{"id":157273,"date":"2025-09-20T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:09:19","slug":"look-venomous-snake-found-hundreds-of-miles-from-native-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157273\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Venomous snake found hundreds of miles from native range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 17 (UPI) &#8212; Snake catchers on an Australian island were initially surprised and confused when they were called to capture a venomous snake hundreds of miles from its native range.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Fuller and Dimity Maxfield of Snake Rescue Sunshine Coast said they were sent a photo of a snake spotted in a Bribie Island resident&#8217;s yard and were surprised to find it was an orange and red Collett&#8217;s snake.\n<\/p>\n<p>The species is native to western Queensland, hundreds of miles away from the island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were so excited,&#8221; Fuller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au\/2025\/09\/17\/deadly-snake-found-far-from-home-sparks-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Sunshine Coast News<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen a Collett&#8217;s snake in real life before, let alone been able to handle one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fuller said the highly venomous snake was likely either an escaped pet or a wild animal that hitched a ride in an oblivious traveler&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Snake Rescue Sunshine Coast later said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snakerescuesunnycoast\/posts\/pfbid0gYcFkYhqJcGaRvocrmaxBEvyWcwZa94VmxS4JDY1uBDtEnwpN8vy3XMNNQ3kNg9kl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that the snake was indeed an escaped pet and its owner had been identified.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been in contact with the owner and are now sorting all the necessary paper work,&#8221; the post said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 17 (UPI) &#8212; Snake catchers on an Australian island were initially surprised and confused when they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-157273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}