Snakes of Suriname, 5 common species, Common lancehead, Amazon tree boa, mock viper and more
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Suriname is a country high in snake diversity. Over 100 snake species live there. Some are famous and majestic, like the South American bushmaster, the Northern emerald tree boa, or the Green anaconda. 93 % of Suriname is covered by forest - the highest percentage in the world. Herping here is amazing! In each episode we will show you 5 species.
Episode 1
Common lancehead / Fer-de-lance (Bothrops atrox)
Brown-banded water snake (Helicops angulatus)
Common South American mock viper (Thamnodynastes pallidus)
Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulana)
Yellow-lipped sipo (Chironius carinatus)
you guys do not cease to amaze!
That’s great to hear, thank you! 🙂
Amazing diversity, thank you for uploading good content, just be proud of your self and hard work.
Thank you very much for watching this video, great that you like the diversity!
I like the Great places you see on your Jobs.
We are lucky to see amazing places thanks to snakes! 🐍
The first snake i got bit by was a thamnodynastes pallidus, juvenile.
Did you have any reaction after the bite?
Love learning about new snakes. Haven’t heard of these ones
Cool that you learned about new snake species for you!
Brilliant video 🎥
Many thanks! 🙏
Helicops angulatus reminds me a lot of the Nerodia clarkii compressicauda, here in Florida. They have similar color phases and eye placement. The overall shape of the head is pretty different, though. I’m able to observe a few on a daily basis because they live in a creek bordering my yard. Just yesterday I saw one swimming away with a minnow struggling in its mouth. Watersnakes are really underrated, but I love them! Always on the lookout for any red color phases, which I think are gorgeous.
Yes, water snakes are definitely underrated! Nice that you can observe some regularly 👍 Thanks for watching!
The fearless faces of the Bothrops crew are genuinely cool. Suriname is an area where Cane toads have a natural distribution. Are amphibian-feeding snakes, such as the Brown-Banded Water Snake featured in this video, adapted to the Toad's potent Bufotoxin?
Snakes from the subfamily Xenodontinae are known to predate adult Cane toads. In case of Brown-banded water snakes, we know about them predating tadpoles. The same applies for Leptodeira.
@@LivingZoology Thank you. They seem to be resistant to cane toad in the sense that they prey on tadpoles as well as adults. 😃
@@NoimanBernhard Do you know about records of Helicops eating adult Cane toads?
@@LivingZoology Sorry for the delay in responding. Unfortunately, I have not found any (explicit) reports of Helicops preying on adult Cane Toads; there is only one report of Helicops angulatus feeding on Rhinella marina (page 218). However, it is not known whether this was an adult or a tadpole. Source. Teixeira, Cássia & Montag, Luciano & Santos-Costa, Maria.(2017). Diet Composition and Foraging Habitat Use by Three Species of Water Snakes, Helicops Wagler, 1830, (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Eastern Brazilian Amazonia. journal of Herpetology. 51. 215-222. 10.1670/15-161.
@@NoimanBernhard Thank you, no problem! We also did not find any record of Helicops eating an adult Cane toad.
Wonderful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful
Thank you!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
the Elapidae family is still a scarier threat to me than the viper family... Please visit the island of Papua, you will find Taipan and Death Edder snakes and many other types... Greetings from Indonesia..
We love elapids! We worked with taipans and death adders in Australia (check our playlist from Australia). Visiting New Guinea would be cool!
can you tell me where you got the background noise you use in this video? it helps very much with my tinnitus. thanks
We recorded the soundscape in Suriname. Most of our videos have similar soundscapes recorded around the world. We also plan to make an hour or longer version of rainforest soundscape.
@@LivingZoology please 24 hour long video of this please!!!!!
@@michaelod8841 We will think about making it long!
The extreme pattern and color variability of the Amazon Tree Boas (Corallus hortulanus) begs understanding. Do you guys have any ideas on that?
Good question! It is thought that the high variability of colors might be an adaptation so that visual predators are unable to develop a search image for these snakes (especially during the day when they are not active).
@@LivingZoology Thanks for fielding that . Very interesting hypothesis. As you know, such variability, especially pronounced in Corallus, occurs in other species as well.
Hi guys! I have a question. You say that the mock viper is Thamnodynastes (America), but I understand that it is Psammodynastes (Asia). what do you think? greetings
Hello! That is a cool thing - both South America and Asia have mock vipers. Cool example of convergent evolution! Where is a good place/area (we know in which countries it lives) to film Psammodynastes? Any advice? 😎
Hey all, I feel like this would be a great place to ask even if off topic. But would Bothrops insularis be considered a case of insular dwarfism or no? I am writing a Ecology review paper on the Effects of Island ecosystems on Viperidae for my class. Could not find any info on whether it is or not. But I think it is worth a shot asking here.
Hello, you get the answer by using common sense. Compare the typical adult length to lengths of various Bothrops species from the mainland. The species does not grow to significantly smaller lengths than it is typical for many species living on the mainland. It is not an example of insular dwarfism.
It's a tricky question. If for some reason you found yourself in wild country where snakes live, which country would you rather it be? Australia, Asia, or Africa, the dangerous snakes seem to be everywhere. Or the Americas, which seems to have more harmless snakes, but the average person might not be able to differentiate between what's dangerous and what's not. Personally, I live in a rural area in northwest usa and I've only seen two rattlesnakes (different species) in my life. Neither of which tried to harm me. I think I'd like to stay where I am. They were neat creatures, and very different from each other while still obviously rattlesnakes.
We really love venomous snake species from Africa :) Cobras, mambas, vipers from the genus Bitis, the Boomslang, twig snakes...
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Hopefully you will love the video 🙂
The lancehead is known as the fer-de-lance
The common name Fer-de-lance is confusing as people use it for various species of the genus Bothrops. We try to avoid using it. Bothrops atrox should be called the Common lancehead, Bothrops asper the Terciopelo. The name Fer--de-lance originally refers to Bothrops lanceolatus (Martinique lancehead).
Yes, can you maybe do 5 of the rarest snakes in …
That is a difficult concept! Finding rarest snakes is not easy 😀 Maybe after a long time and a lot of luck. We feel like we are still often focusing on common species which we haven’t seen before.
At the right angle, that coach whip looks like a very colorful mamba. Beautiful.
Thanks for watching! The head shape is different and the way these snakes move is also different 🙂 But we understand that if you don’t have much experience with mambas it might be a bit similar!
Just a whole whack-a-snakes you don't wanna get bit by. Have you ever noticed that any venomous snake with a "B" in the name is really, really bad? Bitis, Bothrops, Bushmaster. Can't be a coincidence. Stated more to be funny than anything. We all prefer not to be bit by anything.
CoBra too
Thanks for watching. Bitis, Bothrops, Lachesis would be more reasonable but that would not fit 😀
I like to play a game of “My Favorite Snake” when I watch these videos. This time I have two - the Amazon Coachwhip and the water snake. 🥇🥇
@@LivingZoology Ya, I had to kind of make it fit. My sloppy taxonomy.
Any Bothrops is highly venomous that's not a snake to be taken lightly 😊
We agree, snakes from the genus Bothrops are potentially very dangerous.
@@LivingZoology Bothrops are beautiful that needs to be admired from afar
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Thanks for watching!