Published 11:15 IST, March 23rd 2023

Australian snake catcher rescues highly venomous Eastern Brown snake from a woman's bed

An Eastern Brown snake, the most venomous serpent in the world, was found by an Australian woman in the bed on Monday.

Reported by: Saumya Joshi
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An Eastern Brown snake, most vemous serpent in world, was found by an Australian woman who was sleeping in her bed on Monday, as per local news reports. Professional snake catcher Zachary Richards, of Zachery's Snake and Reptile Relocation, posted ims of vemous reptile on social media platform Facebook.

Eastern Brown snake found was almost six feet long, local news report stated. Zachary was called to scene in tiny rural town of Maroon, in Queensland, to remove snake safely.

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Taking to Facebook, Zachary Richards wrote, " Check bed carefully tonight!  This eastern brown snake safely relocated! #snakecatcher #brownsnake #bedtime #boonah #kalbar #scenicrim". post has garnered more than a thousand likes, and over two thousand comments and has been shared 317 times at time of filing this report. 

Facebook Post of Zachery's Snake and Reptile Relocation

A professional snake catcher removes snake from a bed! 

As soon as Richard received a distress call from an Australian woman living in Maroon, Queensland, Australia, he arrived at scene. While sharing his experience with a local news channel, he said, "When I arrived, she ( resident) was waiting outside for me, and I went inside to bedroom that snake was in, and she had door shut with a towel underneath, so it couldn't get out." Furr, he added, "I pushed door open, and it was lying in bed looking at me."

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Richard suggested that snake might have "come in through a door to seek shelter" due to warm wear outside, "or it just wanted a nice comfortable bed to sleep in." While praising owner of house, who called him, Richard said, "If you see a snake, you want to leave it alone, back away from it and where possible and safe to do so, confine it to one room as it makes it easier for us to find." Furr, veteran snake catcher shared that after he caught snake from bed, he took it to " some nearby bushland and left it a safe distance from or residences". 

Why Eastern Brown snakes are most vemous? 

se species of snakes, which are commonly found in eastern Australia, have a unique distinction of causing more deaths from snake bites than any or species of snake in Australia, as per Australian museum, reported CBS news. vem of se Eastern brown snakes contains "powerful neurotoxins", and if bitten by one and t treated immediately could lead to progressive paralysis and uncontrolled bleeding. vem "neurotoxin" could shut down victim's heart, diaphragm and lungs, causing m to suffocate.

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11:15 IST, March 23rd 2023