A tiny, barely inhabited island off the coast of Tasmania has become home to an enormous population of mutant, bird-eating tiger snakes.
The Jurassic Park-style island, Mount Chappell, is said to be home to Australia’s largest and most venomous tiger snakes. The giant reptiles are twice as big as their relatives on the mainland.
They’re particularly plentiful in a 650 foot stretch of scrub known as Snake Alley, where they live in mutton bird burrows and gorge on mutton bird chicks. Mount Chappell, a tiny island off of Tasmania in Australia, is home to a population of abnormally large tiger snakes.Mutton bird chicks are only young enough to lunch on for about five weeks each year, after which they become too big to eat – hence, the snakes’ oversized heads.
The tiger snakes are likely the deadliest of their kind in Australia. Though their venom is less potent than that of tiger snakes on the mainland, their large fangs allow them to deliver greater bang for buck.
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