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The serpentarium still exists, and Maduwage, who is now based at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, says the Sri Lankan government is willing to buy the antivenom if the country can produce it.

Rex is also, for the time being, halting services between Sydney and Armidale until the end of March next year.

Piers Kelly, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who conducted a review of message sticks, agrees with Overmann’s point.

“It’s a unique, chimera-like combination for a bird,” said Stephen Wroe, a researcher from the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and an author on the paper.

There had been low levels detected in Armidale previously, which were thought to have come from an old case, but the levels have now increased to levels similar to those in Newcastle.