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Not everything with stereotypes are true

Well, I won't say that you are wrong, but still..... My attempt here was rather than the usual "it's coffin shaped cause it is a deadly and dangerous snake" thing we could turn it a bit more positive, thus the heart shape. But clearly you didn't get the gist... And come on, a heart shape and blunt arrowhead, the difference isn't that great....

There is a museum specimen from between Coffs Harbour and Grafton collected in 1998. I agree that it is not their ideal habitat, but as they occur there I don't see why I should not include it in the video.

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy i reckon someone had a pet one and they either let it go or it escaped or maybe even came down on a truck or a car..back in the day there was a crocodile in the Logan river it didn’t swim there someone let it go into the river my point is wen people think of crocodiles and where they live they don’t think of Brisbane..you do a good job at wat you do I’m not having a go at you I think your videos are good viewing cheers mate

@@truckingdownunder2443 Nah nah, it's always good to discuss these things, and I am quite thick skinned, so just fire away if there is anything. There is another record too. A photo of a tai found in Grafton by a birder sometime around 2008 if my memory is not deceiving me. That's definitely a possibility of it being an escaped pet. There are two records from further south (Bathurst and Wollongong), but I ruled those out as false IDs, hitchhikers or escapees. I included the Coffs Harbour observation on the basis of it being in a museum specimen. Personally I have never been in those regions, so I can't say anything about the habitat there.

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy keep up the good work mate I will subscribe to your channel be careful and like I said you do a great job

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy I was on hat head mountain last week I was using a wiper snipper to my left I seen a kookaburra on the ground I thought it was injured so I walked towards it and found out it was not injured it dug it’s beak into the grass and took off with a baby eastern brown I’m sure it’s mother wasn’t to far away

Hi Sam! Great to hear you liked the video. I don't have too much experience with snakes on the southern half of the country, but I'll try to get a hold of some footage and images to use for a potential video :)

Very true! Most however are shades of brown. Very few individuals tend to be black or orange/red

Yeah, this one was particularly sweet! But to be honest, most of the browns I caught were well behaved 😅

I've done it previously, but I decided against it this instance as they looked to be rather stationary. I'll do it in the future go show you the gorgeous animals in greater detail :)

Aaaa mate... If I ever find one I will most definitely have a video about it :P

They are such a variable and gorgeous species! I would like to see them change common name to variable tree snake rather than green or common :P

You’re spot on with that theory! The British channel worked as sort of a species filter when the ice retracted and then the Irish Sea as a second filtering the species making it out to the green isle yet again. This unfortunately made Ireland snakeless. UK on the other hand still has snakes (the same we have in Norway)😁

I seen em in Sweden in some goofy places, across from a caycare, climbing up a side of a bridge apparently to get over it and one directly behind our apartments a big one who had a nice hole. I picked up one to move it off a road as it was headed to a place is should not, I have not seen but two in places where one would say they really belong, it seems they are maybe a bit curious or something.

Yeah, not a snake you wanna get tagged by hey

Cheers! The Norwegian west coast is a fantastic place, but unfortunately lacks the herp diversity seen on the east coast 😁

Quite similar, with the main difference being Mambas are more arboreal than taipans

They're awesome hey! Such intelligent snakes that knows they pack a punch. A pure joy to work with :D

They're awesome snakes! I had a spot in town where you was almost guaranteed to see one. If you ever pop up by Townsville, flick me a message and I'll send you the spot

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy Thanks mate, that would be awesome. Same goes if you're ever down at Hervey Bay let me know and I'll hook you up with some good herp spots

Yeah…. There was a problem with the wire from the microphone to the camera. I’ve resolved the issue now fortunately, but I can’t edit it out of my old vids….

Gorgeous animal hey! He/she is back in the bush hopefully munching down on Bandicoots :)

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy Good to hear. Never mind the bandicoot's, mice are in good supply at least here in NSW. But I don't know about Qld? It's a real shame what they did in the 1930s by introducing cane toads into the Qld environment. They toxic to native wildlife including snakes. They didn't think past their nose or simply didn't care.

@@HT-vf7ok I think this one is a bit too large to gobble down mice :P I've seen the situation down in NSW, and it's mental! I recon the snake culling back in the day might have contributed to this massive surge in prey animals. Yeah, the toad introduction was bad, but luckily some of the most heavily impacted species are bouncing back. A good example is that Mulgas are being seen in the Townsville region again, where they have been absent almost since the toads arrived

Australia actually has quite a few snakes that eat other snakes, like the one in the video here. There's also venomous snakes like Mulgas that eat mostly other reptiles including snakes. And unfortunately Australias snake population have declined a lot since the British colonized the country. This is mostly due to habitat loss and purging.

Hehe! It's all about what you're used too. I'm living in Norway now, and we have about the same fauna as Russia. I have no clue what I would do if faced down with a bear or wolf in the woods, except photograph them if I had my camera :P

Taipans are certainly a snake to be respected. They are aggressive and very dangerous and without treatment the bite is almost always fatal. In the south where I live, the Eastern Brown predominates. They too are highly venomous but more shy. The snakes are as afraid of us as we are of them. So if we leave them alone it’s mostly ok. No drama. I would be more afraid of bears than of our snakes. But then, I have had eastern browns on my doorstep, quite scary, no grizzly bears though. Only drop bears.

​@@SvenTheSnakeGuythat's so cool mate. I'm a Queenslander and I've been close to both an eastern Brown and taipan and I just stood very still and I was not bitten. I didn't mean to get close. Just walked up on them accidentally in the bush. A bear or wolf would terrify me if I got close to one in the wild. Great video Mate 😊😊

I'm coming back someday, but I recon that will be for vacation purposes. However, I will continue to make the ID-vids on Australian snakes. I am working on Death Adders at the moment ;)

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy I have family in Bergen and I am pretty keen to pay them a visit...when Australia will let me leave!

@@adamkuklych6672 That's awesome! I'm actually moving to Bergen in 4 days :P If you get over here and it's snake season, flick me a message and I can show you some local wildlife :D

Nah, this was along Black River.

Hey! I'm happy you enjoyed it. I definitely want to go to India someday and explore the vast diversity of snakes you have :D

Veldig enig i at reglene her er ganske strenge, men vi får håpe de kan endres med tiden :D

Hehe! More or less 😅😅

My pleasure 😁 Always nice to know what you’ve made helped out others

Looking forward to herping there as some of the local adder there are stunning! But the rumoured rainy weather is a whole other thing 😅

Did you have it on a leash? You should for it's own safety and that of other animals.

Hehe! So much easier than saying Magnetic Island hey ;)

They are old wounds from an encounter with a predator. Probably a cat or dog as this is a relocation from a suburban area.

It helps to pay attention! These marks were clearly explained.

Don't think so, but I'm not the best at IDing pregnant geckos :P

Thank you :D

It's a stunning individual for sure!

At the end there? I just hooked it onto the backpack strap that goes over your chest :P If you're looking for something to clip your camera onto your backpack tho, I would suggest looking into Peak Design.

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy Thanks. Tried it. Didn’t like it 😅 dug into my shoulder. Guess I’ll just jerry rig it somehow

@@kristofferpartyka Hahaha! Haven't tried it myself, but I use their tripod and I am so pleased with it :P Good luck with the jerry rig :D

Cheers Andy! Here in Norway and other colder countries snakes need to hibernate during the colder months. As you may know snakes aren't social creatures, but due to the lack of good hibernation and basking-spots they tend to gather in small areas in early spring (March-May) as these sites are most suitable to prepare for the season ahead. If my memory serves me right the record for adders in a single hibernation-den was around 300.

Joda :P Født og oppvokst i Oslo :D

@@SvenTheSnakeGuy han mente dem 🤣

Ååååja 😅 har gått litt fort i svingene for min del 😅 Hoggormen finnes over hele landet helt opp til rundt Bodø. Så de er å finne utenfor alle storbyer helt opp til dit 😁

You are most welcome, and thank you for trying to understand these misunderstood animals :)