Introduction
Fierce snake One of the most poisonous snakes. Central Australia. Different from the coastal taipan. Let’s discover the three different kinds of taipans. Here are the three kinds of taipans: inland, coastal, papuan.
Habitat
The inland taipan inhabits the floodplains and deserts of central Australia. It lives in rat burrows and tunnels. Taipans are rarely encountered in the wild because of their remote habitat. They are most active during the early morning and sleep during the day.
Taipans adapt to their environment by changing their color, lighter during summer to stay cool, and darker during the winter to absorb heat from the sun.
They lay 16 to 20 eggs, twice a year. Eggs take nine to eleven weeks to hatch.
Prey
You’ll soon discover that the taipan eats a variety of food. Its favorite food is the long-haired rat, also known as the plague rat because its population explodes during wet years.
The taipan slithers through cracks in the ground and rat tunnels, sensing its prey by flicking its tongue in the air. It strikes the prey with deadly venom, then swallows the prey whole.
In dry years, the rat population drops dramatically forcing taipans to live off of body fat or other prey such as bandicoots and birds. Bandicoots are small marsupials that look like tiny anteaters.
Enemies
The mulga snake, also called the king brown or Pilbara cobra, is the taipan’s only natural enemy. The mulga snake range covers most of Australia. It’s hard to believe but the mulga snake is immune to most snake bites.The mulga hunts young taipans and other mammals and reptiles.
Conclusion
Overall summary / retell with three subtopics / wrap with concluding statement or question.
The Inland Taipan is the most venomous snake in the world.