This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. Jeremy Zuckus from New South Wales.

With water comes reptiles. Lots of reptiles. Of course, they were there before, without the rain they'll be there afterwards when the rain ends. It's coming

winter. Jeremy you've got lots of venomous snakes. They're everywhere. You've also

got pythons in the roof and you have clever creatures who have struggles on the beach, the pythons.

But I learned that the more water there is the more reptiles there are we've talked about this

it's coming winter however isn't it time for them to retreat we're seeing unusual

attention from reptiles given, do they hibernate Jeremy?

They do, they virtually hibernated and what happens is in the wintertime they actually, they don't just magically disappear but what they do is they

typically go into very hidden places so you can think Rocky outcoves round root systems in large gum trees, and the snakes really hide themselves

away so they can practically hibernate over the very, very cold months.

And it's true they still do move around a little bit to go for a gee and get some food at some

points but you'll never see them out on mass and you'll never typically see them in places that

the public so they'll never be around humans during the wintertime especially

because that's really their quiet time and their actual physical beings their bodies

don't operate very well at cold temperatures they actually physically can't move when it's too cold.

They have to warm up before they can start moving. So wintertime we never see them.

But the problem is right now we're not getting a normal winter.

While it's raining, while the weather systems are strange,

the actual temperatures are still a little bit warmer than normal.

So John, the effect of that is we're actually getting news stories now still about snakes,

well and truly into June, which honestly, any other year and certainly we've been speaking now for

a few years on this, you may remember that about this time of year, we start to see the

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