How big do I get? I get up to 1.2m in length 🐍

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What do I eat? frogs, lizards, birds and small mammals 🐸

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When do I play? I like to go hunting at night 🌙 and sleep during the day.

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Where do I live?  From southern QLD to Gosford. 

Where do I sleep? I like to snooze in loose bark and tree trunks, amongst vines, rock crevices and hollow logs and trees.
 

Other fun facts: 

- I am extremely venomous and have forward facing fangs. Luckily there are great antivenins out there so I haven't managed to cause any recorded deaths ⚰️ interestingly, Tiger Snake antivenin is used to treat my bites. 

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- I don't lay eggs - I bear up to 6 live young (this is known as viviparous)

Threats

• Clearing and fragmentation of habitat.

• Forestry practices which result in loss of old or dead trees.

• Too frequent burning for fuel reduction or grazing management which destroys old and dead trees and removes understorey vegetation.

• Illegal collection of snakes from the wild.

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TRACKS: In soft dirt and sand my tracks would look like this!

 

 

 

 

 

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