by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | Brisbane Snake, News, Snakes
Snakes on the Brain: Essays on Snakes, Science, and Society. Essay 1. The Brown Snake, The Taipan, and The Paradox. Snakes on the Brain: Essays on Snakes, Science, and Society # 1 I often wonder what exactly about snakes makes them such polarizing figures throughout... 
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | Brisbane Snake, News, Snakes
Baby brown in the coal testing lab! An interesting call out last week! A coal quality testing facility in south Brisbane has had several close encounters with often large brown snakes, possibly to do with the poultry production yards nearby leading to high rat... 
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | Brisbane Snake, News, Snakes
Unleash the Sass! Releasing Sassy, the White Crowned Snake With warmer nights comes more nocturnal snakes! Luckily for us Brisbanites, most of these encounters are either with big but essentially harmless pythons, or with small, shy, and usually only mildly venomous... 
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News, Snake Catcher, Snakes
Brown Snake In Garden Netting This was a tough one. A few days back I got a call nice and early in the morning from just north of Brisbane. A property owner was concerned about a rather large eastern brown snake caught in his garden netting, found that morning but by... 
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | Brisbane Snake, News, Snakes
Spring is here! Be snake aware After the biting cold-snap that devoured Brisbane in the last weeks of winter, sending us all running for the thermals we had optimistically packed away, I, for one, am glad to see the temperatures climbing once more. Spring has reached... 
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 17, 2016 | Brisbane Snake, News, Snakes
Black Mamba Bio-Control Hoax Making the rounds this week on the social media is an interesting but obviously fake article about black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis). The article, found below, claims there is a plan to release 22,000 of these snakes in the Burdekin... 
