Deadly venomous Cape cobra, the most toxic cobra of Africa, colorful snake, cobra vs. meerkats
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Deadly venomous Cape cobra (Naja nivea) is a common snake species in the Southwestern part of Africa. Cape cobras are very variable in color, they can be black, brown, reddish or yellow. Cape cobras live in dry arid habitats of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. These venomous snakes often come close to humans and snakebites are quite common. In this video you will see a snake rescue call with a Cape cobra stuck in the house. Also, you will see a bright yellow Cape cobra meeting with meerkats (a species of mongoose) and another Cape cobra meeting with a flock of birds.
I have had my cobra 30+ years. It has scared a few but never bit. It is a tattoo on my left arm. Best videos, period
Thanks for watching! Great that you have a cobra for such a long time! ;)
It's nice youve been able to keep them alive so long im going to keep non venomous snakes but im not brave enough to keep the venomous ones. I still love looking at them though such neat animals
I've been subscribed for a long time now and I still don't understand how you don't have more subscribers. The cinematography is top notch and you seem to have a real passion for your work. I'm hoping this channel gets the recommendation it deserves in 2021.
Thank you very much for following our work for a long time :) We are trying to do our work as good as we can and maybe more followers will come in the future ;) We recently started membership program and we already have 10 members!
Really, you don't know why? People still hate these animals. For proof you need only look as far as the videos of them being killed or otherwise abused. Plus, anything truly educational won't generally get the number of views that titillation does. Perhaps the only things that people will will admit to liking about them are their skins and watching them eat.
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I think it’s because there’s no narration
@@jeffking6286 their newer videos do have narration, personally i don't mind reading subtext but i see your point, that could be a deal breaker for some people.
I like those videos because there is no speak . Nature noises + text = The perfect choice !
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Stunning!!! I was completely mesmerized!!! beautifully shot!! Thank you all for sharing these Nature moments.
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@@LivingZoology for sure!! I subbed!!😉
Absolutely fantastic content in this video. The beauty of that yellow Cape cobra is stunning, and yet it’s venom is so toxic! Would love to see a battle between an adult Cape cobra and a fully grown mongoose! Thanks for the awesome video, amazing camera work!!
Thank you very much for watching and we are happy that you enjoyed it!
Was really looking forward to this one. Probably my all time favourite cobra. Great video!
Thank you so much!!! :) We are very happy that this video about your favorite cobra did not disappoint!
That Cape cobra is stunning
We agree!
Excellent work and what a gem of a channel. Love every single one of your videos
Very happy to know that!!! Many thanks!
Excellent. You have the best drone footage.
Thank you very much!
the most beautiful background music: birds chirping. feels like i'm in my home town
Thank you! The best music for most scenes is the nature sound! :)
This is what the bush sounds like in safrica
@@hoshpakamies5643 We love that sound!
The Kalahari Cape Cobra's coloring is breathtaking! All the different morphs are beautiful! Your photography and videos are always stunning with perfect, crisp colors! The subject matter you choose is very intriguing and your locations are diverse. I'm certainly looking forward to more wonderful videos from your team! Please stay safe and take good care of yourselves. Your videos are really the best around reporting on the varied zoology in our world. From Phoenix, AZ USA 🇺🇸
Thank you very much! We are very happy to hear that you like our channel! :) We are trying to stay safe, but now battling with covid for over a month! Take care and have a great day in Arizona! We loved our trip to the deserts of this state.
One of the prettiest snakes!
Yes, these cobras are so variable in color! You will see 4 colors in the video!
God bless you all for the generosity and immense patience to help that poor fellow
Thanks a lot!
I love the video. The Cape cobras are beautiful creatures.
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Fantastic footage once again. Great images of the rescue it is fantastic to see people who loves so snakes that they take some risks to conserve them. It is a also interesting to do a little observation about evolutive convergence because some patterns of nivea looks really like the pattern of Oxyuranus microlepidotus what lives in comparable dry environment.
Many thanks!! We love to show these interesting snake rescue calls. You are right that Cape cobra might resemble the Inland taipan a bit, we cannot wait to go to Australia and find out by ourselves.
I’ve never heard of a meerkat killing any snakes. Usually they’re just trying to run them off. Meerkats are pretty neat animals too. I’ve seen videos where one took a bite from a puff adder and another was bit on the face by a Cobra. After being sick for 2-3 days they both survive. Really amazing for such a tiny animal. They must share some venom resistance with the mongoose. I know they can still die from bites so it must depend on the amount injected. I find it fascinating how animals in the same region evolved together. That yellow cape cobra was beautiful but my favorite snake is the Gaboon. I enjoyed your video on the Hybrid Gaboon, that probably the most beautiful snake I’ve ever seen
Thank you very much for watching!!! Happy that you like our videos and you are finding your favorite species there :)
Snakes are so maligned as an animal on land, like sharks are in the ocean..... To me they are amazing, and my encounters with them are once in Australia, a small brown snake, at a safe distance. We parted company, and it's still a fond memory from my younger days.... We dont have them here in NZ, thus I enjoy watching wonderful videos like this to see a close encounter with reptiles.....I mean as close that neither the snake or those filming them arent harmed or injured.
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Excellent video! I also noticed the Tourniquet shirt when they were getting snake out of the fixture. That is one of my old favorite bands. 🤘
Thank you very much!!! :) Good spotting, Gerrie is a great Tourniquet fan!
Amazing documentary, i love your videos about snakes! Very good work and pictures! Great!
Thank you very much! It is great that you like our snake videos!
quality videos also very natural ... great footage
wonderful video, very informative too. photography standards just excellent..thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
I love the Cape Cobra. 🐍 I love it’s colors.🌈 I love the Orange. 🍊 I could’ve swore I had a comment somewhere on this upload.🤎
Thank you for watching! Cape cobras are awesome snakes, so elegant and variable in color!
This channel is so underrated💜
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Another spectacular video! It takes tremendous patience and knowledge about your subject to be able to capture it on video in its natural surroundings, behaving naturally. A joy to watch! Thank you, stay safe, and keep up the excellent work!
Thank you very much! We spend lot of time with observing these animals and filming them :)
Excited for this one
Great, see you on Saturday! :)
Very instructive and somewhat relaxing video. Nice work!
Thank you very much for watching! 🙂
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER GREAT ONE 👍🐍
Thank you so much for watching!! 🙂🐍
Love this video and this is one that I kept going back to over and over
That is awesome!!! Thank you so much for that!
Very good video. The subject has been beautifully described. Photography is excellent. Well done. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much for watching!
Wonderful video. So glad that I subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you! We hope that you will like also other videos on our channel!
Another great video! Thanks much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful snakes. Especially the Kalahari color morph. Very good rescue
Thank you very much!!! It was interesting to put everything what we have about Cape cobras into one video :)
great video as always. matej my fried you never stop amaze me, keep up the good work brother.. thanks and much love from indonesia..
Thank you you very much from me and Zuzana, our whole team :D :D Happy that you enjoy watching our videos! Greetings from the Czech Republic!
great video again , awesome snakes , any chance on a video about Aspidelaps species ? :D
Thank you very much!!! Unfortunately, we did not find Aspidelaps...
Fantastic video, as always !!
Thank you very much!!! :)
Great stuff,,I do like the Speckled coloured Capes...🤞
Hopefully you will enjoy watching the video tomorrow! :)
@@LivingZoology I most certainly will.👍
niiice dooocumenting and amazing rescue .well done guys bravo!
Thank you so much! Great that you like the rescue, it was not an easy one and Gerrie Heyns did a great job there!
Just beautiful, what an amazing snake.
Thank you very much for watching!
What an incredible video! What makes it better is that there's no annoying background music.
Thank you very much for watching!!! :)
Im more of a viper guy than elapids but that's a beautiful cobra..great video as usual guys..thanks
Thanks 👍Many people prefer vipers but elapids are very cool in our opinion :)
Great work !!!!🤟🤟💪💪
Thanks 🔥
Very nice video and music.Great video! 🦊
Many thanks!!
Thank you some of my question about eating other snakes has been answered. This snake is a beauty.
Happy that we answered some questions and you enjoyed watching this video!
Excellent, amazing video!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic definition in these videos 😊
Glad you like them!
This video is wonderful like other snakes filming by your experienced film group.
Thank you very much!!! Greetings from our film group consisting of Matej and Zuzana! :)
Man that one bird! The rest are beautiful sounding
Thanks for watching!
Them some nice species of cobra🔥
Thank you very much!
Love watching you're videos very educational
That is great! Thank you!
Wonderful video.
Thank you very much!
@@LivingZoology very very wonderful video
Nice nice i always wonder the technique and equipment u use to capture those nice creatures at close scale with out them not noticing.
Thanks 👍We work gently and let the snake do its thing in its natural environment. We try to minimize the stressful contact, we work in a small team with small equipment, so we can observe snakes behaving naturally :)
Thank u for the reply
Good Afternoon great Crew 👍
Thank you very much!
Waiting 😍
Great! :)
Lovely najas....
Yes, they are awesome! Thank you!
that juvenile cobra is obviously an actor. great posing dude. lol
Yes, juveniles tend to pose a lot! They know that they are small so they try to scare the potential predator.
Great photography guys
Thanks so much!
Such a beautiful color on this snake.
We can only agree!
Waooooo so beautiful place
Thank you very much!
Bom trabalho meninos!!👍❤
Thank you for watching! :)
I talk to a friend sometimes from Montagu in South Africa who i met through snake groups on Facebook, and there he is, Gerrie Heyns. 😃 He is a fellow Metal head too 🤘 They do come in variable colors, cape cobras are really pretty snakes. 🧡🐍
Haha, that is cool! Gerrie is very friendly guy and we loved to work with him! Yes, he loves metal, he was talking about it a lot! 😃
Adoro seus vídeos 👏👏👏
Muchas gracias!!! :)
Pretty colours. Our Australia n snakes are much more venomous but at least there fangs are small and they don't spit neither
Yes, these cobras are amazingly colorful.
Good work bro
Thank you so much 😀
Tyler Mac nice color
Thank you for watching!
They are nice creatures as long as they live in the wild.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful video...except...Something new and bad: 3 times the video stopped and I had to click 'Skip Ad' to make it continue. Please stop the excess advertising.
Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on KZhead as they appear much less with most people. They appear to each viewer differently according to country and other parameters. On the other hand, we need to keep the ads appear on our videos, otherwise we would need to stop doing this job and do something else.
My favorite Naja Spezies I keep a lot of them 👌 And i must say that your videos are one of my favorite videos when it comes do snakes ✌️ Keep up your great Work 👌 Greetings Form Austria And what venomus snakes do you keep? ✌️
Thank you very much!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic! Which cobra species do you have? We don't keep any venomous snakes, we would have no time to take care of them as we travel a lot to find wild snakes :)
@@LivingZoology ok,thats great 👌 I wisch i have the time and the Money for traveling a lot. And when you live for that than you have an gread live I love snakes,venomus more than other because there where much more colourefull as the non venom snakes And i have i my snake room Naja naja Naja nivea Naja kaouthia Naja pallida Naja siamensis And a lot of other snakes. Zbs. C.atrox A.squamigera A.hispida D.polylepis D. polylepis D.viridis D.angusticeps D. jamesoni And other snakes.
@@camillodorfler432 Wow, cool collection!!! We decided to save money for traveling instead of buying snakes. For about 5 years it was a hobby, now it is a job for one of us :)
@@LivingZoology Thank you! Yeah,thats Sounds like you live a life what are where great. I will saw e naja in the nature,thats one of my Dreams 😁 Love the Spezies of naja and when i have the time and the Money for doing this than i look where i can find wild najas do look how the are live in the nature. I hope that i can make this in the next years 😉 ✌️
@@LivingZoology and what i Mist say is that the snakes where a lot of work,really a lot But when you Love this than this is no "work" as when you go do work and make a job what are not yours
Pls add voice over to the videos.. this makes more involvement and presents in a great way
What about this one? kzhead.info/sun/hdVrm5iMsadnbHA/bejne.html
Spectacular camera work. Who did it?
We filmed it, same as all videos on our channel :)
Cape.cobras.super.video.afrika
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awwwww.. rescued from the claws of death.. or a hole in a box.. either way.. yayyyyy
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Suppose the meerkats were not hungry or defending their offspring :-) Beautiful footage, I may add ....
Thank you for watching!!! It looked like they just did not want to have cobra in their burrow.
background music just wow!
Thank you! Music provided by nature :)
Thank you for your channel. May i ask you what kind of camera you use ? Thank you.
Thank you for watching videos on our channel. We use mainly Canon GX10.
You found a beautiful specimen
We think so too! But which one do you mean? :D
@@LivingZoology The reddish-orange one with black spots
I’ve seen many documentaries on this beautiful species, so I’ll be ready to compare this one to the others.
Great, hopefully you will enjoy watching our video!
Why not just watch it for what it is ... :-)
Wow! Cape cobras are awesome, but how big are cape cobras grows in terms of size??.
Naja nivea grows maximum size 1,6 /1,8m My nivea is 8 years and is 1,49cm Its a beautyful snake ✌️
Maximum length is about 1.8 meters.
@@LivingZoology That is quite long snakes leading to black mamba I guess which grows up to 2.3 meters. Thank you so much.
@@camillodorfler432 Wow, that is amazing, thank you.
@@alfazoologist9741 Naja melanoleuca is considerably longer than nivea (this is the second longest cobra of all).
Such regal ans elegant animal....
Yes, they are very elegant!
The background music is amazing. Can someone please suggest the source of the music. Thanks in advance
Thank you! There is the sound of nature recorded in South Africa in the background.
Make a video on cape cobra hunting
Maybe we will be lucky to witness that in the future.
I wanted to ask are the backgrounds sounds added or are they true to the locality?
They are recorded at one of the localities where we filmed cobras.
That glass tube they are using to contain the cobra looks strangely familiar....I just can't place where I've seen it before. Maybe an advertisement of some type? Where on Earth have I seen that before?
These snake tubes are from plastic and we guess that something similar is used for many other things.
Nice that such a dangerous snake is so visible. In the United States all ours blend into the environment, makes for quite a few accidents if you go walking off the beaten path.
Coral snakes certainly don't blend in the environment in the USA :)
The orange and the yellow cobra are absolutely beautiful animals and that was one luck cobra that those guys were able to rescue by cutting out of that box they got lucky all the way around the snake lucky that they didnt accidentally cut it while cutting the box and the guys luck that they didnt get bitten by the snake
Thank you for watching! Some of these cobras are really beautiful. The rescue was done by a great snake catcher with great experience, so it went well :)
id like to see a small doc about the inland taipan
We hope to go to Australia in the future.
I love snakes and other animals I wanted to be a zoologist
We also had that dream when we were young :) We went for it and studied zoology. But eventually we ended up with wildlife filming!
Do what you want. I’m behind both of you 100%.🤎
Most attractive and active among all cobra species
These are beautiful snakes indeed!
Lovely
Thank you!!!
Best tocsic snack
Thanks for watching!
Why do snakes look like their environment so often? It's crazy, i've seen a speckled rattlesnake which looked exactly like the rocks in the area? The cape cobra looks amazing.
Because they try to stay camouflaged as they have many predators 🙂
@@LivingZoology Yes, i know the benefits of it but how does that work? I'm from Germany and our Adder doesn't look like their environment in most cases.
@@TheGForceJunkie Just millions of years of evolution. In some species individuals which are better camouflaged survive better. In some, it is beneficial to have bright colors to show predators that they are venomous.
Am scared of snakes and don't like But they are beautiful ❤️
Great that you think that snakes are beautiful! :) Thanks for watching this video!
I heard that this snake was more dangerous than the Black Mamba when it came to venomous snakes in Africa
That is true! It comes to human houses much more often and bites more people.
@@LivingZoology But in the hobby of keeping venomus snakes i say from the Handling its a naja Nivea much more relaxed as a Dendroaspis polylepis ✌️
@@camillodorfler432 Yes, for manipulation, Cape cobra is easier than mamba.
@@LivingZoology yes of curse A Mamba bite you all day long 😉
@@LivingZoology a black Mamba The other mambas are much more relaxed as the black one
This cobra is the venomous of most cobras
Yes, this species is one of the most venomous cobras.
I hope the Reptile ban won't hurt Yinz
In the Czech Republic, there is no reptile ban.
Thank you
I always though our sea snakes are the most venomous, then the boomslang.
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I'm pissed! The habbie looks just like SoCal so why don't we have those. All we have is stupid rattlesnakes ...drat:( Oh well. Maybe I need to move to SA. Beautiful video as always.
Africa has some cool snakes! Rattlesnakes are also cool, but if you had cobras everything would be better :D
@@LivingZoology It surely would. But at least we do have some nice buzzers:) Add: Of all California snakes, my favs are the unsung Lyre snakes, racers/whips, and Long-nosed. ...as for buzzers, the nice peach colored Panamints, lutosis (never seen cuz haven't been up there in recent times), and albeit dirt common, winders.
@@bradsillasen1972 Sure, you have some cool snakes there! Winders are pretty awesome!
20:08 @ reminds Shaolin Kung fu
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Proof that yinz are the Best.
Thank you very much!!!
Its very unfortunate to have same pre - recorded sound playing in the background instead of the natural sounds, since there is no background music and this may be a turn off for most of the ppl who watch these videos.
It is a natural sound recorded at the location. During filming of the snake people of the team need to talk to each other and viewers don't want to listen to people talking.
Cape cobra, black mamba, puff adder... these snakes exist in Africa. Then, which IS the most venomous snake in Africa? Or another species such as Egyptian cobra?
It is always tricky to say which snake is the most venomous. But Black mamba or Cape cobra are high on the list. Actually, drop to drop, Boomslang is considered as the most toxic in Africa: kzhead.info/sun/lrRum9WAloBmqHA/bejne.html
To keep a snake in a glas box is wrong. That is super max for snakes.
Which glass box do you mean??? There was nothing like that during the rescue.
@@LivingZoology no box , Just that people who have snakes i their homes, like a pet. Thats wrong.
@@ebe7840 Yes and no. The image of snakes is slowly canning and it is partially because of these snakes lovers. if you do that for sensationalism it is not good (some people have venomous snakes only for adrenalin "hooo it kills me easily, it's fun"). If you do that to understand better and to educate the people to explain why these animals have the right to live it is a good thing. Snakes are not pet as cat and dogs, but captive born snakes could be ambassador for their group. A lot of important discoveries have been make by amateurs herpetologist especially for mating.