Top 10 dangerous and deadly venomous snakes from Australia
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Australia is home to many deadly venomous snake species. In this video we will show you our list of top 10 dangerous and deadly venomous snakes of this continent. Why dangerous AND deadly venomous? It is because dangerous snakes in general are those which have potent venom, live close to people and are common, have a tendency to defend themselves by biting. Some species from the list are deadly venomous, but not really dangerous in general due to their behavior or location where they live. The best example is the Inland taipan. It is the most venomous snake in the world, but it lives in remote deserts far away from people, so bites are almost non-existent. Yet we think it needs to be included in the top 10. In some cases, like with death adders or Australian copperheads, we chose one representative for our list.
TOP 10 dangerous and deadly venomous snakes of Australia:
1. Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
2. Tiger snake (Notechis scutatus)
3. Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus)
4. Western brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni)
5. Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
6. Common death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)
7. Dugite (Pseudonaja affinis)
8. Highland copperhead (Austrelaps ramsayi)
9. Mulga snake/King brown snake (Pseudechis australis)
10. Eastern small-eyed snake (Cryptophis nigrescens)
I love the name ‘death adder’ it’s like an alternative way of calling it the life subtractor
Yes, the name sounds terrible and the snake does not deserve it!
@@LivingZoology so true! Especially since theirs hardly been any deaths from these. 😘
I love the simplicity of these videos, just straight facts and snakes! 🐍 you can really immerse yourself and admire the animals
Great that you love our videos! 🙂
💯. The same reason why I love Living Zoology videos as well
Awesome footage. If I may recommend an improvement for the information given for each snake species; It would be good to explain what kind of venom they have and how it acts on the body. But I do like the peaceful presentation. Keep the good work up, you are getting more and more professional with your content.
Thank you very much! Great that you love our footage. We had a feeling that adding details about venom composition would make the video too long already and we plan to make a separate one more focused on venom toxicity in the future 🙂
@@LivingZoologyyes I’m kinda obsessed with the venom effects, and as to why they have different toxin thingys according to each species. Ya know I never really thought about WHY the inland taipan has such strong quick acting venom because their food source is scarce out there! 😂 I guess it’s been explained but makes total sense in this video. I even wonder what would be the inland taipans natural predator (as an adult!). For sure they would be top of food chain out there, juveniles of course would naturally be food for other animals (reptiles, frogs and defo predator birds!) but being so long-strong probably not much can harm them! Such mysterious snakes, boring as anything to see in a zoo lol. But rarely seen in wild- yet have the worst reputation! Also I believe their is so much science around venom & what it does to blood that it can be used as life saving medicine but i think it’s a tricky area to research since snakes are naturally dangerous when handled & not to many people are willing to work with these live animals since it’s like a life threatening research project!
@@tarantulasarecool Venoms naturally evolve to subdue certain prey so it is a long process…Different populations of the same species can have different venom composition if snakes eat a bit different prey. Sometimes juveniles have a bit different venom composition from adults as they might eat different prey. Venoms are a great source of medicine for the future. The natural predator of an adult Inland taipan is the Perentie and maybe large eagles.
@@LivingZoology Very much looking forward to that. Evolution of venom and how it is adapted for specific preys, not to harm people, is a very interesting story.
amazing ! thank you for your great work ❤
We are happy that you love our work! 🙂
Awesome content as usual ! Great video
Thank you very much! 🙂
Another great video, informative and entertaining. Great photography too, i enjoy the series Aussie Snake Wranglers here in the UK. I have seen most of them, but they're very good. They often come across the Eastern Brown and the Red Bellied Black snake. Thanks for more great content.
Glad you enjoyed it! It is fun to make videos about snakes from Australia!
Another great one, Thanks!
Thanks again!
Bravo!!! Another informative and excellent video. Steve Irwin did a video on the 10 most venomous snakes in Australia. There were 2 or 3 species in your video that he did not have . But had the sea snake and another one I can't think of. This video would've made Steve proud.
Thank you very much! Great that you love our video. In our list we were not focusing only on the toxicity of venom, but also on behavior, how many people the species bites and how close it lives to humans.
Super sharp pictures and close-ups of these snakes! 💪🏻👏🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
Thank you very much, great that you love our content! 🙏
Another great video. I particularly like the sound of the environments the snakes live in.
Thank you very much! We spend lot of time by recording soundscapes so it is great to hear that you like the sound in this video 🙂
Another excellent episode guys, I'm in Far North Qld, see plenty of EB's and Red Bellied Black's, haven't seen a Death Adder yet though. Keep up the great work :)
Thank you very much! We hope to come back to Queensland one day 🙂
I love ya videos and the devotion to this adorable animals! I admire you both!
You are so kind, thank you so much!
Great video. I love notechis ! It's a beautiful snake.
It really is! Thank you for watching!
Thank you all so much for this beautiful videography.
Our pleasure! Thank you very much for watching!
Amazing video!
Thank you very much!
Superb doc 🐍... And no commentary. 👃
Thank you for watching!
Impressive.
Thank you! 🙂
Excellent video! I also wanted to know more about the carpet pythons (jungle and coastal), the diamond pythons, even the olive pythons as well!
Thank you very much! We will make a video about the Carpet python in the future 🙂
So beauty-full, stunning and stunningly deadly. The Eastern Small-eyed has gorgeous colouring. Lovelovelove.
Thank you so much! We appreciate it 🙏
Favorite herp channel on KZhead and by far the best camera and sound work! The Inland Taipan or "Fierce Snake" (nothing fierce about it BTW,) is dangerous only when handled. Otherwise they'll ignore you. When handled though they are completely unpredictable. Unlike most snakes as they never "give you the signal of an impending leap or bite."
We really appreciate that you love our channel! :) From our experience, Inland taipans can be quick and a bit unpredictable during handling, but not as much as the Coastal taipan or the Eastern brown snake.
Still loving and enjoying your content lucky you two for travelling such a long way enjoying time with our Aussie reptiles..we are now living near Millaa Millaa on a dairy farm regularly seeing red bellies carpets and some stunning aqua blue in the tree snakes here..Jake Bec Michael and Shiloh ❤
We are very happy that you love our content! It was so good to film snakes in Australia! Living there must be amazing, beautiful landscape and many snakes! 🐍❤️
Your videos are simply beautiful....and have to be seen on a big screen TV to really appreciate the beauty of these animals.🐍
Thank you very much! Glad that you think so! 🙂
Outstanding footage as always. Thank you for sharing. For some reason the eastern small eyed snake reminded me of the common krait in India. Also the common death adder is incredibly well camouflaged. Stepping on it is a real possibility.
Thank you very much for watching! Yes, the Eastern small-eyed snake might remind you a bit of the Common krait and the Common death adder is amazingly camouflaged!
amazing video. I seemed to be around the object of observation.
Thank you very much! Our goal is to make you feel like you are observing wild snakes with us 🙂
Another fab video. Never heard of the small eyed snake or the highland copperhead b4. The copperhead’s colours r beautiful
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! Great that you learned about the Eastern small-eyed snake and the Highland copperhead!
Not to be confused with the equally lethal one-eyed trouser snake...
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so sorry for my late..this is top episode
No worries. Good to know that you love it! ❤️
Thank u very much
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for another great video. Apart from the death adder, these snakes look fairly similar.
Thank you! Yes, large elapids in Australia all look fairly similar.
amazing snskes from down under Australia 🌏
Thank you for waching! 🙂
I like this video😊👍
Thank you! 🙏
Many thanks from an 88 year old Englishman who compliments you on the most perfect snake documentary ever made. And I have had a lifetime of watching similar documentaries April;, 2024.
Wow, thank you! We really appreciate your comment! All the best! 🙂
Lovely! :D)
Thank you!
I probably still sound like a broken .mp3 but you guyz' photography is second to none!! You should be piling up awards for it all the time. You certainly would if I was in charge! :)
It never gets old to read a comment like this! ❤️ Thank you so much! 🙏
Informative video, very good and simply narrated 👍 👏 tiger snake nick look like Cobra when they ready for steike... It means camping and jogging are very dangerous, especially in fields and forest sides
Thank you very much for your positive review! It is good to be careful where you step and put your hands during camping or jogging for sure 🙂
Australia is not for beginners
Certainly not!
I live here tell me about it. There was an Eastern Brown alert here in Sydney a month ago. Eastern Brown's have been cited 5 miles outside of the Sydney CBD. Our affluent, leafy North Shore is the perfect cover for these deadly snakes. They take cover inside and outside of backyard sheds. Young children, pets and even adults have been tagged and killed. In November 2023 a Queensland farmer was killed protecting his daughter. He was my weight and height, that is 6'1 and 260 pounds. He died within 30 minutes. This has been our hottest, and definitely our most humid summer in three years here in Sydney.
@@FrostedSeagull I am from India. In India every year nearly 58,000 people die due to snakes bite. Russell's viper and saw scaled viper is responsible for most fatality.
@@FrostedSeagullinteresting, and sad to hear those people didn’t make it. Realistically though on average only 2-3 people die here in Australia a year from envenomation (Wikipedia & other reports states this).,I am keen to understand why these people killed were unable to get antivenom into them (upon further exploration it says reason why these people got killed was cuz they were far away from a hospital!). I think i read somewhere too that if u are in real snake territory with no hospital close by then u should keep antivenom on you. Yes snakes kill many pets cuz unfortunately they frighten the snake (I guess unless it’s a food source but that doesn’t seem common- most snake diets consist of small mammals, frogs, birds, other reptiles etc) so it will react super quick but this issue can be solved (apparently 🤷♀️) with proper animal snake training. ❤
The Mulga Snake is such a fascinating snake, it's like a huge version of the other Brown snakes species in Australia. I would love to see another video on it and the Death Adder.
We really liked to work with Mulga snakes! We featured the Mulga snake here too: kzhead.info/sun/hryofr5pgWmwiKc/bejne.html Here is the full video about the Common death adder: kzhead.info/sun/mdZ9e9pua3VvfpE/bejne.html
Death adders are so cute and unimposing, would make a great pet if not for their life threatening saliva! lol (jokes I know it’s their proteins).
@@tarantulasarecool We agree that death adders are super cute!
Belle vidéo de serpents Félicitations bravo salutations distinguées de France ❤❤❤
Thank you very much and greetings from the Czech Republic!
10:29 The Cameraman's reflection can be seen in the beautiful snek's beautiful eye! But there are so many more beautiful Australian Snakes! (Like Colett's) any chance for a part 2 with the top 20?
Thanks for watching! Well, maybe in the future we will save enough money for another trip to Australia :D
My first week in Tasmania, Australia, I came face to face with a large jet black tiger snake in the bush behind Hobart sunning itself on a large slab rock. I just watched it for a while but he knew I was there. As soon as I began to walk away, he was gone in a flash into the scrub. The big yellow centipede in my bedroom the following night wasn't so welcome. I was 17 then and have seen dozens of Aussie snakes since but that was the best. Had a dugite in my house in Perth once. Called CALM and they relocated it. Beautiful animals and a privilege to encounter. Thank you for your amazing channel.
Thank you for watching our videos and sharing your experiences with snakes!
1:12 That's a quick snake. The death adder is no joke
Death adders probably have the fastest strike of all snakes.
I love this video. Informative with beautiful presentation. I probably won’t ever be able to go to Australia, but I decided to make up a rule for myself if I ever did: every snake I see I would consider to be venomous except obvious pythons 😉Even then I wouldn’t go near it unless it was a pet from a breeder.
Thank you very much for watching! We are very happy that you like our presentation :) It is always good to be careful when you see a snake in the wild. We also don't pick any snake until we are sure that it is a harmless species.
Great work keep it up guys 👍 Can you please explain the name of the snake shown at the end of the video
Thank you very much! The snake in the very last shot is the Curl snake (Suta suta).
Is that snake venomous
@@blessonjoseph5342 Yes, it is.
"If you are not an expert...": excellent advice about any wild animal anywhere.
We want to teach people that they can admire animals also from distance, touching is not neccessary 🙂 Thank you for watching!
That copperhead is gorgeous
We agree, copperheads are gorgeous!
Amazing how flattened out that Tiger snake was, must have been close.
We were fairly close but not within striking distance at all.
You probably should've had the red bellied black in the place of the small-eyed. Sure the small-eyed could deliver a more potentially fatal bite, but they almost never even bite people. The red bellied however is right up there with the Eastern brown and Tiger in the number of people they bite.
Australia is beautiful i was so lucky to be able to visit it back in 2002. I hear people all the time say they would never go because of all the dangerous animals but when i visit i never saw one i went during the cooler months. I hate snakes want nothing to do with them but its a healthy fear because i do my best to never hurt one because ni matter how i feel they play such a vital role in our ecosystem. They help keep the pest population in check that would other wise destroy our crops and pass on diseases. Even non venomous snakes help keep in check the venomous ones. They also play the part of prey for other animals so in Australia each creature plays its part one way or the other. People and snakes can coexist together it has been proven like an island off of Africa where Forest cobras and fishermen live we just have to do our part and be educated to learn how to make these interactions as less a possible. Quick question which of these snakes were the hardest to find also as always another great video by you all wish you all had your own show for Discovery or National Geographic Wild.
Thank you for watching our video! 🙂 Many people who went to Australia and did not specifically look for snakes did not see any. Snakes are shy and usually not super easy to find. As you say, snakes play a vital role in nature. The most difficult to find from these were the Coastal taipan and the Eastern brown snake! They are quite common, but super fast and inteligent snakes!
Growing up in Eastern Texas I had too many encounters with snakes as a boy. I respect them but never want to be in that amount of danger again. Does anyone know how many snakes per capita there are in Australia? Just curious.
@@Uncle_Neil there’s so much Bushland & unpopulated areas of Australia you’d never be able to work that out. The bushfires would have wiped a few out but the population would bounce back without any problems.
Please go through this Matej and Zusana
Thank you!
I like the Inland Taipans that are wearing the black executioner hoods the best, followed by super cute-faced Death Adder, Tiger Snakes & Highland Copperheads, Dugites....ya know what, I like'm all... Being in North America makes identifying hot snakes so much easier, and many of them are super chill; most our Copperheads are truly gentle beings, and some of our rattlers are the same way - like death adders I guess. I've never been able to find a coral snake, and I wouldn't personally mess with a Cottonmouth. Still, I like meeting non-venomous snakes way more; seeing if they mind being picked up, maybe would enjoy a little mammal warmth....lol.
As you say, the best is to love them all! :) But we agree that Inland taipans with the black head are stunning! Venomous snakes in North America are fun too and quite easy to work with :) Finding non-venomous snakes is always cool!
Does the tiger snake have a cobra-like hood? Are these species related?
Some elapids, including cobras and the Tiger snake, flatten their necks when they feel in danger. Brown snakes can do it, taipans and Mulga snakes too. The Black mamba does it too.
I live on a 25 acre property just west of Bundaberg,about 30 kms,its amazing I don't get many snakes around here,seen the odd tree snake and python but only came across a couple of nasty aggressive snakes in the last 6 odd years.We have goannas living in some holes near the house in the side of some hills,I see them nearly everyday I wonder if they keep the snakes away,heard they do but would like to know if there is any truth to it.
Thank you for watching! Yes, monitor lizards prey on snakes but unless you have tons of them it should not influence the number of snakes in the area.
que balor tenéis que susto ❤
Thanks for watching!
That turn around speed on the death adder is frightening.
Yes, they can ve very fast!
The King Brown or Mulga Snake is the KING of all Snakes they also eat Inland Taipans or Fierce Snakes
Yes, they hunt other snakes, true. The purpose of this video is to show 10 deadly venomous snakes which we think are the top 10 due to their venom toxicity, behavior, proximity to people or number of bites.
Are Death Adders similar to the Black Adders found in parts of the UK ? Or a different species all together ?
No, they have nothing in common. European adders are vipers, death adders are elapids.
You should design T-shirts with Australian snakes
Far and away the best snake, one might say reptile, videography on KZhead. As much as the camera excellence, the natural history information included distinguishes these videos. A minor point, but to the extent one has to read one is distracted from the visual presentation, which is primary. So, possibly verbal narration, a-la-David Attenborough, in the future? Much more natural history information could be presented, and in a way greatly complementing the visual.
We also do narrated documentaries, but it takes long time to do them and it is costly. Watch what we produced already: kzhead.info/sun/oM6QfqePhIZ4nZE/bejne.html
Le COBRA ROYAL est beau comme serpent mais Dangereux veineineux ❤
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Hello, I'm a trail runner from Croatia (Europe). I'm interested in how trail runners manage to get through training in Australia next to so many poisonous snakes. How do trail runners prepare for running training in nature with all those snakes?
Encountering snakes when you don't specifically search for them is rare! In Perth people run in city parks close to snakes and they don't even know that the reptiles are there!
Just run faster ! ! 😂 Seriously they're not that bad and I live in a country area
I'm waiting this video. You are the bestest in this sector.
Thank you so much!!!
I remember the first time I saw Steve Irwin’s show and he went to a suburban neighborhood and went into someone’s backyard and lifted up a plastic kiddie pool to reveal and eastern brown and I was like yeah no Australia isn’t for me. I used to follow this guy on Instagram who went to Australia to study and one day he posted that he was trapped in his biology building because some venomous snak had curled up in front of the door and they had to wait for a snake handler to come take it away.
These things happen, we also flipped a Coastal taipan you saw in our video under a piece of tin 🙂
I’m shy as well…😅
Thanks for watching.
New Year 🎉, Awesome Snakes 🐍 For 2024 😮❤
Happy new year! We wanted to start 2024 with a cool video! :)
Eastern Browns scared the shit out of me. They can be just as aggressive as a black mamba.
Eastern brown snakes can be very defensive, yes. Not aggressive though.
A few years ago I was hiking near Blackheath in the Blue Mountains and almost stepped on a snake of unknown type.Lucky i didn't step on it otherwise I would have found out if it was poisonous or not!The only poisonous snake that i have ever been bitten by is a Night Adder in South Africa but nothing happened.Probably a dry bite or the fact that the Night Adder isn't very poisonous.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Snakes are venomous, not poisonous (with very few exceptions). Venom is injected, poison eaten, inhaled or absorbed through skin.
My top 10 most venomous snake in Australia: 10.western brown snake 9. red bellied black snake 8.king brown/mulga snake 7.desert taipan/central range taipan 6.collett snake 5.death adder 4.tiger snake 3.coastal taipan 2.eastern brown snake 1.inland taipan
King Cobra would eat them all
Your list is based on how much you like each species or anything else?
@LivingZoology The list is a Descending Order of venom potency and he's right.
We have none in New Zealand 😔
We know, what a pity!
Wonderful your service as usual, but in this video you don’t say anything about the characteristics of the venom of these beautiful creature. Greetings from Italy. Silvano
Thank you! We did not want to go into details about venom composition in this video as we are diving into the topic in separate species videos. Also this list is not based only on toxicity of venom, but also behavior, number of bites and proximity to people.
Thanks for yr reply. I’ll see with great interest yr video about the features of venom.
Probably the chance of meeting one is pretty remote unless you’re going looking for them
Exactly! Most of these snakes are shy and secretive.
You’ve got to be kidding! I had a Eastern Brown at the front of my house last Friday it was less than one meter from my front door, I don’t have to go too far to find them.
@@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door The Eastern brown snake is the one which lives close to people, it is defensive and causes the most bites in Australia. That’s why it is number 1 on our list.
I wounder if somebody brought a dreading pair of black mamba's to Australia ,I wounder if they populate or make a wild population of them ?
That is difficult to predict. In theory, some habitats in Australia are suitable for Black mambas and have enough prey.
@@LivingZoology I once read that horrible people who steal these beautiful reptiles make them illegally fight. An Eastern Brown fought a Black Mamba and won. The Eastern Brown struck first allegedly. Our Australian terrain is most likely too tough for the Black Mamba. The Mamba's average length is 14 feet ( 3.2 metres) and grow up to 18 feet in length. Our Aussie venomous snakes mostly grow up to 8 feet due to heat and very very hot. Size is not a bonus in our hot Australian climate. A 14 foot Mamba wouldn't be able to hide and/or effectively hunt in our Australian terrain. The deserts where the Inland Taipan dwells is too hot and prey to scarce for a Black Mamba. If the Black Mamba had to compete with the Eastern Brown on our Eastern seaboard once aging, its size would go against it. Predators The Harpy Eagle and mongoose are the predators that hunt and kill Mamba's Africa. We have numerous Eagles that hunt and kill our deadly venomous snakes. The Black Mamba wouldn't have a chance, again due to its size, against our numerous Eagles.
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How many people die from snake bites every year in Australia? How many are killed by crocs? Sharks? Kangaroos?
Very few, around 2-5 people die from snakebite per year. The highest number of people probably die after accidents with kangaroos, but we are not sure about numbers.
Banyaknya ular berbisa di Australia.......Mengapa ular di sana semuanya berbisa......?
Not all snakes in Australia are venomous. Elapids are the most numerous group of snakes there, that is why there are so many venomous species.
The harsh environment means the snakes need things to die quickly. It’s no good to bite your prey then have it run away for two hours before it dies
Pourquoi certains serpents se mangent entre eux ?
Some snakes exploit this ecological niche because it is quite easy for a snake to eat other snakes.
Should i worry about snakes in Australia
Don't worry, if you don't specifically search for them, you rarely see any!
No😊😢
Thanks for watching!
King Cobra 👑 would eat them all
It will depend on the size of the King!
I sent you an email
Ok, thanks!
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Hopefully you will love the video 🙂
@@LivingZoology Agreed. As always, as well. 😊
@@LivingZoologyOfc, mate. 😊