Hellow guys, Welcome to my website, and you are watching Pippa and the King Brown Snake. and this vIdeo is uploaded by Bush Heritage Australia at 2019-05-02T21:52:54-07:00. We are pramote this video only for entertainment and educational perpose only. So, I hop you like our website.
| Name | Pippa and the King Brown Snake |
| Video Uploader | Video From Bush Heritage Australia |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 03-05-2019 04:52:54 |
| Video Discription | King Brown – Mulga Snake – Pseudechis australis. Ecologist Pippa Kern demonstrates how snakes are more concerned with escaping and hiding than biting people. Snakes are wonderful creatures. In Australia they are significant large predator in a country lacking many large predators. Tiger Snakes instead of Tigers. Species such as Woma Pythons and Inland Taipans evolved to selectively prey on mammals such as Bilbies and Long-haired rats. As such, snakes are a key component of our ecosystems and their health. They should not be thoughtlessly harmed. Edgbaston is a small reserve in central Queensland renowned for its unique Great Artesian Basin springs, and the significant and endemic fauna that live in them, like the Red-finned Blue-eye and Edgbaston Goby. However, the 9000-hectare reserve has many other exciting terrestrial habitats that are largely unexplored. Bush Heritage Ecologist Dr Pippa Kern has commenced biannual surveys to document the species of those areas. We use this information to monitor the success of our property-wide management so we can improve it to better protect all species on the reserve. In our surveys we target reptiles by spotlighting, using pitfall traps, and especially with funnel traps. Funnel traps are an ingenious repurposing of a fish or yabby trap into a longer smaller form. We place these beside the low mesh fences that we use to guide animals into our pitfall traps. We capture a lot of skinks and geckos but the serpents are the prize – and funnels are particularly adept at snake snaffling. Snakes enter the funnel-shaped entrance and once inside on the bottom of the trap they are unable to find the exit, which is raised about 10 cm off the ground. So they then curl up and wait for the ecologists to collect them. In our surveys we target reptiles by spotlighting, using pitfall traps, and especially with funnel traps. Funnel traps are an ingenious repurposing of a fish or yabby trap into a longer smaller form. We place these beside the low mesh fences that we use to guide animals into our pitfall traps. We capture a lot of skinks and geckos but the serpents are the prize – and funnels are particularly adept at snake snaffling. Snakes enter the funnel-shaped entrance and once inside on the bottom of the trap they are unable to find the exit, which is raised about 10 cm off the ground. So they then curl up and wait for the ecologists to collect them. In the video there are some key behaviours to note. The flaring and hissing of the snake is mostly bluff and fear response. If you stand still, snakes will ignore you and go about their business – humans are not snake food, snakes are more interested in snake-mouth-sized prey. You can see that the snake ignores Dr Kern as she stands quietly and it calmly passes by to escape into the Spinifex. Be assured that Bush Heritage ecologists are experts in their field, with training and a lot of experience in snake handling. Animal care and welfare is a highly important thing for us. We don’t actively go out to fiddle with snakes unless we must. Rather, we just trap them, treat them with care, photograph them and release them unharmed after identification. Snakes are a wonderful component of our biodiversity. Respect. |
| Category | Nonprofits & Activism |
| Tags | King Brown | Mulga Snake | Pseudechis australis | ecology | Pippa Kern | Edgbaston Reserve | king brown snake | king brown snake australia | snake handling | king brown snake safety | Bush heritage | bush heritage australia | King brown snake escaping | king brown snake behaviour | king brown snake hissing | king brown snake flying | mulga snake behaviour | mulga snake escaping |
