Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) #Western Australia

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Transcript
00:00G'day, I'm Clive and welcome. We're back at the Armadale Reptile Centre with the lovely
00:20Lucy. There you go, new name for her. We're looking at the tiger snake today. A snake
00:26that's got a bad rep for no reason at all. The importance of these videos is to teach
00:32people how to react around them and why the snakes do what they do and how you can prevent
00:39it. So we'll take it over to you, let you expand on that. I shall. So tiger snakes get
00:46more of a negative reaction from people because animals have two responses to danger, flight
00:55or fight. Majority of the time, a lot of animals would use the flight response, but
01:00some animals tend to head towards a fight response earlier than others. So a tiger snake
01:07is one of those animals. So he will spend less time giving you warnings before he retaliates
01:15in a way that's seen as a bit more sudden and aggressive to people. So where as a do
01:22like might give you lots of warnings as you get closer and closer and closer that he's angry,
01:27a tiger snake might straight away, if you get too close to him, he might straight away arc up and
01:33begin to hiss, flatten his neck out, make himself look bigger, more intimidating. They'll do the
01:39same thing though, if you continue to push your luck, they will potentially strike but with a
01:46closed mouth. So they weren't actually use their fangs or anything like that. It's just a kind of
01:52hit to make you aware that they're there. And then if after that, and you're still pushing your
01:58luck, well, then you can't really blame him for defending himself properly. And then that's where
02:04incidents can occur. Like normal snakes, the length of their body to their striking. Yeah,
02:14so on average, a snake will strike to half of its body length. So you have a two metre snake,
02:21he'll strike to about a one metre beyond his body. So if you're within that range,
02:27you're, it goes against everything I know, you're better off staying still and just pretending that
02:34you're a tree, you are no danger, they have nothing to fear from you. But if you're beyond
02:38that strike distance, you're very safe to slowly, quietly, just move on backwards and then just get
02:46out of their space, let them realise that you're not actually a threat to them. And then that's
02:51when they'll go, okay, this is not fun anymore, I'm going to go have something to eat. And they'll
02:56move off on their own. The other misconception is in chasing. Yes. So tiger snakes are probably
03:03number one for I've heard people claim that they've chased them. And I think that comes from
03:08the fact that they, they won't back down as quickly as other species will. And they will
03:15present themselves as bigger, tougher and scarier than they are. And then they will do this closed
03:21mouth lunge or strike at people. And, you know, I understand you're scared. It's like the fisherman's
03:30story. It gets bigger and dangerous and scarier every time you tell the story. So also attempting
03:37to get to their safe. They will. Yes. So that's another possibility what they're doing. So
03:44sometimes when you encroach into their territory, they know their area incredibly well. They know
03:52where their safe zones are, they know where they go to eat. So big, dangerous giant to them comes
04:02clomping along into their space. Oh, well, I need to go home. But unfortunately, that home is between
04:08the legs of that big giant and down the other side under a rock into a hole wherever it may be.
04:14They've got no choice but to go that way. It's the only way they're going to feel safe and secure. So
04:19sometimes they may head towards you or in a direction that seems like it's towards you. But
04:25really, they're going to their safe area. So like always, if you're still, if you're calm, if you're
04:32relaxed, you're a tree. That's all they see you as is a very strange looking big tree. No danger,
04:39no issue. I'm just going to go home. I feel threatened. And that's all it is.
04:45So when the females, they give birth to live or do you?
04:49It's live young. Yeah, it's one of the very few species that give birth to live, live young.
04:57Same as all other, most other snakes. Parental care is not something that's big on their mind.
05:06A mother carries the babies instead of incubating them as eggs. She obviously incubates them inside
05:13and gives birth to them. And instead of knowing as hatches, we'd normally call them hatches if
05:19they come from eggs. When they're live born, they're called neonates. And once they're all born,
05:26well, that's it. Life's over for them inside mum and they are completely on their own.
05:32They all disperse like every other species, find their own little space and that's it.
05:37Mum can go off and do it again. And the strength of the venom,
05:42misconception in a lot of snakes. It's the same across all venomous snakes.
05:51When a juvenile is born, they are just biologically smaller than an adult. Everything about them is
05:58smaller. Fangs, venom sacs, everything. So the yield or the amount of venom in their body is
06:05incredibly small. And how far their fangs can penetrate into skin is very small. Not to say
06:12you cannot have a reaction or for example, pets or children or the elderly may be impacted by it.
06:20But you'll find that bites from a juvenile usually end up with, if there is venom in your body,
06:29it doesn't really do anything to you. But it's still always important that you stay safe around
06:34them. But you certainly don't need to treat them as more dangerous than an adult. Just like
06:39everything else, they want to live, they want to survive. So they want to run away and they'll do
06:45anything they can to achieve that. There's no one way of associating the snake because it comes
06:54in variations of colours? A tiger snake's an interesting one because tiger snake is broad
07:03across all of Australia. So you have two kind of main groupings. So you have your eastern states
07:12tiger snakes and that does include a few of the islands like Tasmania and the things in the
07:17Bass Strait as well. And then you've got your southwest tiger snake as well. So that's the one
07:24that, or the western tiger snake as it's more commonly called, that's the one that we have.
07:28So in the southwest, really there's only one colour morph that you come across and it's the
07:35reason it's got the name tiger snake because it's black across the top and then it has a
07:41yellow to even orange body underneath. And that colour then comes up over its body and extends
07:48onto its back. It can extend all the way across or it can just kind of come up and then just lightly
07:53meet on the back. And then it looks like stripes or the tiger stripes. So in our southwest the
08:01tiger snake is a very, very sane looking animal. There's not a great deal of variety. Their only
08:08variety really comes from how far up those stripes go but a black and yellow striped snake to that
08:15degree is typically known as a tiger snake. There are again smaller snakes out there that have a
08:23black and white stripe to them, sorry black and yellow striping to them and they can be
08:29misidentified as tiger snakes. The Jan's banded snake is probably the most commonly misidentified
08:36as a tiger snake. It's a harmless snake and unfortunately because of a fear towards the
08:42venomous snakes there's a lot of little snakes that do get dispatched because of it. But you
08:49will find that in the eastern states they can have a bit more variety and the colouring gets
08:54lost a little bit in some of the island species. But in our western tiger snake that yellow and black
08:59is that's basically it. Yeah there's not much variety in them. One of the most beautiful snakes
09:09is a contrast of two colours when they're first shed. That yellow is just so very vibrant. Yeah
09:16nice shiny black. Yes, yes very vibrant and because they are a highly localized to the southwest area
09:24animal and they habitat in areas of marsh and swamps and things like that they naturally are
09:33in areas of a much cooler environment than a lot of the other leopard species. So that black top to
09:39them the colouring on the top of them is very very important. So dark colours as everyone knows
09:45absorbs more heat and more sunlight as opposed to light colours. The ability then to flatten
09:52and flare out their neck is more of a typical trait of the black snake family what they're from
09:59and that's twofold. So one bigger neck bigger animal looks scarier and more intimidating
10:07but also a bigger neck means a bigger surface area so they have more skin to absorb more sunlight
10:12and more heat which is incredibly important for them to be able to exist in these cooler climates
10:18and also to be able to move and get about during even the cooler days of the year where
10:27other snakes might not be as so active. That's one of the things I was just going to say
10:33that they last longer in the sense when it's cooler and all the others are absorbed. Yes.
10:38Especially in the evening when they're out hunting for their food. Yeah, so because they predate
10:43heavily on amphibians that's a main part of their diet. Frogs are more active when the weather is
10:51wet. They're more active in your winter autumn period sort of thing so naturally your tiger
10:57snakes too do need to be also active in those periods. Everything is more active in summer
11:04that's just a given just the way they're designed but on the warm winter days it's not uncommon for
11:11people to see tiger snakes and and it can be surprising for people because they think well
11:15winter nothing would be around reptile wise but no a nice warm winter day and a big sunny
11:21sunny day and they could be out definitely. Yeah. Is there anything else we can add or?
11:30Not particularly I mean they're they're not a great deal different to the dugite in all their
11:35aspects. There's been several occasions where people have seen them swimming so they're one of
11:42the few few species of snakes that it's not uncommon to see them swimming around and they're
11:48also one of the few even though they're classed as a terrestrial animal so a ground dwelling animal
11:54they actually have a pretty strong ability to climb so it's not uncommon to see them climbing
11:59up reeds and marshes and things like that just to whether they're getting more sun whether they're
12:04looking out to see if there's something around whether there's a nice yummy frog or even a
12:10wading bird or anything like that that they can see close by but they also have been known to
12:16get quite high off the ground even up to 1.5 to 2 meters off the ground so it's not always just
12:23looking on the ground sometimes it doesn't hurt to look around in your whole surroundings.
12:28They like to bury themselves in the leaves? They will yeah yeah they they can do if they've say
12:35had enough sun they've had enough to eat and they just now just you know have another midday siesta
12:41they will may bury themselves around but the good thing for them about marshes and swampy areas
12:47is there's so much vegetation around the water edge and it's vegetation that most well predators
12:54wouldn't venture into so they are relatively safe in their little little areas around there
13:02well i got a bit out of that myself there's a few things i didn't know which is good
13:07and i hope you did too so i hope you've enjoyed this video and thank Lucy and if you have enjoyed
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