Adaptions
- The dark coloured skin is an adaptation that allows Tiger Snakes to absorb heat faster during the short growing season
- Melanism[1] (dark skin colour) is developed in populations where weather conditions vary
- Tiger Snakes have adapted to the new inhabited landscape, especially as older suburbs get more overgrown and rubbish is left along back fence-lines
- As long as their habitat provides them with large amount of grass to hide in, a lot of food and water, they can adapt to just about any environment because of their versatility
- They prefer warm weather but in winter months they protect themselves self's by resting animal burrows
- These snakes have known to produce up to as many as 26 neonates [1] (baby snakes)
- Tiger Snakes are largely diurnal[1] (hunt through the day) but also hunt through the night and even underwater for as long as nine minutes [1]
- The bite of the tiger snake can poison their prey because of its toxic venom
- Birds are the most common predator of the Tiger Snake, and even if they don't kill them they can decrease their survival rates through injuring snakes most commonly (affecting their vision)
These adaptions have earnt this snake a great reputation as a survivor.