#OzWatch: Coastal Taipan with venom enough to overwhelm 400 hominins. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel |
| 0:27.4 | with us. P and Dau Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zakis in New South Wales. It's wintertime. |
| 0:37.0 | And the last time Jeremy and I met to discuss reptiles, there were unusual patterns. |
| 0:44.4 | One was they were awake and hungry and fighting each other. |
| 0:48.4 | I think I recall two snakes fighting in a field. |
| 0:51.8 | There was a photograph. They're still awake and the |
| 0:55.6 | weather is odd. Fine. And now we have something called a Coastal Thai |
| 1:00.4 | pan to talk about. This is the first time I've met a |
| 1:03.5 | coastal Tepin. What is it, Jeremy? Well, John, the coastal type that is |
| 1:08.8 | probably your biggest enemy in the snake world because of the fact that one incredibly venomous and two it appears in places that you don't normally expect |
| 1:16.5 | aka in the coast and basically wetland areas of Australia and luckily for me here in Sydney the coastal |
| 1:22.8 | Taiwan is mostly around Brisbane and so the Queensland coastal areas that |
| 1:27.5 | loves tropical weather so I hopefully will never get to see it but the |
| 1:30.8 | coastal Taiwan is like the brown snake, a very fierce competitor for anything in this environment, including humans. |
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