I learn something new every time I watch y’all. I’ll never be out where these snakes are, but I do have a new respect for all snakes. Thanks. 🇺🇸💖👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻‼️

That Sonoran coral Snake was SO elegant!

Thanks again. What a beautiful coral snake !!

We had a coral snake come in our yard several years ago. I was watering my plants. The snake was making a beeline to our back door. I threw water on it and it scurried away.

Nice video little brother. I enjoy your videos, and your knowledge of the local area. Thank you, and your crew for all you do.

New subscriber. I'm out in Wickenburg and we have a few regular rattlesnakes on our property around the pond. I saw a coral snake last year out here and was fascinated. Thanks for the video's!

GILA MONSTER ❤. Welp, gonna be watching this episode a few times. So many different types of snakes. Thank you, Bryan. And I am going to find myself a cloth Gila monster so I can have 1 at home. I just love those guys. 💘 Blessings. PS. All the rattling was a great sound track, in your 🐍 room.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow so Awesome!! Thanks so much!! Your videos is one of the best I absolutely love how you show the pictures with the names of them long enough for me to enjoy it unlike a lot of them take it away so fast I have to keep going back to see it again. God bless you and protect you!

Thank you for the educational training on the coral snake sighting that refutes the traditional rhyme. I used to live in Arizona, but I have never seen a coral with those bands. Wow-a new vicarious experience!

@aliensoup2420

11 ай бұрын

The rhyme is more confusing than helpful - its too hard to remember the proper sequence. My rule is, if you are not 100% positive what it is, don't touch it - and even if you are positive, there is no reason to free handle a snake if you don't have to. I crossed paths with a colorful California corn snake in LA. It looks like a coral snake, but the color sequence is not the same. I knew there were no indigenous coral snakes in California, and that was probably a corn snake, but I did not touch it just to be safe. It was heading toward some women sitting in the grass, so I warned them a snake was coming so they would not freak out. I just watched it and let it go where it wanted to go. I do the same for rattlesnakes on the trail. I stop and let them go their way rather than molest or upset them. I don't like the idea of trying to catch reptiles, even though I used to do it as an adolescent. I prefer to quietly and patiently watch them. I will try to get as close as I can, and sometimes lizards will be pretty tolerant. I got a couple feet from a Chuckwalla while it was eating flowers.

Great video Bryan, thanks for putting together!

Another awesome informative video!! Thanks for posting!

I worked on a ranch in Wyoming the UW of Wyoming studied the Prairi Rattlesnakes on the ID ranch By Seminole Reservoir and they put transmitters in some of the snakes and they tracked one snake that left it den and went ten miles from said den and then returned to its den in the fall of the year.

Thank you for sharing

Very cool channel and work! My partner is from Arizona and really appreciates the native snakes, so we will be watching together. Thanks for the educational content, too!

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Glad you are watching and thank you!

New to the channel, great way to present the snakes with the wonderful scenery and photography.

I always enjoy your videos and the education you provide!

Sonoran coralsnake stunning beauty

I've only seen two coral snakes in the wild. One was on a friend's doorstep and the other was a removal I did east of the valley.

@tjzambonischwartz

11 ай бұрын

Hi mom

@pamigreenway

11 ай бұрын

@@tjzambonischwartz Who dis?

I hope to see a coral snake, gila monster, and sidewinder, and a spec. This was my coup de gras video to watch!

Magnificent video! Wonderful snake spotting.

So cool! I have never seen a coral snake in the wild. Thanks for sharing.

I saw one once. I caught it in the Tucson Mountains, and gave it to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, long ago. Good ol’ Micruroides euryxanthus.

Thank you for this video. I love how elegantly the snakes move on the ground.

That’s a really cool haircut Bryan!

I love your videos, and so do my kids: my younger daughter has developed a healthy appreciation and affection for our scaly friends thanks in large part to the work you put into making these videos. Snakes are so important to keeping ecosystems in balance and they need all the help and understanding they can get from us.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

This is so great to hear! Thank you!!

Awesomely interesting hike!

I was at me Dad’s home in Port Mansfield, TX in May when I encountered a snake in his garage. It wasn’t one of the usual suspects I see down there, so I used my “Seek” app to ID it, and it came back as the mildly venomous Northern Cat Eye Snake. Apparently, down there is about the only place in the US you can see one, so I felt pretty fortunate!

Awesome video and some very beautiful snakes!!

Such a beautiful and interesting snake. Always been a personal favorite of mine, thanks for the video!

Great vids ! 👍

I've only ever seen (pictures of) east coast corals, so that Sonoran definitely has kicked the rhyme out of my head. now I suddenly want to see some of you go out herping with NKF herping.

@ellea3344

11 ай бұрын

Red touching black, friend of Jack. Red touching yellow, kill a fellow. The rhyme is correct. This content creator is incorrect. The snake in the video is a venomus coral snake... there are no black bands touching red bands. And you have red bands touching the light color bands, be it white, yellow, or cream. The snake NOT being yellow does NOT confirm whether it is a coral or not. It matters only if distinct red and black bands touch... designating a non-venomous scarlet king snake. Regardless, leave snakes alone and treat them with respect as if they were all venomous.

I've only ever seen one coral snake in the wild before and it was late at night in the suburbs of Tucson about thirty years ago. Seeing one in broad daylight is downright bizarre.

This is so awesome! I've seen more snakes in this short video than I did in my entire 17 years living in Arizona and Nevada. And we'd frequent the backcountry quite often.

I love reptiles and watch your show to learn more about snakes here in the southwest. But I must admit seeing that Gila monster in the wild was the best!

@pamabernathy8728

11 ай бұрын

Let's ask RSS for an all Gila monster compilation! Lots of us gm fans here.

So rad you saw the coral snake Bryan!

I'm fascinated with snakes here in northwest Texas and absolutely love your videos.

Beautiful Sonoran Coral snake…just stunning. I vaguely remember seeing one at the Sonoran Desert Museum outside Tucson many decades ago, but never in the wild. Seeing the mating behavior was very interesting.

🐍🐍Get a room!😂

And in FL there are kings that are red, yellow and black like a coral. Awesome finds😊

I truly enjoy your videos. I still don't want a snake in my house, but I have learned to respect, appreciate and admire them from a distance. (My son is hoping you'll change my mind on the whole snake in the house thing, but he shouldn't hold his breath. Some animals just don't belong in the house. Birds and snakes are two of them.) 🐍😁

I would still call that yellow and I’d say the rhyme absolutely still works in this case.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

17 сағат бұрын

It only works if it can different between multiple species RELIABLY by a novice. Whether or not one snake already confirmed to be a coralsnake adheres to it with some subjectivity is really irrelevant. In real world use, it fails most of the time.

I have lived in Tucson since 1978 and I have only seen 3 coral snakes so a great find and a treat to see one especially in the day time

Very cool!!!

Lived in the Valley for 24 years before moving within a couple of miles of the Reptile Serpentarium here in Saint Cloud, Florida. Where does the Sonoran Coral Snake really fall into the Arizona ecosystem? It almost seems like the odd man out. Love watching the coverage from your team!

Corals are CRYPTIC! We've got a big Sonoran coral that lives just off of our front porch in a big thicket of aloes. Sighted her twice in 20 years, both times after dark when she was hunting on the porch and we arrived home too quickly in the car for her to vanish. 😮😊🫠

Super cool video as always Brian. Any plans to go to South Africa to see snakes? There are plenty of very knowledgeable and cool people doing the same job as you who it might be rad to meet with and even collab or do a video with.

That coral snake is beautiful. Living in Oro Valley I’ve seen quite a variety out running or hiking. Lots of king snakes and gopher snakes here. Found a thread snake one night on front porch after a storm. That’s a bizarre little snake. Probably never see another one of those.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Super !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I envy you and your knowledge/ability to find such beautiful snakes. I’m trying to do my research and countless nights of exploring but I continue to get skunked 😂. 2 rattlesnakes for the year so far… But your videos continue to educate me and I hope to be as successful as you one day. Thanks for what you do and all your videos you continue to share with us Bryan

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Keep looking and write everything down! That’s how it starts. When snakes are moving it’s not a random event. In time you’ll find trends in weather and locations, so view every sighting as a lesson towards finding the next. It gets much easier in time.

Those suckers are difficult to find! Closest I came was 5 minutes behind a sighting, that went into a impossibly large rock pile.

New subscriber. Great to find your channel! Earlier this year, I saw nine rattlesnakes in my area (NE Mesa) while on trail (March-July). Last one was early July. Then nothing. Should we expect to see them more active this month and October before going into hibernation?

Great video thank you from south of England

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@pamabernathy8728

11 ай бұрын

I remember learning that St. Patrick led all the snakes out of Ireland. All of Great Britain as well? Most of my 12 years of Catholic school, back in the 1960's - early '70's, was excellent & rigorous education. I've forgotten a lot of the saints' info. Blessings from Across the Pond.

Those "never been here before and don't know what I'm gonna find" outings are the best. For my outing, the next thing to come is - "just gotta see what's around the next bend in the wash" - over & over of course.

As of the end of July this year, has anyone on your team rescued a coral snake on a service call?

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

It happens but very rarely.

Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us in your amazing & enjoyable videos! I always learn something new from your content, and you often get me so curious about subjects that I end up doing additional searches on the subjects because you make the topics so interesting to learn about. Thank you for being a voice for the voiceless with the incredible work you do to help in the conservation of these beautiful & majestic animals. Snakes have gotten a bad reputation going all the way back to the writing of the Bible, but once people truly understand that they just want to be left alone in almost every case, then they become much less scary to simply watch from a distance. 👍🐍

I am so glad you found the coral snake and discussed the lack of yellow coloring. I love finding snakes and will pick up the ones that I "think" are not venomous. I'm afraid to say that had I seen that snake, I most likely would have tried to pick it up. Thank you so much for the information and now I won't be so bold!

@ellea3344

11 ай бұрын

Its not whether it is yellow or white or cream... but whether red bands touch black bands or not.

@BezmenovDisciple

19 сағат бұрын

@@ellea3344Exactly. If you understand the basic rhyme to mean 3 separate colors and that the one most representing red is touching the one most representing yellow, you can still reasonably apply this rule of thumb and realize this snake is dangerous.

Best video in a while 👍

Great video. Thanks. Just wondering how you fund your relocation service?

More videos like this please!

Neat finds especially that Coral never seen that variety usually more candy caneish.

We had several Eastern coral snakes by our house in Florida. Over an area of about 200 square meters, there were three that had the same genetic pattern in their red bands. There was a black streak in a red band about halfway back. I assume these snakes were genetically linked.

Beautiful gila at 1:30. I still miss the one I had in the 70's. I was the only 8th grader I knew who had a gila monster. Gotta be so careful with them when they warm up - sooo fast- they'll do a 180 and tag you before you can blink if you aren't paying attention. Mine loved to sit in the bathroom sink with a gentle flow of water going over his head to rinse the egg residue off his chin after an egg meal. He'd just sit there and raise his head up into the water flow.

I'm pretty sure, when it comes to herping Arizona is the place to be. I have a question, have you ever rescued a venomous pet snake from Africa or Asia/Australia which was on the run? In Germany, it happens sometimes.

@DeborahRosen99

11 ай бұрын

For herping venomous snakes, yeah, I'd go to Arizona. For those not willing to live quite so far out on the edge while herping, Maine is wonderful: a dozen different kinds of snakes and *none* of them are venomous. (Which isn't to say they won't bite if threatened, just that their bite is more likely to kill a human from infection than from venom. There is the odd eastern timber rattler - but they are so uncommon that Maine doesn't count them in their population anymore.)

flash flood move snakes long ways some times

I don't mind snakes, but when I do see one I just stay clear of if I'm not sure if it's venomous, I let it do it's thing. That way I don't get bit.

"fused and creamy not so dreamy? ;)

Cool finds. I was just wondering how your India trip was going. I'm sure we'll find out shortly.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Coming soon!

The speckled rattlesnake- perhaps someone did a misguided relocation of this snake, and he was lucky you guys showed up to put him in the correct place to survive.

Thank you. Am going to tell my friend the rhyme about coral snakes does not always work.🤣👍👍

When I lived in Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico the coral snakes were pink. We would see them frequently. We also had a green colored snake that was very poisonous and there was no anti venom for it. The construction workers on my job site would kill it as soon as they saw it and bury it.

Great content! Are the pants you wear out into the field, snake proof?

Son tigris las ultimas dos o no ? Saludos

I have seen a variety of different Long Nose Snakes, all the way from total black to very faded pattered to knock your socks off brilliant bands. Once they have been caged and handled for a time make a decent pet snake

The coral snake we have in Florida always seem to have the red/yellow/black bands. A homeless man and his friend were bitten by a coral snake when they tried to hold it. One of them died unfortunately. Coral snakes are often out in the day time here. I've seen several.

We have yellow band here coral snake s in Florida

Glad you taught me about the Sonoran Coral snake. I would have thought it was a California King snake. What is their usual prey, and do they hunt by envenomizing only or do they constrict as well? Body and head size seems to make what they eat has to be pretty small.

Leaf-Nosed...? Nuh-uh; Hairlip Snake.

I seen 2 of these in Colorado.

Wow - a Gila monster and a coral snake. Great morning! I'm out in the desert quite often - best I keep my eyes open a little more! What time of year was this?

A coral snake provided my only real venomous snake encounter, in Naples, Florida. I was out at a stables, waiting for a lesson, and it crawled across the path right in front of me: I was wearing boots, so I was not worried. I just watched the snake, and was mildly surprised when it coiled up and watched me. After watching me for several minutes, the snake had had enough, and crawled back through the stalls of one of the horses (the snake was more in danger of being stomped, then the horse of being bit) It was only about a foot and a half. It crawled out the back of the stall, and into the tall grass.

I captured and released a long, black, thin and fast snake in North Scottsdale years ago. It took days for the stink to leave my hands. Tried everything. What to ya’ll do? I tried everything.

Being rattled at by a bunch of snakes while trying to service their enclosures... I know the feel. Those little ingrates. XP

So beautiful ❤🖤🤍

I had an unexpected encounter with a coral snake on my property last summer, which is in the foothills / canyons of the Santa Rita mountain range southeast of Tucson. It was the middle of a hot day and I was running a mower trimmer to cut low an area of tall bear grass. The coral snake came out of the uncut grass section, and actually slithered in my direction, which seemed unusual because of the noise and commotion of the mower trimmer. I was happy to see a new species, and decided to assess some risk and carefully pick it up with my thick gardening gloves. Brought it up to the house to confirm ID with a Sonoran reptile guide. The snake didn't seem to show any particular fear or anxious desire to strike so I took that risk. Of course, I don't know the species well enough if they exhibit warning signs of intent to bite at any given moment. So yeah kids don't try that at home, etc. I let it go without incident.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Lesson learned! Thanks for sharing, and we are glad everything turned out okay. Your experience also nicely illustrates how benign they can be, especially if left alone.

I grew up in Trinidad and Tobago where there are coral snakes but they look a lot more like the one in your thumbnail. I had no idea that they could be found in North America. While they are very poisonous, their mouth is too small to bite a human easily, and typically have to bite in between toes or fingers. ... or so we were always told! Vipers and Boa Constrictors were much bigger threats.

Coral snakes are really hesitant to bite.

Wonderful. Is it true that coral snakes chew as opposed to biting? How much chewing do they do and I wonder how that adaptation helps them survive

I would love it if you would date your videos in the notes so we would know what time of year you were outlooking and what you saw. we live nearby and would love the help.

That coral snake Not only was that a great find there Brian , those must be extremely rare . Now the next question I have for you Brian what lens are you using when you take the photos of the snakes .

Replace white for yellow in that case. But this will no help you in south and central America. But in North America it works pretty well. Still not worth risking a bite.

Is there a purpose for the red on the coral snakes, or is it just their coloring? Earlier in the video when you found the long nosed snake and it burst the blood vessels to make itself look unappetizing, I wondered if that's the purpose for the red on the coral snake too? Thank you for all the information you give us on these beautiful creatures. :)

I read somewhere that black/white king snakes only have patches of black on their face whereas coral snake faces are all black- unsure if that's an old wives tale or not

9:49 do you mean there are now cobras living in your state in the wild?

Out of curiosity, what is that orange mesh flag-like thing on your backpack?

What road were you on when you found the Gila Monster?

When I was a kid. It was. Red yellow black is a friend of jack. Red black yellow could kill a fellow.

@nancyjanzen5676

5 күн бұрын

Only eastern coral snakes.

What I have learned is to treat all snakes like they’re poisonous and just leave them alone and hopefully I never step on one accidentally. I came close at the White Tank Mountain on the west side of Phoenix probably within 12 inches of stepping on a rattlesnake.

How do you walk around with so many snakes about, in the UK we have snakes but almost never see them and only one is venomous, seems odd to us to live with them possible so close?

Is it possible another relocator who doesn't know that much about the territory or an amateur herper relocated that speckled rattlesnake to an inhospitable environment for the species?

@cedarwaxwing3509

11 ай бұрын

I was wondering about that, too. Being a regular viewer, I am aware how critical it is to return the snakes to the types of environments to which they are adapted. I assume you thought of this possibility and rejected it, since you returned the speckled to the area from which you caught it. Thanks for another great video.

@RattlesnakeSolutions

11 ай бұрын

Possible but unlikely in this instance.

Do you guys charge for your services? I'm just curious if you make money from donations? The County? or if you charge for a snake removal. Much respect for what you do!