Good thing that snake wasn't actually able to see Bryan doing this... wouldn't want it to die from laughing...

Best workout video ever. And you're right about the snakes not giving a rip about vibrations. I've learned to slow down on narrow trails to give me time to see snakes before I'm on top of them. I was hauling butt down a narrow trail and damned near stepped on a mid-sized rattlesnake who'd found a patch of sunlight in the oak covered area. Lucky for me it was early, and still cool making the snake mostly immobile. Problem was the section of the trail was bracketed by thick poison oak, and thus I had to get by Mr. Snake. I wear 8-inch high tactical boots because of snakes, and I placed my hiking staff between me and the snake, and eased on by. The snake never moved. I've come across a number of rattlesnakes, and have had only one give a tight "S" and a rattle session. Just about staying alert, and thinking about where you are walking. Knowing legit info about snakes comes in handy too.

I have always wondered about that vibration theory. I have heard it for years. Thank you and the napping Diamond Backs for debunking it.

Mr. Snake: "What is this guy doing"? 😂

@pamabernathy8728

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Watching you chuck that rock was making my back hurt.

Perhaps both snakes are female. When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling-The Female of the Species

Sound asleep doesn’t give 2 💩 about your vibrations😊

That snake probably thinks you need a CT scan 😅👍

@pamabernathy8728

2 ай бұрын

Well stated!! 1 sunning diamondback to another, "Don't look now, but there's 1 of those weird looking things, you know, the really tall Hopping Stompers? They always seem to be out on nice days! Not enough sense to relax & enjoy the sun. Sad things." 😂😂😂

@metalmamasue3680

2 ай бұрын

@@pamabernathy8728 🤣🤣

What urban legend? I don't see 'em as I stomp along 'cause I don't expect to see 'em any more?!? Right on. Well said. Thank you.

You looked pretty entertaining to us 😂

Thank you for your time in informing people about snakes..you have really opened up my mind about snakes. Keep up your great work. I will try help you out.

Have seen many many rattlesnakes while trail running and mtn biking. They never move for me, and why should they? 😂

........ and it IS HARD on the ankles & feet, party on Garth!!!

Wear bells on your ankles. It is hypnotic to rattlesnakes. They will not have aggression when they hear the bells at ground level. 😂

@pamabernathy8728

2 ай бұрын

😂

@23nacho23

2 ай бұрын

Wrong

@Boskibro

2 ай бұрын

If you hike with your d1ck out the snakes will think you are one of them and will not strike. I do this everytime and have yet to be bitten

@ursulasmith6402

2 ай бұрын

Snakes can't hear.

@thirstyboots6711

2 ай бұрын

😂

Why would I want to warn them off? When I go hiking, I'm always disappointed if I DON'T get to see a rattlesnake in my path!

@RaindropsOnLichen

2 ай бұрын

So then what? You go off trail where you could step on one? Wait for it to move?

@pamigreenway

2 ай бұрын

@@RaindropsOnLichenI keep my eyes on the ground and pay attention to where I’m stepping and walk around it. I know how to avoid striking distance but, in all my years of catching and relocating rattlesnakes, I’ve never had one actually try to strike at me. I respect snakes and their space but I’m not frightened by them. My dad used to tell me that if run away from a snake in panic, I run the risk of scaring it into striking or even of encountering another one. The desert has a lot of potential hazards, not just snakes. The key is vigilance and respect for the nature I live in. I’m always conscious of the fact that I’m invading their home, not the other way around. The snake wants nothing more than to be left alone to sun or hunt food. Its first instinct is to protect itself because it’s prey too but if you’re respectful of the desert and the life in it, you can simultaneously protect yourself and the wildlife around you.

Irrational fear makes people........irrational. With the variety of rattlesnake myths, maybe make a rattlesnake myth poster/tee shirt with a "Fiction" column and a "Facts" column. It could sell.

Wonder if any Passing People wondered what you were Stomping on? Seriously though I'm done Walking "Heavy "so I've learned Today!!

Great video! Entertainment and educational too 😂

Great info.

Bryan is the new Mythbuster 😊

Great video, loved it! 🥰

I thought I set a rattlesnake off from jogging. I tried catching up to boyfriend and started jogging towards him and heard a loud rattle 😩

Keep yer eyes open 👀 give him room🐍🐍

I love it when you educate and bust myths. Thank you Brian.

Stomping will NOT work I knew this right off, The only way I would try to move a snake out of my path, I would first stand their as still as I can and I would watch it, and look around and see how else I could go around him. I would stay as far away as I could from him. If I had to, I would back up go back the way I came. I came across a copper Head in my path I stop I was about 2 feet away from him. I stood there for about 5 minutes and he started to craw off I back up and went other way.

"Bryan, I clearly saw several 10' diamondbaxks rise out of the rocks & chase you." Makes about as much sense as the Vibration Myth. Snakes must really wonder how we have the sense to survive.

@metalmamasue3680

2 ай бұрын

Haha 😂 I'm sure they do sometimes wonder what's up with those humans, eh ? 🤭

This was helpful! What's your all opinion on snake gaiters as a peace of mind, safety precaution?

you would need to weight about as much as a fully loaded dump truck to have enough mass to cause enough vibrations that would actually bother that snake. This isn't some anime cartoon... you don't make the earth tremble when you do your power stomp...

If this myth were true then elephants would never get bitten by black mambas in Africa, but they do.

Educational and amusing at the same time

While in 29palms, we learned that snakes can feel the vibration of footsteps up to half mile away. Imagine what they feel next to an interstate hwy. Point taken, they don't move unless they want to

@RattlesnakeSolutions

2 ай бұрын

Well, not really.

This was awesome!!😅

Sherman Minton (Crotalus specialist, Herpetologist) did years of study on hearing in snakes to prove that airborne sounds have no effect on snakes. By making loud noises with a small visual partition for years and years with no effect. He proved that rattlesnakes don't even know that they rattle. Sherman Minton is not an anecdote. He gave a 90 minute speech on hearing and snakes, with a documented (with photos) story from Japan, of a 12 year old boy killed from a red-sided garter snake bite.

@mikefetterman6782

2 ай бұрын

International Herpetological Symposium, Miami, June 1993.

@mikefetterman6782

2 ай бұрын

He found that if the sound was loud enough to vibrate the ground, then they would be aware. But popping balloons, clapping hands, small firecrackers......all just on the other side of a panel on a table was enough that the snakes did not respond to any noises in the room, until the floor vibrated. Snakes are completely deaf, and rattlesnakes don't even know that they rattle. They just shake with fear around anything more than 5 inches tall, and that makes the noise without them controlling that at all. It is a warning from mother nature, not from the rattlesnake. They don't know anything about it. And even giant pythons (every snake species I have worked with) and boas' tails will wiggle or twirl when they are on alert.

I live in Tucson and I have a vibration-related snake story, which happened about 20 years ago. I was driving up a fairly steep, paved drive when I noticed a snake curled up in the middle of the drive just as I was cresting the top of a hill. I saw right away that it wasn't a rattler, but either a racer, or whip, or whatever they're called - long, green, and slender. I stopped about 6-8 feet away from it and waited, hoping and expecting it to move off the road. I couldn't drive around it because the drive was only a single lane, with high curbs, and I could not see the snake after I stopped because I was too close to it. My mother was the passenger and I told her to look out her side of the car while I looked out my side, thinking that the snake would move off the road on one side or the other. We sat there for about a minute or two without seeing the snake move off the road. At that point I put the car in reverse and slowly started backing up. The snake was gone. I told my mother that it must've moved off the road and that we just didn't see it. My mother alarmingly insisted that it must have crawled up inside the engine compartment, but I dismissed that idea because I was sure that no snake would ever crawl anywhere near a running car engine. (Yeah, you know where this is going.) We continued on to her house and parked the car in the garage which was attached to the house with a door leading into the kitchen area. My mother had three house cats, which were completely indoors, since they would never survive outside, but she often let them into the garage. The garage was absolutely safe with no chance of a snake ever getting into it and we in fact never had one in the garage in the many years my mother lived at that house. Having lived in Tucson for many years, I made sure of that, especially since the house was located in a prime snake area (La Reserve, in Oro Valley, for anyone familiar). No sooner had we unpacked a few bags of groceries in the kitchen when the more curious and adventurous of the cats wanted desperately to get into the garage. Oh, oh, I thought, and slowly opened the door to the garage, remembering that the snake had not been of the venomous variety, so I wasn't particularly worried about the cat. Immediately after I opened the door the cat froze and stared under my car. Sure enough, there was the snake. I couldn't believe it. The snake had indeed crawled into the engine compartment of my car, while the engine was running, and hitched a ride into my mother's garage. After getting the cat to safety and closing the door to the garage, I opened the garage door to try to get the snake to leave the premises, but instead it decided to hide behind some cardboard boxes. At that point we called the fire department and they came and removed the snake. Never would I have thought that a snake would crawl into a car's engine compartment with the engine running. That really surprised me. Over the years, we saw a good number of snakes of many varieties around that house, including a large King Snake that had crawled up a tree, as well as a Gila Monster that was missing its tail. One time, a bobcat very casually walked by me, not 30 feet away, while I was sitting on a bench at the side of the house with my own cat next to me on a leash.

Lol.... thank you at least for the amusement...😂. I didn't think this worked either, so I'm glad to see you show this theory is incorrect. I love how they just kept on snoozing, like... they never knew you were there...lol.

Oh, no! 😂 good to know. I used that when I can’t see where I’m stepping like when brush covers the trail. That’s how I nearly stepped on one and it struck at me. He didn’t rattle until after. In my many years hiking, I’ve only seen 3.

The one positive I see from this is that Bryan’s workout burned 2-3 times the calories! 🤣 Thanks for having fun with the facts, Bryan!

I couldn't stop laughing. Thanks for making my morning!

That snake was in a coma.. he’s tired😂😂

From what I understand it's still a good idea to make noise while hiking, but that's to avoid startling large mammals that may turn defensive if you surprise them.

👍🙏

Thank you for effectively demonstrating that old myth is not true. I went hiking in an area where snakes are/will be and my tactic was watch where my feet go. Basic hiking 101. When I first came to the states and visited an old homesdtead in Montana I followed a relative through the wait high grass. Halfway through he turned around and told me: you know a snake always gets the 2. person. We had a good laugh about it.

Good rule while hiking is to watch where you walk. Most people that hike a lot have walked past snakes without even knowing it.

This is great. I had also been told that, so glad to know it is not true.

Props for the education you provide about these misunderstood creatures. Let me be honest, I do NOT like snakes. The more I learn about them, the more tolerant I am. I have several around my property and have noticed a decrease in rodents in my outbuildings.

Snakes CAN hear? I always thought they were deaf. Good video. I don’t have to look/act like a complete idiot in the woods, hopping around, stomping and generally carrying on like a doofus. 😁

@RattlesnakeSolutions

2 ай бұрын

They can, though to what extent and how that might be affecting behavior is unknown.

What's your advice if you see one on the trail and you need to pass it and aren't able to easily go around it?

Snake thinks silly fella over there if it comes my way I might leg it

What if snake is already moving?

That one is sleeping/resting. If they are moving on a trail and not coiled, they will change direction when you stomp on the ground.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps visually, but stomping on the ground doesn’t do anything. This myth dies hard.

@mattb383

2 ай бұрын

@@RattlesnakeSolutions Had an encounter tonight at Usery Mtn park. I was running on the trail and came around the turn and there was a 3.4 ft small rattlesnake laying straight on the trail. I stopped, took some pics. Then I stomped on the ground pretty hard and nothing, no movement. I then stayed still about 6 ft away and the snake slowly turned back from where he was coming from staying really close to his body. I waited for him the clear the trail and continued my run.

Lol alot easier to walk around it after I get a few pictures

Sure glad somebody at last told them its bull cliche oldfolks yarn😊

So the upshot is rattlesnakes aren't fans of the Beachboys.

The snakes are spreading that myth for entertainment 😂

I think it does give them a bit of a warning to warn you, but a snake's initial instinct to danger is going to be to remain camouflaged. Which means not moving around and giving away it's position. Just pay attention, wear actual footwear, not flip-flops, and don't freak out when you see one. Once they're discovered and know it, and you give them the space, they'll disappear. Snakes have no interest or ego to fill with fighting you. This guy is explaining this now as I'm typing it 😂.

Need a snake alarm clock to wake the snake up first.... Sleeping snakes don't here vibrations. Wake him up and run the test again.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

2 ай бұрын

Even if that were true, the method method would still fail in the real world.

They're staying put, hiding from that nut in the desert. Just teasing dear, if this were true fewer snakes would get ran over, mangled in machinery, etc. I've also heard making noise will help, well that might help with other animals, including people but snakes could care less.

My solution is just turn around and get out of their way. You are on their property so just go somewhere else.

Why not use leg protectors while hiking? Not available?

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That's only with horses 🐎, LOL

I think you were way too far from the snake! I think you might have different results if you were 6' away from the snake! 🤔🫤