It may be trying to disguise itself as tinsel, but look more closely and this is a deadly tiger snake which climbed up a Christmas tree in Australia. A woman called Cheryl noticed the uninvited and highly venomous guest in her Melbourne home recently but kept her cool -- making a cup of tea while she waited for a professional snake-catcher to arrive. "It was a tiger snake. They are very deadly but only if you hurt them," snake-catcher Barry Goldsmith, who removed the reptile, tated. "She didn't panic, she just took a photo and sent it to the snake-catcher, me, and 20 minutes later I had the little bugger in a bag."
Australia is home to 20 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes, including the tiger snake which can grow up to 10 feet and is usually found in coastal areas.
