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#OzWatch: Steel-nerved Magpie harasses Red-bellied Black Snake to retreat in defeat. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#OzWatch: Steel-nerved Magpie harasses Red-bellied Black Snake to retreat in defeat. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/video/viral/x8o7opf/only-in-australia-magpie-and-brown-snake-face-off/

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This is the FriendsVisture Debating Society. I'm John Batchwood,

0:17.9

Jeremy Zachis, my good colleague of many years, many decades.

0:22.0

Jeremy's in new South Wales and Sydney, and we turn to reptiles, reptiles and aviants.

0:28.8

In this instance, first reptiles. We're looking at aggressive springtime behavior of reptiles,

0:36.4

all well and good. However, some of these reptiles are not aggressive. They're simply good companions.

0:45.5

Now, I know it's weird. I understand Australians find carpet pythons amusing.

0:53.6

They keep them as pets, sort of like, I keep a Springer Spaniel as a friend, not a pet.

1:00.2

He possesses parts of the house. He gets what he wants. I'm not quite sure I could extend that same

1:07.8

opinion towards a carpet python that tends to be six feet, seven feet, ten feet. Jeremy,

1:14.9

it's enough to keep a python for a pet. It's another thing to go surfing. Please help me understand

1:20.7

this story. Well, John, this is a very typical Australian behavior, I think, in some ways.

1:26.4

Not only can we have beautiful beaches and very good surfing beaches, but it turns out we can

1:30.5

take out that surfing. Now, honestly, there are lots and lots of stories and lots of examples

1:35.8

every day of people taking their pet dogs to the beach, playing in the surf, and a lot of dogs will

1:40.3

stand on the boards and surf with their owners. But I think this is the first time we've ever seen

1:45.4

on the Gold Coast in Queensland where an owner has actually taken his six-foot python

1:50.2

surfing, and it's gone viral. It's basically been made public. And what happened was up in

1:55.8

Queensland that the six-foot python has been this owner's pride and joy for many years, and he's

2:01.5

an avid surfer, and it turns out that he's actually been taking this python surfing for quite a long

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