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Wedding at SnakeSense!
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in August 2011, SnakeSense Director, Georgina Beach, married Swiss musical instrument maker (and fellow snake-lover) Werner Egger, in an intimate ceremony on a flower-bedecked balcony in the midst of Kingbilli Wildlife Refuge.
A small gathering of close friends and family witnessed the happy event, and SnakeSense …
Meet our Mascot!
Here she is… our long awaited, brand new SnakeSense Mascot! Attention everyone… meet Fluffy!
Fluffy is a five month old female Water Python (Liasis mackloti), bred by our friends at Black Snake Productions from two of their favourite public demonstration animals. Having worked with these two sweet-hearted snakes in public on …
Snakes, camera…action!
Who said it first: never work with children and animals? Well, he or she can’t have worked with baby snakes: because this particular snake catch – our first captured on film – obeyed the script to the letter!
Education is key to changing attitudes towards snakes: and there’s nothing like the …
Out and About!
SnakeSense has been making the most of the Autumn sunshine and getting out, about and enthusiastic with fellow snake fans!
Last weekend, we worked with Black Snake Productions, operators of the Lost Reptiles Home, assisting with a huge reptile display at the annual Eastern Regional Pet Expo in Ferntree Gully. Georgina spent …
So you think it’s the snakes?
Recently, news services have been making hay about a spate of venomous snakebites in New South Wales. However, they have neglected to tell the stories behind the bites. Research conducted on humans and snakes in that state (using Eastern Brown and Red-Bellied Black Snakes) has demonstrated people are 20 times more …
Humans are far more dangerous
In March 2008, a baby Tiger Snake was born. Just 18cm long, this tiny, shy little girl knew her mother only a few moments before she and her siblings were left to fend for themselves. Within days, her brothers and sisters had gone their separate ways in their own quests …
Don’t Knock the Man-Bag, man!
In this material age, the modern male has much to carry: wallet, mobile phone, car keys, ipod… Surely, it’s time the man-bag lost its attached stigma and was praised for its practicality. All those important items handily contained, and even better: at the end of a long day, your man-bag …
Big Girls’ Day Out!
It never rains but it pours … and after a snake-catching drought over the past week or two, two frantic calls came in within an hour of each other, for the biggest girls we’ve seen in a long time!
First, near Marysville, lolling about in the ladies room of a country …
False Alarm!
There’s always a rush of anticipation when the telephone rings with a snake-call … will we get it? What will it be? How big will it be? Will we get some fabulous photos?
Well, sadly the rush died upon arrival this time around, as we were pointed towards the offending “snake”, …
Wilfred’s Big Day!
The time has come, and Wilfred the Brown Snake is back in the wild! Wilfred was rescued from a mass of netting under a kitchen sink (read the full story here), and suffered several wounds from his ordeal.
But, after some tender loving care and a few days rest and relaxation …
Tiger Snakes are capable of spitting venom, similar to, although not as effectively as a Spitting Cobra.