"We did some field work where we had 100 snakes per square kilometre in farmland. That's a hell of a lot of brown snakes,"he said.
"If you're just killing mice on the surface, you're probably getting the adult males that are wandering around looking for girlfriends and so on,"he said.
"I don't particularly like then in the garden or near the house."
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