by Janne Torkkola | Mar 25, 2017 | News
Now free to read online at our blog, Snakes on the Brain, or click the link below. Enjoy! 🙂 Essay 6. Riches from the Dust: How Australia’s Depleted Soils Promote Diverse Reptile Communities Cheers,...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
Imagine yourself walking through an open European woodland on a summer’s evening. It’s been a warm day, the sun is setting, and its at least 60 million years before present. The head torch, which you were wise enough to bring from the time machine to light...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
“Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing and understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.” –Â Brian Schmidt. Why does Australia have so many species of...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
Despite their fearsome reputation, there are a lot of us folk in the reptile and wildlife fields who find the group of animals known as Brown Snakes (Genus Pseudonaja) to be an enigmatic, fascinating and, dare I say, beautiful bunch of animals. Perhaps it’s the...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
Snakes on the Brain: Essays on Snakes, Science and Society #2 I often wonder what exactly about snakes makes them such polarizing figures throughout human history. We tend to react in extremes when it comes to these often maligned creatures, and both human parties,...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
We had some great photos sent in the other day from Michelle here in Brisbane to help identify a snake in her yard. After speaking with her I was fairly sure it was a Keelback or Freshwater snake (Tropidonophis mairii). But the real proof came when she told me it had...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
One of the biggest threats to our snakes, aside from the ever present shovel wielding moron, is the road. Like most native wildlife, our roads are a huge cause of mortality in snakes, who love to bask on the open, hot bitumen, or to hunt at night for frogs and geckos...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
Now free to read online at our blog, Snakes on the Brain, or click the link below. Enjoy! 🙂 Snakes on the Brain Essay 5. Reptiles In The Face Of A Changing Global Climate Cheers,...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
Snakes on the Brain: Essays on Snakes, Science, and Society # 1 I often wonder what exactly about snakes makes them such polarizing figures throughout human history. We tend to react in extremes when it comes to these often maligned creatures, and both human parties,...
by Janne Torkkola | Aug 18, 2016 | News
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 populations. The latest was a small snake...
