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Snakes at Mt Best

Snake skin has iridescent color-changing properties. Can you see a litle rainbow of colors near the eye? This is the same snake a minute later, but it seemed to change the color of its skin...
Snake alert level increases - its head goes up
Can you see a snake in this photo? Snakes that we see do not pose danger, because we can avoid disturbing them. The snakes that we do not see can harm us when we surprise them or worse, step on them.

Black tiger snakes are common to Bass Strait islands between Australia and Tasmania, where they eat mutton birds. Black tiger snakes are larger and have more potent venom than typical tiger snakes. It turns out that black tiger snakes also exist on Australia's mainland, but they are quite rare there. The photo shows a large black tiger snake with a yellow lip at Mt Best. The snake is about 1.5 m long and it seems to feed on rabbits.