Brian Bush's Homepage
WELCOME TO THE HOMEPAGE OF BRIAN BUSH
Click here to get your free copy of the following booklets - "Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of the WA Pilbara & Goldfields." or, "Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of the WA Kimberly." or, "Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of Southern Western Australia." - Important resources for regional workers, residents and medical professionals living in, or visiting these areas.
I have been around reptiles all my life. One thing became obvious at a very early age: there is more myth associated with Australia's 215 plus species (Oz Checklist) of snake than any other faunal group! The most widespread and ridiculous of these concerns Auselapid venom toxicities. No doubt, this is a result of our European ancestry. There are 144 described species (86 in WA) and several known but undescribed taxa of fixed front-fanged venomous snakes (elapids/hydrophids) here, yet our deadliest venomous animal, considering human fatalities, is the exotic honeybee. Check my link to Australian Venomous Snakes to learn more!
Much of the information available here is orientated towards Australian and particularly Western Australian herpetology.
This footage is kindly provided by National Geographic Television.
This great photo of BB and BJ kindly provided by Des Vlietstra, Elasto Plastic Concrete Pty Ltd
NOTE: Telephone numbers included may change without notice. Snakebusters are volunteers and not employed by the WA government, so may not always be available.
Keep your eyes open for the lateral-thinking book,
Sorry, but this book is out of print.
WASAH WINS & KEEPING HERPTILES BECOMES LEGAL IN 2003!
THE BUSHMAN SONG by Slim Whitman & Chuckabillies
This resource should allow teachers to plan lessons on
reptiles. Basic activity sheets are also available if required. Contact me from school
at the email address below. to others with
similar interest Brian Bush,
Snakes Harmful & Harmless, 9 Birch Place, Stoneville, WA 6081, Australia. Phone
National: 08 9295 3007; International: +61 08 9295 3007 Fax National: 08 9295 3858; International: +61 08 9295 3858 Used only when in field - Satellite Phone:
0145 251 378 E-mail bush@iinet.net.au BUSHO has a RUSSELL COIGHT MOMENT!
CANE TOAD: A POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE (don't put all your eggs in one basket) CLIMATE CHANGE: BRING IT ON! (Open letter - especially to politicians & scientists) STUCK IN THE PILBARA - YOU BEAUTY! PET REPTILES ALLOWED IN WA SINCE 2003. (with Licence Application) Pencil-sized, black-headed diurnal snakes In search of McKenzie's Chenopod Dragon Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of the WA Pilbara & Goldfields Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of the WA Kimberley Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of Southern Western AustraliaMyth: "kingbrowns" and brownsnakesGoannas - Oz's largest lizardsWhere did Carnac Island snakes come from?A Radical Conservation Plan for the Western Swamp Turtle & a Response by Dr Gerald KuchlingDeaths in Western Australia involving snakesEducational & Project MaterialAn ongoing study of polymorphismA Report to CALM on Pest Snake Removal by SnakebustersInclusion Body Disease in Western Australia"Snakes are more reliable than dogs!"About the inaugral WASAH president.A new Pilbara goanna named after Brian Bush!Atomic Worm Lizard on the Montebellos rediscovered!A new Taipan for Western Australia!
Sir David Attenborough and Brian Bush at Whiteman Park, Perth, Western Australia in November '06 during sequential filming for BBC's Life in Cold Blood. Although in his eighties, Sir David's professionalism and sense of humour are obvious. He only needs to do every take once! Also, note in the photo where the fingers of his left hand are!
Children have an affinity with
reptiles as is illustrated in these photos provided by Guildford Grammar
Primary School
I also
provide a teachers' information package
For information on the best book (short-listed for 1996 WA Premier's Award
& made the Best-seller List for non-fiction in Western Australia, Dec. '95)
on Perth regional herps, click here
For CITES Listed reptiles and amphibians click
here
For the Australian Herpetologists' E-mail Address Directory (Compiled and
updated by Geordie Torr, JCU) click here
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Good country
music on this site and its associated links comes to you compliments of Jack's Shack Country Music and Dick
Anderson.
