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I actually came across this snake last year in winter - on a typically cold, overcast day. It's likely a tiger snake and it was basking out in the open. We came across it on our walk on my family's rural property on Kangaroo Island in South Australia and came close to accidentally stepping on it! Ignore the grey colour - I'm not exactly sure why it turned out like that in the photograph. The snake was jet black in real life. It sort of looks like reflective glare off the scales but it was an overcast day.
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More recently, Ive read about some studies done by scientists over here on reptiles. Because of the island's relative closeness to Antarctica, the climate over here is generally quite cool and the reptiles have had to adapt to this. As a result, the reptiles on Kangaroo Island are more active during cold weather compared to reptiles on the mainland. And I have seen other evidence of this. Last Summer, two mornings in a row, I saw tiger snakes out in the open in cool, overcast weather. And on an overcast day in winter, I saw a goanna (monitor lizard) right outside of it's burrow.
More recently, Ive read about some studies done by scientists over here on reptiles. Because of the island's relative closeness to Antarctica, the climate over here is generally quite cool and the reptiles have had to adapt to this. As a result, the reptiles on Kangaroo Island are more active during cold weather compared to reptiles on the mainland. And I have seen other evidence of this. Last Summer, two mornings in a row, I saw tiger snakes out in the open in cool, overcast weather. And on an overcast day in winter, I saw a goanna (monitor lizard) right outside of it's burrow.
