Les serpents-tigres ont-ils été bannis sur une île australienne
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00:00 Could it be that the tiger snake had been rejected and secretly banished to this island?
00:06 In 1920, Rocky Vane, a snake charmer, went to Perth to perform several shows.
00:18 During one of his performances, his wife was bitten by a tiger snake and she died.
00:28 Shortly after, his assistant suffered the same fate.
00:32 In response to these two deaths, local authorities decided to ban all snake shows.
00:39 Rocky had to find a way to get rid of these snakes.
00:53 To do this, he went to the island of Karnak in secret to free these 40 snakes.
00:59 There is evidence that supports this theory.
01:13 Before Rocky Vane arrived in Perth, some inhabitants regularly went to Karnak and had never seen snakes.
01:21 Documents dating from 1950 prove that the island housed a population of tiger snakes.
01:27 And since then, their number has not stopped growing.
01:33 And since then, their number has not stopped growing.
01:36 [Music]