By Pranav Harish For Daily Mail Australia
06:26 10 Nov 2023, up to date 07:28 10 Nov 2023
Aussies have been left scratching their heads after a snake catcher requested individuals if they may spot the venomous reptile hiding in bushland.
The image was uploaded on Thursday by the Hodgsons Snake Catchers Facebook after they noticed it at Beaufort, 40 kilometres from Ballarat, Victoria.
In a weedy patch of gravel the snake seems to disguise itself as part of the bottom.
Followers had been requested whether or not they may spot the reptile, the rescuers suggesting they ‘take a screenshot of the picture, then draw a line tracing the place you consider the snake is within the picture’.
‘Remember, that is gravel with weeds, barely any cowl.’
Some had been clueless and stated they could not spot the snake.
‘Nope this one bought me,’ one consumer wrote.
‘I do not know the place it’s,’ one other wrote.
‘I’m struggling as properly! I can’t see it in any respect.’
Others who appeared to identify the snake tried to guess the species.
‘Hidden properly jap brown my guess,’ one wrote.
‘My guess is a tiger snake,’ one other stated.
Some noticed the funnier facet whereas others stated the sport made them really feel cautious the following time they went exterior.
‘Not taking part in this silly dumb sport anymore!!!!’ one consumer wrote.
‘Another day the place I get bitten and die,’ one other stated.
‘These video games give me a lot anxiousness.’
One of the moderators of the publish wrote within the feedback part that the exercise was extra about getting individuals to note what’s round them.
‘It’s (the sport) not about simple or onerous (to seek out the snake), it is about consciousness to your environment,’ they wrote.
While most discovered it tough to identify the snake and determine the species, Gianni from Hodgsons advised Daily Mail Australia that the reptile was a tiger snake.
‘This (snake) was in a piece yard,’ Gianni stated.
‘There was a business place the place individuals could be walking previous and it (snake) was sitting within the backyard mattress.’
‘We took it out to an area creek away from workplaces and folks’s homes.’
Gianni stated the purpose of the sport was to assist individuals turn out to be extra conscious of their environment significantly in unfamiliar areas.
‘That’s the purpose of the sport…is to point out individuals how properly they (snakes) can mix in and cannot be noticed,’ Gianni stated.
Video footage was put up later which revealed the second the snake was seen mendacity on the bottom.
The person who filmed the snake zooms the digicam in to point out the animal which seems to be mendacity on the floor immobile.
Moments later the snake jerks the higher a part of its physique because the person filming steps again earlier than the snake then swiftly slithers away.
