![]() “This is what nightmares are made of,” one wrote in response to the photos. Hundreds of locals were mortified at the sight and vowed to never head to bed without checking under the covers again. It had its head raised and stared back at the camera as though it was upset to have been woken. An alarming bedroom encounter with a huge snake has prompted a chilling warning after the intruder was caught out mid-nap. The snake appeared to have been disturbed from a warm nap at the time of the photos, with part of its body still tucked beneath the blanket at the end of the bed. “Check the bed carefully tonight! This eastern brown snake safely relocated!” the snake catcher wrote along with the photos. The Eastern Brown snake was collected from the home by Zachery’s Snake and Reptile Relocation, which shared chilling photos of the animal lazing on the bed to Facebook. The warning came after an enormous brown snake had to be removed from someone’s bed in Kalbar, west of the Gold Coast in Queensland, on Monday. This comes after a string of sightings of sea snakes around New Zealand - a sea krait was spotted on an Auckland beach just two weeks ago, and another in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour last month.A horrifying snake discovery has sparked warnings for people to thoroughly check under the covers before bed to avoid getting an alarming surprise. The big question - which New Zealand beach did this ordeal take place in? Well, it’s not clear, but the user included the hashtag #westcoast in his caption, and other commenters suggested Tangimoana Beach in Manawatū - the same beach where another yellow-bellied sea snake was found earlier this year by a man, who later received a criminal conviction for going against DoC’s advice to return the snake to sea. You can also report it by calling 0800 DOC HOT. They warn if you do find one of these, you shouldn’t try to touch or handle the animal but give it plenty of space and let other people in the area know it’s there. Though it’s true that they’re venomous, they’re also docile and New Zealand has no official record of bitings, DoC states. The appearance of the creature in the video is much like the yellow-bellied sea snake, an occasional visitor to New Zealand waters.Īccording to the Department of Conservation’s (DoC) website, this sea snake is a protected species in New Zealand, meaning that it’s illegal to kill or harass a sea snake or keep one without a permit. ![]() “WHEN THE HECK DID WE START HAVING SNAKES,” asked one TikTok user.Īges ago, apparently, many were quick to point out. Several TikTok users were puzzled by the creature’s similarity in appearance to that of an eel, or something in between a snake and eel - a “sneel”. “Look at him g- ” and on that suspenseful note, the clip abruptly ends. The camera zooms in on the tail - it’s distinctively different from the rest of the body: as if dipped in yellow paint, checkered in cheetah-like black spots. “What have we found, bro?” Don’t know if it’s an eel or a snake,” one man is heard saying as he slowly lifts the creature’s head with a stick. It’s not clear if this creature is dead or alive, friend or foe. In the 12-second clip, posted on December 24, we see first a dusty grey-skinned creature lying motionless across the sand, its long body half in sun, half in shade. Photo / Samantha CooperĪ group of people were startled when they found a venomous sea snake on the beach, posting a video of the discovery to TikTok. ![]() This one washed up in Northland in May last year the snake in the West Coast TikTok video is believed to be the same species. Around six to 10 yellow-bellied sea snakes are sighted in New Zealand every year.
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