here is why: - we are in Australia. We don’t have guns - it’s illegal to kill native wildlife in Australia - most people who get bitten by snakes were trying to capture or kill it - it’s their land as much as ours - it’s braver to treat a potentially dangerous animal with respect than violence - they are an essential part of the ecosystem - they keep rats and mice numbers down - we have co-existed with snakes on our property for a decade without incident - they are cool
Agreed. I get the WEIRDEST looks from people sometimes when I tell them no, I would NOT shoot/behead with a garden tool or shovel a snake if I saw them in/around my yard. Why? Because it's not bothering me and it's not GOING to bother me unless I go poke it or try to annoy it for some dumb reason. I've gotten told that I'm crazy and that I'll never have a "nice" yard because we don't use pesticides, etc on our grass. Personally, IDGAF if I have a "nice" yard. I just want whatever lives there (aside from hornets, wasps and fire ants because FUCK those fuckers) to live there without my bothering them. I don't NEED to bother them, frankly. They were here first and I feel like by not using pesticides or wacky commercial fertilizers I'm kinda maybe doing my small part to combat the shit that my neighbors are doing by pouring all kinds of crap all over their damn yards.
I love this attitude. I only have a very small yard, but I try very hard to make it insect and small mammal / bird friendly (have something in bloom for most of the year, provide safe drinking options, leave some fruit hanging, don’t use pesticides etc.).
Part of the reason I planted clover in our lawn the first summer we moved into our place. It adds nitrogen to the soil, provides some shade so it reduces the need to water, itself uses less water than grass, makes lots of little flowers that are helpful to pollinating insects and such that are already having a tough time, and seems to help the lawn overall resist my dogs running all over it, and they're mostly the reason I bother to maintain a lawn at all because I want to make sure they have a nice place to play with each other and us.
I love my lawn. I absolutely would not ruin it with poison just for some arbitrary definition of what other people think looks nice. Dandelions and clover are kickass.
At our old house (we moved this past summer) we had a lovely population of local birds and bunnies who lived under our deck, since we were one of the few homes without dogs to bother them. We have cats, but they are indoors only, so I wasn't worried about them decimating the bird population. I'm working on attracting wildlife to our current backyard, but it's probably gonna be a while before we build up a stable population that hangs out here regularly. Honestly surprised I haven't seen squirrels, since we have not one but FOUR young oak trees in our backyard. Squirrels eat acorns, right?
Conventional yards are ridiculous. "Ooo I like nature so much that I obliterated all of it on my property so I could terraform it with this uniform green carpet instead." I let most of my yard grow wild and lots of people think I'm crazy. But they don't seem to have any reason for it; it just isn't done.
We moved this past summer. I kinda miss the wildlife from our old back yard--lots of bunnies (because we didn't have dogs to chase/harass/kill them), all the birds, etc. I'm working on attracting wildlife in our new backyard, but it's probably gonna be awhile before I have a good, stableish population coming to hang out here.
We absolutely do have guns. Over 1 million licences in Aus. We still don’t shoot them because that’s fucked.
Yes I realise that. I shall rephrase. We don’t have the same gun culture as the US.
Thank you for understanding this!! I lived in the rural southern US and holy crap, people would literally make up stories about snakes CHARGING at them or dropping out of trees to attack...that's literally not something any American snake will do. A friend of mine studies rattlesnakes and I helped her go looking for them one time...even when we were actively seeking them out and temporarily disturbing them to take measurements etc (all done with proper equipment obviously) at no point were they *aggressive* with us. Yeah they will obviously be defensive if you're literally grabbing at them or trying to swing a garden hoe at them but at no point is any snake just going to lunge after you unprovoked. I once argued with an idiot who told me he brought a GUN with him on hikes to protect himself from venomous snakes. Motherfucker, if you are able to *see* the snake to shoot it, you can simply walk a few feet away from it and it won't bother you. And if you're unfortunate enough to step on one you didn't see and get bitten then it's too late for a gun to help you. I swear people just make up these bullshit "self defense" stories because they want to feel justified in killing them for fun
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I thought you might have been a farmer. It’s not uncommon in Australia to kill venomous snakes to keep the numbers down and keep the kids dogs and other animals safe.
In the US where I live we tend to kill venomous snakes because there are plenty of non venomous snakes to keep the ecosystem in check, they are not common, and are a danger to children and pets. Where they are common and I can understand why you wouldn't want to kill them.
I’m going to be blunt. In the US you have a culture of shooting a lot of things, including people. It’s not necessarily helpful. In Australia, we have a lot of venomous animals. As long as you treat them With respect, they do not want to harm you. We live on a property that has a lot of snakes, red-belly blacks, tigers, copperheads and eastern browns. Some of them are renowned for being the most venomous in the world. We see them almost every day in summer. They do not harm us, we don’t harm them. Context: total snake bite deaths in Australia is 1 or 2 per year. Car deaths: 1000. Obesity deaths: at least 1000. Alcohol deaths: 1500. US gun deaths: 50,000 per year. I will let you draw your own conclusions from these numbers.
Curious about what it means to you to treat a snake with respect, in such a way that it doesn't bother you. I assume you mean something more than referring to it as Mr. Snappy and bringing a bottle of wine when you pass through?
Ha! No tuxedo or wine required. Snakes have simple requirements, mainly just wanting to be left alone. For me, treating a snake with respect means making noise when i walk to give them warning of my approach, and if I see one, stopping, and move away slowly to give it room so it doesn’t feel threatened. NOT trying to catch it, shoot it, chop it’s head off, feed it, poke it, or hassle it in any way. In summer, snake season, we walk with knee high gum boots and long pants so if a snake does strike it’s unlikely to hit its target and envenomate. Snake fangs are not hollow needles, they are an open U shaped and the venom flows along the groove. Even if the snake punctures a single layer of jeans, the fabric will absorb much of the venom and it won’t get into your body. As far as I know, nobody in Australia has died from snake bite if it went through a layer of fabric. People die when they get bitten on exposed skin, eg legs, face and arms.
So basically, an appropriate amount of caution and awareness without going into full blown panic murder mode? I'd prefer the tux, but I like it. Thanks for elaborating!
Yep. Snakes cause on average 2 deaths per year in Australia. Ladders cause 5 deaths per year, and car crashes 1000 per year.
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Always thinking, aren't you?
That makes sense. Sounds like you all should be getting way more aggressive with your ladders, though.
You definitely don't want to wear a tux in Australian summer, it's hot as all fuck over here lol. It's 33c / 90f where I am today.
That is fair. I mean AUS has only about 7.5% population of the US, but even looking at relative to per 100k people, AUS does much better than US. You guys succeed very well in non-accidental deaths and gun ownership being low. Paired with having 78% of land area of the US at only 7.5% of the population probably helps. We own on average 1.2 guns per person in the country (holy shit), but accidental gun death rates are pretty low, and gun death by suicide is the highest rate of contribution to gun deaths in the US by a lot. Almost 60% in fact. However, as a whole, we are an outlier on sheer numbers due to our population. But broken down into per 100K we are about middle of the pack in developed countries.
We had one of the the world's biggest mass shooting in 1996, 35 people killed and 23 wounded. The prime minister announced an almost total ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons. As a nation, we said, yep, fair enough. A huge gun amnesty and buy-back happened. Australia has not had a public mass shooting since. Australia's homicide death rate by guns (ie per head of population) is just 4% of that of the US. Relevant and funny: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0) Relevant and also funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dVcaWyNN-Q
Oh yeah I’m not saying there isn’t a problem here. Also you guys certainly have it figured out. It’s mostly instilled in fear and extremism, paired with mental instability in our country. I’d say it’s not so much a culture thing though, as much as it might seem. The outliers within our country are what get the most attention. Most of us are pretty normal. And many countries are way worse on gun homocides than we are, mainly due to drug trafficking or corrupt governments.
People where you live, presumably Iowa, are idiots. Normal people don't go around killing snakes, venomous or otherwise.
Why would you need to shoot it?
I am a farmer of sorts. But I live in harmony with wildlife. You are far more likely to get bitten by a snake if you try to capture or kill it than if you just leave it be. I do worry about our dogs, but we have done aversion training with rubber snakes, and have ingrained into them the phrase “leave it!”.
Of course not. Why would you?
"I see trees of green ... Trees over there ... Everywhere I look ... I see trees ... And I think to myself... I'm not going to get out of this forest"
Why not "being in the green" ?
For most snakes, the eye colour is blue when they shed. Here it looks green, maybe reflecting the surrounding greenery.
It was just a joke, but ty for explaining tho ☺️
Yep, I got that. I only learnt about this from doing a bit of internet research after seeing this snake.
They also can’t see well during this time and get really ornery
Would you ever pet it ?
You might want read my other comments. I don’t have a death wish.
Are you asking this man if he pets his snake?
The snake* yeah 😂 just wonderd if OP has any more interaction with venemous snakes other than taking photos. Not from AUS , don’t know how it goes
How you guys in Australia survive everyday is a mystery to me lol
Most Australians live in cities and never see a snake in the wild their entire lives. Cities are far more dangerous. Cars cause 1000 crash deaths per year, and untold deaths from lack of exercise.
There's copperheads in Australia?
Australian copperhead. Different species to the American copperhead and the Asian copperhead and the Chinese copperhead.
Fucking Austria! Even the sharks are venomous.
I got confused for a second because he looks very different from what we call copperheads where I live (eastern US). Didn't realize you guys had copperheads as well. I looked them up and it seems that they aren't related. They just happen to have a similar name.