Colours

Distinguishing features

Common death adders have broad flattened, triangular heads and thick bodies. (Wikipedia)

Size

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Distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

The common death adder occurs over much of eastern and coastal southern Australia – Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

They are found in forests, woodlands, grasslands and heaths of the eastern coast of Australia. The death adder is a master of camouflage, due to its band stripes, hiding beneath loose leaf litter and debris in woodland, shrubland and grassland. (Wikipedia)

Diet

They eat small mammals and birds as a primary diet. Unlike other snakes, the common death adder lies in wait for its prey (often for many days) until a meal passes. It covers itself with leaves—making itself inconspicuous—and lies coiled in ambush, twitching its grub-like tail close to its head as a lure. When an animal approaches to investigate the movement, the death adder quickly strikes, injecting its venom and then waits for the victim to die before eating it. (Wikipedia)

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