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I was a teacher in Goulburn NSW. A young boy had come to school holding a small tiger snake by the head like a professional. He'd picked it up on the driveway to the college. Someone helped him put it in a container to be sent somewhere . When I told the boy he might have been bitten, he wasn't worried,said he had been bitten once on the nose when swimming in the reservoir. I tend to believe it. A small town good base hospital and he had been treated quickly.

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Yeah this fella in particular is good at it!

And yes, I always carry a snake bandage with me.

Thanks mate They are pretty common all along the south coast, we get loads near Port fairy

The Wildlife Brothers thanks guys! This is actually a captive snake, he was given to me when his last owner thought he was too much to handle!

I can see why! I love the new intro by the way!

I felt right at the beginning before he said anything that the snake was ready to attack. Some of them (e.g. death adder) might look slow and lazy but are as quick as lightning so he had to be careful.

​@@WickedWildlifeI was on a drilling rig working North West Queensland around Hughenden my colleagues told me about what they called a downs tiger. Quite small but still had attitude. Not sure of location but from what you were saying not that big in numbers in the West country. Have you ever heard of a Downs Tiger.?

Danny Smith cheers mate! Thanks for watching!

Wow what a scary experience! Good luck that it didn´t bite you.

BigBenno26 thanks mate!

Would love to get down to tassie and film with their tigers!

One of my mates Justin is a snake catcher down Hobart way, holds lots of herp display / safety shows all over . seen this one tiger few years back making his way across the highway ,8ft in length easy and as round as a beer bottle, biggest tiger I've ever laid eyes on.and I live on the west coast and its snake central there in Rosebery

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Thanks Spacey, they are very cool snakes!

Grant and Mercil Sturrock that’s it mate I was working in outback qld catching snakes and I almost never saw one just cruising along, we where actively flipping rocks and logs to find them

@@WickedWildlife I did however see a couple Sydney funnel webs when i lived in Sydney, my bro lives in Adelaide where I been few times and saw many redback spiders their, i hope one day if you get a chance you could do a video on all oz spiders.

N M thankyou so much for watching! And I hope your kids are enjoying them as well!

Well I can move my hand a lot quicker the. I can move my head, and worst case it’s easier to bandage 😂

@@newlife8318 Yes , notice how he is watching the snake, its pretty easy to know when they are about to strike because they want you to know, they want you to leave, and yes you can move your hand quicker than he can strike but that doesn't go for all snakes, namely some death adders can strike twice in the time you can blink your eye and they can also strike the full length of their body so you don't pick them up by the tail. They worry me because my property is supposed to be infested with them and I have seen blacks and browns but never a death adder because they bury themselves in leaves and don't move and you can step on them, luckily they are not always prone to bite. Our friend knelt on one in his veggie patch and it didn't bite him. A year later he was bitten twice in his veggie patch by a brown snake, his property is really remote but he survived.

Im 70 years old, I dont stick myself near any snake, I own a property, and have been a life long prospector. I have had interactions with literally thousands of snakes, probably 95% blacks the rest browns or as you say maybe tigers and one broad headed snake and one taipan. Ive run over and skinned a black with a ride on lawnmower, a couple with bulldozer and more with cars,. I hate hurting them. I jumped down the stairs of my shed and almost landed on a brown snake, a number of times i've jumped over logs or small boulders and almost landed on black snakes, my kids at 4 years old turned over a rock and found a brown snake, they just walked away as they had been taught. I had a king brown crawl past my toes without knowing i was there, but they are really a kind of black snake, I got my car airborne over a cattle grid and jumped over a taipan. One interesting time on the central coast in a place that was alive with brown snakes that came from a melaleuca dry swamp, they congregated under the floorboards of our annexe , however playing in the swamp we never saw any until one day my sister, cousin and I were walking to the beach on a tar road when my cousin leaned over as we were walking and whispered in my ear "there's a snake on your foot". The way he said it I thought he was joking, but when I looked down a brown snake about 2 feet long had the middle of its body wedged between the tongue of my sneaker and my foot. I kicked it almost to the height of the electricity wires. So Yes. But the point of this is - despite all the interactions, all the unintended pain and fright i have visited on these creatures i have never once had one try to bite me, they just try to get away. Not so with funnel webs, in the same caravan park I was walking beside a woman and she kicked a can, a funnel web jumped out and latched onto her toe with its fangs , she couldn't kick it off, so she grabbed it and it bit her on the thumb. It was only a month or 2 since antivenom had been first delivered to hospitals and the hospital in this case was almost directly across the road@@WickedWildlife

They are still there along the river in Studley Park. I run there and its insane how many times I almost tread on them. I just avoid the whole area now because it isnt very relaxing having to keep my eyes open for them all the time from Nov - March. Good on that Mum for whacking it - geez no mums these days would have the mamma bear drive to kill a snake I would say lol...

@@georginam824 Yeah agreed. I'm moving home to Melbourne in febuary so I am hopefully I won't see any snakes along the yarra bike track where I intend to ride. Cheers.

@@garynewton1263 at least you won't be running along in shorts and bare legs. They really are terrifying when I land my foot within mm of them and the other day one literally reared up and spun around to get away from me. I was day dreaming so I didnt notice it until it did that. It was huge - 1.5m at least. I grew up on a property near Wagga and so I am used to browns...but browns are faster and they seem to get away faster than these tiger snakes.

@@georginam824 Yes. I've just realised that my friend's youtube account has gotten mixed up with mine. I used Jacinta's account a few years ago to reply to some videos I saw and until I got my own KZfaq account. Anyway, funny thing is I've been living in adelaide for 7 1/2 years. Several years ago I used to go up to Belair National Park and jog on the gravel tracks. One summers day I was wearing my sunglasses and almost stumbled on an Eastern Brown snake. I was jogging reasonably quickly, luckily the EB snake wriggled away once I got to within 2 feet. An evil looking snake. I've seen Red Bellied black snakes up in the Dandenong Ranges, Tiger snakes around waterways near Melbourne, Copperheads too. But those Eastern Browns get me on edge. I'm hopefully going to be living around Croydon, Mooroolbark, FTG or Mitcham so hopefully no snakes. Maybe take up Cycling instead, the yarra bike track from Kew to the City is brilliant. Stay safe!

Took a photo of one chilling in point cook Melbourne 👍

Saw an albino one swimming across the Yarra once when we dossed by the golf course one night in Fairfield. The most beautiful snake I've ever seen in the wild. I will take it slow when I lose a golf ball next time though...

pseudechis thanks! I should have picked up on that!

I've got a block of rain forest in South Gippy. They're literally everywhere. You have to learn to live with them or else you're going to find it hard being there. Unlike brown's, they don't seem to move away as rapidly. That's the only real danger I find living around them. Oh and they like to climb so can get into some places you don't expect. Stay safe out there.

If a tiger snake bites a child its going to be very bad for the child ,he would probably die ,if a tiger snake is near children it must be destroyed its only a dangerous reptile , better a dead snake than some ones child in a coffin , to hell with these snakes they are too dangerous ,i say kill them who needs then

We are a reasonable chill lot tbh. Don't worry so much about our wildlife as it's mostly over hyped. Anyway visit us & enjoy.👍

agreed

That would be the red bellied black snake Luckily they are not as aggressive as the other venomous snakes

I live in western victoria too, in Dunkeld!

dingo simon you where actually the first viewer mate! First view is always me checking it uploaded right. He actually struck a fair few times while filming

Totally agree, if I didn’t do displays I think I’d just be keeping tigers, red bellies and copperheads outdoors

Thanks mate!

Hahaha he isn’t the happiest snake I own!

No, Im on edge, and since the video is almost over, I feel sick now with worry about him being so close to him. Too worried for too long. Thankfully he is ok.

Li moucheu Gday mate Glad you like the video! I do relocate snakes here during the summer but unfortunately filming snake catches is s breach of our relocation permits for some crazy reason!

Scott Hockert probobly 2 feet or so This is a very defensive snake and so he seems to focus on the moving hand rarther then my face

I found the answer here snakedatabase.org/pages/ld50.php which I found through a simple search engine query. It's a great question, but one that you should be able to answer for yourself to be honest.

Small world! We are based in Dunkeld and my wife grew up in Portland/Narrawong We actually do a fair few displays out Portland way too Tower Hill is a very well known spot for tigers too