A Moment of Pause


World's Most Venomous Snakes

Snake Species Distribution
1 Inland taipan Australia
2 Eastern brown snake Australia
3 Coastal taipan Australia
4 Tiger snake Australia
5 Black tiger snake Australia
6 Beaked sea snake Australia
7 Black tiger snake (Chappell Island ssp.) Australia
8 Death adder Australia
9 Gwardar Australia
10 Spotted brown snake Australia
11 Australian copperhead Australia
12 Cobra Asia
13 Dugite Australia
14 Papuan black snake New Guinea
15 Stephens' banded snake Australia
16 Rough scaled snake Australia
17 King cobra Asia
18 Blue-bellied black snake Australia
19 Collett's snake Australia
20 Mulga snake Australia
21 Red-bellied black snake Australia
22 Small eyed snake Australia
23 Eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake North America
24 Black whipsnake Australia
25 Fer-de-lance South America

Not so venomous
I came across this listing at Sydney's Wildlife World Center. I have to admit I felt a little conflicted upon finding the diamond back rattlesnake ranked so low. I guess I'll get over it and be glad I'm not running around in the Australian outback looking for power poles. Here are some more shots from our day out to Wildlife World.
On the walk to Wildlife World

Our blog's token turtle appearance

We discovered that in addition to snakes there are lots of venomous spiders in Australia too. Hooray!

The sign didn't say this was venomous but I'll keep my distance anyway



Hey, a non venomous creature! To compensate for their low energy eucalyptus leaf diet koalas sleep 20 hours a day. They also have really small brains to save energy lost from thinking. Perhaps we should stop worrying about fossil fuels so much and just try to do our part by not thinking so much.
Rex, a very large salt water crocodile. Not venomous but very dangerous. I'll post more on him later.


Lego is the sculptor's medium of choice these days. 

Marble is so 15th century


Bevo's cousin the water buffalo





Comments

sly said…
Cool museum. Any reason why there are so many poisonous snakes in Australia?

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