Deadly venomous Eastern green mamba, green arboreal snakes, Boomslang, feared snakes of Africa
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2021
- Eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) is a deadly venomous snake living in Africa. Other green arboreal snakes are often confused for green mambas. Green snakes from the genus Philothamnus are one of them. In this video you will see the South-eastern green snake (Philothamnus hoplogaster) and Speckled green snake (Philothamnus punctatus). Highly venomous Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) can be also confused for Eastern green mamba. In this video we demonstrate that it is possible to recognize the Eastern green mamba from other green arboreal snakes of Africa.
Beautiful, and informative. It could still be hard to distinguish them from a distance though. But if they're at a distance, there's probably little reason to need to tell them apart.
Thank you very much!!! It is great that you enjoyed watching this video. You are right that from a long distance it might be tricky to distinguish.
I used to keep/breed 200+ Green Trimeresurus Pit vipers with very green bodies, yellow bellies and red lines on their sides, and red tails. I never got tired of the beauty of their green skin , getting a very painful bite tho , was a tuRn off in the end . Thank you so much for these shows, they are the best of their kind ( actually the ONLY of their kind !!! ) I hope someday you cover Trimeresurus, Tropidolaemus, Cryptolepis, and some of the Boigas , i.e. I hope you guys film in ASIA someday. Another great show ! Green POWER !!!!!!!!!! So cool to see venomous snakes shown the love they deserve!
Thank you very much for your support! We are very happy that you love our videos! We are waiting for our return to Asia for a long time now. India or Thailand would be great! Covid makes our work really difficult for already 2 years.
It was like "Go Green"
Very colourful & informative. I could not take my eyes away, this green was so unique & appealing!!
Thanks for the shate. Stay safe!
Glad you enjoyed it! We love green color and green snakes so this was a fund video to edit! :)
I LOVE green too!!
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""Notice the typical coffin- shaped head "" HA !!! THAT has a certain prophetic sound to it
We want people to really recognize mambas! :D :D
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Wonderful nature, beautiful snakes finally it's a great vedio
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Wow what a nice Video and nice venomous snakes
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Will be useful... thanks in advance
You're welcome 😊
Outstanding videography, unrivaled in showing the natural, undisturbed behavior of snakes in nature. While the mambas stand out pretty well with their long skull and eye placement far back of the snout, a green boomslang versus Philothamnus in the field could be a tough call. By the way, I don't know where that simile so often repeated of the mamba head likened to a coffin began, but I've always felt simply rectangular would be more accurate. The funereal connotations would be lost of course, which is probably why the coffin simile is such a mime.
Thank you so much! Mambas are definitely easy to recognize thanks to their head and large scales. Boomslang has also different shape of the head and huge eyes compared to green snakes. But we agree that there might be a confusion there. Yes, coffin shape associated with mambas is interesting, but we think that it describes it well.
True, also you should make a video on Cotten mouth snakes, there fascinating snakes with a distinguishable white mouth
You guys should add something about reptiles/herpatology in your channel name. I think more people in the reptile keeping community would gravitate here if they need it was your channel focus, rather than just some video topics. Great stuff! Love seeing examples of possible habitats for various herps, animals etc, even ones I am not familiar with or have barely heard of!
Our name reflects our background - we both studied zoology and the fact that we make videos about many animals. Yes, our specialization is filming snakes and luckily people are finding our work anyway 🙂 Thank you for watching!
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Wow! Looking forward for it, great.
Hope you like it!
This is great. Love that there was no spoken narration.
Thank you very much!
Thank you living zoology for another great video keep them coming 👍
More to come! Thank you for your support!
Nice vid
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Love the HD footage as always.
Thanks 👍
Great content thank you guys 😊 👍
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Great video. Thanks.
Thank you very much!
Probably one of your best videos featuring one of my favourite snakes the Boomslang. Thank you again. Was the last snake a Hairy Bush Viper?
Thank you so much!!! Boomslangs are amazing! We guess that you have seen this video, right? czcams.com/video/cP5kqH_N0u8/video.html The last snake was Green bush viper.
Great Photography!
Many thanks! Happy that you like the video!
Great colors and natural sounds. The only thing missing is warm air flowing straight from the monitor and the scents of African nature.
Thank you so much!!! We are happy that it almost gives you the feeling like you are in Africa with us!
Awesome video, Thanks
Glad you liked it!
I can understand why someone would freak out if they were bitten. Unless they got a super good look at the snake that tagged them (because the physical differences between them are minimal), panic is certainly warranted.
Yes, a panic after the bite is understandable. We try to educate people so they might be calmer and have an idea about which snake bit them.
No
Not amongst the snakes reflected here
But variations of green snakes and other snakes can easily be confused
But to a fairly trained eye one may be able to differentiate
But besides all that
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Actually thanks for this video, because we had confusion on facebook with one of my friend on the post of eastern green mamba on your page, we call it jemson's mamba Dendroaspis jamesoni, but now I can distinguish some green snakes of Africa, yet we have alot of green snakes in Africa, so it's still hard work for you maybe to film all of them in the future, like Emerald snake, the same color, same size, same eyes, same size like Green snake 😄. Also am impressed with the video quality, it's pretty nice work, you are now professional videographer. 🙏🙏👌❤️🐍
Thank you very much, Alfa! Yes, this is a different species from Jameson's mamba. There are more green snakes in Africa, so many things to still film! :)
Muito bom 😃😃👏👏
Many many thanks! :)
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. The footage is absolutely spectacular! Very well detailed and the professionalism is top notch! 👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you videoing this and for teaching me something 😊
The green Boomslang is a real looker! 😍 but that green Viper, stole my heart. An absolutely stunning species!! 😍…….. from afar 😆😊
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Every video is so detailed, informational and the quality, is perfect.
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The Boomslang with those big eyes is such a looker!
Yes, Boomslangs are so cool!
Beautiful images and great info, as usual. I hope I won't bump into any green mambas when climbing trees in Africa :D
Thank you so much, George! Don't worry, green mambas are shy and don't live everywhere!
Always amazing ! Pictures quality is remarkable.I have heard that snake bites have increases this 2 lasts years,in Africa and India ! You have my respect to dealing with dangerous snakes species 🙏🙏🙏thx
Thank you so much!!! We did not see any data about increasing number of bites, but it might be possible because the whole society is just focused on covid and nobody cares about other problems.
@@LivingZoology i have seen a pretty good documentary on CZcams about that and it’s where i learned that , with a huge trouble to get anti venom it’s insane because I’am French and a French laboratory Pasteur very famous have stopped to manufactured the only one anti venom for vipers! Afrika was the name of this anti venom! I’am gonna trying to find this documentary and sharing to you ! Thanks
@@LivingZoology I found it 😀 it’s a very interesting documentary!
czcams.com/video/jKOSo_9kvtA/video.html
@@sebastienrobert5179 Thank you! We know this one! It was screened in Netherlands in 2019 before our documentary premiere! It is about a similar topic: czcams.com/video/qgcU0CluSpY/video.html We thought that there are some newer data. Costa Rica is now producing antivenoms for various regions of the world, hopefully the production will increase!
@@LivingZoology yes I heard about that ! that it’s a pretty good news ! It’s always a pleasure to talk with you about snakes! I’ve been in Czech Republic’s in 2005 just pass through Brno because my ex girlfriend was from Poland Krakow! Thanks again ✌️
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beautiful video
Thank you!
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Next weekend there will be a video about rattlesnake! :D
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Africaner's picking fruit often encounter these poisonous green snakes in the trees. They hate them!
Yes, for somebody who works in the trees this video might be helpful!
I hate snakes but I must admit, the skin of the green mamba is beautiful
It is so great that you subscribed to our channel even though you don't like snakes! We hope to show you how beautiful these animals are!
Those snakes are so pretty but so venomous how much percent of venomous and poisonous things look so pretty also so cute
Many venomous snakes are absolutely beautiful!
Marvelous creatures
They certainly are marvelous! 🙂
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Thanks for watching!
I had a close encounter with a large, green snake many years ago, while camping on the coast of Kenya (Ukunda, south of Mombasa). It fell out of a tree with a lizard in its mouth, landed on my tent, and slithered off, never letting go of the lizard. I decided to give up the shade, and moved my tent away from the tree. At the time, I thought it was a green mamba, but after watching this video, I'm not so sure, as I didn't try to get a close look at it.
If it had a lizard, it was probably not a mamba! Most sightings of green snakes are not mambas :)
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A daří se mu?
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Wonderful photography as usual. However, everytime your caption mentions the coffin shaped head of the mamba, your view is lateral. To me, this view doesn't show the shape, and I'm not sure people will see what you mean. As I have seen it, the coffin shape is best viewed looking dorsally, down from above. That makes it very clear and obviously distinct from other snakes.
Thank you very much for watching! You are right that the shape would be probably nicely visible from above. We still think that the general shape of the head is visible also from side view and it distinguishes mambas from other sympatric snakes. Another thing is that getting higher with the camera than the mamba in the tree is a bit tricky :)
@@LivingZoology I can appreciate that getting above the mamba would be problematic! Thanks for the reply.
@@calrob300 Very welcome! :)
I flunked the exam immediate I clicked the video. Fortunately for the green tree snake, I usually throw everything I have away and run away. I do not have time to be identifying what might possibly kill me or not. A Mozambican spitting cobra gave me great respect for snakes and I just leave them alone. In fact, if one enters my house, then I have been permanently evicted. Plus I went to a snake center in Tanzania and I expected to see just the green boomslang only to see more that 3 colored types.
It is great that you respect snakes! Keeping your distance is the best thing you can do. The more you learn about these animals, the better you understand them. After some time you will be even able to say if you see a bush snake or a Boomslang :)
@@LivingZoology I think I am more comfortable milking cows. 😀 Right now I am learning about identifying a kingsnake and its varients, eastern coral snake and eastern ribbon snake (as many people pick it thinking red touch black they are safe). Well, I would have been in the same boat.
the Speckled Green snake reminds me veey much of the Black Skinned Parrot snake (leptophis ahaetulla nigromarginatus) here in Perú. They are also frog and lizard hunters. Must be another case of convergent evolution.
Yes, they look a bit similar! Convergent evolution, we hope to search for snakes in Peru soon!
Too bad a fictionalized boomslang had its name besmirched by the recent movie, Bullet Train.
Really? :/ We should check it!
Well I was in the S African bush and my cell signal dropped while watching this video. Good news; I was able to determine that I wasn't bitten by a green mamba; it was only a boomslang! 😉
Haha, still it would help you a lot that you were able to determine which snake bit you! 😉Totally different antivenom needs to be administered if it was a Boomslang and you would have much more time to come to the hospital!
Mambas have a head shaped like a coffin. Perfect for a venomous snake. Very creepy.
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Yes, that is what we show in the video.
What kind of snake that the one i killed before, it has a light pale green color and can pose or stand up like a cobra when attack or defend, the neck inflate like cobra too and it has fangs? It measures about 2m or more. Im trying to search about all kinds of snakes that has venom here in the philippines but i couldnt find. At first look you can say as a rat snake.
A big green snake which can inflate its neck is the Red-tailed green ratsnake (non-venomous). You don't have big (2 meters) green venomous snake species on Philippines.
@@LivingZoology i measured it by length and probably its almost 2m long and it has fangs but smaller than cobra and the tail is not red its almost the same with its color but darker in its tail. I think they did not discover this here in the part of high altitude highland mountains in cordillera. Its already learned that locals here was beaten by green snake,brown or black and after a day died. But there in lowlands,visayas region and mindanao you can find venomous snake like northern cobra, southeastern cobra, equatorial spitting cobra and banded kraits.
I am wondering if they do studies and discoveries here in our part. Also i already seen my by two eyes the rhinoceros snake that has horn on its nose but not included in the species of snake here in the philippines, only vietnam and indo china reportedly has this kind of snake. Im just wondering and doubtedly the studies of snake here. I want that more discoverer will come here and i will see to it that all iam saying is true. I already saw also a pure shiny black snake cross the street and move so fast. Estimated large like a one liter bottle of coke or pepsi and length as more than 2m.
@@tampsup2719 Philippines are not well studied for sure. If you ever manage to a photo of some of those mysterious snakes, please send it to us.
@@LivingZoology yes sir...i think the pure black shiny skin snake that i saw was an equatorial spitting cobra because it hisss too loud when i get closer to it and run away down the tall grasses. The light green i think its like similar to boomslang or green mamba because the head is like slob nose or egg shape but has fangs and definitely not a rat snake thats what i believed. Thats why people here were afraid of that green snake that we call in our local as "minnong" because some locals were reportedly dead by its beat.
I do believed also the stories of the old folks here that some kind of snake exist here that they called it "balat-ek". A short snake that grows only up to 1foot that has also head in its tail and jump circling like hellicopter up to 5 meters. I've seen the picture in some post at facebook but i did not save to keep. Thanks for replying my message and God bless to your channel. Keep uploading for us to learn more about animals.
@@LivingZoology how to send picture sir?i have to show u something.
What's wrong?
In order to tell the difference between harmless green snakes and green mambas and boomslangs, leave it to the experts.
It is good when people try to learn a bit about snakes so they cam recognize venomous from non-venomous species. Many snakes are needlesly killed.
if youre close enough to distinguish the precise shape of its head, youre probably too close
Does not need to be the precise shape, but a general appearance to know if it is venomous or not.
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A bit more still! 😀
It’s not easy being green.
Thank you for watching!
It's so sad that snakes are still being killed out of fear & ignorance. We are the only viscous animal that kills for no reason!
Yes, it is so sad! We try to educate as many people as possible!
All well and good but faced with a dangerous situation with ANY of these green guys, to my untrained eyes, kill or flee become the immediate response.
The best thing is to leave the snake alone if you don't know what it is. But after watching this video carefully you might be able to recognize different species :)
I wonder why they don't teach this in schools. There should be a basic fundamental elementary or at least high school class on animals on our planet, different territories, actual e.t locales of our earth they very much like to call planets. Then again, I digress. The cabal just needs loyal compliant, non traveling workaholics to keep in cubicles slaving for basic things like food, energy n health care till they pension them out n charge them to dispose of the dead too. Pay to live, pay to die.. Cycle repeat. n people walk around as if they're completely normal. 😅SMH
We agree that kids should learn much more about animals on our planet in schools!
See that green snake they all can kill ,prove me wrong,
All green mambas are green
No, most green snakes of Africa are totally harmless! Did you watch the video? ;)