We have larger giant worms here in Oz with the monstrous Gippsland Giant Earthworm Megascolides australis reportedly up to 2 metres long. I kind of hope we don't find any leeches big enough to eat those in one go!

They have coexisted with Gibraltarians fairly well until quite recently. About 5 years ago a rogue pack rampaged through town trashing hotel rooms and raiding bins – so rather than culling them as in previous years a deal is being reached with the Scottish Safari Park to relocate them.

The 30 offenders were identified using GPS collars and monitoring how far from their nature reserve home they wandered. Those deemed 'naughty' have now been captured and await shipment to Scotland.

For the 10,000 pigeons (Columba livia) brought in to circle around the 5 starred red flag, the scrutiny was extremely intense. The Peoples Daily reported that "their wings, tail-feathers even anuses must be carefully checked for suspicious objects" - the birds were then loaded onto sealed trucks and re-checked on arrival at Tiananmen Square.

I have personally done some weird stuff with pigeons back in my film days - I helped a zombie eat them (none were really hurt or eaten) in a Shaun of the Dead movie for example and drove some to Loch Ness once for a shoot, but I never checked up their bums!

Experts from Brown University and Spain's Universidad de Malaga studying the fossilized skeletal make up have concluded that they were bipedal like us. Sthenurine 'short face' marsupials 2.7 metre tall and weighing in at 250 kilograms were just too heavy to hop.

Having consumed a friend's dog Sebastien Bascoules, an avid reptile fan, caught the impressive snake, covered its head and kept it overnight in the family bathtub. These great images give you a very good idea of a typical adult specimen.

The incident in French Guiana ended well for the snake as it was released the next day into nearby wetlands away from homes and pets. I doubt that Anaconda would be easy to lift with a snake hook or fit in a snake bag. Potentially a very dangerous large snake – well managed by Sebastien.

Wildlife biologist Jessica McGuire of Georgia Department of Natural Resources says the overall impact of the disease in not known yet. More research is obviously required; some scientists have compared the fungal disease to another one that has killed an estimated 5.7 million hibernating bats.

The snake fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola occurs naturally in soil. It has been responsible for infecting timber rattlesnakes, garter snakes, mud snakes, milk snakes and others. Let's hope scientists find ways to control and treat this recent deadly threat to Native American snakes.

If you are a licensed Reg 17 reptile removalist, likely to be available to help people and willing to be called directly by members of the public at any time please let me have:

1. Your mobile contact number;
2. The suburbs or areas you will cover.

Dragons are remarkably well camouflaged but keen eyes may spot them basking on fence posts, termite mounds, rocks, tree trunks and branches. The Inland Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) found in the interior and eastern portion of the country can reach around 60cm total length. In WA our species are considerably smaller.

Bearded Dragons are omnivorous – they will eat a variety of small creatures such as insects and spiders as well as plant matter like grasses, leaves and flowers. Diet varies from species to species as well as with seasonal availability. All are diurnal (active by day) and ever alert to airborne hunters like hawks and kookaburras as well as predation from below with snakes and larger lizards particular threats.

Females bury batches of around 20 eggs several times a year if conditions are good. The eggs hatch some 7 weeks later and the juvenile Bearded Dragons are miniature versions of their parents and fully independent, scattering as they emerge from the egg case.