This is the Friends of History Debating Society with Jeremy Zakis and New South Wales,

fair warning, this is about snakes, very scary snakes, venomous.

There's the Great Eastern Brown we've talked about, very aggressive, looks like a stick,

a tax-like tiger.

There's the Red Belly Black Snake, lazy, large, likes to go to sleep in places like your

house, and now we have an incident where snakes prevented people from returning to their

homes.

It's something called Tiger Snakes, what is a Tiger Snake, Jeremy?

Well, John, we've had brown snakes, we've had basically Great Eastern Brown snakes in

the Red Belly Black snakes, and now we've got the Tiger Snake.

The Tiger Snake itself is like pretty much every other snake in Australia, it's a lightish

dark brown color, it can be a little bit darker and look even more black sometimes, so

they do look a little bit like the Red Belly Black Snake, but the Tiger Snake itself is probably

much closer to, if you think of a cobra, the Tiger Snake, instead of having a, I guess

you could say, a one-struck mentality where if you stand on it, the thing will basically

attack you straight away, the Tiger Snake will rear up and basically show its anger very

similar to like you'd see a cobra or see some kind of typhoon, so this is a very aggressive

snake, and they're not the largest snakes in the world in so far as you don't get them

at 6'4", you don't get them any larger than that, so they're not huge, but they are fairly

feisty, I guess, the best way to say it, so if you see one of these things, you'll generally

know about it, so honestly, John the Tiger Snake, if you think of it as a smallest snake,

but a much more lethal and much more sort of aggressive snake than some of the brown snakes

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