The 3 longest venomous snakes in the world, King cobra, Black mamba, South American bushmaster
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Venomous snakes live on every continent except Antarctica. Some species are truly impressive when fully grown. But, what are the 3 LONGEST VENOMOUS SNAKES IN THE WORLD? Africa, Asia and Australia have large elapids, like the Forest cobra (Naja subfulva), the Black--necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis), Banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), Spectacled cobra (Naja naja), Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis) or the Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus). North America and Africa have massive vipers, like the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) and the West African gaboon viper (Bitis rhinoceros). The longest vipers in the world are bushmasters, like the Central American bushmaster (Lachesis stenophrys). This species lacks 5 cm to belong to the 3 longest venomous snakes in the world. In this video you will see beautiful nature history footage of all 3 longest venomous snakes in the world. We will visit South America to observe the South American bushmaster (Lachesis muta), then Africa to observe the Black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) and finally we will move to Asia to meet the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
THE 3 LONGEST VENOMOUS SNAKES IN THE WORLD:
3. South American bushmaster (Lachesis muta) - max. length 3.65 m
2. Black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) - max. length probably 4.3 m
1. King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) - max. length 5.5 m
Reptile education done properly..... showing the animals acting naturally in their environments, accompanied with facts. No people to mess it up. Excellent stuff.
It is great to read this comment! We are very happy that you like our video! 🙂
Absolutely! Having handled a Black Mamba during my advanced snake handling course, they are very quick. Excellent presentation on these 3 snakes. None of the hype that I have seen some idiots get up to!
I really like how there is no background music. I like animal dicumentaries but the background music mutes out the natural background sounds
Great that you love the fact that there is no music in our videos!
Complétement d'accord 👌
I can't get enough of how incredible the Bushmasters are. They look like dragons and I could swear they are as intelligent as one.
Yes, bushmasters are true dragons among snakes!
The Bushmaster camo is amazing.
The king cobra is the most intelligent snake of all.
@@Mephisto707 We agree that the King cobra is very intelligent but there are no studies/data/measures to exactly quantify and compare the intelligence of these 3 snake species.
It's always a treat to see footage of bushmasters.
Thank you for this super educational and interesting video. These snakes are mesmerizing. Thank you also for including the imperial measurements! As always, the video and photography are amazing. Thank you!
So good to hear that you find it educational and interesting! :) Thank you so much for your support! Also great to hear that it is worthy to include the imperial measurements!
The sounds of nature and the high-quality footage are exceptional. No drama, just quality information and presentation.
We are very happy that you like the sounds, footage and information in our videos!
That was beautiful. Thank you so much. Love the ambient sounds.
Glad you enjoyed it! It is so good to hear from people who love ambient sounds :)
Great Video of 3 of the longest and venomous particularly my fascination
with the king cobra….
Thank you very much for watching! 🙂
Always enjoy reptile videos, so many thanks from an 88 year old Englishman. March, 2024.
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These videos are so relaxing for me... exactly what I need to chill.
We are so glad to hear that!
My Favorite is Always The King Cobra.!!! Amazing Video.!!
Thank you! King cobras are majestic!
Awesome Video! Im a big Viper fan but saw King Cobra in real a week ago and I must say these animal are even much more majestic than in videos such a big difference!! Beautiful beautiful Snakes!
Thanks for watching! King cobras are super majestic snakes, we agree!
All the snakes featured in this video are impressive, but the three longest are magnificent!
Glad that you love all the impressive snakes in our video! 🙂
Bushmasters are my favorites because i find them very unique and mysterious, ❤
We agree that these pit vipers are really cool! :) Have you seen this video? czcams.com/video/0jKOQnG36GM/video.html
The soothing sound of nature❤❤
Great that you love it!
@@LivingZoology it's the best sound ever..thank you guys for your work..massively appreciated🙏
Well I am a 11 year old boy and my snake and wild life knowledge is very good all thanks to this channel and legendary tv show like animals planet etc ❤
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Another excellent video. Very informative. Amazing photography. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, again! So nice to read.
I knew of bushmasters in South and Central America, but not in North America. Thanks for the herpetology lesson! Great video!
Thanks for watching! In this case it is rather a geographic lesson, the range of bushmasters is the same as you probably thought, the northernmost country where the Central American bushmaster occurs is Nicaragua. When we did the research about different models of continents some time ago, we realized that the North America stretches all the way south to Panama. In some countries Americas are considered as one continent. Central America is never considered as a real separate continent.
I've only seen some big rattlesnake species in captivity. So I can only imagine how monstrous a 3,5 m Bushmaster would look in real life. Truly an impressive animal.
The longest bushmaster we saw in the wild was about 2.4 meters and it was already impressive!
Cool footage by LZ!❤
Thank you for watching! ❤️
As always absolutely stunning video of snakes in absolutely stunning HD
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wow!!!! awesome work
Thanks a lot!
As always great work anyone who might be watching this and maybe be able to sponsor them it would be a great opportunity for both. They educate so many people and their work is right up there with major networks. Imagine what else they could do with sponsors.
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Great video, and very educational!
Thank you very much! 🙂
Wow! Amazingly impressive specimens here.
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Gorgeous video!
Thank you very much!
I enjoyed this video. I found it very fascinating.
Thank you very much, we appreciate it!
i appreciate you people for filming this stuff
Thank you so much! Lot of effort, time and money goes into finding and filming these shots!
How do you get such amazing shots and all the close up shots? Your content is simply magical. You bring info in such simple ways that doesn't distract from the focus of the frame. Keep up with the amazing work.
We gently work with snakes, usually we keep our distance just enough for snakes to feel relaxed around us and that's how we can film the natural behavior. Thank you very much, great that you love our footage!
You are the bestest in the snakes movie...
Chapeau....
Many many thanks for this! 🙏
Thank you it was beautiful
You’re welcome 😊 Great that you enjoyed watching our video!
I am always fascinated by all the effort you give for works like this. Please always keep going and inspiring!
Thank you very much! We will continue! :)
Great content. Just a minor quibble. Black mambas frequently live amongst people in South Africa.
Thank you! Yes, in some areas of South Africa Black mambas live close to people. In our video we are talking about the whole range of the species, which covers huge areas of the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Not in namibia they live deep in the forest
Awesome.
Glad you think so!
I wouldn't be surprised if venomous snakes lived in Antartica in certain areas. Due to the Antarctic treaty we can't explore a lot of it. Admiral Byrd in a documentary said there was green land beyond certain areas.
You really wouldn’t be surprised?
Antarctica is code name of the real continent of Polis Articus, which was the inspiration for the Avatar franchise. It is a huge continent hidden in plain sight in the center of the earth. They took it off the map in the late 1800s.
Love the nature sounds in place of bad music 👍
Thank you very much!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ love your Videos
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Amazing footage fan from india❤
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Relaxing, captivating, and educating as usual. Can you make three longest snakes in the world?
Thank you so much!!! We cannot now, sorry! We still don't have footage of the large python species in Africa :/ Hopefully in the future!
Excellent video. 👍🇺🇸👍
Thanks a lot! 👍
Beautiful animals
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Beautiful perfect always
Thank you so much!!! 🙏🙂
Figure you guys are too busy to answer questions on your comment section, but I've always wondered if there are maybe family or genus similarities between some snakes. Biggest example that makes me curious is the coloration and "design" of the South American (and other) Bushmasters and the North American rattlesnakes - like the diamondback. Same with some of the Corals and milk snakes. Yet the Bushmasters have no "rattle" - and the milk and ring snakes have no venom. Just amazes me that these guys may have been around even before the continental drifts began and just evolved with the climate(s) (?) Oh, and just insert my usual amazement about the beauty and professionalism of your photography here! :)
Hello, thank you for watching our videos, great that you like them! As you write, the environment has a strong influence on snake’s coloration or general morphology. Also, some survival strategies (pattern used for camouflage or aposematic colors) were apparently successful for different snake groups living even on different continents.
Rattles are likely an adaptation to life in grasslands, where a big mammal (bison, deer, …) might step on the snake.
So the noise tells it to back off, as do the loud hisses of king cobras, puff adders, … The genera (Crotalus, Sistrurus) successfully radiated into different environments where that wasn't such a critical feature.
@@oafletThanks so much sir - I was wondering especially since there are so many species (not even colored close) that wiggle their rattle-less tails - while other species don't.
Very beautiful and interesting video. Can I ask if a film with Czech dubbing will be released this year? Thank you very much! 😁
Thank you very much! We work on a documentary called The most venomous snakes of Africa, it seems like the release date might be in 2025 rather than 2024.
@@LivingZoologyawesome, I'm very glad that you also create for the Czech community 😅
For your information, the Bushmaster is NOT found in North America, but Central and South America and Trinidad.
North America ends in Panama when considered as continent.
Panama, Costa Rica etc...the countries south of Mexico and up to Panama is Central America.
Central America is not considered North America.
Are there other species with a cocktail of four different types of venom like the Bushmaster?
Saw-scale vipers.
If it sounds like it's sizzling, back off.
The russell's viper has a few different things mixed up in its venom
All venomous snakes have a cocktail of different venoms, with one predominant type. In South Africa we have predominantly Cytotoxic, Neurotoxic, and Haemotoxic. Some of the Neurotoxic snakes have a Cytotoxic component causing painful progressive swelling in addition to progressive weakness. Rinkhals venom causes a mixed painful progressive swelling with progressive weakness.
There are quite many viper species with venom having different components but when we think about it, another famous venomous species which has neurotoxic, myotoxic, hemotoxic and cytotoxic components is the Mulga snake!
This is a very informative video, with fantastic photography as well. Here's something that slightly confuses me. At first, I highly doubted one of the captions, that indicated the Eastern Diamondback is a Bushmaster. Indeed it is. Here's what confuses me. There are some HUGE Western Diamondbacks, as well as Canebrakes, or Timber Rattlers too. Why exactly aren' they considered to be Bushmasters? Is it specifically due to size/length? This is good stuff.
Thank you for watching! But, we did not try to say that the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is a bushmaster :) Just the sentence leading to the section about bushmasters is there while there is still the rattlesnake visible.
Just remember that the biggest one is the one that got away. Ask any fisherman.
Thanks for watching.
I’ve heard.witnesses say mambas are aggressive around people because they feel cornered
No, mambas are shy and avoid people at any cost. A cornered Black mamba will however defend itself.
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The text mistakenly sez Bitis rhinoceros, but it should be Bitis gabonicus.
May as well fix that and add a clip of the Rhinoceros viper - it's beautiful, particularly the juveniles.
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NB: Rhinoceros vipers live at elevation, in cloud forests. They like temperatures around 22°C (71.6°F), unlike B. gabonicus, which likes things hotter.
The Rhinoceros viper is Bitis nasicornis. It is not as big as the Eastern gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) and the West African gaboon viper (Bitis rhinoceros). The West African gaboon viper grows even larger than the Eastern gaboon viper.
Bitis gabonica is the Gaboon Viper occurring in Southern Africa. It has 2 triangles on the sides of their heads. The Western Gaboon Viper only has 1 as can be clearly seen in the video, Bitis rhinoceros. The Rhino Horned Viper is rather more colorful than the other 2, Bitis nasicornis.
A lot of mambas live around the slums. A lot of King cobras live around the slums.
There are places where Black mambas or King cobras come to fairly regular contact with humans. But in general these two species live far away from people and successfully avoid people.
What is your opinion on freehandling? Not with these snakes especially just in general? Of course I mean like for people who definitely know what they are doing and not meaning just picking up random venemous snakes.
We think that working with animals always involves a small risk of getting injured. Certain individual will get scared, it will feel bothered too much for example, and can bite, scratch you or otherwise injure you. If there is a chance to minimize such risk, we think that it is wise to take it. So when working with venomous and often large non-venomous snakes, we use tools. If someone feels like it is safe to freehandle, it is up to him/her. But, it is definitely not something you want to heavily show or promote online in our opinion.
Alors vous allez faire une vidéo sur le cobra caspian ?
Il métite largement sa place.
Maybe in the future…
@@LivingZoology 👌👍🏼🤩🥇
@@LivingZoologyok mes quand
2025 ?
2026 ?
2027 ?
@@ALEXNOMBRES We don’t know…
It was a nice video seeing these snakes. But the audio of the the birds and wildlife in the background is fake. That was on on an audio loop repeating itself. 😔
Thanks for watching. What is a fake audio to you? Each scene in this video has an authentic soundscape we recorded at the locations where the main snake species shown lives.
Do you know why so many black mambas don't close their mouth completely? Always a small gap between the lips... Also the mamba in your video.
We noticed that too and we think that often they react to a potential threat that way. A slightly open mouth is a small warning, a properly open mouth is a big warning.
There is a channel in Indonesia, his name is Panji, the adventurer, he is the king cobra snake man
Is he working safely with King cobras?
Which snake venom s is potent
Not sure what exactly are you asking...
@@LivingZoology which venomous snakes are highly toxic and how long a victim survive if he didn't get immediate medical attention
@@shabbirahmed1678out of the three, the king cobra's venom is the slowest to take effect. But the more you wait the more his bite will affect you long term even after curing his venom.
The black mamba 1nd the Bush master are well known for the lethality of their venom but what makes it deadlier is teh quickness of its spreading through the organism. It is said that their venom is supposed to kill a full grown adults within half an hour.
@@shabbirahmed1678 Most potent snake venom has the inland taipan (LD50=0.025 mg/kg) from Australia. Black mamba has potent venom, but only 0.33 mg/kg. However mamba possess four times higher venom yield than inland taipan. King cobra venom is not extremely potent only 1.28 mg/kg, but it has extremely high venom yield, 400-600 mg dry venom mass per bite!!!!
@@shabbirahmed1678Easily, Inland Taipan has the most potent venom of all known species of snakes.
King brown snake probably 4th
The Central American bushmaster is the fourth, the King brown the fifth...
Where's is the Australian tiapan.
Not in this video as it is not among 3 longest venomous snakes in the world.
@@LivingZoology they have measured up sixteen feet long. Check if you don't believe
Which is considered the king of all vipers? Is it the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Fer de Lance, South American Bushmaster, Gaboon Viper, Puff Adder, Saw Scale Viper, Russell's Viper?
Bushmasters are the longest vipers,Eastern Diamondback are heaviest vipers in North America and the Russell's Viper is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in India 🇮🇳 Fer de Lance is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in Central and South America ,Puff Adders are responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in Africa and the Saw Scaled Viper is responsible for the most fatalities from snake bites in the world 🌎
I have to say the Bushmaster, both for its size and look, but also because of the intelligence in its eyes. King Cobras are known for their brains, but they're riddled with anxiety despite being huge and dangerous.
Bushmasters don't panic, they don't dart around or rear up to your face because you looked at them funny.
The Bushmaster will coil up and watch you, patiently, until you give it a reason.
The Fer-de-Lance might be the scariest on the list, but it just doesn't have the brains of the Bushmaster.
The Gaboon Viper Bitus Gabonoica is the heaviest venomous snake Viperidae family on Earth with the longest fangs 2in capable of delivering 2400mg maximum of venom in a single bite. They also are one of the most beautiful snakes on earth which should make them a great choice for King of all the Viperidae family of snakes 🐍
@@richardhincemon
Not beauty queen?
Alas.
@@richardhincemon Yes I heard this. But by king of vipers, I meant like you know how the King Cobra is considered the King of all elapids for its size, intimidating factor, venom yield, and tendency to eat other snakes. I wanted to know which one was considered the overall most feared and badass viper, whom other vipers would not want to mess with in the wild (I know a lot of them don't even cross path in the wild, but just hypothetically). I hear many rattlesnakes are actually a meal for a lot colubrids in the Americas. I'm just wondering how true that is for larger, fully grown rattlesnakes like the Eastern Diamondback, Western Diamondback, Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake, etc.
A black mamba can reach a length 4m 4,5 to meters cum to namibia southern Africa.🇳🇦❤🙏
Namibia is definitely an interesting country.
Gaboon Viper = Bitis Gabonica not Bitis Rhinoceros
Bitis gabonica was split into B. gabonica and B. rhinoceros. You probably mean Bitis nasicornis.
Thx for the update and very nice video.
Why not tell the viewer the average length of each?
There is always something we forget to put into the video 😀 Thanks, so maybe in the next one!
Cobra Kai
Thanks for watching.
Ireland does not have snakes, and reptiles
We know that there are no snakes but there is the Viviparous lizard. Thanks for watching.
Why do they all look so evil?
You just haven't learned to love them.
Also, many have projecting scales over the eyes - sun shield, like the visor on a baseball cap.
The effect looks like an angry person's eyebrows.
Maybe you need some time to get used to snakes and understand them 🙂To us they are beautiful and cute! They just don’t have straight cute faces like cats or dogs but after some time you start to see the cuteness in snakes too 😉
@LivingZoology Snake lives matter! Many people in world and especially in South Africa, have an "abnormal" fear of snakes and many non-venomous snakes are killed indiscriminately as a result!