> At 08:57 17/03/98 GMT, Klaus wrote:
> > BTW, garter snakes are venomous, just slightly so. No if only
> >the same could be said of the snakes of Australia.
>
> Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Australia the only
> temperate-to-tropical continent on earth where the venemous snake species
> outnumber the non-venemous? I know that the venemous ones are fairly well
> represented around here ;)
Yesssssss... No correction required. We have a snake fauna dominated
by Elapids, most of them highly venomous.
Matthew