HOGNOSE SNAKES IN THE WILD! (Are we keeping them correctly?)
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- HOGNOSE SNAKES IN THE WILD! (Are we keeping them correctly?)
Why are western hognose snakes actually called plains hognose snakes? For six months I followed hognose snakes around the prairies of Minnesota to see what their surprising habits are from the time they emerge in the spring, to the time they go down for hibernation in the fall. If you've ever wondered how hognose snakes are living in the wild so we better know how to care for them, here it is!
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The amount of planning and work that went into this is incredible.
Thank you!
This was made so long ago this wasn’t filmed today I don’t think. I remember her making this video
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All of them have a lot of time put in to them.
I’m here from Snake Discovery!!
Me too
69th like 😅
Tyler Mac hi male fans Tyler Mac here the male hognose is awesome as he can see he is from usa
*sees spring video*
Guess he’s running out of conte-
*sees season cuts*
Oh Dav, you done played the long game. Amazing.
Very long game. I had to watch my own footage to see where I left off :)
If this video doesn’t remove any doubt to how dedicated you are to herping nothing will. Great job on this one.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
This video helped confirm some suspicions I've had about hognose snakes for a while, and that is that people keep the substrate too dry. I keep a bioactive enclosure for my hognose. I kept it on the drier side thinking I'll simulate desert conditions as that's what a lot of hognose guides recommend. I was having issues with the cleanup crew dying. Also my hognose was spending a lot of time surfing the enclosure. Recently I started adding more water to the sand soil mixture till the soil was damp(not wet). The air humidity is still fairly dry in my house, however I noticed my snake spent less time glass surfing and more time chilling in the soil. Seeing that they migrate from the prairie to the wetlands, it all makes sense!
I'm replying 2 years late..
I saw a series of pictures of a hognose snake burrow as the snake had just emerged. The soil was sandy/loamy, and the surface soil was very dry, but the soil that was pushed out was clearly slightly damp, or at least not bone dry. So yeah, it is clear that when hognose are underground, there is some humidity, likely in the 50% range.
My wife and I are doing a shot of lemonjuice every time Dāv says "year/yurr". This episode almost got us hospitalized.
That's a lot of citric acid in your system :)
Well...at least you won't get scurvy
I for one never get tired of watching a hognose go for an award winning "death" when a predator approaches
I’ll say it again, BEST REPTILE SERIES on TH-cam! I wish there was a way we could set you up to live a year in different places to get this detailed on more species. Incredible!
Thank you! I'd love to do that in Australia or the Amazon
Dāv Kaufman's Reptile Adventures that would be incredible! Though, for my own selfish reasons, I’d send you to Thailand. 😂 Hopefully I can get an animal from you this year. I bought all the herpers when they were released, I would love to be able to continue the support... Thank you again for everything you do.
This comment is a little off topic, but I just wanna say I love this guys hair.
Me too, go long hair Dav!
Thanks guys!
THIS! I'm very glad I waited a bit to watch this video so I could view it uninterrupted, however I'm not sure you'll get a chance to read my comment since there's like 112 comments already, but here goes. This is one of my favorite types of content I come to this channel for, Dāv. This kind of planned, multi-shoot, in-depth look at a species and it's habits as it's environments change is spot on what we as keepers and breeders need to see, at least in my (not so) humble opinion. Watching how they respond to temperature/food availability/etc. helps us to better our husbandry and our understanding of these amazing animals. Please keep up the good work you're doing, both here and on your other channel!
Thank you Keith! That means a lot to me
I'm also fond of wearing the same clothes over and over. Now I know why it took so long for this video to drop. This very well may be my favorite thus far, Dāv.
Thanks Irie :)
Dāv... that was awesome. The shots, the editing, the jump cuts... that took some planning so you could sync the seasonal jumó cuts with the monologue... good stuff.
Sometimes when I watch your channel I think I’m learning as much about shooting and editing as I am about reptiles. ❤️
Thanks bro!
My baby plains hognose uses his branches in his enclosure to hang himself over his water dish in the standard "S" strike pose.... I wondered why he was drinking that way, but now it makes complete sense lol! Thanks for the helpful insight - glad he's exhibiting normal hoggy behaviors so young! Way cool to see!!
This will be interesting considering most people will only keep these on aspen bedding and refuse to use anything else.
True
I just got my first hognose snake and wow they are amazing and your page has taught me so much about these amazing snakes. I also just got a bull snake and a gopher snake for the first time best snakes in the world
I came here because of Clint’s Reptiles. I subbed because of the great information and ABSOLUTE DEDICATION to thoroughly covering hognoses! Thank you!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
Well done sir! Important info here. Really interesting how they have those migratory patterns. It may be just a matter of time before we see F/T feeder toads and frogs in the hobby.
Thanks Aurora! I bet you're right
This is exactly what I've been looking for! Trying to set up an enclosure to mimic the grasslands and there isn't a lot out there, so thank you!
If there was anyone who doubted that you are the best reptile youtuber out there, this video leaves no doubt. Outstanding video and dedication to education. I'm in awe!
Thank you Cid!
Thank you for this. As hognose snakes become even more popular in the hobby than ever, it would be good for people to understand something of their natural history, and you delivered. Excellent excellent excellent.
Yeah Emily from Snake Discovery!
Love it! Thank you for going over the behavior throughout the season changes. It helps understand my males a little better for sure!
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic work Dav! 😍 especially how you covered seasonal change.
I live in Birmingham uk so there’s no going herping for me .. never found so much as a grass snake let alone adder or anything else, just inverts and mammals .. your videos are a real treat 😍
Salamander senting works great too, my female went off feed and i was able to get her to eat black mice by feeding live black salamanders. i guess she recognized the color and motion of the salamander and she took unscented black mice.
Excited for this I only have 2 hoggies I live in the UK so will never see one in the wild but I do love them.
Well now you know what it looks like where they live :)
I just got a liitle baby Hogi 4 Weeks ago and did not find many videos of theire habits in the Wild. So I'm realy happy about this Video and also I do now understand why my little dude sometimes climbs around and I always tolled him you are a Hognose you're supost to be terrestrial, so this look he gave me meant "Silly human I also like to dangle around". So when he is old enough for his big enclosure I will now 100% offer him a few more possibilities to climb and see how/if he likes it. Because he's my only and first reptile he's spoiled anyway., He has already belly and top heat because I noticed that he really likes Basking so he has a heat mat, if he likes to hide him self he can still get that good belly heat regardless and a basking light that points on a rock (yes I made it safe so he can't dig under it) so the Rock gets warm but theire is also "sun" and it seems like he realy likes it.
This is so cool! I live in Minnesota too! I've lived in South Dakota and Minnesota my entire life. I never realized how many reptiles we have here!
Another awesome video! "Haven't washed it once!" 😂😂😂 I will stick to Indigos, Kings and my Rosy boas they eat everything everytime it's offered in a flash!
*** I watched a squirrel take down a fairly large rattlesnake yesterday, and thought,"I should be more like Dav and have a camera with me all the time." It fascinates me that the rattlers favorite food is squirrels yet they are immune. I have seen squirrels dance with rattlesnakes before - but yesterday was amazing, the squirrel took a bite like it mosquito biting him- throwing rocks and dirt, it was like watching WWF. The squirrel ultimately killed the rattlesnake, first time I have seen one die from a squirrel fight, but the redtail hawks and turkey vultures will get even! You should do an episode on the Venom Specialist that used to be here at Loma Linda, he lives in the Carolinas now. He used to be on animal planet I think... awesome doctor treated me for a spider bite years ago.
That might be a cool video
They're so adorable! I learned a bunch about the different hognose snakes now
This has so much planning. So much thought and work went into this video. It has got to be one of my favorite videos you have done. Great work Dave.
Thank you!
Great video! I radio tract pine snakes in Florida I also study each Simus. It is so difficult to find a Simus and Habitat. While I was tracking pine snakes I would walk up on them but could never find a active borough. I tracked Simus also in North Carolina with Jeff Beane. Of note eastern hognose snakes in Florida do double clutch. I have found hatchlings in June and July and then hatchlings again in October and I’ve also had them double clutch in captivity. But the southern hognose Simus does not double clutch. My stepson lives in Minneapolis how did I watched your video I will definitely be visiting the planes in the early spring!
This video is so in depth its crazy, how planned out this is. Definitely appreciate this content I love this series 😁
Glad you enjoy it!
Invaluable information Dav. I hope Hognose keepers, and in fact any herp keepers, appreciate your efforts to bring us these videos and the importance of the content. Rattle on.
LOVED this video!! Super interesting thank you Dav! I would love to see a hognose actually hunt for frogs in real life the way you described on the cattails...you should do a follow up to this video sometime and see if you can find any hognoses doing it in the wild!
That would be cool!
This is some really good information. I'm planning on getting a hognose soon and I'm doing a biotope terrarium (not bioactive, I'm not skilled enough for that, just something that resembles their natural habitat) and was thinking whether or not to put a small moving water feature in the enclosure, nothing too complex, just a gentle stream going from the back of the enclosure to one corner of the cool side that would act as the water bowl (in fact, I'd actually be using a corner water bowl as the basin). This pretty much confirms that I should.
You’re awesome Dav! The patience it must take to make videos over he course of almost a year! So cool. Makes the videos so much better. You’re the best brother.
I appreciate that!
who needs to play opossum when you can play hognose.
Wow this is dedication but it paid off this is an amazing video. I don't even keep hognoses but I found this very interesting. I had no clue they liked cooler temps
Glad it was helpful!
This is so great. I always wonder why there is so little research on this unique North American animal. You have answered many practical questions so that we can give a better life to our dearest (and adorably fickle
Glad it was helpful!
Ilove This! ❤
This video format is amazing! Really educational and so many nice clips.
Very well done Dāv!
Thank you!
This is the best thing I've found on hognose habitat and behaviour. Book or online, this is the best. Excellent work. Using this for improving my hognose keeping. 👍
I found an Eastern hognose snake yesterday, and his belly was a beautiful rose pinkish color. The top was more of a dark drab olive color. But the bottom was beautiful. And yeah, he put on a great act. Hilarious!
Definitely my favorite reptile youtube channel, the info is so in depth and we'll put along with the interviews/colabs
I appreciate that!
This was a very very well done care video Dav. Beyond insightful. Every Plains Hognose Keeper out there can benefit from this. Bravo my friend!
Thanks brother!
How fitting! Just recently got a hog named Norattle. Though technically he can't he always does rattle on 🤘🏽 cheers mate...
Awesome!
I just rewatched this. Regarding the fall breeding you saw.. California kingsnakes out here in the west do the same thing. They often pair up in the fall before brumation. In captivity, they may or may not actually mate in fall, but pairs will lay on/near one another and stay close all Winter. Those pairs will then definitely copulate in Spring (and not eat each other.)
This was all witnessed way back in the 1980s by a few field herpers by the way, yet nobody really paid close attention I guess. Because folks still call it a theory. Pairing in the fall is done often, but not by all individuals obviously. It is also known that some pairs will repeat for years, same pair.
Awesome video about amazing snakes, and here I am just going back to the part about fall over and over because holy moly those trees are so gorgeous 😍😍😍
YAY, my favorite snakes. Keep killin the game Dāv, rattle on!
Thank you! Rattle On!
When this pandemic is over I'd love you to do an episode on black throat monitors in the wild, your such a good person and the work you do is amazing, much respect from Ireland
Thanks! That would be cool!
I live in western South Dakota and often fish the prairie lakes in summer to escape the tourist crowds. Probably find at least one bullsnake on each outing, give it a handle, then send it on its way. But today while out with some friends, I spotted a 20" fat-looking snake in the grass by the lake. Put a boot in front of it to stop it from moving to ID it. First time seeing one in real-life, but that nose gave it away. It didn't play dead and was fine with being handled. But that musk..glad there was water to wash up after.
The body twitch is done two detract raptors from above looking for serpentine movements. When they’re alone moving they do this so animals don’t detect them as they see them as a plant or a leaf or long grass blowing in the wind. Other snakes do this to if you watch some of my videos on the Hognose you’ll see them crossing roads doing the twitching.
I’ve been using videos from you and Emily to figure out how I should scape my hoggie’s new bioactive setup! Definitely planting some grasses in there
Elle Hen I imagine spider plants would be great too! Might be a bit easier to grow than some types of grasses also!
Calamity Natalie might experiment with a little of everything, I’m giving him a 40gal so I’ve got some room!
That’s a great idea! I keep a lot of houseplants and so I’m doing the same! Right now I’ve got tradescantia in with my corn snake and ball python...my ball keeps crushing them 😅 so I grow them outside the viv until they are a decent size and then move them in lol!
Amazing vid. Amazing insights. Thank you for the effort and planning you poured into this. ❤
Love the "in the wild" vids. Hoping for a leopard gecko one. Travel restrictions must be crazy right now
That's what's keeping me from doing that video right now
Yay!! Been waiting for this one since your hognose video with Snake Discovery. Will you be going into more detail on the concept of fall pairing? This is the first time I have ever heard of that.
I may go into that in more detail in a future vid
So these guys have more complex lives then we would think looking at them huh! Good to know!
I'm thinking of fixing up a large tank with a basking stone area, several inches of substrate for burrowing and lots of cork bark. An Arcadia UVB light to play it safe and a large water bowl on a bed of wet sphagnum moss, with a branch over it (in case it wants to enter viper mode haha!).
Throw in some devil's ivy and let it take over the whole tank (like it always does) and voilà, beautiful easy thick coverage all over for the snake whenever he leaves his hides, and a lighted planted tank that looks pretty great in a living-room!
Extremely professional video Dav. The way you moved through the seasons was very cool. Excellent! Cheers Gary in Oz.
Cheers Gary!
Great video Dav!! Sorry I'm late I just started watching Game of Thrones and I'm loving it lol. I watched Raised By Wolves and that was really good as well. Two totally different shows but very interesting.
But this video is very educational and I absolutely love seeing these Wild Hognoses!! Thank you for sharing as always Dav!! That plains hognose was funny when he didnt roll back over LOL. That eastern Hognose was really trying to sell it thats for sure lol. Keep up the great work Dav!!! ❤🐍😍 Always teaching me something new and I absolutely love that about you!! Truly inspirational!! Loved seeing Emily as well.
Loved GOT except for the ending. Glad you enjoyed the vid. Thanks for always being such an awesome fan!
Pretty cool showing the complexity to survival of reptiles in Minnesota. I only see snakes in the spring over here in anoka county. I used to see all sorts of stuff growing up in eden prairie spring-fall.
I used to find milks, bulls, and fox snakes in Eden Prairie and now it's all been destroyed for housing developments. It's all gone now :(
Very fascinating video Dav! I love that you always physically take us to the locations & seasons & show us everything, you make the best quality content❣️
Thanks Yolo!
I love this vid! You can tell so much went into it. I'm in MN, I'm thinking I may need to find one in the spring. Of course just to observe for fun!
I love both your and Emily’s channel! You are both great at teaching.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video! I just wish there had been more information on Eastern Hognose Snakes.
Great video I wish there was one about bps
Hey Dav, am sure you know but just in case! I used to get notifications for your videos but now because of the 'content for kids', notifications are forced off. Only realised you had a new video up because Emily posted in the community tab for snake discovery! Don't want to accidentally miss out on a video!
Yeah, that's a problem I hope YT fixes. I upload on Saturdays at 9am PST.
Great info and great job editing it all together too! Thanks Dāv!!!
Glad you liked it!
Eastern Hognose: "Oh gosh! I'm dying! I'm dying!! Bleblebleblebleblebleble......! "
*Rolling around untill he finally "dies".*
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Excellent!!! Thank you so much for this video. Been hoping you'd make this one for some time. Great work as always. 😍
Glad you liked it!
Great video. Love seeing their natural habitat. Thanks Dav.
Glad you enjoyed it
Found this video thru Emily at snake 🐍 discovery. Am now a subscriber! Good job Dave
Thanks! And welcome!
very informative. will try autumn pairing this year. thanks.
That is so interesting. Here where I live in B.C the Fraser Valley conservation study the western toads (among other amphibians) that do a very similar migration. We have streets blocked off twice a year for the toad run. They behave in the same manner as the western hognoses that you spoke about in the video, only at slightly different times of the year. This makes me think this is a survival instinct behavior
This video is awesome. The best hognose video and one of the best herping videos i've seen on the internet. Thank you!
Thank you!
Awesome video! Plains hognose are one of my favorite snakes! Mine is super picky about eating and will randomly go off food for months. I recently switched her to a bioactive enclosure so fingers crossed that works out well :)
Amazingly informative video. Thank you!
Wow, a hognose video by you and Animalogic within a few days of each other? Awesometacular!
That was a sable hognose. Damn man the possibilities
Field sparrow sings at 6:51
Awesome video
Just got my hognose can't wait to hear how to have better care
Thanks Dāv for the video!
My pleasure!
Hognose !!! ❤ Sweet vid. Got a nice sand prairie spot down here by Kankakee I love walking up on hogs✌
Appreciate you
I *love* hognoses, I have been dying for this video to drop! It's a good day 🥰 I'ma get my Sasha out to watch this with me!
Nice!
Kudos on this video. I appreciate the work this took and found it very interesting.
Much appreciated!
Sheeeeit. I just keep mine in a warehouse for 13hrs once a year. They're scared straight for the rest of the year.
Dave work in those hard cuts mayn! Keep it up
I stumbled onto this video looking at hognose snake video. Was wondering if i could find hognose here in the wild of minnesota.
This was an amazing video. You put a lot of work into it. It really did the subject justice though. I learned a lot. Great job.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely fascinating stuff! Thanks Dav!
Thanks Liz!
Great info my hognose thanks you
nice vid, thank you.
I have lived in west central MN my whole life and never found hognose wonder if I am in the wrong area of mn or what. Cool video though, very informative! Just makes me wonder why I have never found or seen one.
They have very specific habitats here in MN
"when the weather is cold enough to actually wear a jacket" That's almost every day for me!
Great video as usual Dav
Glad you enjoyed it
Eastern Hognose were among the first snake species I encountered out on Eastern Long Island, NY.. They were found in large numbers on our summer house property & in the adjacent woods. They’re also the best “actors” among snakes and can “feign death” for long periods until they feel sure all danger has passed. As shown by Dāv they’ll actually flip back onto their posterior side if turned over during their “act.” I’ve never kept one longer than the summer months because Eastern Hognose are finicky, specialty feeders whose diet consists exclusively of toads (and a few frogs). Unfortunately, due to habitat destruction the numbers of hognose snakes and all herps in fact (snakes, turtles, frogs, toads and salamanders) have declined on Eastern L I. I don’t know if the Eastern Hognose can be trained to eat mice in captivity like other hognose species. They live in sandy pine/oak woodlands and moist wetlands where large numbers of their prey are typically found. They also have a special adaptation in their throats; a sharp spine used to pop the amphibians when they inflate with air to avoid predation. Hognose species are rear-fang venomous but not harmful to humans. One theory is the Eastern Hognose’s venom may be slightly more toxic due to the large concentration of poisons ingested from the toad’s paratoid glands on which they exclusively feed. Other hognose species eat amphibians only seasonally. I’ve been bitten many times and never had the slightest reaction to the venom, not even from the largest hognose snake. The Eastern Hognose has become threatened in parts of it’s range and may still be listed on CITES. They are the least likely species to appear in the pet trade as they’re most difficult to maintain in captivity w/o a constant supply of toads.
I am getting a female tomorrow, incredible coinsidence xD :-D will watch this one with great interest, thank you!
This deserves at least a mil based off the effort alone
Thank you!
Always love your videos broo, informative af.🤙🏻
Thank you! Appreciate that!
Excellent video Dav.
Glad you enjoyed it