tigers in the border ranges.
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crump
Cane toads are responsible for the demise of several venemous snake species in SE Queensland, notably Tiger Snakes, death adders and the aforementioned Red Bellied Black.Reason being that all these species included amphibians in their diet.Only the RBB population seems to be able to return from the initial toad invasion, Tigers and Adders are both uncommon to rare in SEQ.There are still small sattelite populations of Tiger snakes in the Border ranges area and there was a population near Maryborough, but it is thought to be extinct.Mulga snakes or King Browns catergorically DO NOT occur in coastal areas of eastern Australia, they are a denizen of arid areas, however,the much more abundant Eastern Brown occurs throughout SE Australia, and large specimens of these are what is commonly and erronously referred to as"King Browns".The Inland Taipan is a shy and retiring species confined to the Gibber Plains of the Diamantina drainage in the Birdsville region. The Rough Scaled Snake does occur on the coastal QLD strip and into Northern NSW, and is an aboreal relative of the Tiger snake complex.The only snake that is known to consume cane toads is the Freshwater Snake or Keelback, and it is only known to eat tadpoles and small juvenile toads and in no great quantity.AND one more for the record, "THERE IS NO SUCH SNAKE AS A SWAMP TIGER OR A YELLOW BELLIED BLACK"period.Trust me on this.;)
I know their are mainland tiger snakes in the Border Ranges, I live only 9 Km from the eastern entrace of Border Ranges National Park. They are all literally on my place. I have a wall chart showing distribution of various deadly snakes in Australia, and according to this chart there is no mainland tiger snakes in out area. So, several years ago, while going down to our chookyard I caught a live mainland tiger which I gave to a friend, who identified it as a tiger by scale counts--I had believed my wall chart up to then, and thought that though it was striped I had caught something other than a tiger, but it looked very deadly to me. My tiger was used in a snake talk to schools and comunity groups for several years, then released back into the wild when stricter regulations about keeping snakes were introduced. National Parks were so interested in this capture they put it on their computer as it was the first confirmed mainland tiger from our area, though many unconfirmed sightings had been reported. [Harmless brown tree snakes and the deadly Western Brown snake can be striped like a tiger snake, so unless an expert counts scales the tiger snake is not a tiger snake to the experts.] Too ilustrate this I was walking across the dam wall of rocky creek dam when someone said their is a brown snake. I climbed over the fence to the rocks on the face of the wall too look closer as I could tell by its head shape that this brown colored Snake was not a deadly Eastern Brown snake. Under a rock was a jet black snake of the same species, same head shape and eyes. They were both brown tree snakes, which are rear fanged and harmless, and often are striped like a tiger, though these two did not have stripes. I left them after picking up one with a stick and showing people the two snakes were the same species though different colors. A couple of years later I caught an injured Mainland tiger snake at our front gate, which went into care but it died a few weeks later. My friend doing Uni decided to a research study upon my tiger snake colony, and found Newspaper reports that said that some years before we bought our place a mainland tiger was killed on our veranda, and another was killed on our neigbours place across the road. He tracked one of these down, being preserved in a bottle of formalin or alcohol. I chased another tiger snake without stipes off the road one day about 3 km from our place. So I am well aware of tiger snakes in the Border Ranges region, Border ranges National park being just 9 Km from my place. We also have rough scales, browns, and death adders in our area as well, so excepting for the Tiapans, we are lucky enough to have the most piosonous snakes in the world living on our 12 acres [and some think the Tiapan may be in our area. One was killed just 50 km or so north so it is possible.]
And a couple of weeks ago while in bed I woke up at 3.00AM with a snake on my foot which bit me, being there probably due to a hotwater bottle on my foot which was playing up due to Pseudogout. By the time I jumped up and turned on the light the snake had disapearse leaving two puncture wounds and blood. My son rushed me to hospital in the range rover, with the recommended compression bandage on, but it was a dry bite, though I had a very high blood preasure which has now returned to normal. 3000 people bitten each year but most are dry bites as only 300 show any symptoms and only 5 die. One man had a brown snake bite him, and drove himself to lismore hospital. He died 20 minutes later, soon after arival. If he had put on a commpression bandage and phoned the ambulance he probably would have lived. Proper first aid compression bandage is critical to survival. Most people get bitten when they try to kill a snake. Yellow belly blacks are usually a eastern brown snake which can be jet black, or stiped ike a tiger and these are deadly, but in the eastern states their is no such thing as a yellow belly black snake.
