in the pool.

"Obviously, [the snake] was extremely uncomfortable," he said.

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"Its whole face was swollen and blooming and it was completely overwhelmed by the ticks breeding on him."

He said removing the tick-laden snake had felt like "holding a bag of marbles that were moving under my hands".

Snakes often pick up small numbers of ticks or other parasites in the wild, said Associate Prof Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland.

However the presence of such a large number of ticks indicated that the snake was likely to have an underlying illness, he said, possibly be due to heat stress or drought conditions.

"Clearly it was a seriously unwell animal to have had its natural defences so broken down," Associate Prof Fry said.

"I doubt itBrstnik

Brstnik () is a settlement in the Municipality of Laško in eastern Slovenia. It lies in the hills above the left bank of the Savinja River north of the town of Laško. The area was traditionally part of the Styria region. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region.

References

External links
Brstnik on Geopedia

Category:Populated places in the Municipality of Laško