It’s a Saturday morning of a glorious long weekend in Australia today, as you are well aware – beaches are being flocked to en masse, slip and slides are being debuted, bottle o’s prepare for the biggest weekend of the year, parts of North Western Australia are inching towards 50 degrees Celsius – a truly horrific thought that makes you city dweller you breathe a sigh of 20-something degree relief – and we are now privy to another video of Australian Fauna doing what they do best, scaring the hell out of prospective tourists on amateur camera.
WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE!
Video has emerged from Sydney’s Western suburb Parramatta showing the primal, rather hypnotic dance of two red bellied black snakes in a heated battle for “territorial dominance”, according to 9 News, who cited a “reptile expert” to confirm that they were, in fact, not just having sweet nookie. Territorial dominance or not, this looks like choreographed heaven.
While the pretty bodily contortions seen in the video look harmless, the snakes can, like every moving creature in Australia, be dangerous — news outlets are warning punters at the Lake Parramatta Reserve, the popular Parramatta swimming hole were the two dudes were spotted beefing — to watch out for RBB snakes.
As much as this story makes my heart sing, in terms of our archived and much beloved repository of Snake Stories, I just don’t know if it truly compares.
Truth is, we live in a fortunate land of the free, where tales of snakes eating things or doing cool shit is no longer a rarity; take this sly dude, or this chill motherfucker. It’s tough game out there.
But still. Here is your snake video, and happy ‘strayan day weekend.
Via 9 News.
