Shhh were tryin to find the future Darwin award recipients lol. He's just kidding guys if this dude can do it so can you just remember snakes in the wild love to play the startle game lol
Who the hell would??? We have lots of vipers here on the Alabama Georgia line. I've walked up on lots of different pits , but the scariest would have to be a cotton mouth or water moccasin. I was kayaking around a fallen tree in the middle of the creek and I ended up arms length away from a pit tucked away in the trunk . It spit at me. I about shit myself and it took 3 more beers and a doobie to calm down!!!
Cuz its well fed. Reptiles aren't very nice but they learn easy meals real fast. Their intelligence is impressive and intimidating. Youd b amazed at how smart they are when it comes to surviving.
Did everyone notice how he said "hand raised" and he literally took it out of the cage and that creature was cool as a cucumber... 😮 Very well done sir, cool critter
Never once in my life have I seen a rattlesnake not rattle when approached by humans, even captive raised ones. It was so calm it let you shakes its tail. Crazy.
It's about 50:50 in my experience, with wild rattlesnakes, mainly the Western species (viridis?). Not western diamond backs, just "western", found in California and Oregon, etc. I've nearly accidentally stepped on several without the slightest buzz and they sometimes have to be messed with quite a bit to get any rattle. I often joke that the ones that are quick to rattle are being removed from the gene pool, leaving the silent ones to breed.
@@craigfinley2507there are some donkeys who go looking to kill rattlesnakes, so there’s rattlers who are starting not to rattle. It’s not a joke but a real problem. They have a disgusting rattlesnake event in Texas where it’s all about killing them, don’t know if the courts have ruled against them yet though. I guess they want the state of Texas to be overrun with rodents.
@@MrBuketman who tf defangs snakes?! More importantly Why tf would you defang a snake? If anyone legitimately does this… they’re a Koala in my book… akin to the most smooth brained mammal 100%.
@@MrBuketman NO!! None of his are.. it's just really chill af.. we've seen it's fangs & venom.. plus that's the male & 1 time during feeding he bit the female in the head & she almost died.. her head swelled up for a long time. So to be clear in answering ur question.. NO they are NOT de-fanged.. they 100% have their fangs & have hybrid venom since they are a hybrid rattlesnake
If it wasn't for their venom, it seems like rattlers would make phenomenal pets otherwise. Just about every captive-bred, well-socialized, respectfully-treated rattler I've seen has been as sweet and tame as a lazy old tom cat.
A lot of snakes are docile when raised in a captive environment, even some venomous species. They're used to being handled so they learn it is not a threat.
For those who don't know the Canebrake is basically a subspecies of Timber rattlesnakes. The snake used for the "Don't tread on US" flags. The fact that they bred that with a Diamondback, the largest rattlesnake on Earth makes it the mascot for the new "Don't fuck with US!" flags. Merch idea for ya, use a Picture of this snake for that shirt. Id buy it.
It was the snake benjamin franklin used i think when he used his printing press to manufacture the "join or die" movement that helped organize the 13 colonies into teaming together to overcome the redcoats. That was a rattlesnake
Like a Grizzly bear, if you raise them since birth, they'll be tame 99% of the time. But all it takes is .001th of a second out of 10 years to cause his death.
My partner and I actually saw a much larger rattlesnake than this. It was a Western Diamond back and was laying itself on a large boulder on the side of Mt Whitney in CA and the rattles were 3 ft tall. It was truly a majestic site and I only wish we had smart phones back then.This was in 2005 and will never forget the site of this snake.
@@jdkhaos4983 The reason he got bit wasn’t because he was “ handling so stupidly”. It was because literally everything that could go wrong did, he had to handle the cobra while it was in shed, so that made it worse. He had to handle it during a storm, cobras are extremely sensitive to barometric pressure changes. He was within the bite zone by literally a finger tip, which was where he was bitten.
@@Kieranh4424 it's stupid to handle venomous snakes by hand. I've spent a LOT of time catching snakes, whether venomous or not, and you never free handle venomous snakes. That's how you get a bad name for snake owners and get the state to start banning ownership of venomous breeds.
Now, that is an insane rattler. I believe it's bigger than the one I walked up on last November. But not by too much. And the sound those rattles make ! It's very loud and intimidating.
30+ years ago, during a Herpetology Research trip to Nueces County in East Texas, I caught a 5'-2" Canebrake Rattlesnake that was sitting on a pile of wood & pine needles, basking in the morning sunlight. I snuck up with tongs and a hook, and grabbed a hold of him. I might as well got a hold of a Bucking Horse!! It took everything I had to get a hold of him & get him in the sack & collection bucket!! Had 18 rattles w/o the button! His fangs were an 1- 3/4" long!! We released him after measurements & data collection. Beautiful Snakes!!!
I'm from the NM area of the world, I was 12 when was just 2 inches from stepping on a 22 year old Western DB, these snakes are honestly smarter than you think and much more chill than an Easter DB. Point of Intelligence, the Western DB has learned not to rattle anymore due to the wild pig problem, as to not get eaten by said pigs. Westerns have the prettiest scale patterns in my opinion of all snakes.
The guy has sigma levels of confidence and that snake is super chill. I would never be able to handle a venomous snake without freaking out and dropping it.
Him: *casually holding a giant hybrid rattlesnake* The bg music: _I'm feeling lonely (lonely) Oh, I wish I'd find a lover that could hold me (hold me)_
