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Old 26-10-2020, 03:16 PM
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Snake type?

I nearly stepped on this little fellow during my morning walk. I thought it was a green tree snake, but a friend says an olive python. Anybody really know?

It was only about 2 foot long in the old measure. I took with 5x enlargement on the smartphone.
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Old 26-10-2020, 03:28 PM
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We get a lot of Olive Pythons here. We found one 2m long in the tree off our deck chasing birds eggs. They are generally a darker patterned colour than your photo seems with a angular head but maybe that is the immature colour.
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Old 26-10-2020, 06:50 PM
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Thanks Ray. I thought it was small and its head was very small, so probably a youngster.
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Old 26-10-2020, 08:49 PM
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We used to breed pythons back in the day and I'm not sure what that is, but I'm confident that it's not an olive python. Also looks too heavy-bodied to be a tree snake... tree snakes are quite thin.
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Old 27-10-2020, 02:37 PM
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Have to agree with Lee, but i too think it is not a Olive Python, very interesting specimen though.

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Old 27-10-2020, 03:45 PM
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My wife did the snake ID test at the poisons information centre and no one could get any ID right. If it bites , take a photo.

This little fella we found on our walk is a kind of Brown Snake and extremely poisonous if it could get a hold of the skin between your fingers or toes. But some are yellow and some are dark and some have spots and some don’t.
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Old 27-10-2020, 05:16 PM
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Clearing bush rocks from a north facing paddock in winter every big flat rock had numerous juvi browns under it and they were every colour you could imagine...thankfully they were cold and slow to move .
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Old 28-10-2020, 07:38 PM
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Try to send your pic to the Queensland museum for a possible identification.
I have difficulty to identify the head,and find the amount of "bends"? in the body strange.
I have never seen one like it.
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