Snakes of the Czech Republic, full nature documentary, wild reptiles of Europe
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2021
- Czech Republic is a small country in Europe, in which people were changing the landscape for centuries. An untouched wilderness has already disappeared from most regions. Despite of that, many secretive wild animals survive in the cultural landscape without being noticed by humans. Snakes often inhabit abandoned areas very close to people. There are only 5 species (European adder, Aesculapian snake, Dice snake, Smooth snake, Grass snake) in the Czech Republic and yet they are an interesting part of the local fauna. What kind of life they live? Are there any areas in the country where they thrive? How are snakes influenced by human activities? And most importantly, do we need to fear them? Let's reveal the secrets of our snake neighbors and go through the experience of one year in their life from early spring to late autumn.
We worked on this film for 6 years and this project basically started the existence of Living Zoology film studio.
I live in Hungary and I always try to find more and more information on our native reptiles. This movie was excellently documented and a joy to watch and learn from it. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! We try to spread knowledge about snakes in Central Europe, we hope that many people will watch this film!
Orban should know alot about snakes;]
Living Zoology is producing the best animal documentaries I have ever seen. The filming is first class, the footage is unmatched, and the narration is minimal and professional. I wish the best for Living Zoology and I hope to see this channel flourish and grow.
Thank you so much for this comment! It gives us a great motivation continue! 🙂🙏
I must agree! The photography is stunning and the information is like taking a uni class. As someone with a fear of snakes, especially poisonous snakes; this has been a Master Class in snakes. By watching these educational videos my fear level has decreased by 75%. I have a great love for all living things, and this has shown me that snakes are not aggressive, unless provoked. An exceptional body of work!
@@Sushi2735 We are so happy to read this! 🙏 The main goal of our work is to show people that snakes are awesome animals and they deserve our respect ❤️
@@LivingZoology you have a convert in me! If I see a snake on the road now, I will uses my shovel to gently see it to the other side!
@@Sushi2735 That’s super awesome!
To je neskutečné video s nadstandartními záběry za které by se nemusel stydět ani David Atenborough a jiní. Opravdu smekám nad kvalitou zpracování, šup s tím do škol aby se mládež poučila v zoologii a angličtině. Děkuji za luxusní video.
Moc děkujeme za krásné hodnocení filmu! Chceme film promítat na školách :)
Fantastic documentary. Praise to the Dolinay's, the dynamic duo, for always bringing us such awesome footage. Excellent work by Mr. Holland in his narration. Well done to you all!
Thank you so much!!! This is a special project for us, we were working on it basically since the beginning of LZ. We are very happy that you like the footage, narration and the story!
Even by your high standards, this video was quite exceptional. It's wonderful that such sensitive conservation work is being carried out.
Wow, thank you so much!!! We worked on this project for 6 years and it is about our home country, so we had lot of time to optimize things :) It is great to hear that you think it is awesome!
Thank you both for your sharing all your documentaries ❤️❤️
Thank you for watching! :)
Absolutely stunning! Much respect for this work of art from Switzerland!
Thank you very much! Happy that you like this film, greetings from the Czech Republic!
The way these videos are shot is absolutely incredible. Very well put together as well!!! Keep going!!! This channel deserves awards!!!
Thank you so much! This is an amazing comment to read! ❤️
It always amazes me that these videos are on CZcams for free. Thank you so much for putting out this amazing one of a kind content. This is stuff we used to watch on Animal Planet on regular television! Now we get to watch it on CZcams whenever we want. Absolutely amazing! Thank you to the team that makes these videos.
Thank you, great that you love what we do! The whole team is Matej and Zuzana, we search for snakes, we work with them, film them, we edit the footage and we present our content. Please consider joining our channel as a member to support us in doing this work!
Wonderful moment of sharing
You are so kind! Thanks for watching!
Knowledgeable and informative.
Your documentry worth to watch
Thank you very much! We are happy that you think so!
5:19 Now, THAT’S a friend! ❤🤣
Yes! :)
Really awesome documentary! I live in the United States and we have many more species of snakes here. I actually love snakes and have several pet snakes myself. The majority of my snakes are captive bred. Lots of people in the United States love snakes but unfortunately lots of people hate them too. I find that most people who hate snakes are older people who are close minded and uneducated.
Thank you very much for watching! You are right, many older people hate snakes in the USA. But we have a feeling that younger generations start to respect them :) Have you seen our documentary about rattlesnakes? czcams.com/video/Rq2k4Tzu198/video.html
@@LivingZoology not yet.
As much as I hate to admit it I'm not a kid anymore saying that I have always been interested in snakes along with other reptiles IMO snakes were given a bad rap in Genesis for allegedly tempting Eve with the fruit of knowledge that apple 🍎 in the Garden of Eden which if you actually believe that story caused all of humanity to be born in original sin which I personally don't buy any of that BS MAGA Make Agnostics Great Again 👍
Parádní! Děkujeme.
Moc děkujeme!!! :)
Looking forward to watching the coming video
We hope that you will like it! :)
Naprostá nádhera. Krásně natočený.
Moc děkujeme! :)
Drive tanks to manage landscape....I love it. Well done, folks!
Yes, it is a very clever idea! :) Thank you for watching!
These videos are always so beautiful to watch. The drone footage of the dice snakes in the water was stunning!
Thank you very much! Great that you love the drone footage of Dice snakes, the whole scene was filmed in our city 🙂
@@LivingZoology
I often travel to the Czech Republic for work. I've been to Brno, Prague, Ostrava, and a few other places there. I'm a roadie for bands, so travel almost constantly. But sadly I mostly only see the cities and populated areas and never get to see the countryside and wildlife of the countries I visit.
It's funny, though, because in the last few years the counties of Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Slovakia have become the favorite countries for bands and roadies. Those countries are safe, clean, the people are great, and the economy in those areas has really taken off.
You two are lucky to have such a great home country! :)
@@tompriceusmc That’s awesome to hear! We are happy that you like the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Matej is originally from Slovakia 🙂 We now live in Brno! So if you have time, try to visit Brno dam during spring, that’s where the scene of hunting Dice snakes is filmed!
@tomprice1671 @LivingZoology The drone footage of the dice snakes reminded me myself about 25 yrs ago while fishing as kid/teenager in river Jihlava, wading in 30 cm deep, and found 1 dice snake just next to my right foot, and then found another one laying there between small stones right between my feet. I knew they're not dangerous/poisonous, but still remember that freeze on my neck and back xD
Don't worry, I didn't hurt them, only moved myself a bit to find another fishing spot :D Was mid of nice sunny summertime ^^
Thanks to this beautiful film I also finally found why small fish always were paralyzed in mouths of these small snakes. I remember I "stole" catch (18 cm fish) of another dice snake who might be like 90cm - 1m long, and when the snake let his catch loose in the water after I found them, the fish was paralyzed and I was able to catch it in my hand so easily. Never knew the fish was poisoned by the snake's neurotoxin, or that our snakes (except adder) are any poisonous at all. Nvm, I used the 18cm fish as bait for my fishing, poor snake ^^.
I think these species did well in time of my childhood in all river Jihlava "under" the Mohelno Dam. As child/teenager I met many dice snakes right close to the dam, or several km further down the river in Templštýn location (Castle ruins - beautiful tourist location), where I also found many green lizards (lacerta viridis), or another bunch of kilometers down the river in Ivančice, Dolní Kounice etc... I hope the snakes and lizards still do well or even better after those 20 - 25 years...
@@pavelhusar1142 Thank you for sharing your experiences from the past! It is nice that you were respectful to these snakes. Great that you learned something new from our documentary 🙂 As far as we know, Dice snakes are doing well in Mohelno, we haven’t been to the other locations you mentioned.
nice narration. the czech republic is beautiful, love the tanks .
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, we have nice natural areas. The management using tanks is cool, we agree!
I can only imagine that finding a rare snake must be almost like finding a dragon.
You don't know where or when you'll find them but when you do, it is very rewarding.
Yes, it is always absolutely awesome to find a rare snake after you try so hard!
To all the people trying to help the snakes breed Thank you so much Itsa a fantastic thing you do x
Thank you very much for watching!
Po dlouhé době jsem dorazila a už se moc těším
Krásné záběry moc se mi líbí vaše videa vždycky mám radost když nějaké vaše video vyjde😍🤩
Máme moc velkou radost!!! :) Je skvělé vidět, že se někdo zajímá o hady a líbí se mu naše videa!
@@LivingZoology jediný problém je že neumím anglicky ale to je fakt ten nejmenší problém který je😔😋☺️
@@klarakubin797sometimes there are captions to translate, I don’t know if their videos have that but maybe they could look into it if not.
Great video!!! 👍🏼
Thank you very much! 🐍❤️
Wow, again to see some new amazing footage from Czech republic, I love your wildlife, I don't know when I will get a chance to visit Czech republic, that will be awesome.
We have some interesting wildlife here! Hopefully you will get the chance to see it in the future 🙂
Czech and Slovakia both have very beautiful nature. Many places to visit but not all possible to find online. If you visit these countries I suggest to talk to locals and we can show you the best places!
@@dalibor1510 We will be happy to be Alfa's guides in our country :)
Awesome footage, outstanding Work !
Greets from Austria
Many thanks! We are very happy that you like this documentary! Greetings to Austria!
Lots of good stuff! Snake eating frog, little ruff watching it's face.
Tank,,, looks like great fun...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting! The black adder is beautiful!
Thank you! We have a special video focused on black adders: czcams.com/video/ZIAz7sBZdwk/video.html
Výborná práce. Nádherné, informativní dokumentace
Moc děkujeme! 🙂 Česká verze by měla být venku před koncem roku.
I think the narration adds a lot to the video. I'm glad to see you're always trying to improve your work. Best yet
Thank you very much! We are creating long narrated documentaries for a long time, it just takes huge amount of time and it costs lot of money, so we cannot make lot of them :) Check out other long movies: czcams.com/play/PLj80DUXdImxY2Dmas8H-wxuWDYjqDLhJu.html
Very nice documentary guys bravo! Subtle and easy but very informative and entertaining... Awesome job!
Thanks so much! It is awesome to read a reaction like this :)
Great documentary again. Love it, well done!
Thank you so much!!! Happy that you love it! ❤️
Neskutečný, v celám filmu je vidět těch šest let práce, která mu mu byla věnována. Krásný záběry, hudba, komentář.
Těším se na premiéru české verze, pokud to bude jen trochu možné, přijedu se podívat :-)
Velké díky, Matouši! :) Do tohoto filmu jsme dali vše, protože je o naší přírodě a hadech v ČR. Věříme, že ho uvidí mnoho lidí a hodně z nich začne hady respektovat a vnímat je jako součást naší země.
@@LivingZoology a0a
Great content love you're shows
Thank you very much! Great that you love our videos 🙂
I was looking forward to something like this… glad to see it
Thank you very much for watching!!!
💓Beautiful Film, of a Beautiful Country,by Two Beautiful People!🤗Congratulations!and Commendations for all your time and hard work✌😉
Thank you very much! It is awesome, that you love this documentary! 🤗💓
Wonderful presentation
Thanks for the visit of our channel!
What a beautiful country & equally beautiful reptiles. Awesome the effort people are making to care for & protect them. Kudos to the law makers protecting them too. Lovely video, not so sure about the voice over? 🐍💕🐍
Thank you very much, happy that you enjoyed watching!!! As you say, there are people who protect snakes and they make a big difference! Do you think that the voice over is not good?
What can I say again a really great informative documentary keep up the good work. In the UK the adder and smooth snake often live together, our summers are a little cooler than yours.
Many thanks! It is great that you like it! You are right, the climate in Britain is a bit different.
excellent documentary!!
Many thanks! Happy that you enjoyed watching! :)
It is also good source of data for Poland ;), great shots and atmosphere! I'm after half and already feel it's too short haha
Thanks a lot! Yes, some parts of the film are from the border with Poland :)
Wonderful service you perform
Thank you very much! 🙏
This was very enjoyable, thank you for making it. I like the voice over it adds a lot to your videos.
Thank you very much! We like to create these narrated long documentaries, it just takes about a year of work and not counting filming.
Very well put together documentary, extremely engaging. Just one suggestions, going forward perhaps you may consider using 4K cameras to make the production fully immersive to the audience and capture the full beauty of nature.
Thank you very much for watching! Happy that you like it! We started to work on this film when we were still students and we could not afford a 4k camera. After 3 years we got lucky to get some funding and we got one. So what we could we filmed again in 4k. But mostly the scenes of some exciting behavior you film once in the lifetime. We still wanted to put everything together as this is an important project for us and we worked on it for 6 years
Outstanding!
Thank you so much! 🙏
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
thanks, very nice !
Our pleasure! Great that you like this one, we really wanted to show how snakes in the Czech Republic look like!
Thank you for creating this very informative video. I will be in Prague in early November and wanted to find out where I might see some snakes even in the colder weather. Also, any suggestions on what to see/eat while in Prague? :D
Thank you for watching our documentary and huge thank you for becoming our new member! We really appreciate that. November is already too late for snakes in the Czech Republic unfortunately :/ Only very rarely if the weather stays surprisingly calm some snakes can be randomly out. There is a population of Dice snakes near the Prague Zoo close to the river but in November they will be probably already hibernating. The Natural History Museum in Prague might be interesting, then the cultural classics - Charles bridge, Prague castle, Prague Astronomical Clock...Try some traditional Czech restaurants, there are many! We live in Brno, which is the second biggest city in the Czech Republic, so we are not experts on Prague. If you ever come to the Czech Republic again, let us know! The best time to see snakes in from April to June.
@@LivingZoology Thank you so much! I will tell you that I started watching your videos because the are very high quality and educational. Also, this helps me get over my enormous fear of snakes. I am trying very hard to get over my fear. Thank you for helping me! Safe travels always.
@@tmacdonald3968 We appreciate a lot that you think that our videos are educational and with high quality! It is amazing that you are trying to overcome your fear of snakes! Thank you and stay safe too!
Great video, as always.
Thank you very much! :)
Great vdo👍👍
Thank you very much!
A really exceptional film, guys you’ve done an awesome job !!!! Congrats. I hope it will help the conservation of snakes in your country …
Thank you very much! We tried our best to present snakes as amazing animals which deserve respect and protection. We hope that many people will see our documentary.
@@LivingZoology each time you do it very well, be sure of that !
Done watching
Great!
Nemůžu se dočkat 😁
Zatím v angličtině, česká verze by měla mít premiéru na festivalu Rajbas v Blansku v listopadu :)
Mám to brát jako pozvání? 😊
Beautiful photography very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it!!! We are happy that you found it interesting!
Great footage.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for translating the video in English great job amazing footage of snakes 🐍 beautiful country ❤ scenery of your footage is awesome 👌alot of snakes I never seen colors are gorgeous 😍 are you from 🇨🇿 Czech????
Thank you very much! We produce most our long narrated documentaries in both languages :) The others are here: czcams.com/play/PLj80DUXdImxY2Dmas8H-wxuWDYjqDLhJu.html Yes, we are from the Czech Republic! :) It is great that you love this film!
thank you for the fact that snake never blink . I am one more word knowledgeable 😊
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching! 🙂
Really amazing
Keep it up
Thank you so much 😀!!
Once again fantastic. Strange gestion for using military vehicles for refitting the ponds! But we have some interesting comparison for belgium in the south of country one of the most rich area for orchidea is actually a military area where big vehicles drive on.
Thank you so much!! 🙏Yes, it is a strange but sometimes very effective management!
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Brilliant 🐸💚🐸
Thank you very much!
@@LivingZoology no problems 🐸💚🐸
Awesome documentary, is there a way to differentiate male and female aesculapian snakes from pictures?
Thank you very much!!! The tail length can help, males usually have longer tails.
@@LivingZoology Thanks a lot! I am from Bavaria and have actually never been to the Czech Republic, but your recordings have inspired me to visit Podyjí National Park one day
@@ertzul It is a very nice place, worth visiting! 🙂
I love your work...which camera do you use?
Thank you very much! Our main camera is Canon GX10.
Love the ponies. Are they pets for some?
It is a breed called the Exmoor pony. People keep them as pets, yes 🙂
I'm Filipino and I request about snake Documentation about Philippines native snakes next time
If we ever make it to Philippines in the future, we will film a documentary there :)
@@LivingZoology yeah I'm waiting for it
According to my research via online and based on GMA TV documentary Born To Be Wild they about 200 or more species in the Philippines like Cobra, Pit Viper, Cat Snake, Vine Snake, Paradise Flying Tree Snake, wolf snake and many more many also are Endimic only in the Philippines
@@markolivermajaba9741wow I hope they make it there one day, sounds fascinating!
The grass snakes mating behavior is much like garter snakes here in the US and in Canada
Yes, Grass snakes and Garter snakes have a pretty similar behavior, true!
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Thank you!
You Living Zoology guys are from which country?
From the Czech Republic.
I have northern vipers or adders on my local golf course in the U.K. if that’s interesting? Got hissed at loudly by one when I was picking a ball up.
That is interesting! If we ever go to U.K., maybe we can make a visit :)
@@LivingZoology yeah I think it’d be cool for you since northern vipers are semi endangered and smooth snakes are critically endangered over here so you’d be doing something really important by documenting them. Love your stuff lately your videography is amazing!
How practical it would be, if we also shed our skins in one piece. That would mean a lot less dust inside our homes.
Yes, it would be practical, but imagine having milky eyes and not seeing properly for several days before every shedding!
Cheque republic is also where visas hq is located.
Do you mean VISA? Really? We don’t know about that.
I hope have new year you can do video common krait india
We hope that India will open borders!
and here i am thinking that hognose are the only actor/actress of the wildlife
No, many other snakes play dead!
@4.41 did anyone else think that bug was walking across their screen ?
Thank you for watching!
What type of different species of Fish did Dice snake has eaten in this video
Perch, burbot, Common bleak, vimba.
@@LivingZoology ok thank you for information
Hey 👋
Hello!
I always wonder what kind of snakes and reptiles Europe has. Being from America snakes are usually everywhere but I know is most of Europe snakes are more rare.
Well, you saw which species we have in the Czech Republic! :)
Are snake bites common ?
Not so much in the Czech Republic.
European Adder is the only venomous snake in the UK
Correct!
Always wondered y there were poisonous snakes in Europe
Yes, there are venomous snakes in Europe :)
What is your experience in Vipera berus melanism occurance accordng on sex dependence?
I've red that its MUCH more occuring in females, to the point that in twenty or even more melanistic individuals youll find only one male?
And what subspicies is present in Chech republic? Is it the nominant berus berus or our balkan subspicies, berus bosniensis?
From our experience more females are melanistic, but the ratio is probably not as extreme as 19:1. We have berus berus in the Czech Republic.
got it
Thanks for watching!
Get in touch with me if you are in India. It would be of interest to you.
We love India! We were there 5 times already 🙂 Maybe next time!
The snakes look like asps.
Which ones do you mean exactly?
Je možné toto shlédnout v češtině?
Česká premiéra bude na festivalu Rajbas v Blansku 21.11. v kině, pak film bude i na CZcams :)
@@LivingZoology Děkuji moc za odpověď!