Sydney man discovers ‘shock’ 102 red-bellied black snakes in garden
A man in the city’s west spotted six snakes in a mulch pile – but the number keeps increasing as females give birth to ‘baby after baby’
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A Sydney man has said he was “totally amazed” when snake catchers removed a bumper haul of 102 venomous snakes from a single spot in his backyard.
David Stein called in snake relocators after seeing what he estimated were six red-bellied black snakes on a large mulch pile on his property in the western Sydney suburb of Horsley Park on Friday.
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