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Acanthophis antarcticus
To all my Chinese friends. Happy New Year!!!! May the year of the snake be prosperous and happy for you all. :)
Strangely enough, death adders are not true adders. They belong to the same family as other venomous Australian snakes, the elapids. They have evolved their similarity to adders, which are actually members of the viper family, in response to their environment and their sit and wait style of life, which does not require a snake to be long and agile but short and muscular for a quick strike when necessary.
Spotted on Feb 10, 2013
Submitted on Feb 10, 2013
41 Comments (1–25)
Wonderful photo Christiane. Incredibly beautiful snake. Very interesting information about them too. Thank you for sharing :)
It is very long and fat. It looks dangerous. It seems huge. It looks poisonous.
It seems very heavy.
Form II Brown - Saint George´s School
Nice colors !!!
Superb spotting!
Thanks EnvUnlimited
Thanks to all you beautiful people..
Beautiful snake!
Fantastic! Congratulations Christiane!
very cool poisonis
Congrats Christiane !!
Congratulations Christiane :):)
Congratulations Christiane ! and I hope all goes well for you too, this year !!
Congratulations of SOTD nice pic
Congratulations on your SOTD!
Great pic, and very deserving of POTD! Congratulations.
Wow,great encounter :-)
This guy was scared away by the car.. I know how hard they are to spot.. My last one was right beside were I put my food. Lucky it did not attack. It did not even move. The flood washed out a lot of snakes. Yesterday I spotted my first tiger snake on my farm.
Amazing capture Christiane,congrats on the SOTD,thanks for sharing
Congrats Christiane, and happy Year of the Snake to you too!! How on earth did you find this guy, was it just sitting out in the open like that? (It's so very hard to spot one in the wild!) : )
scary..
Beautiful spotting congrats!
Thanks for all the great comments and the likes.. I hope we all have a good YEAR OF THE SNAKE.. with lots of great photos. :)
Congrats Christiane, I love this photo a lot! And a happy snake year to you too :)
Awesome spot! Congrats!
Congratulations on SOTD Christiane! Awesome snake! Has such wonderful markings.