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EASTERN BROWN CHASING BEHAVIOUR EXPLAINED 🐍
When people tell of being chased by a snake, they generally lack an understanding of the snake's behaviour and intentions. When someone encounters a defensive snake, most people interpret any advance towards them as though the snake intends to catch, bite and inject them with venom. While a close encounter sometimes results in a venomous bite, it is usually the snake's last resort.

A more accurate explanation of the snake's behaviour in this situation is Offensive advancing; This is when a snake charges towards a perceived predator to force its opponent to retreat. When someone says a snake chased them, this is the behaviour they are referring to. It is essential to understand that this behaviour is intended to warn off predators by appearing intimidating.

We've all seen an elephant charge towards an animal that gets too close. When the intruder backs off, the elephant returns to the herd. Like the elephant, snakes perform similar behaviour and may charge at you if you are too close. When you are far enough away for the snake to feel safe again, it will move off or go back to what it was doing.

Countless times while filming defensive snakes, they will advance towards me, only to dart down a hole or into the nearest cover at the first available opportunity. When you see a snake exhibit this behaviour, it is merely telling you to back off so it can escape, or at the very least, feel safe again.

While these advances appear aggressive, it is generally not the snake's intention to catch and bite you because physical contact with an opponent increases the risk of personal injury to the snake, i.e. breaking fangs or retaliation from the animal they are biting. As such, biting is generally a last resort for a snake when defending themselves.

If, after watching this footage, you still believe snakes intentionally mean you harm, then please consider the following facts:
1) Venomous snakes don't see us as prey. Their only reason for biting is to defend themselves.
2) Snakes perceive humans and anything else larger than them (even vehicles) as large potential predators; if it's big and moving towards them, they may perceive it as a threat to their life, and defensive behaviour may follow.
3) Snakes are NOT territorial and will only defend their personal safety. They do not mark out a territory and protect it as dogs do.
4) Snakes are born with every instinct they need to survive in the wild. One of these instincts is defensive behaviour. They do not premeditate attacks on humans or pets. In their mind, they are merely trying to survive a close encounter with a large perceived predator.
5) Snakes respond to movement defensively (particularly eastern brown snakes). The more you move around, the more you will appear threatening and the more defensive they can become.
6) Statistics collected by scientists and hospital case studies show that eastern brown snakes only envenomate 20-40% of the time when biting in defence. If you were a prey item (a rodent, for example), they would envenomate 100% of the time. With dry bites being so common, it stands to reason that they instinctually know not to waste their venom on something they cannot eat. A venomous bite is simply a by-product of the snake using biting as a technique to defend itself - not because the snake is intentionally trying to use its venom on a human (or pet).

The above info is intended to help the general public better understand the defensive behaviour of snakes. With this knowledge, I hope you can reframe how you perceive snakes. They are not aggressive animals that need to be feared or eliminated, but rather scared, nervous animals that will defend their personal safety if necessary.

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