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A three-year-old boy had a lucky escape after his
mother found a box of seven deadly snakes in his wardrobe.
Kyle Cumming had found the snake eggs in his garden in Townsville in
Queensland, Australia and was given a takeaway container to put them in.
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Several weeks later his mother Donna Sim was shocked when she opened the
bedroom wardrobe to discover the box full of recently hatched eastern
brown snakes – the world’s second deadliest species.
Wildlife carers said Kyle was very fortunate as his mother discovered
the eastern brown snake babies before he took them out to play or before
the hatchlings had grown strong enough to push open the lid by
themselves.
Ms Sim said she had given Kyle the takeaway container when he found the
eggs but had not thought more of it until she found the snakes in her
son’s bedroom.
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‘I was pretty shocked, particularly because I don't like snakes,’ she
told the Townsville Bulletin.
The family took the snakes to a local sanctuary where they were released
back into the wild.
‘He is extremely lucky that his mother found them before he opened up
the container and played with them,’ North Queensland Wildlife Care
reptile co-ordinator Trish Prendergast told the Townsville Bulletin.
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‘Otherwise he may not be with us today.’
The eastern brown snake is widely considered the second most venomous
snake in the world, behind the inland taipan.
They are common in Australia and are responsible for a majority of
lethal snake bites recorded in the country. |