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Have a go at this whopper!
:35:06
This is a King....
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King Brown. Babe, get the catching bag!
:35:12
You can see why they call him King Brown.
:35:15
This is a snake rescue.
:35:17
We need to take him with us...
:35:19
...and set him up somewhere
where he won't conflict with cars.
:35:24
Nuts!
:35:25
King Brown snake.
Member of the black snake family.
:35:28
Comes out here onto the road...
:35:30
...trying to get some sunlight
and heat up in the morning.
:35:36
See the way he flattens his neck out?
That typical cobra neck flattening?
:35:40
What he's doing is saying, "I'm venomous...
:35:43
"...I'm wild, and I'll bite you!"
:35:46
Did you see that?
Wouldn't want a bite around here.
:35:51
Their venom is highly necrotic.
:35:53
That means you rot and things drop off.
I'd hate to get bitten there.
:35:57
Steady, mate. You're all right.
:36:00
And this snake species actually has...
:36:03
...the highest venom yield...
:36:05
...of any snake in Australia.
:36:08
Pretty soon he'll settle down.
:36:10
He'll work out that I mean him no harm.
:36:12
It's good that me and Terri came along.
:36:16
Otherwise, the next car down the track
would have slaughtered him.
:36:20
They're quick and they'll eat other snakes.
:36:23
There's not another snake they'd
encounter that they wouldn't eat.
:36:26
In fact, this big bloke here...
:36:28
...probably would have eaten
other venomous snakes of his species.
:36:33
They can actually be cannibalistic.
:36:35
Out of my eyes!
:36:36
Don't bite my boot!
:36:40
Right behind his head...
:36:42
...are two huge venom glands.
:36:46
And he'd be able to belt in,
like two hypodermic needles...
:36:50
...around about 300 milligrams
of venom in one hit.
:36:57
Terri, where's the catching bag?