This is without question the best documentary on this subject I've ever seen. It acknowledges the most venomous but shows the most deadly to humans. Well made
Yeah its crazy right you watch videos trying to learn about how dangerous snakes are and most of the lists always top with the inland taipan, a snake that has caused either 0 or one death hotly debated based on a death in the 1930's. I saw a video of Steve Erwin lying down with the Taipan about 3 inches from his face just slithering looking for a route to get back to hunting mice.
From the studies I have seen a few years ago... there were only a handful of bites known to be from the Inland Taipan. One was even a bite to the trunk. None proved fatal and there was no specific antivenin made for such bites at the time. Either they must have a high.percentage of dry bites or the cellular cardio-toxicity doesn't necessarily translate to human mortality/morbidly...in the real world! The other aspect with the vast majority of Australian snakebites is the efficacy of pressure bandaging for bites on the limbs in connection with the preponderance of neuro-toxins among the continents venomous snakes. Lastly, from the most reliable reports out of Australia... the Eastern Brown seems to be responsible for more snake bite fatalities than all others combined... which is attributable to not only the numbers of the snakes in populated areas, but also the potency of the venom factors including Textilotoxin, which I believe is it pre-synaptic neurotoxin.. For further information on the venom...see: Toxicon article on the venom of the Australian Eastern Brown snake published in 2015!
They did not explain why the blood clotting venom of the Eastern Brown can kill you by hemorrhage after so I thought, as a nurse, I would offer some insight. Your blood requires several clotting factors in order to form a blood clot and stop bleeding. By forcing your body to use all of your clotting factors creating internal blood clots, this venom can actually make the human body run out of clotting factors. In this case, even a tiny cut or even a spontaneous bleed can kill you because you simply cannot stop bleeding. In the medical field, we call this disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Outstanding documentary well produced. Not condescending or hyperbolic; good information delivered with respect for the audience. The US could learn from the Aussies in this regard. +1 subscriber!
am happy, am glad, I live in cold highlands of Kenya where its too cold for snakes to survive, and the first question is ask whenever i venture into those hot climate areas is, Are there snakes around? the answer to that question decides whether am staying in the car, driving back immediately, or staying on the trail at all possible costs
In Australia, we even have deadly ants. The Bulldog or jack jumper ant very large, huge mandibles, highly aggressive, ferocious with extremely potent venom. If you disturb an ant nest (even slightly) the next second the scouts (ants) come from everywhere in search of you.
Y'all have a beautiful country and I really want to visit Queensland to see Steve Irwin's crocodile park but dang am I afraid to even step foot outside if I went lol do y'all have any clue as to why you have such a large concentration of venomous diversity in your country? Not trying to be sarcastic or smart or anything just genuinely would like to know
The BEST docu on snakes I’ve seen to date. The ‘rating’ graphics system is, by far, the most efficient loader to the backbrain for long term recall. I have screen-capped them all. Great reference sourcing. This is the way it is and should be done.
I’m actually impressed with this video. A big 👍 for the accurate information given. I love reptiles always have.As a reptile keeper I’m always looking for videos or documentaries with educational content 😁
I would love to know more info on the medical progress being made for humans through the venom and toxins used to help diseases, cancer, chronic pain, ms, Parkinson etc.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of this scale including other species like the Copperhead, cotton mouth, coral snake, black and green Mambas etc.
Cottonmouths have a medically significant bite. Copperheads not so much. I have never seen a patient die from a copperhead. I have seen three bites from coral snakes (all from "professional " snake handlers.) As you would expect since they are closely related to cobra type snakes and have a neurotoxin as a venom, supporting airway breathing and cardio vascular is important. A doctor who has been dead from old age for 15 years, told me when I was working in rural Arizona, that they used to put patients on a ventilator and cardiac monitor and wait for symptoms to pass. I would guess this was between 1950 and 1970 that he was talking. Most rattlesnake bites that aren't dry bites are very clinically significant. Fasciatomies of whole limbs and amputations are not rare. Worse, rattle snake venom in areas frequently changes from hepatoxic to neurotoxic to cytotoxic
Five people have died in the past 20 years from copperhead bites. Only one person has died since 1971 from a cottonmouth and only one person has died from a coral snake bite since the late 1960s. Both victims who were bitten the cottonmouth and coral snake that died did not seek medical treatment. C r o f a b is the treatment for all North American pit vipers and North American coral snake Anti-Venom m i c r u r u s/ Pfizer Laboratories is the treatment all coral snake bites.
@@richardhincemon9423 if you got that off the Wikipedia site, there are errors on it. Even the gov web site has wrong count for many years. My ex girlfriend was an er nurse at Loma Linda back when I was a medic. They had multiple bites they reported but that never made the list. Yes cro fab is used, but Wyeth is also used. Along the Texas Mexico border I know of cases treated with an antivenon from Costa Rica that's readily available in Mexico. Of course since it is not fda approved, I am sure I never saw it used in us. On several occasions we had bite victims get the 4 vials or so of antivenon from the closest er and then go south to get tx in Mexico. The health care there sucks and you have to pay in advance, but they always had tons of the Costa Rica antivenon and also the bark scorpion antivenon. Strangely, the death rate in Mexico was horrendous in Mexico, compared to USA for the scorpion stings.
@@JohnGalt-vr3lx Pfizer Laboratories now produces Coral snake Anti-Venom which was discovered and produced by Wyeth Laboratories up until 2010 when production was halted. Pfizer Laboratories got involved with the production of coral snake anti-venom in 2017. Wake Medical Cary North Carolina was the source for the snake Death bites in the United States.
@@richardhincemon9423 the last couple times I used antivenom in the United States it was out of Australia processed in Britain I think. I occasionally work a 6 week contract in usa in a level one, just to keep my resume current. Now I work in other countries for defense contractors and oil field contractors. Better pay and less complaining.
I caught my 1st Mohave Green when I was 13. Took 15 years after that before I was bitten by a rattler, a Southern Pacific Western rattlesnake in North Los Angeles county. 20 vials of anti-venom later I eventually recovered 100%. The snake was 5'2" and the only record I found for the species was 5' 1'
@@rp4712 Crofab, the antivenom used for north american rattlesnake and cotonmouth bites, is incredibly expensive: hospitals charge around 4000usd per vial, and twelve vials are often required. So a bite can cost over 100k usd when hospital bills are included. Not much fun for those who are not insured!
@@johnschlesinger2009 And that all is assuming you get to a hospital that has the experience and expertise in snakebites. In the upper Midwest you're looking at a medical flight as many big hospital systems have basically zero experience or antivenom.
Very informative. Is there a more recent video on this site that has new information about these venomous animals? Would like to see it if possible. Thanks for sharing.
well they were like, "we heard that you kind of have some reputation in these parts and we kinda plan to do more filming mate. I'll be there and you be here :)"
Thank you for as long as I can remember growing up surrounded by wilderness all these questions. Biology as I later found out was a passion. You have in a lot of cases confirmed a lot of what I believed and other things I was totally unaware of, Both are great. Whether I was right or wrong was never the destination I required or needed. Just the truth after sifting through one personal belief or another for so long. Thanks so much, I knew someone else must be interested in true scientific truth.
The day after Thanksgiving last year I was bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake. What followed was the worst weekend in my life: 50 hours in the ICU while undergoing excruciating pain! These creatures are no joke!
@@LIZZIE-lizzie They try, but rattlesnake venom is nasty stuff. Some of then are neurotoxic aswell as being myotoxic. So the neurotoxin has your CNS going into overdrive, and the myotoxin is literally digesting your flesh. I've heard of people being put into medically induced comas to stop them going into shock from the pain, after particularly severe envenomation
I've always had a weird penchant for venomous animals. I've learned a lot about them. From everywhere. Small, large. Cuddly, frightening. And in places you would never think. To do justice to this reality, 50 min. is not enough. At the beginning there was one thing I don't remember him mentioning as to lethality: the individual.
Exactly, there is just so much more to this subject and this didn’t cover a lot. An important thing to add is that some people could be allergic to certain venoms, and the allergic reaction can kill faster than the venom itself. Like you said, 50 minutes is not enough, it doesn’t do this justice.
The narrator clearly said children and the elderly are the most vulnerable of being severely wounded or death. I think it is common sense if someone with latent AIDS will die if stung or bitten, or likewise anybody else with a medium to life threatening conditions will also suffer the same fate as the later. This is a general documentary for the public, not for medical school.
Very informative, and could use a second episode. It couldn't possibly be comprehensive, but it covered the tops. That was the point. Black mambas are supposed to have a 100% death rate without antivenin. Stonefish, puffers, and stats on most-treated for envenomations by species would also be interesting stats.
I was really digging the music in this video. You know, where they were scoring the danger rating of a particular creature. I was bopping along to it! Good times.
I'll never forget when I was 12 I went on a boy scouts camping trip to Oklahoma and while hiking near a cliff I stepped within 2 feet of a diamondback rattlesnake. Thank god it was sleeping and basking in the sun or I probably could've easily been bitten.
If I hadn't become a nurse this would have been my next area of interest, I have always been fascinated by dangerous animals and venom. There was a book back in highschool that I borrowed called Venom Patrol that ranked Australia animals out of harmless, cautious, dangerous and deadly.
@@Mayaman67 it had a few things in it but yeah definitely the least amount. It included huntsman spiders and daddy-long-legs, can't remember if there was anything else.
I shake my head like a madman and feels that my heart is pumping really fast. Not out of threat against the deadly creatures, but due to the background music.
This new approach to recognizing venom efficiency is very interesting. but to the list of the most dangerous venomous animals should include jararacussu and common lancehead in my opinion. not necessarily on the list of the top but at least a mention. also one might be considered worth mentioning is Blue Malayan coral snake it is rare but it's venom is very fast acting and there is no antivenom, same thing with golden lancehead. Also if mentioning western diamondback rattlesnake one should also mention the eastern one which has longer fangs and pore potent venom.
I agree, the Fer-De-Lance aka Barba Amarilla, Terciopelo (Bothrops sp.) should've been covered since it's responsible for the most snakebite deaths in Central & South America. The Bushmaster (Lachesis muta) as well, being the largest pit viper and there are very venomous rattlesnakes (Crotalus sp.) In Central & South America as well such as the Neotropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) which has a wide distribution. Eastern diamondbacks (Crotalus adamanteus) are a personal favorite, and may not have been mentioned since they're way more rare and have a relatively small geographical distribution compared to Western diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox). The Malaysian blue striped coral snake (Calliophis bivirgatus) is a fascinating snake, and has the longest venom glands and very potent venom since they hunt other venomous snakes like the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) Since the Blue coral snake's venom travels sodium ion channels like pain signals, it has interesting potential as a superior pain medicine. I will be first in line to try it, I promise you that 😃👍 since I don't metabolize many pain meds very well so they don't do much for my chronic pain. Ughh I feel like the tin man in the Wizard Of Oz when I first get up, now that it's getting cooler. Snakes and venom in general are a whole new frontier in the medical field & I can't wait to see what meds are developed from venoms. This is a good documentary but they did miss some very venomous species, I agree. 😁
@@metalmamasue3680 those are good points. I know that the video cannot go forever but they should also mention more rarely mentioned snakes like Israeli mole viper, Goldie' cobra sand if we are mentioning fer de lance we should obviously name the common one because of both strong toxins and large amount of bites. But I think golden fer de lance should also be mentioned as well precisely because its rarity and small distribution and having a very potent venom. Also if mentioning olive sea snake beaked sea snake should be mentioned as well I know that this name really stands for two unrelated snakes but this info should be given as well. I know very little about medicinal properties of venoms. I know conantokin of geographical cone snail can be very potent pain reliever that in nonaddictive unlike opioids. but that is about all I know. this is a good video but although video can't be that long making it little bit longer and giving info about more rare snakes in addition to more well known ones
That is sadly true... I live in Woodland Hills CA... I moved here from Ridgecrest which is about 150 miles away from Los Angeles it's basically a small town out in the desert... When I moved to the city everyone was so rude! But I got used to it unfortunately.
It's sheer size. It's like a great big python but with a venomous bite. And it won't back away from you. It'll rise up and strike you if you get too close and make a sudden movement.
Australia is a strategic and well-chosen location for Snakes to survive for decades and centuries to come. It is remote, it is not connected to the other continents and there are plenty hiding spots in Australia's vast desert.
While what the doctor says about the toxicity of the Sydney funnel-web spider is the main point, I think he's mistaken in saying it's the only spider deadly to humans. The Brazilian wandering spider has also killed humans and might even compete with the funnel-web for toxicity and aggression.
Of course the Brazilian Wandering Spider is far worse than the Sydney Funnel Web Spider because the word "Wandering" is in the name of the former. As a result; the Brazilian Wandering Spider is particularly deadly because they aren't confined to one area. The Sydney Funnel Web Spider is aptly named due to being found in and around the city of Sydney, Australia.
@@michaellovely6601 But there are other Funnel Webs besides the Sydney variety. And in any case, it's not a question of availability. The rarer one might be more deadly. So the question, to avoid this confusion, should be, supposing identical twins are bitten at the same time and in the same body-part, one by the wandering spider, the other by the funnel web, which twin is in more danger?
I should add one more point to avoid further confusion: the funnel web is said to always envenomate its victim, while the wandering spider often withholds its venom. So let's also suppose that both twins are fully envenomated.
is it the fer de lance? or maybe the common brown snake from australia? or would the black mamba be the most deadly? i know some sea snakes are incredibly venemous but they dont bite people very often at all
As a herpetologist I would be curious to know where the Boomslang features in this test. Boomslang venom is ridiculously effective on humans and is almost always universally fatal if it is not a dry bite.
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that the reason it's not mentioned here is because the boomslang is arboreal, classified as a tree snake. Since this video is about venoms that are dangerous to humans, and because this new "rating system" takes "exposure to humans" who rarely live in trees into account, I'd say all of that, put together, is why they didn't include the boomslang.
I heard that there were people looking for them in their natural environment and only found 6 in 2 years. They r being bred in captivity though. I think I heard that there's no anti venom that works on their bite.
guardians animal rescue/ state certified 501c3 there is a program on the National Geographic channel titled Snake City which has filmed six complete seasons. It’s about a man and woman in Durban, South Africa who remove and relocate venomous snakes and various other reptiles from residences back to the wild, and they have found and removed a few boomslangs during every season so far. The South African Vaccine Producers manufacture a monovalent antivenom for Boomslang bites that is very effective, but as with several African colubrid and elapid species, time is of the essence - if one doesn’t make it to a facility which stocks the antivenom in time, one may not live to tell about it. However, since boomslang venom is a hemotoxin, they are more likely to only lose a finger or part of a limb.
Would the fact they are also rear fanged figure into the equation? And I have read, albeit many years ago, that they are usually not very aggressive overall.
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That is something my Grandpa (God bless his soul) told me from all the years he spent watching Western movies. My Grandpa always enjoyed watching Western movies because they had in his words "Horse shit and gunpowder!"
One time I was out walking in the woods and I started up this ravine and came upon these huge rock slabs so thinking there might be some arrow heads I stuck my hand under this big rock feeling around. I did this about three different rocks. The wind was blowing real hard so finally I stood up to give my back a rest and when I turned around on 3 big rocks there was about 4 rattle snakes. Because of the wind I couldn't hear the rattling. I leaped up on the rock because they were all around me. When I stopped screaming I got ahold of myself then looking carefully where I was jumping I took a big leap and got the hell out of there and I never went back. Had I gone up when it was cooler and the sun wasn't shining I most certainly would have been bitten. I will never forget that as long as I live
Sea Anemones are awesome!! It’s super crazy clown fish can snuggle up in them like a comfy blanket but any other fish will be stung and eaten!! Nature is amazing that’s for sure and salt water reefs house some of the most beautiful fish and vertebrates on the planted! Great video!
The most venomous in Australia are both jelly fish. One is the Irikanji the size of your little finger nail. The the other is Chironex, the Infamous box jelly fish. The threat is so severe that in the southern summer in northern Australia most beaches are closed and warning signs are erected
I live in phoenix and while I've never seen a rattlesnake or a Gila monster, we find bark scorpions in our house all the time. I've been stung twice. Its horribly painful and causes cramping and numbness for days throughout the entire limb stung. I have to disagree with the statement "unlikely to strike unless provoked" I've had bark scorpions chase me in my house! They are usually shy but can be very aggressive
Rachel Magowan that must be a nightmare, especially since the bark scorpion has the most toxic venom or is considered the most dangerous scorpion in the United States.
What?? I go herping in glades and I've been stung on the hand by bark scorpions tons of times. It just feels like a honey bee sting. It's not that painful. Are you allergic to there venom??
I don't know why they keep saying bullshit harmless until provoked in term of snakes also. I was chased by a cobra when crossing tea plantation in India. I saw the snake at least from 100 meter away than next min he is like 5 meter away from my feet coming aggressively at me to bite me. He chased me like 5 min until I got resqued by local farmers. They killed the snake and accused me of provoking the snake which never did.....Everyone act like they are like girly shy but its total opposite. Those snakes react aggressively 9 out of 10 times when they see human unprovoked.....
I always thought that the mambas - black and green - were extremely dangerous. I heard of a snakekeeper who was feeding a mamba and felt it brush against his hand. Turns out he was envenomated. He was able to seek help quickly because he was in his lab at the time. But it was something like 15' 'till he felt himself convulsing slightly. I think the mambas should have been covered here.
Yes, mambas, especially the black mamba, are very dangerous, but they cause few bites. The documentary had to be selective, otherwise it would have been many hours long! Another deadly snake genus not included was bothrops - these south american pit vipers are deadly, especially the larger ones such as b. Asper.
From my understanding, the Taipan is the most venomous but not the most dangerous. Mambas are more dangerous because they are highly aggressive. That's what some of the documentaries were saying.
Agreed. Mambas don't even have to go on the attack to envenomate a person. They are very dangerous, and a park ranger in Krueger Park was bitten and envenomated by a black mamba and he slowly walked to his vehicle to try to slow down the venom coursing through his bloodstream. He was also puking (one of the symptoms of envenomation from a mamba) out the side of his vehicle as he drove to get medical help, so he's lucky to have survived being envenomated as well. Dry bites also happen when a venomous snake delivers a puncture wound without injecting its venom and are more common. Dry bites are not a guarantee nor do they make you immune to the effects of venom, snake and otherwise.
The Fer-de-Lance, (aka Barba Amarilla, Terciopelo) (Bothrops sp.) as well is responsible for many bites in Central and South America and is the #1 cause of snakebite deaths. The Bushmaster (Lachesis muta) as well should've been covered to be thorough.
Agreed! There are four types of Mambas with the Black Mamba (called "Black" as the inside of its mouth is black but its outer skin is usually gray) being the most lethal. This reptile can also be very aggressive when feeling threatened, is arguably the fastest moving snake on our planet, always envenomates when biting its victim with a huge amount of extremely toxic venom which if left untreated in a very short period of time would result in almost certain death. And finally, while this extremely dangerous elapid is only native to Africa, the ever increasing urbanisation in Africa (such as the large city of Durban in South Africa) has encroached on the Mamba's natural habitat whereby a conflict now exists where there had been almost none before.
I hope that since this was made that Cali hospital figured out why they were treating 3 - 4 rattlesnake bites a day. Rattlers are notorious avoiders and also give an unmistakeable warning, so it has to be that it's the people who are doing something very wrong, like intentionally getting too close to them.
There's 4 million people in the city of Los Angeles, and 10 million people in the County of Los Angeles. There's a lot of rats and ground squirrels for the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake to eat. And there's a lot of dumb people in Los Angeles, that try to pick them up or handle them or just plain doing stupid stuff... The most common of all to get bit here in Los Angeles is a young male out camping, drinking, stoned, 16 to 25 years of age, that's trying to show off in front of friends or girlfriends, how brave ( or stupid) they are. USC Medical Center in East LA is renowned for their poisonous toxins facilities. Easy to get airlifted in there quickly, best medical staff.
@@passattdise The same can be said for the staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, CA. They have what is known as the Venom ER; which was featured on a show on Animal Planet in conjunction with the BBC.
I spent untold hours in woods, creeks and often ponds barefoot and rarely encountered snakes. I'm in the south. Want to have fun. Swim in a pond at night without lights. No way in hell I would do it now. Never thought about snapping turtles at the time.
You also left out the Black Widow, Pufferfish, Stonefish, Brown Recluse Spider or the Violin Spider, and the Brazilian Wandering Spider or Banana Spider. Don't forget the Komodo Dragon and the Vampire Bat.
Poisons are just a hobby with me, but this seemed more accurate than a lot of the more sensational videos on the topic. They did miss the Fer De Lance, a very large viper in most of S. America and the Caribbean islands. It's my understanding that because of its size, it delivers a basic boatload of venom.
When telling how dangerous snake is... And how many humans a snake kills... The "concerned" wildlife filmmakers forget to mention the amount of snakes killed by humans per year.
@@TheCrouchingZebra The Major threat to Florida's ecosystem are Burmese Python because Humans brought them as pets and released them in the near by wilderness when they got too big for them. And now the local wildlife species from reptiles to amphibians are suffering. Snakes are not the problem. Snakes avoid altercations with humans as much as possible. They leave you alone if you don't try and hurt them.
@@SameerBhalekar even though it was caused by humans, pythons are still the problem and they need to be exterminated lol. Not gonna let those things live just because some ignorant kids released their snakes in the wild and it's 'not their fault.' Same goes with Asian carp... They didn't swim into the great lakes themselves but they still are a major issue and should be k1lled en masse
Haha "Doctor Jamie Seymour and _Venom enthusiast_ Jules Sylvester" 😅 It just struck me particularly hilarious. (apparently lol) That's like the so-called; "Metal detection expert," on that Oak Island program, on the History Channel. 😁 What a profession title! 👍 Doctor Jamie Seymour was on board "Croc One" with Lyons and Steve Irwin the day Irwin was killed by a stingray barb to the heart. He's been responsible for clearing up the bulk of the misinformation and rumours propagated by people following the incident, helping separate fact from fiction primarily for the Irwin family and Steve's legacy. And he's a brilliant Doctor, Australia is fortunate to have him. ✌
Worlds Oldest Snake Joke Snake 1 : Are we venomous ? Snake 2 : Why? Snake 1 : I've just bit my tongue. Dated 37 B.C Written on a wall of an Egyptian Tomb
Loved this documentary. It's very interesting to see how different venoms work and how some venomous creatures are more lethal than others. I knew that Australia had quite a few deadly snakes, spiders and marine creatures, but when it came to Africa, I always thought the most deadly snake was the Black Mamba. Can anyone confirm this?
Australia has the top 8 deadliest drop for drop of venom, inotherwords, the deadliest on the planet, however, far less people are bitten as they're not living on top of them with high density populations
While venomous snakes in Australia live in the outback, American venomous snakes mainly live in Washington DC.
This is the best comment on this video!!! You sir are completely correct!!!!!
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This is without question the best documentary on this subject I've ever seen.
It acknowledges the most venomous but shows the most deadly to humans.
Well made
Yeah its crazy right you watch videos trying to learn about how dangerous snakes are and most of the lists always top with the inland taipan, a snake that has caused either 0 or one death hotly debated based on a death in the 1930's. I saw a video of Steve Erwin lying down with the Taipan about 3 inches from his face just slithering looking for a route to get back to hunting mice.
From the studies I have seen a few years ago... there were only a handful of bites known to be from the Inland Taipan. One was even a bite to the trunk. None proved fatal and there was no specific antivenin made for such bites at the time. Either they must have a high.percentage of dry bites or the cellular cardio-toxicity doesn't necessarily translate to human mortality/morbidly...in the real world! The other aspect with the vast majority of Australian snakebites is the efficacy of pressure bandaging for bites on the limbs in connection with the preponderance of neuro-toxins among the continents venomous snakes. Lastly, from the most reliable reports out of Australia... the Eastern Brown seems to be responsible for more snake bite fatalities than all others combined... which is attributable to not only the numbers of the snakes in populated areas, but also the potency of the venom factors including Textilotoxin, which I believe is it pre-synaptic neurotoxin.. For further information on the venom...see: Toxicon article on the venom of the Australian Eastern Brown snake published in 2015!
bravo
true
And totally left out that King Cobras are NOT true Cobras. They are ophiophagus hannah and not a member of the Naja family of true Cobras
They did not explain why the blood clotting venom of the Eastern Brown can kill you by hemorrhage after so I thought, as a nurse, I would offer some insight. Your blood requires several clotting factors in order to form a blood clot and stop bleeding. By forcing your body to use all of your clotting factors creating internal blood clots, this venom can actually make the human body run out of clotting factors. In this case, even a tiny cut or even a spontaneous bleed can kill you because you simply cannot stop bleeding. In the medical field, we call this disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Outstanding documentary well produced. Not condescending or hyperbolic; good information delivered with respect for the audience. The US could learn from the Aussies in this regard.
+1 subscriber!
Americans are interested in dollars .They think planet is there personnel property , Ecosystem should be destroyed so american industries flourish .
@@vikasshelke5544 speaking as an American you are completely wrong.
Real Wild is a US digital documentary channel.
@@Salmiyaguy1 yes, but the experts are outside professional consultants. They don't work at the channel
I would say since us has to back up the aussies in every conflict the should be careful how they talk about us
Respect to the people who had to film this
cameramen never die tho, but respect to their massive balls having camera men lol
I respect people who stay away from snakes.
Respect to all the snakes and other venomous wildlife who took part in this documentary.
and respect to those few that got bitten (just for the sake of filming,may their souls rest in peace)!
Definitely 🙌🏽😂 I’m creeped out just watching this but I’m still here.. 😩
am happy, am glad, I live in cold highlands of Kenya where its too cold for snakes to survive, and the first question is ask whenever i venture into those hot climate areas is, Are there snakes around? the answer to that question decides whether am staying in the car, driving back immediately, or staying on the trail at all possible costs
In Australia, we even have deadly ants. The Bulldog or jack jumper ant very large, huge mandibles, highly aggressive, ferocious with extremely potent venom. If you disturb an ant nest (even slightly) the next second the scouts (ants) come from everywhere in search of you.
Y'all have a beautiful country and I really want to visit Queensland to see Steve Irwin's crocodile park but dang am I afraid to even step foot outside if I went lol do y'all have any clue as to why you have such a large concentration of venomous diversity in your country? Not trying to be sarcastic or smart or anything just genuinely would like to know
Ants and bees are straight savage u disturb them all they think about is kill kill.. lol
where so I know where not to go
@@sassyd8738 all of the continent
@@Splintz246 lol ive been here 25 years been bit by an insect twice. Youll be right
At last,a Sensible and informative documentary about venomous snakes.Narrated in perfect English.
The BEST docu on snakes I’ve seen to date. The ‘rating’ graphics system is, by far, the most efficient loader to the backbrain for long term recall. I have screen-capped them all. Great reference sourcing.
This is the way it is and should be done.
I’m actually impressed with this video. A big 👍 for the accurate information given. I love reptiles always have.As a reptile keeper I’m always looking for videos or documentaries with educational content 😁
Yes you are right a great one
I would love to know more info on the medical progress being made for humans through the venom and toxins used to help diseases, cancer, chronic pain, ms, Parkinson etc.
Inaccurate and incomplete!
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of this scale including other species like the Copperhead, cotton mouth, coral snake, black and green Mambas etc.
Cottonmouths have a medically significant bite. Copperheads not so much. I have never seen a patient die from a copperhead. I have seen three bites from coral snakes (all from "professional " snake handlers.) As you would expect since they are closely related to cobra type snakes and have a neurotoxin as a venom, supporting airway breathing and cardio vascular is important. A doctor who has been dead from old age for 15 years, told me when I was working in rural Arizona, that they used to put patients on a ventilator and cardiac monitor and wait for symptoms to pass. I would guess this was between 1950 and 1970 that he was talking. Most rattlesnake bites that aren't dry bites are very clinically significant. Fasciatomies of whole limbs and amputations are not rare. Worse, rattle snake venom in areas frequently changes from hepatoxic to neurotoxic to cytotoxic
Five people have died in the past 20 years from copperhead bites. Only one person has died since 1971 from a cottonmouth and only one person has died from a coral snake bite since the late 1960s. Both victims who were bitten the cottonmouth and coral snake that died did not seek medical treatment. C r o f a b is the treatment for all North American pit vipers and North American coral snake Anti-Venom m i c r u r u s/ Pfizer Laboratories is the treatment all coral snake bites.
@@richardhincemon9423 if you got that off the Wikipedia site, there are errors on it. Even the gov web site has wrong count for many years. My ex girlfriend was an er nurse at Loma Linda back when I was a medic. They had multiple bites they reported but that never made the list. Yes cro fab is used, but Wyeth is also used. Along the Texas Mexico border I know of cases treated with an antivenon from Costa Rica that's readily available in Mexico. Of course since it is not fda approved, I am sure I never saw it used in us. On several occasions we had bite victims get the 4 vials or so of antivenon from the closest er and then go south to get tx in Mexico. The health care there sucks and you have to pay in advance, but they always had tons of the Costa Rica antivenon and also the bark scorpion antivenon. Strangely, the death rate in Mexico was horrendous in Mexico, compared to USA for the scorpion stings.
@@JohnGalt-vr3lx Pfizer Laboratories now produces Coral snake Anti-Venom which was discovered and produced by Wyeth Laboratories up until 2010 when production was halted. Pfizer Laboratories got involved with the production of coral snake anti-venom in 2017. Wake Medical Cary North Carolina was the source for the snake Death bites in the United States.
@@richardhincemon9423 the last couple times I used antivenom in the United States it was out of Australia processed in Britain I think. I occasionally work a 6 week contract in usa in a level one, just to keep my resume current. Now I work in other countries for defense contractors and oil field contractors. Better pay and less complaining.
I caught my 1st Mohave Green when I was 13. Took 15 years after that before I was bitten by a rattler, a Southern Pacific Western rattlesnake in North Los Angeles county. 20 vials of anti-venom later I eventually recovered 100%. The snake was 5'2" and the only record I found for the species was 5' 1'
Was that really expensive, I heard antivenin was expensive in America? I live in Australia, so it’s relatively inexpensive
Oh! Really
@@rp4712 Crofab, the antivenom used for north american rattlesnake and cotonmouth bites, is incredibly expensive: hospitals charge around 4000usd per vial, and twelve vials are often required. So a bite can cost over 100k usd when hospital bills are included. Not much fun for those who are not insured!
@@johnschlesinger2009 And that all is assuming you get to a hospital that has the experience and expertise in snakebites. In the upper Midwest you're looking at a medical flight as many big hospital systems have basically zero experience or antivenom.
Glad you are still with us.🙏😁
Very informative. Is there a more recent video on this site that has new information about these venomous animals? Would like to see it if possible. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for your great work in this profound informational documentary.
I like how they filmed a mamba but didn't talk about it :(
Why did u like it then?
Maybe scared of its speed.
Me too bro
A sign of R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
well they were like, "we heard that you kind of have some reputation in these parts and we kinda plan to do more filming mate. I'll be there and you be here :)"
Very good and interesting comment about the venemous snakes living in Washington D.C. , and very funny, and very true 😅
Thank you for as long as I can remember growing up surrounded by wilderness all these questions. Biology as I later found out was a passion. You have in a lot of cases confirmed a lot of what I believed and other things I was totally unaware of, Both are great. Whether I was right or wrong was never the destination I required or needed. Just the truth after sifting through one personal belief or another for so long. Thanks so much, I knew someone else must be interested in true scientific truth.
daniel berggren I find it fascinating myself I hope to work somewhere in animal care field myself
We need more videos like this. Well done
Just giving a polite reminder that the majority of snake bites in the US are a result of improperly handling a wild snake.
Incredible documentary, thank you
a very interesting documentary really loved it
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
12:15 I like how that guy's reaction to being bitten was just "Hey!"
Also this guy 22:22.
Lol! Thanks, that was too funny :D "hey, no!"
The day after Thanksgiving last year I was bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake. What followed was the worst weekend in my life: 50 hours in the ICU while undergoing excruciating pain! These creatures are no joke!
It's no joke they couldn't give you anything for the pain ??
@@LIZZIE-lizzie They try, but rattlesnake venom is nasty stuff. Some of then are neurotoxic aswell as being myotoxic. So the neurotoxin has your CNS going into overdrive, and the myotoxin is literally digesting your flesh.
I've heard of people being put into medically induced comas to stop them going into shock from the pain, after particularly severe envenomation
I don't blame snakes at all tho
How are u now?
I used to let venomous snakes bite me as a child. Now I'm immune to their venom.
I've always had a weird penchant for venomous animals.
I've learned a lot about them. From everywhere. Small, large. Cuddly, frightening. And in places you would never think.
To do justice to this reality, 50 min. is not enough.
At the beginning there was one thing I don't remember him mentioning as to lethality: the individual.
Exactly, there is just so much more to this subject and this didn’t cover a lot. An important thing to add is that some people could be allergic to certain venoms, and the allergic reaction can kill faster than the venom itself. Like you said, 50 minutes is not enough, it doesn’t do this justice.
The narrator clearly said children and the elderly are the most vulnerable of being severely wounded or death. I think it is common sense if someone with latent AIDS will die if stung or bitten, or likewise anybody else with a medium to life threatening conditions will also suffer the same fate as the later. This is a general documentary for the public, not for medical school.
Very informative, and could use a second episode. It couldn't possibly be comprehensive, but it covered the tops. That was the point. Black mambas are supposed to have a 100% death rate without antivenin. Stonefish, puffers, and stats on most-treated for envenomations by species would also be interesting stats.
It is currently 2am, and I’m not sure how I ended up here.
alex tourlas deadass same
Funny enough i was watching the rikki Gervais show and Karl pilkington roughly 3hrs ago and now...🤔? LOL
I was really digging the music in this video. You know, where they were scoring the danger rating of a particular creature. I was bopping along to it! Good times.
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Most documentaries on this topic are sensationalist nonsense, this however is fascinating, full of facts and intelligently presented.
I'll never forget when I was 12 I went on a boy scouts camping trip to Oklahoma and while hiking near a cliff I stepped within 2 feet of a diamondback rattlesnake. Thank god it was sleeping and basking in the sun or I probably could've easily been bitten.
Oh my!
If I hadn't become a nurse this would have been my next area of interest, I have always been fascinated by dangerous animals and venom. There was a book back in highschool that I borrowed called Venom Patrol that ranked Australia animals out of harmless, cautious, dangerous and deadly.
I imagine the chapter named, "harmless" was very short!
@@Mayaman67 it had a few things in it but yeah definitely the least amount. It included huntsman spiders and daddy-long-legs, can't remember if there was anything else.
This was incredibly well done. Many thanks 🙏
I shake my head like a madman and feels that my heart is pumping really fast. Not out of threat against the deadly creatures, but due to the background music.
The music from the Venom Rating Screen sounds like a snowboarding game screen adding your points between levels
Louis Einhorn
"We may someday owe our lives to some of the most dangerous, venomous creatures in the world."
Nature is poetically just.
This new approach to recognizing venom efficiency is very interesting. but to the list of the most dangerous venomous animals should include jararacussu and common lancehead in my opinion. not necessarily on the list of the top but at least a mention. also one might be considered worth mentioning is Blue Malayan coral snake it is rare but it's venom is very fast acting and there is no antivenom, same thing with golden lancehead. Also if mentioning western diamondback rattlesnake one should also mention the eastern one which has longer fangs and pore potent venom.
I agree, the Fer-De-Lance aka Barba Amarilla, Terciopelo (Bothrops sp.) should've been covered since it's responsible for the most snakebite deaths in Central & South America.
The Bushmaster (Lachesis muta) as well, being the largest pit viper and there are very venomous rattlesnakes (Crotalus sp.) In Central & South America as well such as the Neotropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) which has a wide distribution.
Eastern diamondbacks (Crotalus adamanteus) are a personal favorite, and may not have been mentioned since they're way more rare and have a relatively small geographical distribution compared to Western diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox).
The Malaysian blue striped coral snake (Calliophis bivirgatus) is a fascinating snake, and has the longest venom glands and very potent venom since they hunt other venomous snakes like the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Since the Blue coral snake's venom travels sodium ion channels like pain signals, it has interesting potential as a superior pain medicine.
I will be first in line to try it, I promise you that 😃👍 since I don't metabolize many pain meds very well so they don't do much for my chronic pain. Ughh I feel like the tin man in the Wizard Of Oz when I first get up, now that it's getting cooler.
Snakes and venom in general are a whole new frontier in the medical field & I can't wait to see what meds are developed from venoms.
This is a good documentary but they did miss some very venomous species, I agree. 😁
@@metalmamasue3680 those are good points. I know that the video cannot go forever but they should also mention more rarely mentioned snakes like Israeli mole viper, Goldie' cobra sand if we are mentioning fer de lance we should obviously name the common one because of both strong toxins and large amount of bites. But I think golden fer de lance should also be mentioned as well precisely because its rarity and small distribution and having a very potent venom. Also if mentioning olive sea snake beaked sea snake should be mentioned as well I know that this name really stands for two unrelated snakes but this info should be given as well. I know very little about medicinal properties of venoms. I know conantokin of geographical cone snail can be very potent pain reliever that in nonaddictive unlike opioids. but that is about all I know. this is a good video but although video can't be that long making it little bit longer and giving info about more rare snakes in addition to more well known ones
Great Documentary!
''Like most city dwellers , they're easily annoyed' 🤣🤣🤣
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That is sadly true... I live in Woodland Hills CA... I moved here from Ridgecrest which is about 150 miles away from Los Angeles it's basically a small town out in the desert... When I moved to the city everyone was so rude! But I got used to it unfortunately.
It is so cool I am watching every video of yours!!!
this is very knowledgable venomus documentary.really thanks.......
I don’t really like snakes and find them scary, BUT. I must say there is something about the king cobra that I think is mesmerising
It's sheer size. It's like a great big python but with a venomous bite. And it won't back away from you. It'll rise up and strike you if you get too close and make a sudden movement.
I agree some are enchanting and beautiful but i would not dare to be around a king Cobra Perioddd
Australia is a strategic and well-chosen location for Snakes to survive for decades and centuries to come. It is remote, it is not connected to the other continents and there are plenty hiding spots in Australia's vast desert.
While what the doctor says about the toxicity of the Sydney funnel-web spider is the main point, I think he's mistaken in saying it's the only spider deadly to humans. The Brazilian wandering spider has also killed humans and might even compete with the funnel-web for toxicity and aggression.
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@@hagianjing9167 Exactly!
Of course the Brazilian Wandering Spider is far worse than the Sydney Funnel Web Spider because the word "Wandering" is in the name of the former. As a result; the Brazilian Wandering Spider is particularly deadly because they aren't confined to one area. The Sydney Funnel Web Spider is aptly named due to being found in and around the city of Sydney, Australia.
@@michaellovely6601 But there are other Funnel Webs besides the Sydney variety. And in any case, it's not a question of availability. The rarer one might be more deadly. So the question, to avoid this confusion, should be, supposing identical twins are bitten at the same time and in the same body-part, one by the wandering spider, the other by the funnel web, which twin is in more danger?
I should add one more point to avoid further confusion: the funnel web is said to always envenomate its victim, while the wandering spider often withholds its venom. So let's also suppose that both twins are fully envenomated.
A really excellent documentary - very informative indeed.
What an interesting documentary…love the comparison chart because that is the most relevant…
I am under the impression that the most deadly snake in the world is the one that just bit you.
Rod Kirt Agree💯
well not all snakes are venomous
That's quite a stupid measuring system.
Jayrod M It’s one most likely to keep you alive, because you will seek treatment immediately.
@@charlesanderson1422 I sincerely hope people don't get bit by unknown snake and think I doubt its the venomous but you never know
is it the fer de lance? or maybe the common brown snake from australia? or would the black mamba be the most deadly? i know some sea snakes are incredibly venemous but they dont bite people very often at all
What's the name of the song playing in the background while showing the scale system
thanks, Real Wild.
As a herpetologist I would be curious to know where the Boomslang features in this test. Boomslang venom is ridiculously effective on humans and is almost always universally fatal if it is not a dry bite.
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that the reason it's not mentioned here is because the boomslang is arboreal, classified as a tree snake. Since this video is about venoms that are dangerous to humans, and because this new "rating system" takes "exposure to humans" who rarely live in trees into account, I'd say all of that, put together, is why they didn't include the boomslang.
I heard that there were people looking for them in their natural environment and only found 6 in 2 years. They r being bred in captivity though. I think I heard that there's no anti venom that works on their bite.
guardians animal rescue/ state certified 501c3 there is a program on the National Geographic channel titled Snake City which has filmed six complete seasons. It’s about a man and woman in Durban, South Africa who remove and relocate venomous snakes and various other reptiles from residences back to the wild, and they have found and removed a few boomslangs during every season so far. The South African Vaccine Producers manufacture a monovalent antivenom for Boomslang bites that is very effective, but as with several African colubrid and elapid species, time is of the essence - if one doesn’t make it to a facility which stocks the antivenom in time, one may not live to tell about it. However, since boomslang venom is a hemotoxin, they are more likely to only lose a finger or part of a limb.
James TheDoctor Duncan
Oh good to know.
I do watch that show all the time
Would the fact they are also rear fanged figure into the equation? And I have read, albeit many years ago, that they are usually not very aggressive overall.
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Everything is deadly in Australia!
Some other highly dangerous creatures to consider:
1. Brazilian wandering spider, 2. Poison dart frog, 3. Stonefish, 4. Black mamba, 5. Pufferfish
Puffer fish and Dart frogs are poisonous not venomous. I do agree with the othe three
@@mpumilanga2409 Ikr venom and poison are two different things
Thank you very educational doco.
Me, Every time he said "& now we're going BACK to Australia" - NO SHIT!!! Lol
I love venomous snakes but I appreciate them from a distance or in a zoo
Me too 😂 hope most ppl agree with you
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Brilliant doc that was really enjoyed it
Very interesting documentary thank you
I like venomous snakes, but I appreciate them in a “quadruple-glazed” box. 😂
No shit Sherlock 😂
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Credit to you guys , I really appreciate this documentary film. 🎉😊😊
*"forget about sucking out venom, that's strictly out in the movie"*
I mean what a way to kill hope XD
That is something my Grandpa (God bless his soul) told me from all the years he spent watching Western movies. My Grandpa always enjoyed watching Western movies because they had in his words "Horse shit and gunpowder!"
THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO. BE CAREFUL AND SAFE MY FRIEND.
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the snake at 8:01 is a red diamond rattlesnake, not a southern pacific like the documentary suggests
One time I was out walking in the woods and I started up this ravine and came upon these huge rock slabs so thinking there might be some arrow heads I stuck my hand under this big rock feeling around. I did this about three different rocks. The wind was blowing real hard so finally I stood up to give my back a rest and when I turned around on 3 big rocks there was about 4 rattle snakes. Because of the wind I couldn't hear the rattling. I leaped up on the rock because they were all around me. When I stopped screaming I got ahold of myself then looking carefully where I was jumping I took a big leap and got the hell out of there and I never went back. Had I gone up when it was cooler and the sun wasn't shining I most certainly would have been bitten. I will never forget that as long as I live
Why didn't you look first😭 you could have died!
Scary stuff. That'll be with you for life HUH ☺️.
Sea Anemones are awesome!! It’s super crazy clown fish can snuggle up in them like a comfy blanket but any other fish will be stung and eaten!! Nature is amazing that’s for sure and salt water reefs house some of the most beautiful fish and vertebrates on the planted! Great video!
We need you doing this science. It is very important.
The most venomous in Australia are both jelly fish. One is the Irikanji the size of your little finger nail. The the other is Chironex, the Infamous box jelly fish. The threat is so severe that in the southern summer in northern Australia most beaches are closed and warning signs are erected
Everytime he says kill... I think of the guy off forged in fire saying...
''It will keeeel''
Well done Jamie dude. Why not do a similar study on world wide insect venoms too? And I'd do one on animal poisons too.
Informative video. Well done.
Thank you!
Truly excellent content.
I live in phoenix and while I've never seen a rattlesnake or a Gila monster, we find bark scorpions in our house all the time. I've been stung twice. Its horribly painful and causes cramping and numbness for days throughout the entire limb stung. I have to disagree with the statement "unlikely to strike unless provoked" I've had bark scorpions chase me in my house! They are usually shy but can be very aggressive
Rachel Magowan that must be a nightmare, especially since the bark scorpion has the most toxic venom or is considered the most dangerous scorpion in the United States.
Damn thing chase me i will shit my pants
What?? I go herping in glades and I've been stung on the hand by bark scorpions tons of times. It just feels like a honey bee sting. It's not that painful. Are you allergic to there venom??
I don't know why they keep saying bullshit harmless until provoked in term of snakes also. I was chased by a cobra when crossing tea plantation in India. I saw the snake at least from 100 meter away than next min he is like 5 meter away from my feet coming aggressively at me to bite me. He chased me like 5 min until I got resqued by local farmers. They killed the snake and accused me of provoking the snake which never did.....Everyone act like they are like girly shy but its total opposite. Those snakes react aggressively 9 out of 10 times when they see human unprovoked.....
@@m.n.s.s2825 not all snakes bro and those cobras in India aren't really scared of human interaction so I'm not surprised that it happened
This Documentary about Snakes is beautiful I like it !.... Thank you so very much for posting !/ Ross🙎🏻
Wow.. Amazing 🔆👍👍📈
Very well done and informative video
Bast documentary on this topic ever made❤
I always thought that the mambas - black and green - were extremely dangerous. I heard of a snakekeeper who was feeding a mamba and felt it brush against his hand. Turns out he was envenomated. He was able to seek help quickly because he was in his lab at the time. But it was something like 15' 'till he felt himself convulsing slightly. I think the mambas should have been covered here.
Yes, mambas, especially the black mamba, are very dangerous, but they cause few bites. The documentary had to be selective, otherwise it would have been many hours long! Another deadly snake genus not included was bothrops - these south american pit vipers are deadly, especially the larger ones such as b. Asper.
From my understanding, the Taipan is the most venomous but not the most dangerous. Mambas are more dangerous because they are highly aggressive. That's what some of the documentaries were saying.
Agreed. Mambas don't even have to go on the attack to envenomate a person.
They are very dangerous, and a park ranger in Krueger Park was bitten and envenomated by a black mamba and he slowly walked to his vehicle to try to slow down the venom coursing through his bloodstream. He was also puking (one of the symptoms of envenomation from a mamba) out the side of his vehicle as he drove to get medical help, so he's lucky to have survived being envenomated as well.
Dry bites also happen when a venomous snake delivers a puncture wound without injecting its venom and are more common.
Dry bites are not a guarantee nor do they make you immune to the effects of venom, snake and otherwise.
The Fer-de-Lance, (aka Barba Amarilla, Terciopelo) (Bothrops sp.) as well is responsible for many bites in Central and South America and is the #1 cause of snakebite deaths. The Bushmaster (Lachesis muta) as well should've been covered to be thorough.
Agreed! There are four types of Mambas with the Black Mamba (called "Black" as the inside of its mouth is black but its outer skin is usually gray) being the most lethal. This reptile can also be very aggressive when feeling threatened, is arguably the fastest moving snake on our planet, always envenomates when biting its victim with a huge amount of extremely toxic venom which if left untreated in a very short period of time would result in almost certain death. And finally, while this extremely dangerous elapid is only native to Africa, the ever increasing urbanisation in Africa (such as the large city of Durban in South Africa) has encroached on the Mamba's natural habitat whereby a conflict now exists where there had been almost none before.
I hope that since this was made that Cali hospital figured out why they were treating 3 - 4 rattlesnake bites a day. Rattlers are notorious avoiders and also give an unmistakeable warning, so it has to be that it's the people who are doing something very wrong, like intentionally getting too close to them.
There's 4 million people in the city of Los Angeles, and 10 million people in the County of Los Angeles. There's a lot of rats and ground squirrels for the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake to eat. And there's a lot of dumb people in Los Angeles, that try to pick them up or handle them or just plain doing stupid stuff... The most common of all to get bit here in Los Angeles is a young male out camping, drinking, stoned, 16 to 25 years of age, that's trying to show off in front of friends or girlfriends, how brave ( or stupid) they are. USC Medical Center in East LA is renowned for their poisonous toxins facilities. Easy to get airlifted in there quickly, best medical staff.
@@passattdise The same can be said for the staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, CA. They have what is known as the Venom ER; which was featured on a show on Animal Planet in conjunction with the BBC.
Loved the documentary!
The re-enactments and yelps for help are hilarious.😄👍🏾
Interesting video. Box jellyfish is truly terrifying when you look at the numbers 🤐
I always wonder why these specialists go on to find snakes with wearing shorts.
Because it's freaking hot in countries where you find deadly snakes and you have to search for hours to find them (or at least one) LOL
I spent untold hours in woods, creeks and often ponds barefoot and rarely encountered snakes. I'm in the south. Want to have fun. Swim in a pond at night without lights. No way in hell I would do it now. Never thought about snapping turtles at the time.
Like long pants are going to stop a snake bite. ??
The snakes are paid actors
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Steve RIP , he always use to deal with snakes.
Amazingly he did not die from snake venom.
You also left out the Black Widow, Pufferfish, Stonefish, Brown Recluse Spider or the Violin Spider, and the Brazilian Wandering Spider or Banana Spider. Don't forget the Komodo Dragon and the Vampire Bat.
The only one on your list who give me the creeps is the bat. Remember the Hendra Virus in Brisbane Qld? Bats are horrid.
Excellent stuff
Poisons are just a hobby with me, but this seemed more accurate than a lot of the more sensational videos on the topic. They did miss the Fer De Lance, a very large viper in most of S. America and the Caribbean islands. It's my understanding that because of its size, it delivers a basic boatload of venom.
When telling how dangerous snake is... And how many humans a snake kills... The "concerned" wildlife filmmakers forget to mention the amount of snakes killed by humans per year.
I know, we need more snakes killed. Florida has a major problem
@@TheCrouchingZebra The Major threat to Florida's ecosystem are Burmese Python because Humans brought them as pets and released them in the near by wilderness when they got too big for them. And now the local wildlife species from reptiles to amphibians are suffering. Snakes are not the problem. Snakes avoid altercations with humans as much as possible. They leave you alone if you don't try and hurt them.
@@SameerBhalekar even though it was caused by humans, pythons are still the problem and they need to be exterminated lol. Not gonna let those things live just because some ignorant kids released their snakes in the wild and it's 'not their fault.' Same goes with Asian carp... They didn't swim into the great lakes themselves but they still are a major issue and should be k1lled en masse
very informative, educational, and entertaining at the same time. thank you.
Haha "Doctor Jamie Seymour and _Venom enthusiast_ Jules Sylvester" 😅
It just struck me particularly hilarious. (apparently lol)
That's like the so-called; "Metal detection expert," on that Oak Island program, on the History Channel. 😁 What a profession title! 👍
Doctor Jamie Seymour was on board "Croc One" with Lyons and Steve Irwin the day Irwin was killed by a stingray barb to the heart. He's been responsible for clearing up the bulk of the misinformation and rumours propagated by people following the incident, helping separate fact from fiction primarily for the Irwin family and Steve's legacy.
And he's a brilliant Doctor, Australia is fortunate to have him. ✌
Brilliant Documentary! ♥️
Thank you for a wonderful video
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If I’m not mistaken this Documentary was made by SkyVision Studios/SkyVision Productions.
Truly fascinating.
I’m just curious to know where the Brazilian wondering spider ranks among the deadliest spiders, because I noticed you didn’t go to South America?
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Worlds Oldest Snake Joke
Snake 1 : Are we venomous ?
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Dated 37 B.C Written on a wall of an Egyptian Tomb
“Ranking the worlds most dangerous venoms”
“My name is coyote Peterson and I’m about to be stung by a jelly fish....phhewww...here we go”
I'm about to enter the string zone with the box jelly fish... here we go 3 2 1 OUCHHH SEARING PAIN, MY ARM IS GONE...
Are you ok?
Loved this documentary. It's very interesting to see how different venoms work and how some venomous creatures are more lethal than others. I knew that Australia had quite a few deadly snakes, spiders and marine creatures, but when it came to Africa, I always thought the most deadly snake was the Black Mamba. Can anyone confirm this?
Australia has the top 8 deadliest drop for drop of venom, inotherwords, the deadliest on the planet, however, far less people are bitten as they're not living on top of them with high density populations
Imagine in the afterlife having to say yeah I was killed by an octopus
Great video , thanks Mrq
Thanks for the video !