This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor to New South Wales to Jeremy

Zachus to check on the creatures as late winter turns into early spring. The weather conditions

withstanding, Victoria the heat and the beach last week all of that adds up to everybody in Australia's very exotic except they will try to

kill you and this is the time of year when if they've got murder in mind

they're out in great number let us begin with the venomous crowd

Jeremy it's been warm what does that mean for your snakes that means the snakes that means the snakes are out and we are on the lookout very much so more than normal I should say and I can tell you I am looking down at every step right now in my garden and when I'm taking my dog for a walk as well because the

snakes are out and they are out early and the report's already in say that

there are definitely a lot of brown snakes out there a lot of tiger snakes

out there and they may have already started breeding early which means not only do we have

the full-sized ones to look out for which are hard to find at the best of times when they're

amongst the brown sticks and twigs on the ground but but their babies are out there as well, and the babies are much smaller, much more aggressive, and practically everywhere right now.

So touch for what I haven't seen one on my property yet, I can tell you John around this area we've

already had a lot of snake reports and it's just purely because it's warmer and they need to

come out of hibernation but the good news is too in some ways with this heavy wind we're having at least for the next day or so they probably won't come out because of poor snakes they sense everything by vibrations and the wind makes everything shake so this actually keeps the snakes

underground for another day or two but honestly John it's only going to last a day

or two guarantee probably by the end of the week we'll see at least one snake around here.

Professor Brian Fry, University of Queensland School of Environment,

said warmer temperatures meant prey animals like frogs and

is this a misspelling skinks what is a skink does

it mean no skink that's actually correct what a skink is and I forgot

that's very typically Australian it's actually a small lizard so if you

imagine we have our relatively large lizards that just like any other lizard

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