Inland taipan vs. Eastern brown snake - Battle of the deadly snakes
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The Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is the most venomous snake in the world and the Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) is the second most venomous snake in the world. Both species live in Australia and can grow longer than 2 meters. The Inland taipan and the Eastern brown snake have extremely toxic venom. But which one of them is deadlier? In this video we use 5 categories to find out who would win a hypothetical battle between these deadly snakes! We compare the behavior, size, speed, venom and also how difficult it is to handle these snakes.
Remember that snakes are never aggressive, only defensive if they feel threatened! Calm handler = calm snake.
Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to come across either by accident. 😵💫🤷♂️
Both are potentially very dangerous to people of course!
@@LivingZoology you could probably fall asleep in the same room as the inland taipan it won’t bite you. Eastern Brown, on the other hand, there about his vicious as a black mamba.
When cornered it seems the brown snakes can become more psychotic at least until they can flee. Proximity to humans and potency of venom are the major factors for the eastern brown. That inland was a beautiful specimen. Great work and video.
Thank you very much for watching! The Eastern brown lives often close to people and it is a nervous snake, that makes it more dangerous than the Inland taipan.
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My ex partner lost 4 dogs at once to the same Eastern Brown up in North Queensland . They were all hunting dogs of a decent size and this snake was vicious , and kept systematically attacking them. All of dogs died within 10 to 15 minutes of being bitten. Very tragic 😢.
Thanks for sharing this story. Was the snake attacked by these dogs? Eastern brown snakes are very defensive so it is expected that the snake was very nervous in a presence of 4 carnivores.
I feel for you re: dogs 1988 I went to a friend's place as ge lived in Picton, NSW. Unbelievably, Eastern Brown's would breed in the south eastern part of their property. The CSIRO came out twice to investigate, and their herpetologists and snake Experts could not understand why the Eastern Brown's kept breeding in that part of that particular property. My friends dad, after obtaining the relevant government approval, cleaned out that part of the property by clear and burning the land. 18 months later . . .the Eastern Browns were back ! Dog Deaths The lost 4 dogs out of eleven to Eastern Brown bites. The larger the dog, the more susceptible to the Eastern Brown. Incidentally, the small fox terriers would successfully fight off and even kill the Eastern Brown's. The vet said that the Jack Russell and Fox Terriers had a low centre of gravity and moved quickly and confused this particularly deadly snake. I once saw my mates, two Jack Russell/Fox Terrier hybrids, work in tandem and eventually kill a six foot Eastern Brown. The dogs viciously tore it to shreds after killing it.
@@FrostedSeagull wow that's crazy hey. Yes Jack Russells are fast little buggers and are pretty switched on when it comes to catching these snakes. The little dog next door only needed 1 vial of antivenom and withín 2 days he was back scouting the fence line 😀
@@FrostedSeagull At our property in Robertson (Sothern Highlands NSW) we had a family of Copperheads which lived under the concrete slab supporting one of our tank stands. That one family lived there for over forty years, incredible endurance and familiarity. Our dogs got to know them and they got to tolerate the dogs, there was never attacks between them. My mother was a keen cottage gardener, sometimes when kneeling on her pad and weeding a Copper would slide past within two feet of her, mum would stop moving, the snake continued on it's way. At various times after completing what we thought was a successful eradication campaign they'd be back, after about the third attempt father decided we couldn't win, let them be. They were finally eradicated when new owners took over in the early 2000's when they removed the water tank and the concrete slab.
Still loving your content and interest in Aussie snakes from the other side of the planet good stuff!!! Inland taipans live in the middle of woop woop and bites only occur from captive snakes..so would a better play off be eastern brown and coastal taipan??? The coastal holds bragging rights of NO survivors from a bite pre anti venom..10mm fangs fast moving large size and if it's pissed multiple bites. Though they share territory I believe the brown does bite more people??
Thank you for this incredible video. I am no expert on snakes and at times have troubles telling what species a snake is. I am slowly learning. A few years ago while I was in a state forest 50km west of Warwick in QLD I had the pleasure of having a snake come past me about 40cm away. It was just under a metre long and brown in colour. That is all I could tell you of it. My Wife told me there was something beside me hahahaha. After seeing it I asked her to slowly get up and walk away. Then asked my brother to do the same. I waited until it was a metre away from me then very slowly stood up. The snake stopped and looked at me. I waited a few seconds then very slowly walked backwards away from it. Once I was a few metres away it went on about it's business looking for a feed.
Study the shape of the heads and colours, mate. The inland taipan has that deep brown head. They are more on the yellow to light brown.
Thank you for watching! You did the best thing there, moving slowly and letting the snake to have its space :)
There are only 2 types of snakes. Live ones and dead ones. People carry-on about them being defensive only. The thing is if one becomes offensive from a distance of half a metres..... it will bite you somewhere between once and a dozen times. My question to the snake apologists is if an Eastern Brown had just bitten you.... would you be able to stand still until it moved away, or would your nerves make you jump away and risk being bitten again?
Inland taipan vs Eastern brown snake, survive for the fittest, I can't wait to watch this video, to learn more about these two snakes from Australia, we love you living zoology, I love you living zoology 🇺🇬🇺🇬❤️❤️🙏.
Thanks for your support, you will learn a lot from this video!
Beautiful footage btw guys, thanks again!
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Another great Video guys!! Thank you so much
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It’s hard to pick a favourite, they’re both amazing with independent characters is venom and behaviour, so they both have equal from 2 different realms 🐍
Both snakes are charismatic and amazing for sure! 🐍❤️
Elapids are so incredible, seeing that Brown flare up and strike is very impressive!
We love elapids! Thanks for watching!
hi friends, I'm sorry I wasn't in live....two most venomunous snakes in the world👍very close dubois sea snake
No worries! Great that you watched the video!
Sea snakes that high in the rankings?
@@marcelthomas216 yes and beltcher sea snake very venomous
I grew up in rural Vic around Eastern Browns. Encountered them every summer, they'd sometimes even show up on the cement pathways around the farmhouse. Biggest one i saw was approx 2.5m long 4 inches diameter sun baking across the entire width of a dirt back road whilst riding my motorbike, it was massive ! Due to its sheer size I decided not to try & ride around it that day, it was too intimidating for me as i was just a kid. I promptly turned around & headed back the direction i came from 😂 I'll never forget that day.
Thanks for sharing your past experiences with Eastern browns!
Great video. Could you track down the Central Ranges Taipan, I wonder? That would make an excellent video. It boggles the mind that this was only described in 2007!
Thank you! We spent some time in the region where it lives, but it is such an elusive snake!
Also, I believe the eastern brown bites more people because its habitat tends to be closer to people. Great video. You guys are very brave!
Thank you for watching! Yes, Eastern browns live very close to people!
They are also the most aggressive snake in Australia, it's not unheard of for eastern browns to chase when they feel threatened. If you meet one and you don't handle snakes, give it a wide berth.
@@dexterplameras3249 They don't chase, but their defensive display is pretty impressive. They want you to go more far from them and if you leave them space they will go the other way eventually.
@@LivingZoology They will move towards you if they perceive you as a threat. kzhead.info/sun/krWDpKuyr5-CdYk/bejne.htmlsi=tEq8Lzjxgtrzrfqd
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Excellent video.
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I live within the same geographical area of Australia as these two highly venomous snakes, Thankfully our paths seldom cross, the eastern brown is potentially deadlier due to it's flighty & nervous disposition, if confronted keep calm and move away slowly and without any rapid movements, as stated the inland taipan lives a reclusive, placid and secretive existence, venom wise it is highly potent & extremely toxic.....Many Thanks Matej & Zuzana, the information given in this video is accurate & highly educational also perfectly documented.👍👍
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In about 1997 I was on Burren Junction airport. One of our Airtractor 802s had landed while it was wet a few days prior leaving wheel marks on the deco strip. the wheel width is 3 metres. Either an inland taipan or a brown crossed coming towards me and stopped on the old tracks. both ends were on a wheel track each. This was prior to mobile phones having cameras so I could not take a photo as evidence.
It could have been a Mulga snake, if we found the airport correctly on the map, it is outside of the range of the Inland taipan and the Eastern brown snake grows to a max. 2.4 meters.
Oh dear now I'm totally confused. I always thought the Taipan won hands down. I thought the Black Mamba was deadlier than the Eastern Brown. So where do snakes like King Cobra, Sea snakes, Fer de Lance, etc sit in this league table? Maybe a definitive league table is needed. Just a thought. Thank you for an interesting video as always.
Taipans, mambas, brown snakes which ever one bites you you’re probably SOL
Thank you for watching! The Black mamba and the Eastern brown snake are definitely very close to each other when it comes to speed and behavior. Both are nervous snakes with highly potent venom. Considering the 5 categories we use, those snakes you mentioned are less deadly than the Eastern brown snake, the Black mamba or the Inland taipan.
Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) which is considered the most venomous snake in the world. Australian Brown Snake is the second most deadly. Its venom is reputed to be the second most toxic in the world. They cause the most snakebite deaths in Australia - 1/14,000 of an ounce of this venom is enough to kill a person. A single bite from an inland Taipan has enough venom to kill 100 full-grown men🤯 Complete madness😳 There are three known species of Taipan in Australia, which are the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), the inland taipan (O. microlepidotus), and a third species, the Central Ranges taipan (O. temporalis). The inland taipan is by far the most venomous snake in the world on land or in water;-)
There is a difference between most venomous and most deadly.
I’m in nth Qld and I was walking a few days ago and out of the corner of my eye I seen something at my feet, looked down and it was a whopper of a brown. I jumped 3 meters I reckon and I had to change my undies when I got home, turns out it was dead but bloody hell it gave me a fright. What’s scary is you don’t see them till it’s to late.
Thanks for sharing your experience and for watching our video! Great that it was just a scary moment but nothing bad happened!
Ah now the Inland Taipan might be the more venomous but the Eastern Brown is more feisty and aggressive and bites more people hence it is the most feared and the snake you most want watch out for in Australia.
Watch the video and see our conclusion.
No wonder the Inland Taipan is sooo relaxed, "it's like", hey man I'm like; the most venomous snake in the world man,...sooo I'm soooo like; chilled out man;-) Peace man;-D I must say that silver Eastern Brown was absolutely gorgeous looking. The Eastern Brown was way more boisterous, well ready for a fight, as the Inland just kept on moving no matter what. Beautiful snakes, but please stay in your habitats and we will stay in ours;-P
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Great footage.. wow❤
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My taipan was resting under the front wheel of the mine truck which is close to the ladder to the truck cabin. I had about .05MG of venom injected. I was very lucky it just nicked me and the antidote was very close by. You guys are nuts handling these snakes. I would be in my car tearing up the road if I saw one again.
Great that you were fine! We work safely with tools and keep our distance. Inland taipans are very peaceful and shy snakes.
Great video as always , thanks for sharing two of the most venomous snakes in the world, number 1 is the inland taipan, 2 the eastern brown
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What about costal taipan?
@@ramesh.kkrishna5852 it’s number 3
@@ramesh.kkrishna5852 Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) which is considered the most venomous snake in the world. Australian Brown Snake is the second most deadly. Its venom is reputed to be the second most toxic in the world. They cause the most snakebite deaths in Australia - 1/14,000 of an ounce of this venom is enough to kill a person. A single bite from an inland Taipan has enough venom to kill 100 full-grown men🤯 Complete madness😳 There are three known species of Taipan in Australia, which are the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), the inland taipan (O. microlepidotus), and a third species, the Central Ranges taipan (O. temporalis). The inland taipan is by far the most venomous snake in the world on land or in water;-)
Beautiful elapids
Yes they are! Thanks for watching!
Am I the only one who had a @ClintsReptiles flash ? "In this video, we will compare theme using five categories... which are : handleability, care, hardiness, availability, and upfront cost !" 😅
He also uses 5 categories? We have no idea 😀
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2 superb species ! They are venomous but in the desert they don't see anyone !
Thanks for watching! The Eastern brown snake lives close to people very often!
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We would love to get some sponsors 😀😀
The coastal taipan is extremely aggressive and dangerous as compared to the fierce snake.
Snakes are not aggressive, only defensive if they feel threatened. Check out the Coastal taipan vs Black mamba here: kzhead.info/sun/aNKsltWqo6Rpo6M/bejne.html
They're both stunning snakes.
We absolutely agree! Thanks for watching!
Soundtrack?
We recorded the sounds in Australia.
Lived on the southern tablelands as a grazier all my life and come across 4 to 5 eastern browns a year , might be of interest to you that l have been chased a few times by a startled brown ..
These snakes don't chase people, it is a defensive behavior. If you keep your distance the snake will go its own way.
Thanks for your input mate but l have lived on 3000 acre farm for 50 years and can tell you first hand they can and will ,, and around the buildings they more than likely dont get to go about there day,,.
@@shaneoneil9433 You can believe it, we will not argue with you. It is a classic misunderstanding of a defensive behavior. Back up and the snake will eventually go to another direction.
I was raised around the Eastern Brown. I have been struck at after annoying one that just lost it's skin, it narrowly missed my eye and i can attest the strike is quicker than the human blink. After they have been disturbed-annoyed they seem to remain very edgy. I have picked up very large specimens but then was faced with the problem of how to put them down. My mother was blind and she was watering the garden and guess what she picked up instead of the hose!. She said she was wondering why she couldn't hear any water and then the hose started moving in her hand. I had to kill that snake later, i found him under an old toilet slab, it was around the 6 foot mark. The presenters are spot on when they say the snakes would rather go about their business. If you have a brown that has been disturbed by something- get someone to remove it, they are not as forgiving the next time around.
Thanks for watching and sharing your experiences. The best thing is to leave snakes alone and keep your distance. Trying to kill an Eastern brown is a dangerous business.
Are they number one and two in the most potent venom??
Yes, they are!
As an Australian I’d be more worried about an eastern brown. Far more likely to come into contact with one and they are notoriously unpredictable. Also when talking about venom one is the most toxic and the other is in second spot so if you don’t get to hospital that that’s anyway so no point in splitting hairs
Of course the Eastern brown is more dangerous to people.
@@LivingZoology write the inland taipan you could live there in a whole life without seeing it
This snakes are never aggressive claim, is very dubious. True it isn't Australia, but one KZhead snake expert, and it might be Dingo Dinkelman, says that Black Mambas are known to attack people from 100 yards away. Now I don't care what way you try to square that circle, a snake attacking from that far is NOT being defensive. But apart from that, I really enjoyed your video.
Thank you for watching! We are not sure that Dingo Dinkelman is a source to be always trusted. "Something is known to" is not a very reliable information. We both studied zoology and I am (Matej) a doctor of zoology. We base our videos on facts, not stories. According to what we know and have seen on every continent except Antarctica (which has no snakes), snakes (including the Black mamba) are not chasing people and are not aggressive towards humans.
I've noticed the Island Taipan always seems to be quoted as the most venomous snake in the world, followed by the Eastern Brown snake. Maybe there is more risk from encountering an EB due to habitat loss and areas of population that come into conttact with the snake. If the Inland Taipan lives in more remote palaces then people are less likely to see it. I found your video interesting.
Thank you for watching! Eastern brown snakes live often close to people, while Inland taipans inhabit very remote regions.
I reside on the Gold Coast, Australia and we had about a 60 cm Eastern Brown sunning itself in our yard last week. It slid out through a hole in our back fence so i quickly blocked it off with rocks. Sadly earlier this week our neighbours 10 month old Jack Russell cross cattle dog found and killed what looked like the same snake. The owners rushed him to the vets straight away as his back legs were going out from under him. Thankfully the vets saved him, and $5000 later he is back to being master of his back yard. Jack Russells are notoriously good at killing snakes and thankfully the vets wera able to identify it immediately to give him anti-venom. Luckily for him he only got a tiny bite or he would have been history.
Very cool that the Jack Russell survived the bite! Venom from the Eastern brown snake is very potent and fast-acting.
@@LivingZoology he sure was lucky . He started barking like crazy at 5 am and a few minutes later all went quiet. His owner raced outside to find this Eastern Brown dead and him struggling to walk. Luckily the snake did not get a good bite in.
@ozgal6929 Jack Russell terriers were originally bred to hunt Badgers, Groundhogs, Otters and Red and Grey Foxes truly a fierce dog glad he's OK 👍
@@richardhincemon yes me too as he is a lovely líttle dog. One good thing is he now spends alot more time inside the house and not outside alone as he did previous to being bítten.
Range and prevalence are critical to determine which of these two snakes is the most dangerous. Certainly the Inland Taipan's venom is more potent than the Eastern Brown but the Taipan, as seen in the vid occurs in remote desert locales rarely visited by many people thus the Taipan is rarely seen. The Eastern Brown occurs up and down the East and Sth East areas of Qld, NSW, ACT, Victoria and into Sth Australia and ranging a couple of hundred kilometres inland from the coast. They are far more numerous and it is in that region where the bulk of the Australian population, about 90% also occurs thus your chances of encountering a Brown are much higher. On that basis the Brown must be considered the most dangerous snake in Australia. Don't forget either that the Inland Taipan has a brother, the Coastal Taipan which may be encountered as far south as Grafton and north across the Top End in the sub-tropical and tropical climate zones.
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Last time I looked, almost 2/3rds of snake bite fatalities in Australia have been attributed to the eastern brown snake. I see them several times a year on Sydney's M7 cycle way. I tnink you'd need to run over one to get attacked.
Yes, the Eastern brown bites most people in Australia, followed by the Tiger snake we think.
It had to be eastern brown, I beleive there has been no recorded kill due to inland taipan bite, things could be very different when it comes to eastern brown.
Yes, the Eastern brown snake is the winner!
It’s cousin the PNG Taipan kill hundreds of people per year. They might have the black mamba beat
Where are the voice-overs 🫠
There is just the sound of nature 😉
The eastwrn brown more agresaive?inland not so much
Watch the video and you will know how it is.
Eastern brown is by far the most deadly australian snake, yeah inland taipan most venomous but EB's are very common and nasty when not left alone.
Eastern brown snakes live often close to people and they are very nervous and defensive.
Snakes see other creatures,like humans, as either a meal or a threat. They don’t want to take on something too big to swallow, as it could in turn harm them. They’d prefer to leave us alone.
Yes, snakes will always leave the scene if you give them a chance.
It's not a fair contest! It should be the coastal taipan. The latter bites people all the time, as does the former. The inland taipan lives so far away from people that it can't really compare.
Maybe we will do a comparison with the Coastal taipan too!
@@LivingZoology Compare PNG Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus canni with PNG Brown snake Pseudonaja textilus which live in Papua New Guinea that would be a great place for you to visit and film where antivenom and medical treatment aren't easily obtained by villagers who still rely upon Witch doctors for treatment of snake bites.
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eastern browns wont back down - stay still and let them find their own comfortable space
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@@LivingZoology I like that seeing snakes is a sure thing in your videos. I herp/hiked for about 9 hours last weekend and saw 1 dead snake that was being eaten by either a big male pine marten or a fisher cat, I can't tell them apart and I don't approach any of our giant weasels. I think he was eating a pine snake, but like I said, didn't get that close...
Why does everyone fear the black mamba then when the inland tapian and Eastern brown snake have most toxic 😮
The toxicity of venom is not the only factor to consider, that's why: kzhead.info/sun/aNKsltWqo6Rpo6M/bejne.html
My cat recently got bitten by a eastern brown snake today, she’s currently in the vet, as i was lucky enough to find her in time.
Hopefully it is ok!
@@LivingZoology thank u! She actually just got out, shes doing well :)
Glad I don't live in Australia, no offense to my Aussie brothers and sisters.
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The Inland Taipan is the most venomous animal on the planet.
Thanks for watching, there are some organisms which should be more venomous.
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Inland taipan is the 2nd deadliest snake in the world... 4 of the top 5 are taipan species 😳😳😳
The Inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world.
@@LivingZoology are you only looking at land snakes? I thought belcher's sea snake was the highest as far as venom, but I could be wrong... Will have to look again, lol... Inland is DEFINITELY the highest when it comes to land... Definitely a great video... 👍
It definetely looks like El Classico of the venomous snakes...I guess. 😉
Yes! Thanks for watching!
@@LivingZoology You've got it, mate. And also it would be nice to see an ultimate battle between those two marvelous snakes. 😎