Why does Australia have deadly snakes while the UK is basically snake-free?

[Anonymous]

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I live in Australia and this video is what we have to deal with

[jennifer_bloom]

A guy I knew from church years ago did a mission trip to Honduras and they saw a poisonous insect inside the home they were staying at during their mission trip. He killed it before it could send them to the hospital by biting them or leaving venom in the apartment.

My dad had a co worker who grew up in Europe and he was sent to Africa to address some engineering problems there while enrolled in their military and during his stay in Africa, dangerous flesh eating ants crawled into their temporary home and his wife had to kill them before they could hurt them.

People don't realize that it often takes high intelligence to survive in poor areas of the world, just because they are poor, does not mean, their life does not have complicated rules you have to follow to stay alive.

[purplepoppy]

Not true. We have grass snakes and smooth snakes (both harmless) but we've also got adders which do kill a few dogs each year. There's also a sizable population of Aesculapian snakes which like living in attics.

France has a few venomous species but the English channel keeps them at bay

[AngryCarl3]

That's just a vicious rumour. I've never seen snakes outside of a zoo.

[purplepoppy]

That's because you're not looking

[MrChinaski]

@purplepoppy Roughly speaking, you have as many deaths from snake bite every quarter century as we have in quarter of a year.

[purplepoppy]

Then leave the snakes alone and you won't get bitten

[AngryCarl3]

@purplepoppy That is also true.

[MrChinaski]

England.

- Not a great place to be warm-blooded.

- Very little cover left to protect from aerial predators. A stand of seven trees is frequently labelled a ''forest'' on maps.

- Snakes have better taste than that.

Australia is basically one big playground for snakes. I have a nature reserve over the back of my house and horse paddocks a couple of doors up. Heavy coverage from long grass and overhanging trees. It's basically snake heaven. We sight an eastern brown snake every couple of years... I'm sure there are a lot more, they tend to prefer not to socialise.

[MrChinaski]

*cold-blooded... well, either, really.

[Grgroup]

Many of these snakes are very venomous. Australia is a very special environment. Many of the snake species have evolved over millions of years. The UK is cooler and doesn't have the same evolutionary history to favour the same diversity of reptiles. While Australia is known for its deadly snakes, most people will never come into close contact, and death from snake bites is not common.

[Calyptomaniac]

Most snakes go to warmer weather, so way back when the land bridge to mainland Europe finally separated them, most of them were probably further south where it was warmer. I don't have quite the array of poisonous things trying to kill me that Australia does but he have quite a few poisonous snakes around here in the desert.

They must have had a lot at some point

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrHuLQl_DgY

[Agape93]

The UK has a lot of snakes. It's called parliament and town councils

[Anonymous]

In Australia you are much more likely to be attacked by another human than a snake.

[ᴍᴀʀʀɪᴇᴅ]

I think there are crocodiles in that country too 🫣

[Abbycado]

Because they are different countries?

[In_Trance]

I'm sure there's an answer on AI somewhere

[Asker]

I live in Australia and this video is what we have to deal with all the time

[In_Trance]

Well, there's 35 million people there, so they've all figured it out

[jahaims]

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