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Eastern brown snake
Pseudonaja textilis
Pseudonaja textilis has the unenviable distinction of causing more snakebite deaths in Australia than every other species combined, and the reason is not that its venom is the strongest — though it ranks near the top of any drop-for-drop toxicity list — but that it is fast, nerv…
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- Despite their dangerous reputation, Eastern brown snakes help control populations of rodents and pests in agricultural areas.
- Brown snakes lay eggs, unlike most Australian elapids' live-bearing relatives, and a female may produce 15 or more in a clutch in a disused burrow or compost heap. Because the venom acts on clotting so fast, Australian first aid uses a pressure immobilisation bandage over the whole limb — not a tourniquet and never a cut-and-suck — to slow lymphatic spread of the venom. Many recorded bites happen when someone tries to kill or move the snake. It is an efficient rodent controller, and the same farms that fear it benefit from it.
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