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This is the Friends Vista Debating Society. I'm John Batsu with Jeremy Zackis and New

South Wales. It's winter time. The snakes are supposed to be asleep. That's right, they're

supposed to have tucked away for the cold weather, or found a nice warm house to live in. However,

Jeremy gives me a test. Can you find the snake in this garden? I failed Jeremy, does that

mean I'm dead?

Well, John, luckily in this case, no, because it was actually a python. It wasn't a red

bellier of brownstake, which in that case, you may have been dead, but you're right, John,

this wasn't an absolute teaser. I honestly couldn't find it either. I had to cheat and find

the answer, but the garden there is a very typical garden in Queensland. So it has a lot of

greenery there, it has ferns, has a little bit of undergrowth, but it should be pretty easy to see

things sitting on the ground. But in this case, this particular python that you saw there,

which is a run of the real carpal python that you do find in Queensland, it was demonstrating

its natural camouflage skills. And while the python was really only about a metre and a half

away from where the photograph was taken, you just couldn't see it, because the thing had

basically blended into the surroundings leaf foliage and basically the ferns so well,

that the human eye just can't pick it up. And that's why snakes do so well. But I think the

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