#OzWatch: Heat wave pushes the most aggressive and dangerous Eastern Brown snake to the beach. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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"Snakes of Australia"
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| 0:27.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zuckus, Reptile Warning. We're going to talk about snakes. |
| 0:36.0 | Lots of really venomous snakes. One in particular called a brown snake that hides everywhere, can be found everywhere I could go through the long |
| 0:46.1 | list sneaks into your house when you leave the screen open or are not careful and |
| 0:51.2 | Jeremy hiding behind plywood? |
| 0:55.0 | Is this unusual? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, John, in some ways now, I think I take everything a brown snake does in Australia |
| 1:02.0 | as not being unusual. We've talked about it so much and we've seen them in so many weird places now. |
| 1:06.7 | Nothing tends to surprise me anymore, but this one is a little bit strange insofar as what happened was in Burley, Queensland, which is a suburb near Brisbane, it's an industrial suburb. |
| 1:16.4 | Basically in an office area, it looks like some individuals, some of the people working |
| 1:21.3 | there identified what they thought was a brown snake lurking around. |
| 1:25.0 | So they'd seen this thing moving around the area, they think it had gone into the building, and they were a little bit concerned. |
| 1:31.0 | So what they did was they actually called the snake catcher thinking it probably crawled |
| 1:35.0 | into some tall grass that had crawled under the buildings sort of because most buildings are up on stilts in |
| 1:40.8 | Queensland to allow the air to go under them and thought it would be an easy job just to get rid of this little brown snake. |
| 1:46.5 | Anyway, it turns out, John, when the snake catcher got there, they couldn't find it initially. |
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