Copperhead vs. Copperhead, two venomous snakes from the USA and Australia!
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If you live in the USA or in Australia, you have probably heard about a snake called the copperhead. But are copperheads in both countries the same? Or are they a different snake species? In this video you will learn that in the USA you can find the Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper. On the other hand, Australia is home to the Highland copperhead (Austrelaps ramsayi), an extremely venomous elapid snake. We will show you both of them in their natural habitat and tell you many interesting facts about them!
The copperhead from America is my favorite. I have seen quite a few of these while Iâve been out hiking, and they are such a beautiful snake.
Good choice! We really wanted to find this species last year and we know that they are pretty common in their range. We got lucky to find at least one! :)
I perfer the Australian Copperhead since I like elapids more than vipers and also the Australian Copperhead has a great colour combination of black, red and cream/yellow.
But that's my opinion. đ
I like king snakes to be around with these guys
@@Blue_Lugia We love elapids, so we understand you! đ
@@mattmc9812 Kingsnakes which would eat them? đ
Your video and audio quality is always so good! This was really nice, and I'm excited about what other species you found in Florida and Australia.
Thank you so much! Great to hear that you love the quality of our videos :) More videos to come!
Great video. In 1995 I caught a newborn Osage Copperhead (now Eastern I think). I kept her for 21 years. She was wonderful. A stand out among a wide variety of other snakes I kept. At age 9 she delivered a parthenogenetic baby, followed by 18 more over the next few years. This was tremendously exciting as it predated documentation of the phenomenon in snakes in the literature.
Wow, that is an amazing story! It must have been super cool that you witnessed this at home!
That is really amazing! I had no idea they could give birth without mating, nor did I know they could live that long. Thanks for posting your comment.
I've been walking on trails and have come across copperheads. I've encountered them in Florida and Indiana. They are beautiful , and I admire them from a distance. I love seeing them warming on the rocks. I love both species , so it's hard to pick one.
As you say, hard to pick one! Awesome that you have seen copperheads from time to time. They are not common in Florida, we found only one!
Copperheads also have heat sensors, as typical with pit vipers. Excellent video of the snakes, including the close-ups.
Yes they do, correct :) Another thing which we could add into the sum up at the end. We mentioned that Eastern copperhead is a pit viper and Highland copperhead is elapid, but not all viewers will automatically know that elapids don't have pit organs. Thank you!
Also many elapids are oviparous (except austrelaps superbus and A. ramsayi which are viviparous among others) and vipers are viviparous (thus the origin of the viper I believe), also fang of vipers are hollow and fangs of elapids caniculate (mostly). There are other differences ... :-)
How to tell what family a snake belongs to:
Constrictors: - multiple recurved fangs for gripping prey while they wrap around it and squeeze
Colubrids- short fixed rear fangs, often groved rather than hollow. These snakes often have to chew to envenomate.
Elapids- short fixed front fangs that are hollow.
Vipers- long hinged hollow fangs that fold up into the roof of the mouth when not in use.
That is what the pit is, an infrared sensor.
I greatly enjoy watching Agkistrodon contortrix. I live in the USA, and I do safe relocation of the species in my area, to help avoid bites and unnecessary deaths.
This one is truly a beautiful species and deserves to be admired from safe distance.
Great to hear from someone who relocates copperheads in the USA! In which state do you live? We agree that it is an awesome species.
@@LivingZoology Anything I can do to help the living stay alive, that's a passion of mine! I live in Arkansas.
@@VanirSavage Great job, keep it up! Greetings from the Czech Republic!
The fatality rate from copperheads is extremely low. Bites from them are usually very painful yet very seldom are they life threatening.
3000 persons are treated for copperhead envenomation each yr, yet decades can pass without any fatalities.
Even if one of those worried about you, it wonât be a fun time but youâll live.
Iâve lived on a farm in north central Kansas for most of my life and the Copperhead is one of the most common snake species I see regularly. This being said I can tell about so many experiences Iâve encountered/discovered with them. Most of these involve oddly enough that they seem curious, and will even approach people. This could be a factor of the amount of bites, and the unfortunate stigma they get of being aggressive. Great video nonetheless, and great content as
always!!
Great that you like our video! Thank you for sharing your experience with these snakes! They are definitely not very defensive in most situations, but hearing that they even come closer to people to check them out is interesting!
@@LivingZoology I wanna let you know. Here in state of Kentucky copperheads chase us. Especially if we eat pickles.
@@redfoley9608 Thatâs some kind of american joke which we donât understand đ
@@LivingZoology son they like cucumbers donât you know nothing bout snakes.
@@LivingZoology well hell son. Not a joke
Thanks you have, at least in my eyes the premium snake channel!! I live in the red belly black snake capital of Australia, or so it seems and I love it as they are beautiful snakes. Very sadly I lost one of my pure desert dingoes less than a year ago to a red belly. This really broke my heart but I have no animosity to these essential animals. Of these 2 I think Iâll choose the Australian Copper head as the markings are beautiful. In all my time in the bush I have yet to see one. Please please keep your format and never add music, much more pleasant listening to the native wildlife and bush sounds.
Thank you so much! We think that both copperheads are stunning. We work hard to find snakes and get our footage. Next video will be about the Red-bellied black! Sorry to hear that you lost your dog đ Stay safe and greetings from the Czech Republic! We will continue doing similar videos. Please consider joining our channel as a member to support us in doing this work.
Where abouts are you Mate? We used to get a few in the gold coast hinterland. .
I have seen heaps of highland copperheads up in the Victorian high country. Thankfully they are generally pretty chill.
Superbly photographed, you captured their true beauty
Thank you very much, we are happy that you love our video!
As always, love your work. I didn't even know that a copperhead existed outside of the Americas--but as you show, it's a very different snake over there in Austrailia...barely a cousin. On the other hand, I had a run in with a different type of copperhead, which I didn't recognise at the time but confirmed later at the ranger station: it was the trans-pecos copperhead, encountered in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas. I was advised by friends, in the heat of the encounter, that it was a "fox snake". However, something about the snake's posture & demeanor told me that it could be dangerous, (whereas fox snakes are totally non vevemous). I'm glad I listened to my intuition, as attempting to pick up any species of pit viper, free hand & without any type of snake hook, could have ended with a very unpleasant hospital visit. Your videos have helped change my perspective. Rather than "catching" whatever snake I may come across, why not catch it instead on video or in photographs?
Thank you! Great that you like our videos and you will now enjoy observing wild animals even more than before! From our perspective, seeing a natural behavior is priceless and sometimes the best is just to watch, not catch. Good luck with taking nice photos and videos! :)
Beautiful footages of the two different copperheads in USA and Australia!
Many thanks! It was not easy to get footage for this video, we had to fly to Florida and then to Australia, but we think it looks good! :)
Woow, this is amazing, thank you for coming back.
We are very happy for this comeback! Enjoy watching our new videos! :)
The Australian copperhead has beautiful colours & the American oneâs camouflage is brilliant
Yes, both have something interesting about them!
i would not want to be bitten by the Aussie snake...
@@everettamador9870 The venom of the Australian copperhead is much stronger than the venom of the American copperhead. We agree, not good to get bitten by that snake!
@@LivingZoology Australian copperhead is about as toxic as the Indian cobra...but the American version has killed more people (about 1 death every four years.)
I like the one who is shy and doesn't bite much.
Haha, nice way of choosing the favorite one! :)
Thank you for another amazing video
Thanks for watching! Great that like this one.
Such beautiful snakes! đ
We think so too! Which one is your favorite?
To answer your question, easy: for me, it's the American copperhead, because I find it beautiful, but quite mellow as well. Beyond that, my very favorite is the trans-pecos copperhead, which I encountered one time by chance, in a park in the Ozarks in northern Arkansas. Fortunately I had the good sense not to try to pick it up.
If one day you should have the occasion to film the quite rare trans-pecos copperhead, found, I believe, in parts of New Mexico, Texas & Arkansas & beyond, that would be way cool, guys. Love your work, as always.
Thank you for watching and we agree that American copperheads are amazing! Stay tuned to our channel, we also found the Broad-banded copperhead in Texas last year ;)
I thought that the Copperhead in America had 5 subspecies: the northern, southern, Osage, broad banded and trans pecos, the latter of which I thought only existed in the trans pecos region of Texas (where Iâm from.) The TP and the BB copperheads look quite similar to each other, and the other 3 look similar as well. I could be wrong! LOVE your content, it is always fantastic. What a cool life you guys have!
All my life I have been absolutely terrified of snakes but I do have to admit, some of them are absolutely beautiful when it comes to their colors.
Very nice that you admit that! Thank you for watching our videos! đ
Love your content and the way you do your videos, everything about is spot on thankyou from Australia I subscribed.
Thank you very much! It is great that you love our videos and thank you for subscribing!
I'm a big fan of the beautiful colors on the USA copperhead. So stunning and rich! I've surprisingly only 1 while out hunting in southern Nebraska. I've probably walked near far more đ€Ł
We also love the colors of these snakes! Stunning and very well camouflaged in their environment!
I live in Nebraska!
Fabulous photography!
Thank you very much!
My favorite copperhead is the one I'm not close to. They are a great pest control they work for free. Also thank you for using inches also makes it lot easier not to good with the metric system so again thank you for putting in the time to do that.
You say it very nicely, pest control for free! Great that you like our video, it was a long trip from Europe to Florida and then to Australia for this one :D Great that you like the info in inches, we especially changed it for videos about snakes from the USA.
@@LivingZoology yes thank you very much we mostly use inches here and its so easy to know how big something gets when you have both systems in your videos instead of me pausing the converting cm to inches and such. And as always great job at bringing these scary but important animals to my screen. You dont have to kove snakes to know how important of a role they play in our environment if it wasn't for them the rodent population would be devastating. I will never be cozy with snakes but i will always respect what they do as predator and prey.
@@tommyworles5344 It is really great to know the feedback about this and that it really helps to imagine how big which species is! We will keep doing it for species from the USA. Itâs amazing that you understand role of snakes in nature, even though they might be a bit scary.
Absolute perfection. Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Oh yesss , just what i need đ great work as always .
Hello from Sabah Malaysia .
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@@LivingZoology Most welcome đ„° take care !
Copperhead (Aus) are beautiful. We have them down on Phillip Island (known for its Penguins), in Victoria. Specifically the Lowlands Copperhead (A.superbus), very shy and unassuming snakes.
Yes, super cool snakes! Next time in Aus we need to find the Lowland copperhead :)
In the mid-1950s I grew up on a farm in north central Texas. It was a wooded area and snakes were plentiful, especially copperheads. I learned early on to respect them.
Thanks for watching! Great that you respect snakes! đ
Very nice Idea to make a Dokumentation about two Snakes. I only heard from Agkistrodon contortrix (im german). Wonderful Footage from Wonderful Snakes!
Which species i like more? I don't know...
Many thanks! We had this idea for a long time and it required a trip to the USA and then to Australia. We managed to make the trip happen last year and we luckily found both target species!
As usual the best camera work and audio!
Much appreciated! Stay tuned for more! :)
Amazing footage of gorgeous snakes
Glad you enjoyed it! đđ
I have caught many coperheads in the 36-38â range. But the largest one I have ever seen in the wild was a 48â killed by a tree trimming crew trimming brush on a power line right of way. It looks like the Aussie version is more of an antique brass color.
Thanks for watching.
You two have an absolute dream job. Plus you get to help and learn at different rescues as you go. I would love it thank you. And it might seem weird being from America and the copperhead is everywhere but I like the American one better. There color and patterns are striking lol. Who doesn't love that Hershey kiss look down their side. Plus a viper can't beat em.
Thank you, it is a full-time job for me (Matej), Zuzana has her full-time job and she spends most of her free time with helping me đ The American copperhead is without a doubt a stunning snake!
These videos are so well done! Beautiful photography!
Glad you like them! Thank you!
I love both copperheads! đ
Both are very beautiful, we agree! đ
I had never seen one till last fall after a day of hiking while at my campsite in East Tennessee I had one crawl right through my campsite. Luckily my little dog chose discretion over valor for once, felt fortunate neither of us were bitten as I had just been getting wood out of the truck. Needless to say I enjoyed the campfire from the top of the picnic table that nightđđ
Haha, great that nobody was hurt that day and you still enjoyed your campfire! :D
They are both beautiful and need to be preserved in their native environment. Love the channel thnx guys!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Around where I live (Gippsland in far southeastern Australia) sightings of copperheads are about as common as sighting of tiger snakes (there are swamps near my town so lots of frogs). I've always taken that to mean copperheads are in fact much more common here than tiger snakes because, as you say, the Australian copperhead is especially reclusive - they seem very scared of humans - which means we must walk by a LOT of them without seeing them. Tiger snakes look very beautiful though - but you do not tangle with them.
Copperheads tend to be a bit secretive, so it is possible that you don't see many of them when you just casually walk in nature. Thanks for watching!
Another very interesting video
Glad you think so! Thank you!
I'm not a snake owner, but I have a cabin back in the woods in SC. I typically don't kill snakes, but I do copper heads, not because they are aggressive. But their camouflage is soo good, ive almost stepped on them, I have a 200 yard path to my mailbox, its just too risky. They are very big here, 3 have been almost 4.feet long, one lacked 1.24.inches being 4 feet.
Maybe making a small path can be a solution? Or having proper boots? It sounds a bit sad that those copperheads end up dead :/ But it is great that you don't kill other snakes!
That is one sweet looking highlander
Thank you for watching!
I'm more a Fanboy for Vipers so clearly the copperhead .
But at the end of the day i just love em both or all.
Beautiful đ
The copperhead from the USA is so elegant! But we agree that both are beautiful :)
Aussie copperheads are such an underrated snake
They are beautiful snakes!
Gorgeous creatures
We think so too!
The american copperheadâs camouflage is so convincing in leaf-litter that they are damn near invisibleâŠ. We have lots of them here in North Carolina..
We agree, absolutely amazing camouflage!
These footages are beautiful!!!
I have a question : What equipment and references do you use (camera, lenses, ...) ? I want to get into wildlife video!
Keep going !
Greetings from France
Thank you very much and greetings from the Czech Republic! We use mainly Canon GX10.
Thank you!
There are five species of copperhead snakes. In the United states theres two species , the copperhead(agkistrodon contortix and the broad banded copperhead(agkistrodon laticinctus). In Australia the elapid austrelaps is called the copperhead. In china, there's another pit viper(deinagkistrodon actus) called a Chinese copperhead, and in southern Asia, the nonvenomous radiated ratsnake is nicknamed the copper headed rat snake or copper headed trinket snake.
You nicely mentioned the use of the word copperhead :) There are three species of Austrelaps in Australia. Deinagkistrodon has several other common names.
Beautiful video of the north american copperhead - the most attractive north american pit viper.
Wow, thank you! Great that you love the video. We must agree that Eastern copperhead is one of the most attractive pit vipers of North America!
i liked USA copper head snake very much how delightfully it's slithering around đ»
They are very elegant when they move!
agreed đ
As always a great video. Wonder it there are major differences in their venoms?
Thank you! Yes, we have a little bit of info about their venoms in the video. copperhead from the USA is predominantly hemotoxic, while the copperhead from Australia has potent neurotoxins (and other toxins too).
my favorite is Agkistrodon, my left index have a good memory of his bite
Eastern copperheads are stunning, we agree! How did you feel after the bite?
@@LivingZoology It was in 1980... my arm swelled up to above the elbow, without extreme, I did not receive antivenom serum, and I left the hospital the next day (Geneva, Switzerland). The pain was painful and required some morphine. The context: I had to clean the terrarium and I had put aside the male and a young, I had forgotten the adult female and I passed with my hand in front of her hiding place... she took me for prey and so put full dose. I am resistant it seems!
@@ceratophrys Thank you for describing the situation! Venom from this species is mild, great to hear that you were not having any serious troubles!
Another brilliant video.
main difference, afaiaw, between the two copperhead is that the Australian one says 'g'day' before he tags ya. đ
Haha, thank you for your comment, hopefully you like the video! :)
@@LivingZoology oops. Forgot to say I love your videos! I got lost in my own joke; I will make a swift adjustment.
Done.
@@merlinambrosius4398 Thank you so much, we are very happy that you like our videos! đ
@@LivingZoology keep them coming.
That's an order, not a request. đ đ đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
The copperheads are down where they make the moonshine!
Thanks for watching!
The Viper is very beautiful.
It sure is! Thank you for watching!
When I was 2 yrs old, Amy grandpa and uncle were drunk and had laid on the back porch of my grandparents house in the Ozarks of Arkansas. A copperhead came up and bit grandpa once on each heel. The rest of the story is too long but grandpa lived to his mid 70s and never had a problem after a week in hospital after the terrifying drive into town which I still remember. Grandma shot the snake and gave it to the hog, Judy ( I named many things Judy at that age). I think the US copperhead is one of he most beautiful snakes period. I love the colors and patterns.
The venom of the Eastern copperhead is only mildly toxic, still great to hear that your grandpa was ok! These snakes are beautiful, we absolutely agree!
The only thing these two snakes share is the name! Nice video.
They are both venomous! :) But we understand you, they are so different and yet people gave them the same common name!
I'm a huge fan of Agkistrodon sp. in general and their cranky faces.
We have Broadband and Easterns here. Their camouflage is too good at times but they're gorgeous.
We agree that they are gorgeous! We managed to find both Broadbands and Easterns during our trip to the USA last year, more videos about them to come!
Can you please upload the south american rattlesnake (crotalus durissus). Btw thank you so much much for uploading my favourite pit vipers copperhead (agkistrodon contrortrix) cottonmouth (agkistrodon piscivorus) many thanks guys
We haven't seen durissus yet, the closest we have is this video: czcams.com/video/onnIp17eS-c/video.html Hopefully you will like it too! We went to the USA last year and we really wanted to show cottonmouths and copperheads finally to our viewers. We have more, stay tuned!
Louis' world tour has really paid off! I think the American copperhead looks nicer and is more deserving of the name.
Yes, it was a tough but great trip! We agree that the copperhead from the USA probably deserves the name more.
I can't pick a favorite. I love them all đ„°
That is a good answer! Both are stunning in our opinion :)
I was told years ago...That there was a subspecies of American Copperhead called either the Central Plains or the Western Copperhead...But I (sadly..) heard that they are Extinct now...
Now there are two species, the Eastern copperhead and the Broad-banded copperhead.
There were five species listed at one time the Southern, Northern, Trans Pecos,Broad Banded and the Eastern Copperhead.
Your merchandise can arrive to Mexico?? Or is it only for European and USA people??
My personal favorite is Agkistrodon contortrix !!
Yes, it is shipped worldwide! đ There are some differences between various countries, we found that this might be the way how to ship to Mexico: scc41.org/teespring-ship-to-mexico/ Which product from our store is your favorite? And we agree that the copperhead from the USA is a stunning snake! đ
I'll take one of each thank you, they are both beautiful snakes, have seen a few of these down here in Tasmania although they are not as common as the Black Tiger snake, leave them alone and they will leave you alone
We agree that both these snakes are amazing! Thank you for watching!
I'm much more afraid of copperheads than even the more deadly rattlesnakes because they blend in perfectly with the environment to the point that I've almost stepped on them before. I really wish they would run away like other snakes or make noise like rattlesnakes so I could avoid them.
Yes, they are very well camouflaged. Luckily, their venom is not very toxic.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. When it comes to picking which snake I like, I think I'll just say that they both belong in the ecology. God said so.
Thanks for watching! Yes, both have their place in nature!
Both are stunning but my vote by a nose goes to the American copperhead. Stunning colors.
Thank you for watching! American cooperheads are so elegant!
My favorite species is highland copperhead. Because this species is one of the most twenty deadliest venomous snakes on the planet.
It is a beautiful species, we agree!
Canât believe the American copperhead hasnât tried to sue the Australian one yet.
Haha, good point! Thanks for watching!
Excellent footage of the American copperhead!
Thank you very much!
I don't really have a favorite because I have never seen an American variety but there are dozens of Australian copperheads where I live (guess where). We also have black tiger snakes and these are my local favorite because they are considerably bigger so more easily seen. Copperheads are much better at hiding in short grass and I have nearly stepped on a few of them.
Do you live in Victoria or Tasmania? :) Those copperheads are very pretty for sure!
I didn't know until recently that there were Australian copperheads.
Thanks for watching!
Im australian and im going to give the vote to the north american nope rope for having some amazing camoflage.
Oh nice! Usually people vote for the species which lives in their country đ
Thank god the US copperheads donât have stronger venom bc theyâre very mean & aggressive snakes that donât try to avoid confrontation at all. Itâd be admirable if it werenât so terrifying.
Snakes are not aggressive, only defensive if they feel threatened. Yes, copperheads are quite defensive, but definitely not mean đ
I meant to say, they are not aggressive, just too well camouflaged.
Great that you understand that snakes are not aggressive :)
The American version is the true copperhead. They are both beautiful animals.
We agree that both are beautiful!
American Copperhead - Viper
Australian Copperhead - Elapoid
Thanks for watching.
I have a quick question? What in Australia doesn't kill you.. LOL
There are animals which are not venomous, even some snakes! :D
The Australian Copperhead looks very aggressive in appearance than the American Copperhead.
Snakes are not aggressive, only defensive if they feel threatened. The Australian copperheads are quite calm snakes.
Totally unrelated. Like apples to oranges, or apples to pineapples. đ
Yes, and yet people gave them the same common name :D
Word has the American copperhead tried to sue for copyright.
Thanks for watching!
of the two I would say the American is my fav. because I know that snake.
It is a very beautiful and elegant species!
Our aussie copperhead is the winner
Thanks for your opinion! We loved how every individual looked a bit different!
I love chocolate, American copperhead have Hershey Kisses on their sides!
Thanks for watching!
A bite from the Australian Copperhead is as venomous as the Indian Cobra.
According to what we know the toxicity should be even slightly higher than in Spectacled cobra.
@@LivingZoology Yeah , we have the,'' Lowlands Copperhead'', '' The Pigmy Copperhead'', and the '' Highlands Copperhead''. Nick from WICKED WILDLIDE said they are about the same toxicity of the Indian Cobra. Maybe they are.
@@simonpaterson9648 We know that there are 3 species. We hope to find Austrelaps superbus next time we visit Australia. What we found was that the Spectacled cobra has LD50 for mice subcutaneous about 0.8 mg/kg while one of the Australian copperheads about 0.56 mg/kg.
Usa vs australia copperheas which venom will be stronger? And if australia venom is Neurotoxic which neurotoxic will be more lethal compared to Indian cobra or any cobra?
Australian copperheads have much more potent venom than the ones from the USA. In terms of toxicity, both australian copperheads and Spectacled cobras have very strong neurotoxin, easily capable of killing an adult human.
@@LivingZoology thanks for the info i am curios man sometime like a kid asking silly qustion justed wanted to know hsha tankyou.... I am suprised this channel even reply theor view ... Sometime big channel never reply their viewr.... This channel is big Informative nice quality and care about their viewer
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Beautiful snakes, beautifully filmed. Thank you so much. The North American is my favorite. Sorry Australia.
Thank you very much! No problem with having a preference! Eastern copperhead is a stunning species!
Australian copperheads have a disturbing habit of lurking in woodpiles. Having had a few tense moments with them as a kid I agree. If only because American copperheads are 10,000 miles away from me.
Osage
Thanks for your opinion!
Two totally different and unrelated snakes. Only the name is the same. The American one, will bite you. Best to keep away from them. The Aussie one sounds like a chill, but dangerous snake.
Yes, it is strange that people gave these snakes the same common name!
I think the American Copperheads are prettier
They are really stunning, we agree!
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australian is more beautiful
Thanks for watching and your opinion!
The bite from the American copper head is extremely painful, I got bit last year it took 8 iv bags of antivenom to save my life
Great that you were ok! People very rarely die from their bite.
@@LivingZoology no you just lose your leg or an arm because it rots off
Our Freedom snakes are better....Go MeriKa!
Thanks for watching.