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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
(August 14, 2019 at 2:04 am)Little lunch Wrote: My cousin and I were swimming in the Pioneer River off Marian.
We get back to the ute and a baby Taipan comes out from underneath, reared up, quite fast.
We killed it and then I saw another in the grass.
So we decided there might be a mum if there's more than one baby about.
I mean, I know fuck all about Taipans.
But the car doors were open and the possibility that it might be in the ute, fuck me, scariest fucking car drive home ever. :-)

We had an Indian feller in my home town named Ram Chandra and he was the Taipan Man.
He had a snake side show and he travelled all the schools when I was a kid.
When I was 18 I dated his niece for a bit and I got to meet him a few times and check out his huge snake collection.
He did a lot for venom research, a great man.

I think there are a few snake species that will stick around and protect their eggs and their babies for a very brief spell after they've hatched. Don't know if the Taipan's one of those though.

Ah, well...You and your cousin would've been screwed, regardless. Good thing you guys got out of there.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday? - by Athene - August 14, 2019 at 4:13 am
I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Brian37 - August 24, 2021 at 12:27 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by no one - August 24, 2021 at 12:36 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Ravenshire - August 24, 2021 at 4:53 pm

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