We saw another Taipan snake slithering around the shearing quarters.  Today was not its lucky day.  The last Taipan we saw we never caught.  This one looked just like the last one we saw.  Could it be that we bought it with us under one of our vehicles?  Possibly but apparently they are quite common around here so we’ll never know?  This time the farmer got involved in catching/killing it and bought in the heavy machinery to help get it.

You don’t see the snake at the beginning of the video.  It was hiding under the old meat house.  The farmer tried to get it out but it wouldn’t budge, so he had to get the forklift in to lift up the meat house.  The snake then slithers out right under Rachel (farmers wife) whose siting on the back of the caravan, it goes under the caravan, then under the truck and then into shower drain and out the other side of the wash room.

 

OK..the lesson for today kids… This is an Inland Taipan Snake

 

It’s found where the Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales and Northern Territory borders converge.

This snake has highly toxic venom and is considered to be the most potent of any land snake in the world; it has the potential to kill an adult human within 45 minutes.

 

So don’t go anywhere near the drain where it was killed.  There might still be venom there!

more into at http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2012/07/australias-10-most-dangerous-snakes