Inland taipan hatch two months later. The eggs are usually laid in abandoned animal burrows and deep crevices. Reproduction rate depends in part on their diet: if there is not enough food, then the snake will reproduce less. Captive snakes generally live for 10 to 15 years. An inland taipan at Australia Zoo lived to be over 20 years old. The mulga snake ("Pseudechis australis") is immune to most Australian snake venom, and is known to also eat young inland taipans. The perentie ("Varanus giganteus") is a large monitor lizard that also shares the same habitat. As it grows large enough, it
Taipan Taipan The taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australasia. There are currently three recognised species, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. The taipans are considered some of the most deadly known snakes. The common name, taipan, was coined by anthropologist Donald Thomson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. The genus name is from Greek "oxys" (sharp, needle-like) and "ouranos" (an arch, specifically the arch of the heavens), and refers to the needle-like anterior