The most calm, composed and ethical snake. This snake knows if you gonna hurt him/her or not....not threatened by anyone.... Respect to the great BUSHMASTER

It's amazing how docile she is considering how dangerous her venom yield is. What a truly beautiful and magnificent creature!

My favorite New World snake. The Bushmaster has such a noble face and intelligence you can see in their eyes Red Headed Kraits and King Cobras are my other favourites

This gorgeous creature is extremely well behaved. My favorite snake is the Gaboon viper, the color pattern is absolutely beautiful. But now after taking a better look at this Bush Master I think it comes in second place. Great video and love all the great information. Thanks mate.

Free handling a bushmaster?😮 You're a braver man than me Gunga Din.

I love the positive and fear free messages you radiated with this video. brilliant job!

@gaboonviper85

5 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what's wrong with this video! Yes these animals are very important but yes people should have a sense of fear and respect for the animal and the idea that getting close and touching them is ok is spreading a very dangerous idea!

@CoffeeTimeBrian11

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Beautiful rare, Bushmasterl. Do they radio track them to find the range etc..? They lay eggs which is different than all other pit vipers...

Just subscribed. Thank you for your advocacy for this wonderful, elusive creature.

Absolutely glorious animal, great video, unreal photographs and a low-stress capture and release. Could not be more awesome. Well done, folks.

Thanks for the video. I am going to be in Costa Rica next week and will try to catch one. I've always been amazed by their appearance.

Nice to see spudman delivering spud into the jungle

She was remarkably chill

Oh, she is so beautiful! "Dragon scales" fascinating comparison! I'm so content that you studied her to help the species and re-released her :) Beautiful shots of her on the white board. Thanks for sharing!

I can't believe how calm this gorgeous but extremely venomous snake is being. I've been handling North American snake's for 44 plus years, I also have had numerous constrictors from around the world. The only venomous snake's I've handled are the gorgeous copperheads from Virginia to Kentucky, and a few Cottonmouths. I never hurt them I only studied them and released them back to a safe place far away from humans. Although I'm fortunate enough to have a wonderful friend that collects venom for medical use, mostly North American snake's. Over the years he has taught me the safest way to handle a venomous snake. My dream was to hold a Easter diamondback rattlesnake, he helped make that dream come true. I actually held his two meter diamondback, what a rush. He's a herpetologist and has been doing this for along time. Watching him collect the venom from his collection is amazing. Coral snake's,rattlers and copperheads and Cottonmouths are his main snake's for collecting venom although he does have 3 or 4 venomous snake's from different parts of Africa. His Gaboon viper is definitely my favorite I've never held it, but I hope to soon.

@robbarnes9047

2 жыл бұрын

North American snakes are measured in yards!

@jefferywilliams5878

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbarnes9047 Mexico is considered North America. Just saying. Einstein.

@robbarnes9047

2 жыл бұрын

@@jefferywilliams5878 It’s called a joke. Fuckwit.

@jefferywilliams5878

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbarnes9047 utube is great. Girls like you can be courageous. Love your girly vocabulary ma'am. Can you please send me and noun to add to my girlfriends vocabulary. Thanks.😘

it’s said that the bushmaster is calm, when handled with care and respect. the tourists got a real treat.

I am only now learning about snakes and trying to identify them on sight. Gives me a new appreciation of the various species that exist in Trinidad.

I can’t say enough of how beautiful these bush masters are! I like all snakes 🐍, but the key to these creatures is TOTALL RESPECT!

That girl was very chill.

Despite having a phobia about snakes, i can appreciate the beauty of these creatures. I can appreciate that they have a role to play in nature, controlling mice and other rodents. I will gladly tolerate them in the wild, where they do belong. The moment they do set a belly scale on my yard though, where they can be a threat to my family and my pets, they run the risk of getting killed, not because i hate them, but for the danger they do pose to humans and pets.

That is awesome! Good job guys :) I love these snakes so much that I have named my company after them. I spend my days looking for these incredible animals so the video you shared is eye candy to me! Seriously, well done:)

A very beaytiful snake. Seems to be calm, relaxed with being handled,and slow moving ? Great Job Guys !!!!

Amazing work and a wonderful video!

Solid solid work boys. In my mind exactly how you should be using your platform or whatever you wanna call it. Love the video. You can tell by how you talk about them how much you truly respect them. And well be it that respect their absolutely gnarly looking.

Beautiful presentation. The animal is marvelous beyond words! I was taken aback by the calm demeanor and just a little bit shocked by your freehanding and risking a very serious injury. Death comes to us all, but it's a game changer when you have to live with severe and permanent disfigurement by one of the most toxic venoms on Earth. Please be careful and continue to bring more love and enlightenment to your channel on this powerful serpent- Lachesis muta. . . The Bushmaster.

Nicely edited film, thanks.

that's a beautiful snake. one of my most favorite among vipers. second only to gaboon and rhino vipers

Good job guys. Is very difficult to find lachesis Mutu in the forest. Congratulation.

In Brazil we call it Surucucu de Fogo 🔥 One of the most feared animals of Amazônia.

SUCH A STUNNING SNAKE

4:52 is perhaps the best photograph of any snake I've ever seen. Beautiful snake indeed.

You lucky bastards, and what a great specimen you found. It has been an ambition of mine to explore the rainforests and rivers of South America since I was a young boy. I'm 64 now so it's unlikely to ever happen for me now. But your video gave me some real joy. I am from Australia and have many snakes and other reptiles to fossick around and find but I would like to see some of the other exotic species of the world.

@metalandwood4u

5 жыл бұрын

I'll go with you if you finance my trip, I've been before and have the you tube videos to prove it, my channel is not this name. Had 3 Peruvian federal police on the amazon try to shake me down too. I had 2k us in my pocket, thank god I was witty enough to kept it. We can go to leticia Colombia with a place to stay cheap support or iquitos Peru without support.

That is an amazing snake and an amazing video.

That's the single experience I long for, I can't believe this footage is Available.

What an amazing video!

Bushmaster is a baby compared to the Fer de Lance. I spent a year in the Peruvian rainforest and managed to find only a couple of them deep in the forest. On the other hand the Fer de Lances were everywhere and a constant danger.

This needs more views!

I saw a bushmaster about the same size in the central Amazon Basin. Pretty awesome.

What a beauty! I wish I could've been there with you, what a rush of adrenaline! Amazing camouflage!!!! My favorite snake by far! CONGRATULATIONS!

That snake head seems perilously close to the kids. It's docile yes, but I still wouldn't chance it.

@viper1970025

8 жыл бұрын

to close

Stop the movie here @ 4:53 and see how grave God is as he has created this wonderfully beautiful living being. Thank you Lord.

What a stunner that snake is! Wow.

This is the type of video I enjoy seeing. The animal was not stressed out for the sake of a few pics for t.v. . These people are doing some much needed and genuine research. On a very unknown animal. The three genus Lachesis Muta Muta , Lachesis Rhombetta and Lachesis melanoma have very small and distinct geographical areas. In countries that can ill afford to study their own wildlife. I hope studies like this help keep these wonderful animals off the endangered list.

@Cola64

5 жыл бұрын

ice bear No it Wont and never going to happen as long as humans keep breeding nothing will survive in the end 🤙🏻🌴

Such a magnificent snake.

Yaknow, a lot of people consider compare bushmasters to the lanceheads in the genus Bothrops, but it seems as if there is a fair amount of difference. Lanceheads are super high strung and lash out at the first chance they get. Bushmasters seem to know their own strength, to understand the power of their venom. They seem unlikely to become defensive unless really pressed. They also have a regality to them that few other snakes have... the only thing like it, really, is the king cobra.

@hughjaynus3341

7 жыл бұрын

Tigerpuffer Completely true. Out of all of the snakes Im aware of, Bushmasters definitely stand out. When compared to, lets say, a Black Mamba....the Mamba has chased down and delivered multiple strikes to non-threats. Bushmasters definitely have a much more restrained and almost respectful personality. They are more than happy to give you space, knowing full well they have immense potential to harm you. King Cobras are much the same, but will absolutely square up, look you in the eye, and give you a closed-mouthed peck right to the forehead.

@pkspalding

7 жыл бұрын

Very accurate, Tigerpuffer. The Bushmaster, L muta, is seldom encountered and one result of this is that facts are replaced by crazy stories and myths. Any snake can bite if provoked, but Bothrops asper is the cause of most of the snakebites (and deaths) in Latin America. More, in fact than all other snakes combined.

@richardk6196

5 жыл бұрын

@@hughjaynus3341 Gosh-I don't know that much about snakes. Was not aware that a Mamba would chase down someone.

@richardk6196

5 жыл бұрын

@Mikey Cripps Mikey-That's what I thought too

@gfals2130

5 жыл бұрын

@@pkspalding yeah the Fer de Lance is definitely the most feared snake around those parts, if anyone has interest in snakes, check out people catching Fer de Lance's.. you'll be hard pressed to find the handlers fearing a snake more when in hands

Beautiful Bushmaster! Very sketchy to handle. Even with their girth they can turn on ur hook and backwards or side strike very fast like a gaboon viper

Australians doing what they do best.

the bushmaster is a gaboon viper, a rattlesnake, and a water macosin all rolled into one the most beautiful and deadly snakes

"we have a bush master in the bag" 🤗

what happend to its special tail? and why put a thermal heatseeker like the bushmaster up the face on some kids that could easily make a sudden move in fear of its precence and could cause a stike?

@garykritzinger121

9 жыл бұрын

shut you pie hole

Finding Lachesis Muta Muta in Peru is becoming very difficult as the indigenous people consider it extremely aggressive and highly poisonous, both of which are not true. In Peru as with probably most of the lands that harbor bushmasters they are killed on sight and soon they will be going down the road of the extinct. I live north of Gainesville Fl. and finding a diamondback now a days is all but impossible. Leave snakes alone .

@carlandrews5810

Жыл бұрын

They are highly poisonous.

Knows exactly where and how to hold and how to lift her. The snake knows that she is not in danger. Experienced snake handler.

Brilliant video guys, what a snake! Take me with you next time please ^_^ Would LOVE to play with/collect info on some amazonian herps!!!

That is one big hoss of a pit viper.

I am brazilian and in my country we have a lot of bushmasters!! We call surucucu

From Guyana never seen a Bush master untill i went to the Miami zoo. Nice video and the snake looks claim but from what i herd about them their very dangerous so i wouldn't go that close to it

The bushmaster has been known to remember who captured it and will wait for the right moment to get you even it takes a long time , it will wait and remember .

so if you catch this snake and measure its length, you already know a lot more about it? Or do they not know what else to do?

That is one beautiful snake

Snake was calm because it could possibly sense the guy's harmless vibrations.

Cuaimapiña is the name given in Venezuela to this viper, the term "cuaima" is usually used to define the Venezuelan woman for her strong character, which is commonly aggressive and violent in most of the population, or when they are just angry (which is the most common usage of the term), so this could give the idea of the character of the bushmaster.

👏😁.nice..job n like your video dude...

You can come find a lot more of those here in Costa Rica! we have lots of Bushmarsters :) they are fascinating but SCARY AS F... !

My favorite snake is the Alaskan albino snow snake. U don't see it until it to late! It blends in with the snow perfectly...

Ohh man .. amazing size much more bigger than Russell viper .. is this the biggest one in viper family

That’s a huge bushmaster

This snake is called Matabuey in Costa Rica. The translation means cow killer and the myth says that they can eat a cow. You know, legends

Greatt video!!

Guys u should come to suriname we saw one a few days ago it was really beautiful

Wow! Brave dudes.

2:50 The jaguar of the reptile world. DAMN.

Holy sh$t! I was not expecting it to be that big!!!!!!! That thing could definitely ruin your day!

I am from South America Guyana,I saw one that was 12 feet long

Beautiful

Don't get me wrong this guy's heart is in the right place but his handling technique is either get him one of his teammates or somebody else killed. He's mistaking what the the Bushmaster is capable of doing if he wants to just like Al Cruz aka viperkeeper does with his venomous snakes. Fortunately this time no one got hit but he's holding on to a grenade with the pin pulled seeing how long he can hold it before it blows up, and if he's not careful he'll find out the hard way I love all reptiles but safety is paramount for the animal first and people second

@DemimondeMesilaThraam

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think viperkeeper is careless with his snakes at all. At least not compared with most other handlers. I have watched hundreds of his videos. He almost never free handles the snakes and he watches them very carefully. He also understands his own flaws and seeks to correct them as well as having extreme respect and understanding about the risks he takes.

thx for the video. i live in suriname. here we call it makka sneki

We have bushmaster in my country Trinidad and Tobago. We call it mapepire zanana

Best pattern ever beautiful

this bushmaster looks so calm.. a fer da lance de would not be as calm

@officialjbbeverley

7 жыл бұрын

I've filmed and moved several of them. They're anything but calm usually. lol

@pkspalding

7 жыл бұрын

torontosorewristhex amongst some herp folks, L muta has a real reputation for placidity. No terciopelo would ever be this relaxed. There is an old story told that is actually true, and speaks to the laid back nature of the bushmaster. A couple hiking in Costa Rica encountered one crossing a path. Believing it to be a boa, they tied a shoelace around its neck and half dragged; half pushed the snake back towards civilisation. The bushmaster never seemed to object, as it were. Have heard similar stories from people who handle the large vipers

@KG-dg7if

4 жыл бұрын

I would not even try to handle a fer da lance

In trinidad its called the zanana mapippe deadly silent killer but incredible creature

They are very delicate and should be left alone or in the hands of proper breeders

We have them here in Trinidad!

Thy seem kindve gentle

That's cool letting the kids pet the Bushmaster. I hate when people are all scary about snakes. BTW, please export some pairs of these to the USA. I don't see them available here. Thanks.

@bradsuarez2683

7 жыл бұрын

Pet the bushmaster? Where did he let the kids pet the bushmaster? This is not a snake you pet like a constrictor, the venom in these snakes would kill a man. My buddy got bit by one of these recently and within an hour he was coughing up blood. He spent a couple of weeks in the hospital in extreme pain, and here you're taking about kids petting the bushmaster lmao!

@DrummingTmate

7 жыл бұрын

You're not supposed to let the bushmaster bite you. I don't allow any of my cobras to bite me. When I get some bushmasters I won't let them bite me. Why can't you and others promoting fear of venomous snakes process this?

Bushmasters move in pairs. Very beautiful with diamond shape down its back but very very deadly

@CreesOrganization

Жыл бұрын

Definitely!

love all snakes,bushmasters are so beautiful?

imo the scariest looking snake

How on earth is that snake so docile?

We have lots of them in Trinidad

Didn't think they got that big. WOW!

@yaimirchek

Жыл бұрын

En Colombia se le conoce como berrugoso .casi siempre durante el día duerme, pero por la noche l salen , les gusta perseguir la luz son muy temidas y son difíciles de encontrar . Toca en la mera montaña

the Bushmaster can be very aggressive. My friends at forestry had one around their camp, they killed one of them and the other one went to the same location where they killed it and lay there waiting or them. when they got there the Bushmaster started attacking the vehicle.

Damn, that is big. Bigger than a rattlesnake.

The BushMaster or Matabuey how we call it in Costa Rica, lives only in primary forest, and these snakes are very rare to see. Their poison is deadly however, the BushMaster is not an agressive specie. Accidents reported due to an incident with this snake are very rare, almost not existing. I think there is no need to get into the forest and capture the BushMaster. This snake always remainds in their environment.

People do not understand how these snakes jaws dislocate so when you think you are holding it properly it does a shape shift and suddenly the fangs/jaws seem to fall apart and relocate and boom! you are bitten!

Es muy parecida a la lachesis trigonocephalus

Hell yeah

They seem docile?

The bushmaster is a serious snake, you don't want to muck with them.

Nerves of steel to handle silent, certain DEATH!!!

The most painful snake bite you could ever recieve.

@touremuhammad5983

8 жыл бұрын

Only viper that lays eggs for some reason

@1234Molotov

8 жыл бұрын

+toure muhammad It's less evolved than snakes that have live young - like less evolved mammals such as the platypus.

@touremuhammad5983

8 жыл бұрын

1234Molotov I know, that's why I said "for some reason."

good video here in Ecuador is know it as verrugosa,,,

that's a big specimen...