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DRENCHED IN INFAMY If there’s one snake that conjures up horror images, tall ta…
DRENCHED IN INFAMY
If there’s one snake that conjures up horror images, tall tales and urban myth – it’s this snake
The Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis) sometimes commonly referred to as a King Brown.
It’s hard to believe that such infamy can arise from a snake that has been involved in very few human fatalities in recorded history. And certainly none since Y2K – so why is there so much fear surrounding this snake?
Certainly one aspect about this snake gets the imagination going and that is it’s ability to flatten its neck out like a cobra and lunge defensively toward a perceived threat
But does that make it dangerous? Because it can try and make itself bigger against a much larger and imposing predator (being us) to try…
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