Reptiles and Frogs
Snakes
Sighting 3777088

Pseudonaja textilis

5 Eastern Brown Snake at Acton, ACT

Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
Pseudonaja textilis at Acton, ACT - 6 Oct 2018 02:13 PM
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Identification history

Pseudonaja textilis 7 Oct 2018 wombey
Pseudonaja textilis 7 Oct 2018 TimL

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User's notes

A yawning snake? The snake was seen to do this twice over a period of about 5 minutes.

1 comment

WillO wrote:
   8 Oct 2018
A great series of photographs - well done. One possible reason for "yawning" in snakes is that they sometimes need to re-articulate their lower jaw bones following the capture and swallowing of a large prey item. WillO.

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Species information

  • Pseudonaja textilis Scientific name
  • Eastern Brown Snake Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1685.3m Recorded at altitude
  • 445 images trained Machine learning

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