On the trail of the deadly venomous Eastern diamondback rattlesnake in Florida
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The Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) is the largest rattlesnake species and one of the largest vipers in the world. We always wanted to film this majestic venomous snake in the wild. Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes have long fangs and their toxic venom can kill a human. However, they will only be dangerous to people if they feel threatened. In 2022 we traveled to Florida and searched for deadly venomous rattlesnakes with our friend David Wojnowski. During our search for the main target species we found some other super cool snakes, like the Florida cottonmouth or the Eastern copperhead! Join us on the trail of the largest rattlesnake in the world! We filmed 11 species of snakes, so be ready for an adventure full of snake encounters!
Species found:
Pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius)
Florida cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti)
Scarlet kingsnake (Lampropeltis elapsoides)
Eastern ribbon snake (Thamnophis saurita)
Rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
Smooth earth snake (Virginia valeriae)
Redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata)
Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
Eastern racer (Coluber constrictor)
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)
Southern water snake (Nerodia fasciata)
Florida’s Diamondbacks need protection. Thank you for interacting with the people here to talk to them about snakes. Without this communication and positive experience, no laws will help the Eastern Diamondback or other species.
Thank you for watching! We try to educate locals everywhere we go, it is needed in India, Africa, even in the USA!
Amazing snakes and fantastic footage. Best snake photography on the internet. Thanks!!! ❤
Wow, thank you! Super cool that you love our content! 🙏❤️
Incredible footage! I'm so happy you had a safe, successful, and fun trip to Georgia and Florida. Thank you for sharing your special time with the Manatees. They are beautiful. ❤
Thank you very much, great to hear that you love our new film! :) The trip to Georgia and Florida was amazing, many snakes and those manatees, oh wow!
What can I say an amazing film, in an amazing environment. I have to say you guys have the best snake channel on the WWW.
Thank you very much, we appreciate that you think so! 🙂
Greater Snakes, Greater Education & certainly happy rewards for showing us incredible wonders ❤🐍
Thank you very much for watching! 🙏🙂
Your videos are always the best, and this was a special treat to see the spectacularly beautiful eastern diamondbacks. Thank you.
So good to hear that you love our content! 🙏❤️
Awesome video as usual, guys! I watch your channel from Oklahoma in the USA. Nice to see you guys again come to my country to film these beautiful snakes!!
Thank you so much! Very cool that you watch from Oklahoma!
Hello from Oklahoma too!!! Great video LZ!!!!!
What a great film! I’ve never seen a pigmy rattle snake. You guys found some amazing animals. Also pretty cool to see you feed a cottonmouth dead prey.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you very much for watching! Great that you love this film! Check out this one too: czcams.com/video/-e9OdI_-TsE/video.html
Aaand another great one! You guys are easily my favorite snake/reptile channel. Great visual story telling, lots of knowledge, all while coming across super authentic, not trying to be "personalities". Keep it up! 😊
Thank you so much, it is so nice to read a comment like this! ❤️We will keep it up, now we are in South Africa and today we filmed a Black mamba 🙂
This is brilliant loved ur video as usual
Thank you so much! Great that you love our videos!
That last EDBR was the calmest of the kind I've ever seen. All the ones I run into while Herping have been pretty crazy.
Thanks for watching! It was a very calm EDB, yes!
Awesome to see that you guys came to my home state to film one of the most beautiful snakes we have here. I grew up out near the Osceola National Forest. I have always loved the Eastern Diamondback. We do need laws to protect this beautiful species. It is great that you were able to show that the snakes really do not want to bite, just to get away.
We really enjoyed our time in Florida! Beautiful nature and so many snakes! Education is the key and we do our best everywhere we go. Hopefully the EDB and other snake species will be protected in Florida in the future.
Well done on this video and all ur other videos! This video was awesome! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too!
OMG thanks!
You guys are just too good! Great stuff as always!
Wow, thanks!
Thanks again to you Awesome People
Thanks a lot! ❤️🙏
Funny comment about the 4-6' snake the size of a dinner plate. Great post.
Thanks for watching! 🙏
You are both engaging personalities. I enjoyed watching you.
Thank you so much!
Wow, what an awesome trip; you guys are great! I have to confess, I had my fingers crossed the whole time hoping you might meet an Indigo Snake. I guess they've become kind of rare in the wild during my lifetime, which is sad....
Thank you very much!!! 🙏 Yes, Indigo snakes are very rare nowadays!
Beautiful pygmy rattlesnakes and wonderful copperhead. Amazing footage as usual.
Thank you very much! All pit vipers we found were stunning!
Vipers are beautiful animals. ❤
We agree! Vipers are beautiful and it is a pleasure to work with them :)
Well documented , Thanks again.
Thank you very much for watching!
As always, wonderful footages. You are very likeable. It's great the respect and the calm with which you treat the animals. When it comes to snakes, you guys are my favorite channel. I just actually thought that Crotalus durissus would be even bigger than Adamenteus. In January I will be in your home country in the Czech Republic, also to see some snakes in zoos. What would I like to do on tour with you...Snakes are simply the best animals on earth.
Thank you very much for your kind words! We are sure that you will enjoy Czech Republic 🙂
Amazing video!!!
Thank you very much! 🙏❤️
fantastic trip, Im jaleous, specially about eggs & bacon !
Thank you! Eggs and bacon were always great! 🙂
The pygmy rattlesnakes are gorgeous 🐍
We agree! Such a cool species to find as first on our trip!
Always the best reptile videos on CZcams, thanks for what ya'll do. By the way vipers >elapids
Awesome, thank you! We appreciate it! Elapids are definitely at least = vipers! 😀
Welcome back to the states!
Here in Australia I don't think I've ever seen a professional snake catcher use the tongs, only my ex-employer who is not professionally trained. It's suggested that it's easy to injure the snake with tongs, or at the very least, piss it off and thus increase the chance of getting tagged.
It was kind of odd that guy invited the group of you on to his property then his daughter says he's shot 2 of them 🤔 Good doco though, glad you found the EDB 👍
There are different types of tongs. We only use gentle tongs, which have rubber on them and they are wide. When people doubt these tongs we tell them that we will show them that it is not possible to hurt the snake. We catch the finger of the person with these tongs and use maximum power. They are very surprised that it does not hurt! Our goal is to work very gently with snakes and gentle tongs are great for that. Of course the narrow, completely metal tongs are dangerous and can hurt snakes.
Yes, it was a bit weird at the beginning but we tried to do our best and educate those young girls. Maybe they don't want to shoot snakes but they don't know what to do when they have venomous snakes in their garden where kids are playing. We did not check if there is any snake rescuer around...Thank you for watching!
Nice work ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!! 🙂
10/12/2023 Luciano sorocaba sp Brasil adoro seu vídeos muito maravilhoso continue assim
Thank you for watching!
Sir, if possible then make a video on rare cobra species .. like dwarf water cobra, Congo water cobra etc
What camera were you using to film the Cottonmouth feeding, looks amazing
Our main camera is Canon GX10.
Omg❤❤❤
Thank you for watching!
I think cottonmouth also called as water moccasin 😮
Yes, that is true!
I think that if more people are educated about snakes, they would actually have respect and enjoy them more. They're actually beautiful creatures. They want nothing to do with us as much as we don't want nothing to do with them.
And they have every right to live just like any other living. Object on this earth
The difference between scary and beautiful is knowledge. We try hard to educate as many people as possible about snakes :)
True. I moved out to the bush in Australia and admittedly had a somewhat hostile attitude towards them. I'd seen them out hiking with my dog but I've definitely noticed a huge shift in attitude since living around them.
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For sure! 😀
Did anyone immediately able to to ID the snake @ 0:30...the beginning???....That is a small snake but depending on how the colored bands are arranged on the snake provides the answer whether the small reptile is considered a harmless, even docile snake that a person could pick up without issue....HOWEVER, if you made a mistake with respect the colored bands if you picked the smalm snake up by hand would likely result in you being bitten....if the snake injected venom into you, unless you were able to be administered antivenom within 15-30 minutes (depending on several factors) would result in you ceasing to exists... The Eastern Diamond, The CaneBrake or Timber Rattler, the Copperhead and the Water Mocassin aka CottonMouth are also prevelant in Alabama...including in the suburbia of Birmingham... I have crossed paths with each of these almost every Spring, Summer and Fall,...even this time of year...the nights when temps drop into the 40s or even 30s most think threat of snakes are over...NOT TRUE... They will leave their borough or wherever they are once the temp reaches the low to mid 60s if the sun is out...not as prevelant as when it's in the 80s but they are sill around...The first snake I referred to at the 30 second mark...the NON-VENOMOUS ONE is occassionally seen around my area in North Central AL but I have never personally seen one and I'm old....I've had Rat Snakes sneak into my house and give me quite a scare after I left frenchdoors open during a nice fall day to my man cave area...I guess it slithered in when I was in another room downstairs....but more often, there will be 1-2 babies under the couch or in a corner behind pet toys for example....I've had tiny ring snakes, common brown water snakes, garter snakes in addition to the venomous ones I mentioned...The Snake I was referring to at the 30 second mark...is it a Venomous Coral Snake or a harmless King Snake....Growing up I was taught a rhyme...RED TOUCHES YELLOW WILL KILL A FELLOW; RED TOUCHES BLACK FRIEND OF JACK (although my name is not Jack)...THAT RHYME IS NOT WORTH RISKING YOUR LIFE OVER BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE...For the South, the best way to tell is a Coarl Snake will have a Black Snout and it's tail will not have any RED bands...just BLACK AND YELLOW...NO RED...WHEREAS the Scarlet King Snake will have a Red snout with a black patch on top of it's head and the tricolored banding including yellow will continue to the end of it's tail...SO, from what I saw of the snake @ the 30 second mark WOULD NOT BE A CORAL SNAKE....but, i would never take a chance with it by handling by hand....nor would I dispatch it as I had to do with a large Eastern Diamondback and a Timber Rattler and numerous Copperheads, and Mocassins....There is nothing quite as majestic as a large EASTERN DIAMONDBACK...The largest RATTLESNAKE IN THE UNITED STATES
Thanks for watching! We agree that it is important to be careful with colorful banded snakes in the Americas and that the EDB is a majestic snake!
Sincerely apologize for 3 posts...few productions are worthy of my time or feedback...HOWEVER, I was thoroughly impressed with both of you and the quality of your work. As a NATIVE FLORIDEAN and someone that has slept in tents while camping in different placed primarily South Florida...to say your accomodations were less than luxurious or even bareable is a stretch. In Florida or most places in the South during the Summer time....forget about packing a jar of Peanut Butter for PB&J sandwiches because the heat turns the Peanut Butter into a disgusting jar of liquidity mess....the heat and more so the humidity and the insects makes sleeping in a tent almost impossible. When I was a kid, none of the houses we lived in had air conditioning....and that was in Miami and South of Miami in Homestead...Truly miserable and I was a kid...teenager...You guys earned my subscription ....like I said in prior posts. If ever back in the States, my wife, who is Russian, she came to the US in 1989 and her mother still lives in Minsk, Belarus would probably be able to talk to you guys for days none stop... Anycase, feel free to reach out, or email if make it back.... although we are older than you guys I think we can still keep up...only issue for me is my wife is more of a Ritz Carlton lady than a Columbia or Northface person...However, she did miss being struck by a copperhead by a nanometer this past summer....She's not a big fan of snakes...or many creatures other than domesticated dogs... Safe travels and take care...
So nice to read that you love our film! Thanks for subscribing!
Cottonmouths eat fish and frogs in drying up water and roads
Thanks for watching!
Why are the cotton mouth here in kansas darker in color blackish in color
Different populations might differ in coloration, because of different climate for example.
Cottonmouths have different colorations depending on the environment they can be black , brown and even a beautiful yellowish color in Southeastern quarter of the US.
Which species of rattlesnake is highly venomous. ?
For example the one you saw at the end of this film 🙂
@@LivingZoology but I heard Mojave rattlesnake is the deadliest rattlesnake is it true
@@shabbirahmed1678 Mohave rattlesnake and Tiger rattlesnake have very toxic venom.
@@LivingZoology thank you so much for sharing useful information
@@shabbirahmed1678 Mojave green rattlesnake LD 50 0.18mgkg sc hemotoxic and neurotoxic venom
Tiger rattlesnake LD 50 0.21 mgkg sc hemotoxic and myotoxic venom
I feel like something was wrong with that big rattle snake he should not of bee as sluggish as he was!
It was a bit slow, yes. It probably did not get a meal for some time.
I'd like to also say that your wife is very attractive. You're a lucky man.
She is beautiful and amazing ❤️