Gila Monster
Gila monster Heloderma suspectum Description: Robust, with a large head and a heavy tail. Its...
Yellow Bellied Sea Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown...
Banded Sea Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Banded sea snake Laticauda colubrina Description: Smooth-scaled snake that is a pale shade of blue...
Tiger Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Tiger snake Notechis scutatus Description: Olive to dark brown above with yellowish or olive belly...
Taipan Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus Description: Generally uniformly olive or dark brown, with a somewhat darker brown...
Death Adder – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Death adder Acanthophis antarcticus Description: Reddish, yellowish, or brown color with distinct dark brown crossbands....
Australian Copperhead Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Australian copperhead Denisonia superba Description: Coloration is reddish brown to dark brown. A few from...
Wagler’s Pit Viper or Temple Viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Wagler’s pit viper or temple viper Trimeresurus wagleri Description: Green with white crossbands edged with...
Saw Scaled Viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus Description: Color is light buff with shades of brown, dull red,...
Sand Viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Sand viper Cerastes vipera Description: Usually uniformly very pallid, with three rows of darker brown...
Russell’s Viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Russell’s viper Vipera russellii Description: Light brown body with three rows of dark brown or...
Rhinoceros Viper or River Jack Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Rhinoceros viper or river jack Bitis nasicornis Description: Brightly colored with purplish to reddish-brown markings...
Puff adder snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Puff adder Bitis arietans Description: Yellowish, light brown, or orange with chevron-shaped dark brown or...
How to survive man-made hazards – surviving nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks.
You must use special precautions if you expect to survive in these man-made hazards. If you are subjected to any…
Camouflage – how to hide shape, color, noise, smell, and movement when stalking and anti-tracking
In a survival situation, especially in a hostile environment, you may find it necessary to camouflage yourself, your equipment, and…
Surviving in hostile areas – how to evade, hide, and avoid capture
You must assume that if trapped in a hostile area, you may not experience quick recovery by friendly elements. You…
Survival Planning – an introduction to surviving in the wild
A survival plan is critical to your ability to survive. There are three components to a survival plan – planning,…
Food in a survival situation – edible plants, animals and rations to survive in the wild
Introduction You can live for several weeks without eating but regardless, food provides life-saving energy...
Everything you need to know about rope, cordage, and lashings.
Terminology To be able to construct shelters, traps and snares, weapons and tools, and other...
Water in a Survival Situation
Water is one of your most urgent needs in a survival situation. You can’t live...
Dangerous animals – complete guide to deadly creatures in the wilderness
The threat from animals is less than from other parts of the environment. However, common sense tells you to avoid…
Poisonous Plants – an overview of plant poisoning and how to avoid being poisened
Successful use of plants in a survival situation depends on positive identification. Knowing poisonous plants is as important as knowing…
All about knots – their use and how to tie them.
Knots The basic knots, uses, and methods of tying them that you should know for...
Survival sewing – complete guide to sewing and repair in the wilderness.
Possessing the knowledge and ability to sew is an essential toolset if you are to survive in the wild for…
