Can you spot the deadly snake lurking just yards from a school?
'Snake hunter' Mark Pelley posted a picture of a lowland copperhead snake online after spotting the veneomous creature near a school in Melbourne, Australia
A PUZZLING picture of a deadly snake nestled in grass near a school has social media users baffled.
Mark "The Snake Hunter" Pelley posted the snap on Facebook after spotting the reptile last week near a school in Melbourne, Australia.
The image shows a lowland copperhead snake, which is venomous, camouflaged in the grass near Hazel Glen College in Doreen.
And Pelley challenged his sizeable social media following to try and spot the potentially deadly creature.
He said that out of 14,000 people, around one in 100 correctly spotted the snake.
And around half of those eagle-eyed users managed to guess the species.
Pelley told that he found the reptile by chance.
He said: "I was just walking my dog through Doreen. It was about 6pm at night and I saw the snake just sitting there in the grass.
"It was trying as best it could to hide."
But some of the snake hunters fans were stumped by the viral image.
One commented: "Ok once again I can't see it. Seriously we could have snakes all around our house and I wouldn’t see them (sic)"
Another user said: "I feel like it's a trick question!”
Pelley said he wanted to draw parents’ attention to how close the killer snake was to the school.
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He said the reptile was around 50 metres away from Hazel Glen College and would have been there when school finished.
"If the children had tried to make a short cut they could have come across a snake,” said Pelley.
He added: "Most people don't look at the grass."
The snake catcher said that a bite from a lowland copperhead can be fatal – if left untreated.
He said: "Its bites can still kill you. There has been at least one documented near-fatal event as a result of this snake bite, however the person was saved with antivenom."
Pelley said that anyone who comes across a venomous snake should not touch the creature under any circumstances and should instead contact a licensed catcher.
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