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#OzWatch: Discovery of the Desert Whip Snkae. and a giant Stokes Sea Snake on the Gold Coast. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#OzWatch: Discovery of the Desert Whip Snkae. and a giant Stokes Sea Snake on the Gold Coast. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.9news.com.au/national/snake-news-new-venomous-species-declared-in-australia/5fec05c9-0672-4254-b2bd-438b9a9856e7

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0:00.0

This is the Friends Fistry Debating Society. I'm John Bachelorette with Jeremy Sackis and fair warning

0:06.2

Not only are we going to deal with poisonous snakes, but we're going to deal with giant poisonous snakes

0:14.2

Giant poisonous snakes that scare people who live in Australia are used to poisonous snakes Jeremy on occasion

0:22.3

I was speaking to an austrian national within these last hours and

0:26.6

And I observed that I've been studying Australia through your guidance and that a routine

0:35.0

Witticism that we use too often is everything in Australia is exotic and we'll try to kill you

0:41.9

My informant

0:44.5

a grown-up

0:46.6

Said that's exactly right Jeremy. Does everybody know this? Is this is still like taught to children of Australia? Don't touch anything

0:56.3

This is that that's not an exaggeration don't it is absolutely taught to us as a kid and and I remember growing up as young as

1:03.2

In kindergarten so as four years old

1:05.3

We were given classes about the reptiles and the animals in Australia and basically told do not touch them because literally

1:11.8

Everything from the spiders to the snakes to even the kangaroos will probably try to kill you at some point and honestly growing up John

1:18.6

I think that's the only way I've survived pretty much by its high sort of adolescence to to adult would because it's true

1:24.6

Everything's either got venom or everything's either got very sharp claws and a very strong mouth

1:29.1

So honestly John is not an exaggeration everything here in Australia actually does try to kill you

1:34.2

So let us go to the everybody's war now. We're talking about a new snake a new snake to Australia

1:41.6

Jeremy did this surprise you that you know you and I have enjoyed searching out your wildlife

1:47.8

That all of a sudden they didn't know about this snake

1:51.4

It

1:53.4

Honestly did surprise me because I thought we had our snakes pretty well tagged because honestly when something's trying to kill you

1:59.2

You try and learn about it as much as possible to stay away from it

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