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Description: The Death Adder has a reddish, brownish, yellowish color with distinct dark brown cross bands. They can be up to 105 centimeters in size.

Habitat: It lives in shrubs and grassland regions of Southwest Australia.

Diet: The Death Adder’s prey consists of frogs, lizards, birds, rats, and mice.

# Of Young: It has 10-30 live babies per litter.

Enemies: Its enemies are fox, cats and Cane Toads. The Cane Toad eats Death Adder babies. If an adult Death Adder eats a Cane Toad the Cane Toad will poison it.
They protect themselves with their huge fangs.

Weird and Wild Facts: The Death Adder is an ambush predator. Their fangs are 6-8 millimeters long.



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