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

Zachus watching the reptiles recalling that our education these last years has been everything

in Australia is exotic and it will try to kill you.

Okay, we go to the snakes, the venomous snakes.

Jeremy, you've taught me over the years that snakes go to sleep in the wintertime and it's

cold and it's wet and there's no reason to be out hibernate why aren't they asleep

is there an explanation good evening well John it it's truly a bit of a mystery right now

our scientists our conservationists our snake catches really can't put their finger on it

except to say that the snakes are awake when they should really be asleep.

And what the simple answer seems to be is that because we've had a winter where it's been

a lot warmer than normal in some parts, it's been rainier, there's been more humidity in the actual atmosphere.

It hasn't been that cold, dry, you know, icy type of rain that they used to.

The poor old snakes actually believe they may have already gone through a winter and actually coming out the other side.

So the snakes are kind of confused and think they might already be into a springtime,

which for the snakes means it's about to become mating season, which means it's time for them to get up and move.

So John the real answer is the weather has really confused our poor little reptiles

here which means they are waking up earlier or not going to hibernation at all

which means when they come out or confused and I guess a little

bit cranky because they haven't had their normal rest period, that actually a lot more aggressive

in some parts of Australia. So you've got these snakes that are just running around

hot-headed haven't had enough sleep and sure enough they are starting to really act out.

Yes now once upon a time there was an abundance of mice, and there were more snakes.

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