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Photos
Posted on: 2007-09-27 04:29:28
By: Anonymous
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Hey thanks Chris! better to see the photos than just read
Miguel
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Re: Photos
Posted on: 2008-05-02 11:03:51
By: Anonymous
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hi.
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white-lipped keelback snake
Posted on: 2008-05-26 01:34:47
By: Anonymous
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I no it is called a whit-lippd keelback snake bacause it has a white lip and all but other than that why else would you call it that. And where in Australia dose this amazing animal come from. Thank you From Lucy Ward
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Re: white-lipped keelback snake
Posted on: 2008-05-26 03:38:20
By: Anonymous
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An interesting question! And not an easy one to answer from the web.
My Reader's Digest Encyclopedia of Australian wildlife has this to say about the Australian keelback - "Sometimes known as the freshwater snake, the keelback is about a metre long with keeled (ridged) scales."
I guess it has ridged scales on its back.
The Australian keelback is not to be confused with the Asian keelback however - which is the subject of the recent new species discovery. That said, the Australian keelback (according to the same book) "occurs in coastal areas and adjacent parts from the Kimberly in Western Australia to northern New South Wales. It is found in damp areas near billabongs, rivers and swamps, where it hunts both by day and night, feeding on lizards and frogs. It even eats the young of the poisonous cane toad, with no adverse effects, and is also known to remove the squashed bodies of frogs from roads. The keelback is solid-toothed and harmless. In spring and summer it deposits 5 - 15 eggs beneath rocks, logs and under rotting leaf litter."
Chris.
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