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The Death Adder some miners in the Pilbara Mine came across the adder eating a Goanna. Some amazing photos as proof.
Taken at a Pilbara Mine Site
About the Death Adder
(QM, Bruce Cowell)
Identification: Length to 40 cm. Head arrow-shaped. Tail sharply tapered to spine-like scale. Reddish or brown above, often banded with black flecks or darker brown; greyish or cream below. Mid-body scales 17-21; anal single; subcaudals, front single, back divided; ventrals 126-152.
Habitat and Range: Open forest. TNQ, Cooktown to Townsville. Australia, northern WA, NT, northern Qld.
Notes: Preys on frogs, Cane Toads (snake dies), small reptiles, birds, mammals. Live-bearer, number of young not known, probably about 8.
Potentially dangerous. Venom strongly neurotoxic, weakly haemolytic and anticoagulant. (Queensland Museum, 2000)
QM,Bruce Cowell, 2000,Wildlife Of tropical North Queensland [image], Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum. 2000 ,Wild Life Of Tropical Northern Queensland, Queensland Museum
