Wild RUSSELL'S VIPER in Thailand! (and much more) 

Again surprised by the krait behavior and your respectfully treatment, also very clever not to much handling the Russell one, thank you David

David, you are inspirational. You definitely have a special quality. Please be careful the world needs your passion. You are the number 1.

Loving this Thailand adventure. So amazing to see these animals I'd never get to observe,IRL.Keep up the herp. I'm also enjoying your friends very much. It's nice to watch likeminded crazy reptile lovers.💜

Thanks David what a lovely Russells vipers, Thailands answer to the Fer de lance.

Those goddamned Russel's Vipers are like the one snake that really scare the fuck out of me. Even if you survive the initial bite, you're probably gonna die from renal failure within the next couple of years. Maybe I'm wrong and that's just an old wives tale. Either way they're fucking terrifying.

I've never heard of a Viper that effects your puberty glands, etc. I'll definitely do a lil more research on this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all! I can't wait to share my bit of snake trivia with my, "26Yr.Old Twins!" (Love ❤️you both!) Their always trying to trip me up with one thing or another. 😉 Turn about is fair game! Be safe Hun!

20:08 the first venomous snake we werent able to handle... Lmao I was just thinking the same thing, honestly glad you didnt push fate, that was a twitchy little guy and I love your interactions with snakes, would hate for them to stop because you got hurt....

Good to see the gang in such good spirits.

Imagine you are taking a nap on your cough after a full meal and then somebody comes, tries to poke you from different angle, lift you time and again with a giant stick, put you down, lift again...all while putting super bright flash light on your face :)

I found an enormous roadkill Russells near Almora in the Himalayan foothills . Wanted to skin it but it was already going off. Did you know that the Sherlock Holmes work “The Speckled Band” refers to a Russell skin hat band ? Would love to go herping with you lot.🦎

Thailand really be a hardcore survival server

Great stuff. Great spirit of fun on this one. Fav part: 11:48 David “you sure you don’t want to bite me?”

Funny,I remember the first time I saw a Russells in Florida at Bill Haasts Serpentarium. He was doing his snake show along with milking some of the cobras. Well, he took one of his plastic crates from the table walked around and went onto the lawn.' Soon as he lifted the lid the loudest,most powerful HISS Ive ever heard came from that crate. The hairs on the back of my neck went straight up and my blood chilled. I lived in Nebraska for four years and caught,kept and bred bullsnakes. A 5ft bullsnake can sing,believe me,but this Russells was terrifying. It never stopped hissing methodically....and I didnt get used to it. At first,this guy had the girth of a Ball,so I figured we were looking at a big Russells. Wonder what other cocktails are in its venom to do what you said the other effects are.......Holy St Peter !!!!!

The buzz cut looks good 👍 now get a bunch of tats Dave and you're the ultimate bad ass! Awesome vid BTW, that Keith part had me dying 😂 "cortisol"

Incredible footage, and quite disturbing to see a Malayan krait being free-handled at night - that venom is just too potent. Do you have videos about watching or even catching, giant centipedes? It would be amazing to see them foraging at night in the Thai jungle.

Digging the hair dew. Rupert's like a bite expert at this point. Ouch. That little viper was so cool but can you imagine how fast that strike is and how toxic that venom would be wow.

YES!!! I went on a marathon of your videos last night

Hi David and crew, another great night with the snakes. That little pit viper is really beautiful but I am happy you didn’t do too much with him. Cheers from Australia.

Keith doesn't do impromptu then I'm totally amazed you do that with a poisonous snake like a krait ,top man I live in eastern Thailand ,Sa Kaeo province for many years and now see fewer and fewer snakes but did have one in the garden the other day but can't place it viewing the internet Local said it was a cobra ,I'm not so sure uniform grey colour with a series of black squashed (elongated) diamonds running down the spine great vid ,thanks

Keith is so funny 😂 the way he acts when the camera is pointed at him. Nice video guys!

Great find!!!that viper was so nice in color, i wasnt a fan of them until i saw this baby...be safe out there

Awesome content in the video loved the chain viper . Most venomous viper in Thailand and has no heat pit you guys definitely put me through school today awesome job keep up the good work

Dude that Russels was awesome!!!

I have that viper shirt of yours you were wearing!! It’s weird to see it on someone else haha. Those Russels look so cool but I’ve always been terrified of their venom.

🔥🔥🔥

I always on edge watching the krait handling

Do y’all carry any anti-venom when herping?

Me and my friends are your new subscribers....BTW your v Channel is amazing and your knowledge about reptiles and your feeling with them is fantastic.... keep going with your work, we will be watching you with passion as you do ..warm regards from the Adriatic coast of Portorose....

If I was a lil younger and a little wealthier I would have already booked more than one tour by now.. and congradulations on that lifer

Hola David a los españoles nos gustaría mucho que vinieras a Spain para capturar a las tres especies diferentes de Víbora que tenenos en este País. Un saludo 👋

You do so much risky stuff and i love it, i freehandled a v.ammodytes for the first time a few days agoo

Congrats on the lifer!! Glad ya held back & actually showed some apprehension with that little guy! As soon as I saw the size in comparison to the hook my butthole clenched a little lol!! The small ones gotta be 10x more risky to mess with then an adult!! Keep up the great work my friend, & I hope your feeling ok?!!

Now that was a great field trip

Love the way you free handle krait

Rupert got them snake radar eyes, I don't know how but you guys can find them snakes. 👍🏻🐍🌱

Very lucky that the Russell did not bite you.. playing with fire

Wow awesome video! That Viper that does the reverse puberty that was so interesting..MTF transgender people should take a bite to get that higher pitch voice :)

Love ur abilities and knowledge

Thank you kindly David for the video.

Another great video David as usual so thank you for sharing. You mentioned with the krait he probably hadn’t eaten in a while so just a thought could you not carry some rats or mice on your expeditions for the snakes ? Or am I being stupid

You should do a herping trip in the Caribbean 😁

Rather you than me handling that Krait at night. A new subscriber by the way.

Boy I sure wouldn’t be handling a Krait

Awesome find babe ❤️❤️

it is called eastern russel it is more grey and a bit more tiny

How can we even touch a crait like you did...need answer please

Hallo David, habt ihr schon mal ein Film über die Mokassin-Grubenotter in Südthailand gemacht? Würde mich freuen 🤙Grüße

The few Russells Ive ever encountered had super bad attitudes.

Shalom....David could be possibly the most venomous viper in the world the infamous Russel's viper??... thanks for your answer... comment....

Russell's viper or Saw scaled viper which bite is worst and why?

never knew russels viper were in thailand

Use gloves when handling highly venomous snakes awesome footage god bless greetings from india

I'm always looking at the albolabris and never see them with a black and white stripe but my albolabris all have that . Though it would go when they got older but it stayed especially on the males .have you often seen that in the wild with them ?

Your going to make it regurgitate dude

This guy is going to end up like the crocodile guy

Maybe the krate ( the big one ) was just a nice guy and didn’t want to kill anything! Lol

very good video👍👍👍👍

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Hati2 bro...

Dude with the red hair and glasses looks just the UFC fighter Justin gathije 😂😂 this is insane

When you say mildly venomous is that like prey specific venom and harmless to humans?

Wanna see you with Bungarus magnimaculatus

I knew this species was dangerous. Bites can be very painful and cause a consumption coagulopathy that is often fatal if not treated. But, now it seems the venom is even worse than I thought.

This is Daboia siamensis if im not wrong

Russell's love to reverse bite when being tailed should never be handled much less trying to put them in a 2 litre 7up bottle

man I love your videos and I'm not trying to criticize but putting your hand in front of a kraits head to see if it bites makes me sweat a little. Is it just that you know their behavior well enough to know they display a threat posture pre-bite or something? I'm just curious 🤔

Bro, come to bangladesh, you'll find all kinda snakes

GOAT

Spends minutes talking about how dodgy it is to handle whilst he's picking it up and holding it by the tail, bit of a show off

maybe you can take some scissors to Chandler's hair before he leaves.

That’s wild

Never ever trust any rusells viper and saw scaled viper

The bite of this viper can cause irreversible damage. Never joke with it. If I come to Thailand I hope not meet it 🙃🙃🙃🍰

It sucks Krait's are venomous because they are by far the cutest snake on the planet. That face is boopable. Don't boop snoot very danger

You and chrisweet are no longer friends, right?

Ya looks like its trying to get a tan on its belly lol

new sub here dave , u.s. here , u.s. marine vet here 93' to 97' active ! , would love to talk more indeed 1000% cool, talk soon > tom !

Bro u lying its not a krait its a wolf snake

Reverse puberty wtf 😂

The circular pattern is triggering for tryptophobia. They just gross me out. (Russell's Viper)

😁🤘

Hi brother, I from the,u can meet with PANJI PETUALANGAN,,😍

New hairstyle 🙄

Complete with a tic.

Alg

I killed couple of those Russell viper when I still lived in Thailand.

How are bored your videos now that you don't have long nails 😢