Stiletto snake (burrowing asp) - dangerous venomous snake with long fangs

🐍BUY YOUR LIVING ZOOLOGY MERCHANDISE HERE: living-zoology-film-studio.cr...
🐍BECOME A MEMBER!!! / livingzoology
Stiletto snakes (also called mole vipers or burrowing asps) are small venomous snakes with long fangs which can protrude out of their mouths. It enables these snakes to stab their prey in tight spaces. Many people get bitten by stiletto snakes because they pick them up thinking that they are harmless. Stiletto snakes have cytotoxic venom and bites are very painful, victims can end up loosing a finger. Our video shows the Bibron's stiletto snake (Atractaspis bibronii) and a bit similar Common purple-glossed snake (Amblyodipsas polylepis). We also show the Giant legless skink (Acontias plumbeus), which is often mistaken for a snake.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

There's something so extremely relaxing about these videos. I honestly wish I could watch them all day.

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you like them!

[@calvinhobbes7504]

I still stand amazed at how you folks get these beautiful pictures where the snake looks as if it's curious, but it doesn't look like it feels threatened. Just amazing. You guys should probably teach classes! :)

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you! We spend huge amound of time with snakes and we don’t bother them, so they often behave very naturally around us 🙂

[@alungiggs]

Very very interesting 🙂 I’ve been curious about the stiletto snake for some time now so thank you for making this beautiful film. And all your other amazing natural histories. 👍🇳🇱

[@LivingZoology]

You’re welcome 😊 So nice that you love our work! 🙏

[@marekkarelmarkvart5061]

Stále děláte neskutečně krásnou práci. Těším se na další filmy od Vás!

[@LivingZoology]

Mockrát děkujeme a budeme se snažit naše videa vylepšovat!

[@charlesgrotticelli2946]

Another excellent and informative video.Thank you.

[@LivingZoology]

Our pleasure! Great that you love this video!

[@Jwinius]

Watch the video at 3:06 to 3:19. At first, very briefly and before the snake is even touched, you can see a huge fang sticking back from the angle of it mouth. By 3:11 a second fang appears near the front of its mouth while the one in the back is still visible. How many sets of fangs like this can they have that can be worked individually? Amazing!

[@LivingZoology]

They only have one pair of fangs 🙂 At the beginning of the shot it is saliva coming out of the snake’s mouth. When we filmed the shot we also thought that the fang came out twice!

[@MrGert1960]

Awesome video...as always! Really "unusual" snakes

[@LivingZoology]

Yes they are! Thanks for watching!

[@naturerealoaded]

My favourite,, bibron stiletto ❤

[@LivingZoology]

Hopefully you will love the video!

[@michaelmayhood4286]

Great work, as always!

[@LivingZoology]

We appreciate that! Thanks for watching!

[@owenunderwood5000]

Venom is rather interesting for a specialist snakes that possesses it & venoms properties can reveal their true danger level in nature & for Stiletto beauty 🐍

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@limoucheu8522]

One more time fantastic footage about secretive and really poorly known atractaspidinae. Your video is also highly educative because it says clearly, it is not because a snake don't look like a venomous one that it is not! For me I am always suprise with the ressemblance between the head of the atractaspidinae and the snakes of the Micrurus complex, one more time probably evolutive convergence between two groups what have fossorial behaviour. All the best.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very for your comment! We try to educate people not only about famous snake species, but also the less known ones :)

[@glenngilbert7389]

More species I'd never heard of - such an interesting face on the giant legless lizard

[@LivingZoology]

Great that you learned something new from our video! 🙂

[@SlingbladeJim]

Another good video.............STAY SAFE PLEASE

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you, we will!

[@markrumfola9833]

Thanks for being there.

[@LivingZoology]

Our pleasure!

[@herbhunter5520]

You guys are the bomb!

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@ravencrow1618]

hey, really big thanks to show us this incredible and discret species, really not often seen in videos or books.Idont understand pictures at 3mn, what we see? double fangs ?, rear and front of head too? did you make others pics ?
bye :)

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it! Only one fang is visible (they have two fangs), at the beginning of the shot there was some saliva coming out.

[@robinsir]

The fangs are like the elephant tusks! 😅

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@musharraf_khan]

Love from India ❤

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@henningvisser1108]

I had the misfortune of stepping on a Stiletto snake, aka burrowing adder, aka mole adder, aka Bibron's adder, barefoot in the dark and it bit me on my right foot heel. Believe me, it's not fun.
I was at the ER within fifteen minutes, accompanied by the dead snake so the doctors may id it.
There is no anti venom so the ER doctor pumped my leg full of penicillin.
The pain felt like standing with your leg in a drum of boiling water.
Stayed in hospital overnight for observation and was discharged the next day. My leg was stiff for about a fortnight. Did not suffer any tissue damage though.
Snake handlers are weary of handling this creature.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for sharing your story. Great that you did not have any tissue damage!

[@kathybradbury]

It would be helpful to show images of the stiletto snake next to images of the brown house snake, to help people recognize the difference.

[@LivingZoology]

In this video we focused on a snake and a legless lizard which look much more similar to stiletto snakes than the Brown house snake.

[@emilemontiere6128]

Are they an Elapid? Great video as always, many thanks again.

[@MrGert1960]

Currently these species are in the Superfamily ELAPOIDEA: Family: Atractaspididae: Subfamily Atractaspidinae.

[@LivingZoology]

They are not elapids, but in the family Atractaspididae. Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@helenlogan6481]

Are their side fangs unique or are there other snakes with side fangs? The skink has a lovely face it looks like it’s smiling 😂😂

[@LivingZoology]

This is typical for the genus Atractaspis. Yes, the skink is super cute!

[@pebbles9908]

⚾️🥎 The size of Gibraltar!!!!!!!

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching.

[@snakesaverbanti6799]

❤❤❤❤

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching.

[@MrsHgLamp]

❤

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@mikeveis6393]

The Stiletto snakes use their fangs as a stinger. These snakes are highly venomous.

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching.

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Looks a bit like the Natal Black Snake a back fanged snake believed to be quite venomous but so few people have ever been bitten nobody's sure as to how potent it's venom is.

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@funnyanime-letsenjoylife]

Are all bite incidents with humans caused by humans picking them up? or do they attack humans occasionally? do they enter human dwellings?

[@LivingZoology]

As we write in the video, people pick them up.

[@funnyanime-letsenjoylife]

Oke thank you for the info, so much to learn

[@naturerealoaded]

Only 66 points 😪😪 i got

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching.

[@snakesaverbanti6799]

Look like a common krait

[@LivingZoology]

Just a bit, it does not have white stripes.

[@shivinck]

I believe they belong to the Krait family.

[@sharonrigs7999]

Nope. They are in their own family

[@MrGert1960]

@@sharonrigs7999 ; I agree; own family: Atractaspididae with 2 subfamilies (Atractaspidinae & Aparallactinae).

[@LivingZoology]

They belong to the family Atractaspididae.

[@pecatrup5953]

穴蝰

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching.

[@libertarianassfuck7635]

Cool snake. 😊😊😊

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@libertarianassfuck7635]

@@LivingZoology You absolutely nailed that one. 😉

[@naturerealoaded]

❤

[@LivingZoology]

🙏