Reptile education done properly..... showing the animals acting naturally in their environments, accompanied with facts. No people to mess it up. Excellent stuff.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

It is great to read this comment! We are very happy that you like our video! 🙂

@IANCHARLES1965

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Having handled a Black Mamba during my advanced snake handling course, they are very quick. Excellent presentation on these 3 snakes. None of the hype that I have seen some idiots get up to!

I really like how there is no background music. I like animal dicumentaries but the background music mutes out the natural background sounds

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Great that you love the fact that there is no music in our videos!

@ALEXNOMBRES

2 ай бұрын

Complétement d'accord 👌

I can't get enough of how incredible the Bushmasters are. They look like dragons and I could swear they are as intelligent as one.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Yes, bushmasters are true dragons among snakes!

@5891jonathan

2 ай бұрын

The Bushmaster camo is amazing.

@Mephisto707

2 ай бұрын

The king cobra is the most intelligent snake of all.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

@@Mephisto707 We agree that the King cobra is very intelligent but there are no studies/data/measures to exactly quantify and compare the intelligence of these 3 snake species.

@johnschlesinger2009

2 ай бұрын

It's always a treat to see footage of bushmasters.

Always enjoy reptile videos, so many thanks from an 88 year old Englishman. March, 2024.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! We hope that you will enjoy watching many of our videos! 🙂

The sounds of nature and the high-quality footage are exceptional. No drama, just quality information and presentation.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

We are very happy that you like the sounds, footage and information in our videos!

Thank you for this super educational and interesting video. These snakes are mesmerizing. Thank you also for including the imperial measurements! As always, the video and photography are amazing. Thank you!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

So good to hear that you find it educational and interesting! :) Thank you so much for your support! Also great to hear that it is worthy to include the imperial measurements!

These videos are so relaxing for me... exactly what I need to chill.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

We are so glad to hear that!

Great Video of 3 of the longest and venomous particularly my fascination with the king cobra….

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for watching! 🙂

That was beautiful. Thank you so much. Love the ambient sounds.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! It is so good to hear from people who love ambient sounds :)

Absolutely love your documentaries. Seeing the snakes in habitat exhibiting natural habitual behaviours, gorgeous photography, interesting facts on behavior. Being from South Africa and a birder I loved that the black mamba soundscape matched the environment, it’s really immersive. My usual pet peeve with nature documentary is the absurd animal movement foley and really appreciated its absence here. Thank you for creating these beautiful world class documentaries!

Awesome Video! Im a big Viper fan but saw King Cobra in real a week ago and I must say these animal are even much more majestic than in videos such a big difference!! Beautiful beautiful Snakes!

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! King cobras are super majestic snakes, we agree!

Well I am a 11 year old boy and my snake and wild life knowledge is very good all thanks to this channel and legendary tv show like animals planet etc ❤

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching videos on our channel!

@michaelblocki2926

2 ай бұрын

1😂​@@LivingZoology

My Favorite is Always The King Cobra.!!! Amazing Video.!!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! King cobras are majestic!

All the snakes featured in this video are impressive, but the three longest are magnificent!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Glad that you love all the impressive snakes in our video! 🙂

As always great work anyone who might be watching this and maybe be able to sponsor them it would be a great opportunity for both. They educate so many people and their work is right up there with major networks. Imagine what else they could do with sponsors.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment! 🙏❤️Sponsors would help us a lot!

The soothing sound of nature❤❤

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Great that you love it!

@franco89mp

2 ай бұрын

@@LivingZoology it's the best sound ever..thank you guys for your work..massively appreciated🙏

Bushmasters are my favorites because i find them very unique and mysterious, ❤

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

We agree that these pit vipers are really cool! :) Have you seen this video? kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yp5_sbOnd5acd7A.html

I knew of bushmasters in South and Central America, but not in North America. Thanks for the herpetology lesson! Great video!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! In this case it is rather a geographic lesson, the range of bushmasters is the same as you probably thought, the northernmost country where the Central American bushmaster occurs is Nicaragua. When we did the research about different models of continents some time ago, we realized that the North America stretches all the way south to Panama. In some countries Americas are considered as one continent. Central America is never considered as a real separate continent.

Automatically chill with yours lovely videos. Thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤

@LivingZoology

8 күн бұрын

Glad you like them! 💚💚

Thank you...this was so relaxing 😅. Enough information !

@LivingZoology

2 күн бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 Great that you enjoyed it!

Cool footage by LZ!❤

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! ❤️

I've only seen some big rattlesnake species in captivity. So I can only imagine how monstrous a 3,5 m Bushmaster would look in real life. Truly an impressive animal.

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

The longest bushmaster we saw in the wild was about 2.4 meters and it was already impressive!

Another excellent video. Very informative. Amazing photography. Thank you.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, again! So nice to read.

Great video, and very educational!

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much! 🙂

wow!!!! awesome work

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Wow! Amazingly impressive specimens here.

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for watching! 🙂

Great content. Just a minor quibble. Black mambas frequently live amongst people in South Africa.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, in some areas of South Africa Black mambas live close to people. In our video we are talking about the whole range of the species, which covers huge areas of the Sub-Saharan Africa.

@OrlandoAmutenya

2 ай бұрын

Not in namibia they live deep in the forest

I enjoyed this video. I found it very fascinating.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, we appreciate it!

You are the bestest in the snakes movie... Chapeau....

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Many many thanks for this! 🙏

Amazing footage fan from india❤

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! ❤️

Figure you guys are too busy to answer questions on your comment section, but I've always wondered if there are maybe family or genus similarities between some snakes. Biggest example that makes me curious is the coloration and "design" of the South American (and other) Bushmasters and the North American rattlesnakes - like the diamondback. Same with some of the Corals and milk snakes. Yet the Bushmasters have no "rattle" - and the milk and ring snakes have no venom. Just amazes me that these guys may have been around even before the continental drifts began and just evolved with the climate(s) (?) Oh, and just insert my usual amazement about the beauty and professionalism of your photography here! :)

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Hello, thank you for watching our videos, great that you like them! As you write, the environment has a strong influence on snake’s coloration or general morphology. Also, some survival strategies (pattern used for camouflage or aposematic colors) were apparently successful for different snake groups living even on different continents.

@oaflet

2 ай бұрын

Rattles are likely an adaptation to life in grasslands, where a big mammal (bison, deer, …) might step on the snake. So the noise tells it to back off, as do the loud hisses of king cobras, puff adders, … The genera (Crotalus, Sistrurus) successfully radiated into different environments where that wasn't such a critical feature.

@calvinhobbes7504

2 ай бұрын

@@oafletThanks so much sir - I was wondering especially since there are so many species (not even colored close) that wiggle their rattle-less tails - while other species don't.

As always absolutely stunning video of snakes in absolutely stunning HD

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like our videos! ❤️

Relaxing, captivating, and educating as usual. Can you make three longest snakes in the world?

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!! We cannot now, sorry! We still don't have footage of the large python species in Africa :/ Hopefully in the future!

Love the nature sounds in place of bad music 👍

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Gorgeous video!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

How do you get such amazing shots and all the close up shots? Your content is simply magical. You bring info in such simple ways that doesn't distract from the focus of the frame. Keep up with the amazing work.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

We gently work with snakes, usually we keep our distance just enough for snakes to feel relaxed around us and that's how we can film the natural behavior. Thank you very much, great that you love our footage!

i appreciate you people for filming this stuff

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Lot of effort, time and money goes into finding and filming these shots!

Thank you it was beautiful

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 Great that you enjoyed watching our video!

Very beautiful and interesting video. Can I ask if a film with Czech dubbing will be released this year? Thank you very much! 😁

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! We work on a documentary called The most venomous snakes of Africa, it seems like the release date might be in 2025 rather than 2024.

@radimlopko1237

2 ай бұрын

​@@LivingZoologyawesome, I'm very glad that you also create for the Czech community 😅

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ love your Videos

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!!! ❤️

Awesome.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

I am always fascinated by all the effort you give for works like this. Please always keep going and inspiring!

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! We will continue! :)

Beautiful perfect always

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!! 🙏🙂

I wouldn't be surprised if venomous snakes lived in Antartica in certain areas. Due to the Antarctic treaty we can't explore a lot of it. Admiral Byrd in a documentary said there was green land beyond certain areas.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

You really wouldn’t be surprised?

@thebabbler8867

2 ай бұрын

Antarctica is code name of the real continent of Polis Articus, which was the inspiration for the Avatar franchise. It is a huge continent hidden in plain sight in the center of the earth. They took it off the map in the late 1800s.

Excellent video. 👍🇺🇸👍

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! 👍

Beautiful animals

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Are there other species with a cocktail of four different types of venom like the Bushmaster?

@oaflet

2 ай бұрын

Saw-scale vipers. If it sounds like it's sizzling, back off.

@baptistemartin867

2 ай бұрын

The russell's viper has a few different things mixed up in its venom

@IANCHARLES1965

2 ай бұрын

All venomous snakes have a cocktail of different venoms, with one predominant type. In South Africa we have predominantly Cytotoxic, Neurotoxic, and Haemotoxic. Some of the Neurotoxic snakes have a Cytotoxic component causing painful progressive swelling in addition to progressive weakness. Rinkhals venom causes a mixed painful progressive swelling with progressive weakness.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

There are quite many viper species with venom having different components but when we think about it, another famous venomous species which has neurotoxic, myotoxic, hemotoxic and cytotoxic components is the Mulga snake!

I’ve heard.witnesses say mambas are aggressive around people because they feel cornered

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

No, mambas are shy and avoid people at any cost. A cornered Black mamba will however defend itself.

Just remember that the biggest one is the one that got away. Ask any fisherman.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

This is a very informative video, with fantastic photography as well. Here's something that slightly confuses me. At first, I highly doubted one of the captions, that indicated the Eastern Diamondback is a Bushmaster. Indeed it is. Here's what confuses me. There are some HUGE Western Diamondbacks, as well as Canebrakes, or Timber Rattlers too. Why exactly aren' they considered to be Bushmasters? Is it specifically due to size/length? This is good stuff.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! But, we did not try to say that the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is a bushmaster :) Just the sentence leading to the section about bushmasters is there while there is still the rattlesnake visible.

Alors vous allez faire une vidéo sur le cobra caspian ? Il métite largement sa place.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Maybe in the future…

@ALEXNOMBRES

2 ай бұрын

@@LivingZoology 👌👍🏼🤩🥇

@ALEXNOMBRES

2 ай бұрын

​@@LivingZoologyok mes quand 2025 ? 2026 ? 2027 ?

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

@@ALEXNOMBRES We don’t know…

A lot of mambas live around the slums. A lot of King cobras live around the slums.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

There are places where Black mambas or King cobras come to fairly regular contact with humans. But in general these two species live far away from people and successfully avoid people.

What is your opinion on freehandling? Not with these snakes especially just in general? Of course I mean like for people who definitely know what they are doing and not meaning just picking up random venemous snakes.

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

We think that working with animals always involves a small risk of getting injured. Certain individual will get scared, it will feel bothered too much for example, and can bite, scratch you or otherwise injure you. If there is a chance to minimize such risk, we think that it is wise to take it. So when working with venomous and often large non-venomous snakes, we use tools. If someone feels like it is safe to freehandle, it is up to him/her. But, it is definitely not something you want to heavily show or promote online in our opinion.

02:34 The text mistakenly sez Bitis rhinoceros, but it should be Bitis gabonicus. May as well fix that and add a clip of the Rhinoceros viper - it's beautiful, particularly the juveniles. __ NB: Rhinoceros vipers live at elevation, in cloud forests. They like temperatures around 22°C (71.6°F), unlike B. gabonicus, which likes things hotter.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

The Rhinoceros viper is Bitis nasicornis. It is not as big as the Eastern gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) and the West African gaboon viper (Bitis rhinoceros). The West African gaboon viper grows even larger than the Eastern gaboon viper.

@IANCHARLES1965

2 ай бұрын

Bitis gabonica is the Gaboon Viper occurring in Southern Africa. It has 2 triangles on the sides of their heads. The Western Gaboon Viper only has 1 as can be clearly seen in the video, Bitis rhinoceros. The Rhino Horned Viper is rather more colorful than the other 2, Bitis nasicornis.

It was a nice video seeing these snakes. But the audio of the the birds and wildlife in the background is fake. That was on on an audio loop repeating itself. 😔

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. What is a fake audio to you? Each scene in this video has an authentic soundscape we recorded at the locations where the main snake species shown lives.

Do you know why so many black mambas don't close their mouth completely? Always a small gap between the lips... Also the mamba in your video.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

We noticed that too and we think that often they react to a potential threat that way. A slightly open mouth is a small warning, a properly open mouth is a big warning.

Which snake venom s is potent

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Not sure what exactly are you asking...

@shabbirahmed1678

2 ай бұрын

@@LivingZoology which venomous snakes are highly toxic and how long a victim survive if he didn't get immediate medical attention

@baptistemartin867

2 ай бұрын

​@@shabbirahmed1678out of the three, the king cobra's venom is the slowest to take effect. But the more you wait the more his bite will affect you long term even after curing his venom. The black mamba 1nd the Bush master are well known for the lethality of their venom but what makes it deadlier is teh quickness of its spreading through the organism. It is said that their venom is supposed to kill a full grown adults within half an hour.

@1fairi

2 ай бұрын

@@shabbirahmed1678 Most potent snake venom has the inland taipan (LD50=0.025 mg/kg) from Australia. Black mamba has potent venom, but only 0.33 mg/kg. However mamba possess four times higher venom yield than inland taipan. King cobra venom is not extremely potent only 1.28 mg/kg, but it has extremely high venom yield, 400-600 mg dry venom mass per bite!!!!

@lissandrafreljord7913

2 ай бұрын

​@@shabbirahmed1678Easily, Inland Taipan has the most potent venom of all known species of snakes.

There is a channel in Indonesia, his name is Panji, the adventurer, he is the king cobra snake man

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Is he working safely with King cobras?

Where's is the Australian tiapan.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Not in this video as it is not among 3 longest venomous snakes in the world.

@markquinn1104

2 ай бұрын

@@LivingZoology they have measured up sixteen feet long. Check if you don't believe

Which is considered the king of all vipers? Is it the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Fer de Lance, South American Bushmaster, Gaboon Viper, Puff Adder, Saw Scale Viper, Russell's Viper?

@richardhincemon

2 ай бұрын

Bushmasters are the longest vipers,Eastern Diamondback are heaviest vipers in North America and the Russell's Viper is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in India 🇮🇳 Fer de Lance is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in Central and South America ,Puff Adders are responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in Africa and the Saw Scaled Viper is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in the world 🌎

@josephd.5524

2 ай бұрын

I have to say the Bushmaster, both for its size and look, but also because of the intelligence in its eyes. King Cobras are known for their brains, but they're riddled with anxiety despite being huge and dangerous. Bushmasters don't panic, they don't dart around or rear up to your face because you looked at them funny. The Bushmaster will coil up and watch you, patiently, until you give it a reason. The Fer-de-Lance might be the scariest on the list, but it just doesn't have the brains of the Bushmaster.

@richardhincemon

2 ай бұрын

The Gaboon Viper Bitus Gabonoica is the heaviest venomous snake Viperidae family on Earth with the longest fangs 2in capable of delivering 2400mg maximum of venom in a single bite. They also are one of the most beautiful snakes on earth which should make them a great choice for King of all the Viperidae family of snakes 🐍

@oaflet

2 ай бұрын

@@richardhincemon Not beauty queen? Alas.

@lissandrafreljord7913

2 ай бұрын

@@richardhincemon Yes I heard this. But by king of vipers, I meant like you know how the King Cobra is considered the King of all elapids for its size, intimidating factor, venom yield, and tendency to eat other snakes. I wanted to know which one was considered the overall most feared and badass viper, whom other vipers would not want to mess with in the wild (I know a lot of them don't even cross path in the wild, but just hypothetically). I hear many rattlesnakes are actually a meal for a lot colubrids in the Americas. I'm just wondering how true that is for larger, fully grown rattlesnakes like the Eastern Diamondback, Western Diamondback, Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake, etc.

Why not tell the viewer the average length of each?

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

There is always something we forget to put into the video 😀 Thanks, so maybe in the next one!

King brown snake probably 4th

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

The Central American bushmaster is the fourth, the King brown the fifth...

Gaboon Viper = Bitis Gabonica not Bitis Rhinoceros

@LivingZoology

19 күн бұрын

Bitis gabonica was split into B. gabonica and B. rhinoceros. You probably mean Bitis nasicornis.

@waiyeinwong4457

18 күн бұрын

Thx for the update and very nice video.

A black mamba can reach a length 4m 4,5 to meters cum to namibia southern Africa.🇳🇦❤🙏

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Namibia is definitely an interesting country.

Cobra Kai

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

For your information, the Bushmaster is NOT found in North America, but Central and South America and Trinidad.

@LivingZoology

19 күн бұрын

North America ends in Panama when considered as continent.

@partylap

18 күн бұрын

Panama, Costa Rica etc...the countries south of Mexico and up to Panama is Central America. Central America is not considered North America.

Ireland does not have snakes, and reptiles

@LivingZoology

Ай бұрын

We know that there are no snakes but there is the Viviparous lizard. Thanks for watching.

The chirpings of the birds heard in this video sound like artificial created by man so as to bring naturality .

@LivingZoology

4 күн бұрын

Funny that you think that it is created by AI. We record all our sounds in nature.

@LivingZoology

4 күн бұрын

We record sounds in nature. Funny that you think that sounds in this video are created by AI :D

Why do they all look so evil?

@oaflet

2 ай бұрын

You just haven't learned to love them. Also, many have projecting scales over the eyes - sun shield, like the visor on a baseball cap. The effect looks like an angry person's eyebrows.

@LivingZoology

2 ай бұрын

Maybe you need some time to get used to snakes and understand them 🙂To us they are beautiful and cute! They just don’t have straight cute faces like cats or dogs but after some time you start to see the cuteness in snakes too 😉

@IANCHARLES1965

2 ай бұрын

​@LivingZoology Snake lives matter! Many people in world and especially in South Africa, have an "abnormal" fear of snakes and many non-venomous snakes are killed indiscriminately as a result!