A chameleon stands dead still, hoping to blend in with its surroundings when a snake gets close by. Unfortunately for the chameleon, the snake zeros in on it and strikes it rapidly. The chameleon puts up a fight, but is it enough? 🫣Send in your wildlife video here, and earn money: www.latestsightings.com/partn...
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Chameleon moving like when you’re running in a dream.
I hate that kinda run in a dream. Running a metre for over 30 minutes
😂
I had a dream that this ghost tried attacking me and I was stuck in bed
It sucks to run in dreams 😆😆
Hehehe. Not a laughing matter though. The venom that can take down a grown up human now wasting such a small guy who weighs less than a kg. Agonising and painful end.
The instinct to survive is SO STRONG!
Well nO DuH
The cham cannot survive the bite.
The way the snake stand up is kinda creepy
Imagine if anacondas can do that
It's called periscoping, lots of snakes do it so they can get a better view around to look for prey... periscope like on a submarine
So fast, just popped up. That species definitely has good vision.
Peekaboo!
snakes are the most creepy animals in the world 😡 they are CURSED
He turned sideways to appear too large for him to swallow.
Okay I'm glad I read that message. He look like he was reacting to the poison but I didn't know
@@dominiicp it was most definitely reacting to the poison😂 you can see it stiffening up and i bet after the video he was fully paralyzed and the snake came back to eat!
@@cannabiscraftsman1278 it's a maruvian snellysnake which is non poisonous.
@@positiveenergy4131 Looked more like a maruvian smellysnelly or possibly the sillysmellysnelly snake to me.
@@positiveenergy4131 It's a boomslang.
Wow thank you for sharing, who knew this cute thing can stand up against giants!
Only until the venom did it's lethal work.
@@johanrebel Ya, like the channel but like most anymore, they cut vids short for twitterbated attention spans. That site is a curse on society.
Well, when you're cornered, and you're slow, there's not much else you can do but to try and fight back.
At least he will go out like a G guys
1:06 "Yeah, he looks like he come form de bar" LOL
Chameleons are truly amazing and fascinating creatures.
true
The snake-standing intro is scary though.
Kudos to the chameleon. But did anybody else chuckle when the snake was slithering around having a good day till he saw his suppose lunch lol "🎶hmhmhmmm doodoododoo-🎶AYO?"
Best part of this video is the cacophony of inane comments, starting with "that's a snake, guys!" This must've been a game drive organized by Bright Sparks Safaris for the Association of Ignorant Naturalists.
Ha! Snake has been positively IDed by 3 different names in comments I've seen.
If I’m not mistaken, it seemed like the snake won. We will never know.
The cham cannot overcome.
@@antonynkanata1834 ….. yes …. the snake’s venom debilitates the cams central nervous system …. this is nature …
@@xtra-oi9xb Different snakes venom has different effect. I knew right from the word go that cham will not win this battle and felt sorry 4 it but could not do anything since am watching a video. If i was around I could have saved the poor guy from certain agonising death. What about the "chemical" that brings down a full grown man or a male lion being injected 2 a small,creeping creature weighing less than 400grams? It's pure hell man! I dropped some tears seeing cham going thru' this deadly nightmare whose common denominator is death. Sad.
I hate that these videos always end prematurely! Did the snake get a meal or what happened?
Well, did the Chameleon croak or get away?
My thoughts exactly.
Looks like the snake was turning away so I'm guessing the chameleon lived... I can't tell what kind of snake it was but if the snake was venomous it would have stayed around to eat its meal once it died and likely wouldn't have kept attacking after the first bite or 2 which makes me believe it's not a venomous snake
@@e-reptiledysfunction2243 it looked drunk after getting bitten, ngl
@@willek1335 Always looks "drunk"?
@@willek1335 he wasn't. It's just a way to make snake leave. Stay not in front to look like bigger and wide. And act weirdly to confuse the snake like it's may be sick or bad to eat
The Chameleon venom dance will be the next dance craze.
That chameleon's got guts.
Those guts have now been digested by the snake.
Still waiting to find out How the Chameleon fought Back
Nibbled the snake then turned and flashed it with a confusing pattern. Might've changed color too for all we know, it is hard to tell in lo-res. @0:22
0:20 The chameleon bites the snake until the snake lets go.
Watch the video
Chamaleo dilepis or Flap Neck Chameleon They make themself appear to be larger when frightened or fighting or if they see a female and want to court her. Mine used to get really pretty when I would show him the female and their tail goes crazy like a 'party blower' extending and retracting. They are also in their pretty colors when they sleep.
you're talking about your tail or his?
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usually animal videos don't have legit titles but this channel is fine as hell.
Why is this video so short. What happened next. Was snake waiting for the venom to work?
That snake didn't know the chameleon is a soldier
Against anything venomous, if you're tagged you're screwed. And this snake sure doesn't look non-venomous from how it "gave up" after the first bites, the chameleon stiffening up, and the constant sniffing at 1:01 where it was overseeing the work of the venom.
Dendraspis poleylepis or more commonly known as a Black Mamba
@@alwaleedalthani9624 Female Boomslang actually.
@@jeremy6017 Female Boomslangs are brown as the Boomslang has sexual dimorphism
@@alwaleedalthani9624 Then male boomslang.
The child cheering in the background 😂
Crazy how the movement confused the snake. Evolution is a crazy son of a gun.
Future Godzilla in the making.
Cats turn sideways as well to appear bigger. Instinct.
Do chameleons have any special power against venom?
so is that a offensive strategy to blow up like that? or did it get bit
I love chameleons! They are one of the most incredible and beautiful animals on Earth!
Guess their little karate chop hands are just for show. Buddy can't throw hands at all
Pobrecito, un luchador !!
Looks like rango is strong after all
Its reference Rango vs Jake Snake in the movie 2011🦎🐍🤠🌵
I’m afraid the fight back was in vain. There’s no way that the chameleon would survive!
Exactly. The cham never made it.
Did it survive? Oh the suspense.
@Jurassic Safari they need to clarify it.
@@fillfinish7302 Maybe it's one they bought and this is all there is. Snakes been called 3 different names in comments now so the mystery remains.
Amazing 😊
not only can he change the color of his skin but also the shape of his body!! his eyes rotate 360 degrees, a long and deadly tongue For it's prey, and so on! an animal full of options.
I thought he was fighting back, until she said it was a black mamba...
Cool CHAMELEON!
WOW!!
Charmeleon Vs Arbac/Ekans Be Like:
1) what species of snake is this? 2) did the chameleon survive?
Ha! You're asking in comments? Saw it positively Ided by 3 different names so far.
1. Black Mamba 2. Most likely not
@@kaiuwu2002 Not a black mamba. The head structure is too short. Mambas have coffin shaped heads that are much longer and less blunted than this snake's. They're also two toned, but solid in color, mostly a dark slate gray, to black with lighter belly scales. The black within the mouth of black mamba, how it truly gets its name is missing here with this snake. Mambas are also front fanged snakes, this snake in the video was obviously rear fanged, because it had to open its mouth wider to actually deliver the bite. All this said, it is a female grey toned Boomslang.
@@jeremy6017 I mean somebody in the video said what it was if you listened but ok make it of what you will ig 😐
@@kaiuwu2002 Yeah, it was a child. lol. If you look at the video evidence itself, you will see the body structure, head structure, mannerisms for which it bites its prey, and the thumbnail of the video itself, which was a still image taken from the video. You will see that it is indeed NOT a Black Mamba, but a female boomslang. If you won't take my word for it, a simple bit of research will also lead you to the same answer. It simply wasn't correct information given by the people recording the sighting - it happens. Just taking someone's word for anything and assuming what they say is true, doesn't make it true.
I think I downloaded the wrong rango movie
Good job !
Boomslang 😮
You tend to forget that such small species live in the Savannah. We used to the Savannah being the land of the giants
Is this a boomslang?
Which place?
I guess that's a Black Mamba, from what I gather they love to eat the Chameleons this is the 2nd video on here I've seen of this type of encounter.
Snake said , Ohh Sorry I thought You were a Soft Mouse
Chameleon bites the dust.
Black mamba??? No wonder they didnt intervene.
The chameleon got envenomated twice. It would only have been a matter of time before it was dead.
So was the snake venomous? A little bit more info would be nice
The people are saying it's a black mamba which is a very poisonous snake.
@@vipahman venomous
@@vipahman it's definetly not a black mamba
@@vipahman Someone watching also said that it's not a black mamba because they don't stand up like that. Sounds like they didn't really know what it was.
Its a maruvian snellysnake. They do that to determine the size of their target. Theyre not poisonous.
The chameleon is so brave and strong~👍 Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
What, you think the chameleon survived? Really?
that's a boomslang not a black mamba
Did someone said that was a black mamba ? Then the chamelon is most likely dead 😕
Looks like a Boomslang...
this is what I was wondering as it could indicate sub saharan...I think it may be a Flapneck Chameleon also sub saharan. I had Veiled and Jackson chameleons...one lays eggs and the other lays sacks they break their way out. Come home one day and had eleven little babies crawling around the cage.
another venomous snake without Eclectic eyes according to pics... mambas, coral, and boomslang that is all I know with round pupils
"And what do we say to Death? Not Today.." Valar Morghulis.... Valar Dohaeris.
It's like reference Rango movie 201 Scene Rango 🆚 Jake Snake fight 🤠🦎🐍🌵
that isn't black mamba..It's a boomslang
Uhm.... people... if that is a venomous snake... and by its actions... i believe it is... the Chameleon has lost regardless!!! Venomous snakes dont need to fight with its prey. All other snakes will!
It's what you can't see is the real story. As the chameleon turns sideways to the black mamba, it's not only a size increase but a heat increase as well. Chameleons are a weird reptile in that they can handle high-altitude misty cold, as canopy dwellers are subject to frost exposure, thus they have a trick borrowed from their color changing to blush warmer blood to the surface. In doing so, the snake's infrared detection registers an increased blur, a blur which wobbles in a circle through swaying branch mimicry. Black mamba however is also a visual hunter, but the color of the chameleon might be difficult to see, and so from the snake's perspective the chameleon looks like a moving blob of warm sunlight hitting the ground, hence for a brief moment the snake may have actually lost the chameleon? By changing perspective it re-found it.
Have seen this snake positively identified by 3 different names in comments so far.
But that's not a Black Mamba, Mambas have a distinctly coffin shaped elongated mouth. This was a Boomslang. You can tell because of the minimized pattern on the two-toned body. The non-coffin shaped head is also a give away, like I said. Black Mambas are darker and non-patterned, even in their juvenile/younger forms. A child in the video called it black mamba, but it wasn't.
Goodness me..... What kind of snake is that..... It's blue.....😱😱😱
Boomslang
Прикольно
Fights Back ? gets bit !
bro snake ask if he's alright after biting him.😂
"No? Good. Let the venom take you into slumber."
What’s up with the suspense 🤔
Was that really a black mamba?
Not at all, she's mistaken.
I don't think so. The head seemed to be a different shape, the colouration was a bit off, and black mambas usually bite and release, not bite and struggle.
@Jurassic Safari Boomslang is green
the shape of the head i thought boomslang but the colouration and seeming lack of venom i'm guessing not a boomslang either. tis a mystery. UPDATE: it actually IS a boomslang according to an expert. venom took a while to impact the chameleon i guess.
No it's non venomous
Will it be enough? I guess we will never know. Why would you put that question in the summary, and leave it unanswered despite knowing the answer yourself? Wtf
Why didn't the chameleon turn into a brown color.. rookie
He confused the snake. It did not know what to think of the chameleons 2 step.
Mamba mentality
This is not a black mamba
Telus is pissed
Didpholidus typus typus or Cape Boomslang
Wow! What a beautifully, cogent, hyper-aware creature! The amount of intelligence in the eyes was very noticeable...
It would be so much better if this channel can isolate and take out the damn tourists chatter from the videos? It can be done with proper video editing software.
How the fuck does this channel get all of this footage
This isn't a black mamba. Why this lady keep misinforming other people!
I don't think it was the older woman. I think it was a child that said Black Mamba..
I would’ve saved that chameleon cuz I love them
How?
Help the camelion
It’s interesting the chameleons use their colors as. Communication strategy as octopuses and even some jelly fish that can change colors as well use their color changing abilities for communication as well from what I’ve heard, might not be 100% right about this tho
They change colors to blend in to their surroundings
@@austinb3560 negative, they change colors for danger, mating, attracting sun in the morning and a few other reasons like sleeping which is the best time to take a pic of their pretty color formation. The way they blend in to the surroundings is by acting like a leaf and swaying. The feet are zygodactylus, if you had one on a pencil it can hold on 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees. If you walked by one it would go 90 or 270 on the branch away from you. Mine was blue and I could not find him back in a green tree and when I did he was right in front of me the whole time. They will also make themselves very thin when they sway. Check out the Panther Chameleon and its subspecies of colorations. I had Veiled and Jackson Chameleons...oddly the Veiled layed eggs in the ground and the Jackson had eggs sacks that would stick to leaves and the neonates break out of. Went to work one day I had five chameleons, came home I had 16 chameleons.
@@erikleekramer8354 are you a chameleon?
is this in downtown Johannesburgh at a bus stop..what happened next
Chameleon dies
Fake title
Boring, I was expecting a fight.
Well,see y'all in part 2 😂
What snake was this? Apparently not venomous since the chameleon managed to take the strikes and walk away.
I wonder what species this snake is too.
Venom doesn't knock them out rightaway.. and we don't see what happens much afterwards in the vidoe. So the snake could have had a good meal that day.
To me it looks like a Boomslang, which is a rear-fang venomous snake. They regularly hunt chameleons. Rear fanged snakes need to grind their fangs into their prey in order to inject their venom sufficiently. That is why it may have went in and bit twice, just to make sure. Actually makes them more tricky to hold, since they can rotate their jaw, even slightly and catch a finger. Most venom extractors would tell you that they'd rather deal with front fanged snakes. Venom is rather slow acting depending on the toxicity, amount injected, and where on the body (if it hit skin, muscle, or vein). Irregardless, venom doesn't instantly kill anything. I wouldn't know how long Boomslang venom takes to kill a chameleon. Venom does seem to impact mammals faster than fish/reptiles. But it definitely wasn't a Black Mamba, which is what a younger person said in the video.
@@jeremy6017 Thanks. Compared this video with pix of the Boomslang species. Dealt with a small viper when i was a kid at some point back during jurassic era. (40 years ago) Was always fascinated about snakes and reptilians. Couldn't place this one however. Black or Green Mamba we know it is not.
@@bohemianwriter1 Yeah, what makes this one difficult, is the speed at which the snake is peri-scoping and moving. The giveaways to me though, is how the snake bit the chameleon. If you notice, it had to open its mouth at a significantly wider angle than most snakes. Which indicated to me, that it was rear-fanged. It also wasn't a bite and release, the snake held on for a few seconds. Also, with Boomslangs there are variations. They're sexually dimorphic, which means males look different than females. So that makes them more easily overlooked, if they're female. Males are striking, with the green scaled with blue or black spotting throughout. Females are more olive to gray toned, with a brown or grayish more subdued pattern. It also isn't the biggest boomslang I've ever seen either. So this specimen, although I think is reaching sexual maturity, still has some growth and filling out to do in her lifetime. I also learned that they have a hemotoxic sort of venom, which would explain the lack of seeming, injury to the chameleon itself. It would have taken time for the blood to begin to break down and not clot. So it is more slow acting than the Mamba who has a neurotoxic venom and doesn't have the enzyme that would cause necrosis at the point of envenomation. I find that vipers are easier to tell what they are, their facial structure and larger venom glands typically give them away. These slender speedy snakes are difficult.