DEATH ADDERS

Death adder's don't frighten easily, and instead of slipping away as a human approaches, it lies motionless and camouflaged. this makes it easy to tread on, wich is how most people get bitten. It is unlikely to strike unless touched, but has a very fast strike and tends to hang on. It's fangs are quite long, 6 to 8 millimetres, and it is more mobile than most other venomous snakes. Before antivenom,fifty per cent of bites were fatal. This snake is mostly active at night. It uses it's tail like a worm to lure it's prey. It spends most of it's time half-buried, waiting to ambush prey. The Northern Death Adder and the Desert Death Adder are both smaller in size than the Common Death Adder. The Desert Death Adder also has a blackish tail tip and the lighter crossbands may have their hind edges marked by black-tipped scales.

This information is from my favourite book Australian Snakes by Belinda Edwards