We are Matej and Zuzana, welcome to Living Zoology RU-vid channel! We both studied zoology (Zuzana has a master's degree and Matej has a Ph.D.) and we produce wildlife documentary films about life of wild animals, zoological research and ecological problems. Our main specialization is filming wild venomous and non-venomous snakes. The main goal is to inform about snake natural history, human-snake conflict around the world and many other topics connected with these reptiles. We already organized many expeditions to tropical regions of the world with the aim to find and film snakes. For example, we worked in Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, India, Indonesia, USA, Australia, Peru or Costa Rica. Apart from videos we also present wildlife photography. If you want to support us in our work, feel free to contact us!!!
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You can probably tell from the sound that viper creates, that is marvelous, it's an inspiration to me maybe to create something like car tires with such thread of those scales and believe me that the car will be unbeatable.
It looks cold there. Is it possible the snake is cold, and why it's quite calm. I do agree to them bring reactive snakes. I work with Australian Eastern Brown snakes here in Australia.
I live in Sweden and we have only one venomous snake here. It's the Northern adder, Vipera berus. It's deadly venomous but of course you should avoid getting bitten by one. I'm not scared of snakes but I'm aware of getting too close to a Northern adder when I see one. If we were to have Black mambas here, I would keep a good distance to it, because I would feel a little unsafe with a snake that is able to kill me with a bite. But I still think Black mambas are beautiful and fascinating. ❤
Dear Living Zoology team! Kindly make a specific video on Bungarus Caeruleus (Common Krait) which is a very very deadly snake in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka.
Thanks for another great video. I often wondered whether the statistics for lethality were representative, as the Russell's viper is a larger snake with a bigger venom yield. Good to hear that these little ones might cause less deaths. Scary nonethless...
Hands down the best expose of the saw-scaled viper I've ever seen. I didn't know there were species that could range in venom toxicity that profoundly. a 1/2 MG LD 50 compared to a 3MG LD 50 is the difference between life or death. Would you say the venom toxicity of that 40 cm little guy in Northern India was more toxic than that 80 cm one in the earlier part of the video?
All snakes want to survive. We humans are idiots. I love to hunt. I dont want to waste my ammo on someone that wants what i have or defend myself. Venomous snakes are the same way. They would rather eat than waste venom defending themselves. They wont chase you down and bite you to jack your car, steal you wallet or purse and no way near as screwed up as humans are to one another.
The snake can't talks,can't yell so nature gives to this creature the ability to makes sounds by rubbing its body to warn anyone not to come closer. Marvelous!!
I make a habit of LEAVING SNAKES THE HECK ALONE! In Canada we only have to worry about 2 rattlesnake species. Or spiders....we have Black Widows, so we have to be careful where we put our hands. We have to be careful of the non venous spiders to, because some of them get HUGE. If they bite you, it can be quite nasty.
I've always liked the gray-banded king snake. The Trans-Pecos rat snake is impressive, too. Videos like this make me wish I could join your team for one of your adventures.
The 2 most venomous Rattlesnakes are the Tiger Rattlesnake and the Mojave Green. Also, venom toxicity varies greatly from location to location. Mojaves are super beautiful. Their colors have yellowish, greenish,brown,a tiny bit of orange and of course the beautiful Coon Tail
Great video! I know this is a huge stretch but it would be beyond awesome if yall were able to do a video about the Mangshan Pit Viper in South China. I'm not sure if foreigners can even go to the places Mangshans are located and it might be almost impossible to locate 1 in the wild
This is a species of snake that's always ready for a fight. They _will_ chase you. Herpetologist Sherman Minton was pursued a distance of about 30 feet by a saw-scaled viper in Pakistan. The snake struck repeatedly at his boots. Of the 170+ snake bites incurred by the late great herpetologist, Bill Haast, by far the one that came closest to killing him was a bite from one of these snakes. He appeared to be on his death bed when The White House got involved and got a more specific anti-venom smuggled out of, sure enough, Iran. As for mimics, there is another that isn't mentioned in the video. The diadem rat snake is another harmless colubrid that lives in the Middle East and makes a hissing sound that is very similar to the rasping sound of a coiling saw-scaled viper. Therefore, if you're ever in the Middle East, and you hear a diadem rat snake hissing, but cannot see it, take heed and be prepared to jump back because there is a possibility you may be within striking range of a saw-scaled viper.
Almost incredible. It is strange that evolutive selection allow an animal what is almost not able to ear a sound to produce a sound as a defensive strategy. This sound is dedicated to mammals who sometimes come to close from her. The shot on the saw scales are interesting because it shows the total modification of the scales. They are oriented oblique (the back scales have normal orientation but when you see closer to the flank the orientation change) and their carinae are serrated; a formidable evolution of a stridulatory organ. This complex (Echis carinatus, pyramidum, occelatus, ..) is an absolute medical emergency. In places where medicalisation is not enough the consequence of saw scale vipers bites are terrible (kidney failure, haemorrhages, necrosis (amputation), certain problems could be solve by education. In certain countries some people use traditional medicine (black stone, etc) and when the victims have appropriate care it is frequently to late as it was observed by dr. Phelps, in "old world vipers: a natural history of azemiopinae and viperinae ". Development of serotherapy (dispensaries and local hospital with vials of serum) in these places are the only solution to minimise the consequences for local people. Cheers
