The venomous snakes of Africa - SAVANNAS, Boomslang, Rinkhals, spitting cobras, Black mamba
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Africa is home to many amazing venomous snakes. This continent has many ecosystems. We will explore deserts, savannas and rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. This second episode is about venomous snakes living in savannas. Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) typically lives in savannas and woodlands. You will see beautiful green males and a grey female. This episode also shows the Southern twig snake (Thelotornis capensis) and Usambara vine snake (Thelotornis usambaricus). Savannas and grasslands are home for several species of spitting cobras. Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) is not a true cobra. You will see it play dead! This episode shows spitting behavior of Black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis) and Mozambique spitting cobra (Naja mossambica). Later we visit Nick Evans, a snake rescuer from Durban and you will see him rescue several Black mambas. Black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is the most feared snake of Africa and this episode shows it in its natural habitat. At the end we will visit Musambwa island, a snake island with Brown forest cobras (Naja subfulva).
I've said it before but want to just say it again: the videos are so calming, so beautiful, the next best thing to actually being there. The sounds of the forest and the footage of the animals in their natural environments. AND I really appreciate how you leave the animal alone. I've watched some behind the scenes videos from you and know that you sometimes handle the animals but that footage hardly ever makes it to the final edit. There is something so enjoyable about this aspect. Now, when I watch herpetology videos from other channels, I am spoiled and a little irked by all the footage of them messing with the snakes. I think the snakes are too. Thank you again Living Zoology.
Black Mamba has already killed thousands of Africans, so it must be killed.
Thank you very much!! Great that you love our videos! We always try to keep our distance when we can!
I remember camping near Ngorongoro crater in Kenya. We set up camp and a ranger came over and told us to move to a different spot. The tree we pitched our tent next to had a pair of black mambas in residence. He told us the snakes had lived there longer than anyone could remember and that the best thing was for us to pick a different spot. We moved, but we never saw the snakes. I thought it right that we moved on.
Black mambas are very shy and usually not seen. They also bite only a few people every year. If they can escape, they will.
Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania not Kenya
@@LivingZoology And those few people die! How do you even know it's just a few? They are not living to tell the tale are they? If black mambas bit a few members of your family every year you would have no family left!
Do you have the directions to that tree by chance? I would like to blow it up with a little bit of TNT. Thanks!😉
You guys are so AWESOME 🙂🙂🙂! YOUR videos are by far the VERY best (way better than the "mainstream" wildlife channels). As others have commented, these videos ARE calming (it is unnerving to me when people risk being bitten or might traumatize a snake by their "parlor tricks"). It's also so nice that some of your videos are now narrated vocally. The footage is just outstanding! I don't know how you all manage to get so up close and personal with these snakes! Thank you so much for all you do. I'm very grateful that you all are willing and able to educate us AND entertain us by bringing such beautiful parts of the world into our homes. Be safe, and God bless 🙂🙂🙂
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Very well narrated, filmed and out together, I was sorry when it ended. Thank you, will be looking for more from your series.
Thank you very much! :)
Love that you starting to add narrative to your video. I appreciate it a lot. Wonderful work!
We always created long, narrated documentaries :) It takes a lot of time and it is expensive ;) kzhead.info/sun/oM6QfqePhIZ4nZE/bejne.html
So impressed with the quality of these films. Informative, scientific and has no silly extra loud distracting music. Thank you. Subscribed.
Just like way I remember these programs when I were young.
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Some of the best venomous snake footage ever. And fantastic drone filming of the rinkhal in situ. Please keep up the coverage of venomous snakes.
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Woooooooow! Amazing snakes, am really super happy to watch this, also I can't wait to watch another episode about venomous snakes of Africa. We are keeping our fingers crossed for you on your trip ( Alfa and Rhania).
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man you got the best snake-footage, always happy to see another video dropping
More to come! 🙂Thanks!
Top quality as always!
Glad you think so!
Thanks for the great video,I am glad to know at least some snakes are still common. I have heard about the twig snake what a very complicated venom.
Thanks for watching! Yes, there is no antivenom for Twig snake bites.
What a great video. I wish they were able to understand when we’re trying to help them!! Especially if we said “ look mate I’m trying to get you better or make your life better, chill out!! “and they understood it.
That would be cool!
Superb as always. I particularly am drawn to the beautiful greens of the boemslangs, stunning coloration
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, Boomslang looks awesome~💞 Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
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Well done excellent job and love the boomslang and twig snake x4....
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Really enjoyed this video. the photography is amazing! Thank you! :)
Thank you very much! Great that you loved watching this one, please check the other two episodes! m.kzhead.info/sun/dqaxqMyyrWltmH0/bejne.html and m.kzhead.info/sun/pq9rmbl8eImOpqM/bejne.html
I think those cobras on the island realise that they’ve got it made in terms of food, so why jeopardise that by biting someone.
They are certainly used to people.
But uh... how do they know humans would jeopardize that? That is a more complex cause and effect intelligence than I would think snakes would have.
🙌 another great masterpiece
Thanks again!
Great Video once again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Anyone else think it was hilarious when the twig snake yawned?
We were absolutely excited when we realized that we filmed that! 😃
Amazing as usual, good job!
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I like your channel brother thanks for the information😊
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I can't wait to watch this!
Hopefully you liked it!
Hey, love the voice on it. Keep it up.
Thank you!
Love the vine snakes orange tongue
Revisiting some of the "old" videos. Wonderful narration 👍 Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 to Living Zoology from the coast of Kenya
Thank you for revisiting some older videos! 🙂 Merry Christmas from the Czech Republic! 🎁
Thanks so very much for great videos!!!!
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Cool vidéo ! I love Cobras and rinkhals are superbs !!!
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Wonderful footage, snakes just facinate me! Beauty & beast in one perfectly formed creature! 💯🐍
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I haven't been on utube in a few month I click on living zoology which is never a disappointment always educational such great footage Thank you 😊 keep the great videos coming 🇺🇸
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superb footage & audio
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Belle vidéo beaux ces cobras merci❤
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Mambas are snakes of the subfamily Dendroaspidinae, there are five extant species under three genera, the Black Mamba (Melanophis polylepis), the Jameson's Mamba (Dendroaspis jamesoni), the Black-Tailed Mamba (Dendroaspis kaimosae), the Eastern Green Mamba (Dendronaja angusticeps), and the Western Green Mamba (Dendronaja viridis).
Where did you get genus Melanophis and why do you claim that Jameson’s mamba is two, not one species?
@Living Zoology, mambas no longer constitute one genus, they more correctly constitute the subfamily Dendroaspidinae with three separate genera, Melanophis with just one species being the Black Mama (Melanophis polylepis), Dendroaspis with two species being the Jameson's Mamba (Dendroaspis jamesoni) and the Black-Tailed Mamba (Dendroaspis kaimosae), and Dendronaja with two species being the Eastern Green Mamba (Dendronaja angusticeps) and the Western Green Mamba (Dendronaja viridis), the jameson's mamba and black-tailed mamba are no longer conspecific and are now separate species with Dendroaspis now only applying to these two species, whilst the black mamba and green mambas are removed from the genus.
@@indyreno2933 Can you send us a scientific paper where this was published?
Also something cool about Boomslangs is that they’re sexually dimorphic (visual difference between male and female, like lions). The males get bright green with blues and teals, while the females are just kinda brown and gray.
Thanks for watching! This info was included in the previous episode.
What an incredible video!
Thanks for watching! :)
Not many venomous snakes were I live … Ontario, Canada … but we do have the little Massassauga rattler near Tobermory in southwestern Ontario. The African snakes in this video are all so beautiful. The photography and narration are exquisite! Wonderful video, very enjoyable. Thanks so much. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
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@@LivingZoology I subscribed before I’d watched even half of the first video quite a while ago. As a science nerd, I’m addicted to nature videos. I “have” a big female Eastern Garter snake as a tenant, whom we’ve christened Queenie. She’s called my property home for several years. Even watched her giving birth to the cutest little snakes I’d ever seen! Under my deck, with my Lab puppy out for a P in the middle of the night, and noticed her. (Held the pup.) Queenie lives under a brush pile made from my garden waste. Can’t compost it and be a home wrecker! Now teaching my grandkids all about her and snakes in general. Sent a link to your channel to my daughter, who controls the kids KZhead content. Start them young! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan It’s awesome that you have an Eastern Garter on your property! Thanks a lot for subscribing and sharing our content, as you say, the education of the young generation is important! We do a lot of education programs about snakes in schools with our 4 pet snakes and kids love them!
I live in the rattlesnake capitol of the world. Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🌵. I've been bitten. But it was in Sacramento California, a northern Pacific rattler, not a Mojave or diamondback. Where I live there are four species of rattlesnake. Within an hour drive there are more. And the gila monster
@@stephansteohanlarsen7457 That’s amazing! I love reptiles and was barred from bringing snakes in the house. Frogs and salamanders were fine, but no snakes. The innocuous Eastern Garters are nothing compared to your list rattlesnakes. I’ve only ever saw one, and it was a small rattlesnake, and I’ve never been bitten by a snake at all. It’s a dream of mine to some day visit your area. I’ve never seen a desert ecosystem. Amazing what one can learn in this manner. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Your channel is legendary
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Damn beautiful bracho. Someday for sure i'll put my hands on one of these
Thank you brácho!! :)
I have browsed YT for snakes and your videos are really the most informative and closest thing to nature. Thank you
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I learn a lot from your videos, thank you
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Lovely film. gorgeous.
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nice video
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Highest quality video/pictures. Very interesting. 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
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great video again (y)
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Beautiful video. Spotted some black mambas at our up country in eastern province, kenya.
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Really amazing ❤️❤️ big fan of your videos
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A black mamba in a house, under a child's bed.... This is truly terrifying. I should have watched Insidious rather 😶
Yes, for most people it is a very scary thing. Thanks for watching!
I like the fact that there is no music and its so natural
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You r so right Thank you so much
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Cool video
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Its amazing the beauty of so many of the snakes
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that brown forest Cobra is like "Wasssup guys did you happen to see a fat rat run by here?"
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We get a lot of Rinkhals in my area and there're a lot of children in my street, before the nursery school opened 2 months ago. Letting one live or trying to detain it until a catcher arrives is too much of a risk. I love all life, plants and animals but I have a human bias. I know if I leave snakes alone they will do the same, but a child might not understand that yet. I'm working on building some owl boxes in my area to attract native owls closer to house to control the rodents near our house and hopefully the snakes won't wander too close to us. I just need to deal with all the black people in my area accusing me of witchcraft sigh 🙄
It is understandable that you are afraid that kids might get bitten. Trying to get rid of rodents in the area is a very clever idea 👍
Heard rinkhals weren't that dangerous, but with children, maybe?
@@stephansteohanlarsen7457 They are potentially dangerous, but bites are very rare.
No recorded deaths from Rinkhals bites in over 30 years! So what "risk" are you referring to?
OMG! I love the snake that plays dead!! We could be friends! Nature is amazing 🥰
We loved to work with Rinkhals as their behavior is so complex! 🙂
@@LivingZoology fascinating snake, never seen anything like it. Do be careful!
@@Sushi2735 We are always careful 🙂 Thank you again for watching our videos! 🙏
Incredible
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Zdravím černá tlama mamba je nádherná díky jinak vždy vše perfektní..a bojga ma dvě barvy díky s pozdravem petr.
Díky za sledování tohoto videa!
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your shoot is just next level forcing me to subscribe.
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@12:00 Nick Evans does a very good explanation of people & Snakes 🐍 in the Durban area.. He’s brutally honest & down to earth in my opinion...✌🏼
Nick is great! It was a pleasure to work with him!
@@LivingZoology have you guys ever worked with jason " the snake man" arnold , we are friends on here , very cool guy too, thanks > tom !
@@LivingZoology Nick is an absolute legend.
That skinny little Boomslang snake is one finely tuned product of evolution indeed. No limbs, no legs or arms, yet there it is, sliding through a bunch of chaotic and unpredictable, open branches, moving very accurately at high speed too. Then it opens it's mouth in a yawn, and shows a size that would allow at least three of it's own heads to fit into it. Can you imagine if a human's open mouth was so large, that if we yawned, we could fit three human heads inside it!?? Imagine how large our mouth would have to be to allow that. It also has that unique red tongue, and it KNOWS IT! It uses it as part of a warning to other creatures, if it feels threatened. In other words it knows that it's red tongue is scary and uses it as part of a method to BE scary looking! Good god! We really need to take a serious look at how we define intelligence.
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Nick is very good. Jason Arnold is great as well.
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I can’t wait to see what you guys turn up in Australia, what species are you after?
We had many target species, found 33 snake species.
Did Field study in Mocambique 1999. Saw a Vine snake, just sat in a small tree for three days without moving waiting for a Bird or chameleon. Saw another one as well. The first snake I saw was called a common slug eater saw a cobra, a small Rock python and several small snakes. No Mamba puff adder boomslang. I had a book
Thank you for watching and looks like you had cool observations in Mozambique!
The python you saw would have been the Southern African Python (Python natalensis). The African Rock Python (Python sebae) is found further up in Africa.
A Boomslang looks just like his treehouse! It would be deadly easy to approach the tree with the intentions of snapping off a small twig, just thin enough to clear the residue out of the carburetor of a pot-pipe, and reaching right onto the snake itself! "Bad trip" is a gross understatement of that ordeal.
Luckily Boomslangs are very shy snakes and they rarely come into contact with people. The snake will move away much sooner than the person could come close.
In most parts of KwaZulu Natal mainly the rural areas, the snakes aren’t rescued, we usually just kill them considering how dangerous they can get
That is a pity. They keep the population of rats down. South Africa has one of the best networks of snake catchers in the world, check who is operating in your area.
Same here in Limpopo Province in South Africa, I've never heard of snake rescuers residing in this province but I'm glad there aren't dangerous snakes residing around my area, I've only seen black mamba once in my life... But yeah we see one we assassinate
I hate to see anything killed to just kill. You can have them moved away from your home. When I moved to snake country on the coast of southern US, as I was getting needed phone numbers, I sure got the number of the snake rescuer. We must protect all creatures for a balanced environment. Each has its reason for being, many I’m frightened of, but they all have their purpose.
@@Sushi2735 As you say, if there is an option not to kill, it should be used! More and more snake catchers are working nowadays and in many cases snakes can be safely moved away.
@@Sushi2735 You're so right! Thank you so much!!!
black mamba is one of my favourite african snakes.
Fantastic video with excellent descriptions of each stay safe and Thankyou for your research 🏴🙏🏻👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it! Check out the other two episodes too!
If I found a black mamba in my house, i could never be comfortable again. Every small noise, that would freak me out.
Thanks for watching! We understand that seeing such a snake in the house must be frightening to many people.
These snakes 🐍 are crazy long 😱😳
Some have nice size, yes!
Great video. Interesting footage and interview with Nick Evans. He has a KZhead channel of his snake rescues in Durban, as also Jason Arnold. The message is repeating that these deadly snakes mostly leave people alone if not threatened.
Thank you! It is important to spread this message to people over and over again!
I feel like it would be a full-time job correcting statements made by ignorant people regarding the behaviour, toxicity, real-world danger and taxonomy of snakes. It amazes me how people seemingly just make things up about them. So with that in mind, thank you @LivingZoology for putting together factually correct documentaries. Well done!
Thanks a lot! We try hard for already 10 years to show people how amazing snakes are! The difference between scary and beautiful is knowledge. There are so many myths about snakes.
"Boomslang" is actually a Dutch word which translates to "Tree Snake. The pronunciation is however different; the double oo (u) in English becomes an O in Dutch. So basically Bom-tree and Slang-snake.🤗
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@@ANGBelgium ja toch!
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Correction: it's actually Afrikaans.
@@HermanQ1 Afrikaans is een (en ook de enige) dochtertaal van het Nederlands. Dat betekent dat de taal afstamt van het Nederlands en er nog steeds nauw mee verwant is, maar ondertussen is uitgegroeid tot een afzonderlijke standaardtaal. Duidelijk, toch? Net als de pidgin Engels van Nigeria afkomstig is van Engeland.
Thank you for your beautiful video program. Personally, I am always afraid of snakes, poisonous or non-poisonous, even in movies.👍😄
Venomous, not poisonous. Two different things.
Thank you very much!! Great that you love this video! With snakes it is correct to say venomous. Venom is injected, poison can be eaten ;)
Balls of steel 😮 EdC 👨🏻💼👊🏻🇺🇸
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I liked the black spitting cobra beautiful
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Pleasant voice also
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Always admired the boomslandg. Not quite sure why, other that my lifetime interest in reptiles. Regards from an 88 year old Englishman. March, 2024.
Hello! The Boomslang is a very beautiful species, we understand you!
I watched Bullet Train recently and my respect for african boomslangs really grew up
Unfortunately it is not a Boomslang in that movie, not even a real snake.
@@LivingZoology i know they shot it with some kind of grass snake but the venom effects displayed are quite correct, except the period they hit in
@@BlackIronCollector The hemotoxic venom is slowly working and it takes hours and mostly days for a person to masivelly bleed.
@@LivingZoology that's what I'm talking about, the effects of the venom are much slower, but generally they're the same as in the movie
Because they are so at ease the islanders get fair warning if the irritate one and it hoods up. Definitely a safety margin there,
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A black mamba in the bedroom?! I don't know what it would take to make me go back into that room for a nap !
Even this happens sometimes and we were happy to witness that and be a part of the rescue!
😂😂maybe tired?
I know a snake too and I called her Bestieeee.
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Rinkhals deserve OSCAR😂😂
Yes, indeed!
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3:59 Looks like a bird. I think they also inflate their necks to lure birds even though experts disagree.
It was never proven.
Another country crossed off my bucket list because I don’t actually want to kick the bucket whilst I’m there. Too many nope ropes
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The chances of you dying from a snake bite while visiting the region is so miniscule. You have more chance of being struck by lightning, as in statistically more than 10x likely. Ready to reconsider?
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I live in Johannesburg and you'll be surprised how many rinkals we have here
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I live in fourways never heard of any snakes in the area?
@@desmondramruthan5469 you have Rinkhals there, but it is testament to the fact that snakes do their utmost to stay away from humans. Encounters are not by choice.
Lord those loud birds at the end gave me a headache
Sorry and thanks for watching.
We’ll done video.
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