Common death adder, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, elapid snake looks like a viper
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The Common death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) is one of the most venomous snakes in the world. Only a few snakes from Australia have more toxic venom (3 species of taipans, the Eastern brown snake and the Tiger snake). Most elapid snakes in Australia are fast and active hunters. The Common death adder an exception! It is an elapid snake but it looks like a viper! Death adders have short, robust bodies and they wait for their prey to come to them. This is a great example of convergent evolution. Death adders live in Australia and the New Guinea island, where there are no vipers. They belong to the fastest striking snakes in the world and they have great camouflage.
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Yes , that's very correct.
...also found in the Northern Territory. I nearly stepped on one walking around Uluru...
That is a different species, the Desert death adder :)
Thanks for another marvellous video. The closeups of the snake's head were beautiful.
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One of the most dangerous snakes in the world i love ❤ watching videos of Snakes but i dont like getting close to One especially in the Wild
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Another splendid video from Living Zoology.
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Awesome video! Love the "sound of nature"! Death Adders are really cool snakes!
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I remember coming across a Death Adder in the sandhills at Ballina when I was a teen. Pretty snake.
Nice! These snakes are very pretty!
Nature is incredible! Its mind blowing how this elapid evolve to be so similar to vipers
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Thanks just love your format, natural sound without annoying music either too loud or inappropriate. Brilliant photography. I have travelled thru nearly all of Australia’s varied climatic regions from Tasmania to Queensland and much of the arid interior. And have seen many of our snakes up close and personal, always looking for video or photo BUT I’ve not seen a Death Adder yet!! I live in coastal NSW and every year we will get red bellies big and not so big, some remain residents for short periods, as we have many frogs and water features. Sadly my love of ALL creatures means I never harass them, just photographs and vids. Sadly I lost 1 of my very special desert dingoes to a red belly 18 months ago. She was a very special dingo in so many ways and sadly missed look up Sandy Genome 2 BUT I bare no malice to these beautiful snakes. I am worried about the 2 remaining dingoes but that’s life. I reckon if I went looking hard enough in the Watagan mountains nearby I might find one of these adders but that camouflage is so effective! Take care, again great format
Thank you so much and take care too! Sorry to hear that you lost your dingo…
This is a stunning specimin, the footage really emohasizes the incredible colouration of these snakes. The death adders are a wonderful example of convergent evolution in action.
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Could you please elaborate on why and how this species is a good example of convergent evolution?
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These guys act very similar to our Northern Pacific Rattlers (Crotalus Oreganus Oreganus) in N. California and the PNW. Very similar movements and temperaments. However, they are far more dangerous. Still quite a beautiful snake. Your videos are very infomative and actually relaxing to watch. Keep up the good work.
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hi there guys, could/would you find out if common kraits are still killing people in india at a high rate , they are the ninja snake over there , the gov. was providing beds/cots for people but poeple were being bitten in their sleep n not waking up , its like a mosquito bite ive read , any help would be appreciated , thanks > tom !
Hello! Bites from the Common krait still happen. Learn more about the Big 4 here: m.th-cam.com/video/WXVLPS2jYkY/w-d-xo.html
They are super well camouflaged in the bush and quite small compared to other snakes. There used to be heaps up in the tablelands of NSW. Cane toads haven’t made it that far south so hopefully that population is safe. Haven’t ever seen them in Victoria though, but have seen tigers, browns and red bellies-pretty sure red bellies also have live births which is cool
Thank you for watching! Yeah, the southern populations are safe from Cane toads.
@@LivingZoology Glad you enjoyed seeing some Australian snakes! Loved the video and information. Death adders have such cool heads! I heard the coastal taipans are related, well more related to black mambas. Is this the case? Maybe you could compare them?
It identifies as Trans-Viper
😀😀😀 That’s actually funny!
😂😂😂😂 belongs to elapid family,don’t forget
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What’s it’s preferred pronouns? 😂
@@michaeln6312 Hiss/Hearse
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I am going to echo the common sentiment that this is very well done. Damn Cane Toads and other invasives are wreaking havoc everywhere.
Thank you very much!
I'm staying up all night, there is no rule in nature that says snow snakes don't exist. Written from next to the Canadian border.
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Z Austrálie do jižní Ameriky Bothrops je můj životní druh... Díky
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They camouflage so well with the dead leaves
Yes, this snake is so good at camouflage!
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@@LivingZoology next time when you visit India pls do video on Indian spitting cobra. 💙
@@Sanju-d7u What is an Indian spitting cobra??? Monocled cobras spit sometimes but in general they are not considered as proper spitting cobras. The other 3 cobra species in India are not spitting cobras.
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Beautyful video!
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This snake looks like someone put golden glitter on it. It's unbelievably beautiful. And it's one of the most amazing snakes on planet 😍😍😍
Yes, this snake is absolutely stunning, we can only agree!
Death adders fascinating they look like vipers but they're elapids with neurotoxic venom and for something deadly they're kinda cute
Yes, death adders are fascinating!
The snakes are deadly not beautiful
Serpents show the characteristics of evil, suddenly striking from ambush, lurking unseen and then envenomating and constructing the life out of humans
Big cats, crocodiles and other predators strike from ambush. Are they evil too?
Another wonderful video. What a fascinating species. Many thanks.
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There is no such thing as an elapid, Elapidae is no longer a valid family, thus making the Elapidae family a wastebasket taxon, the reason of Elapidae being a wastebasket taxon is mainly due to its original type genus Elaps that included the harlequin snakes having now found to be unrelated to cobras, mambas, land kraits, african garter snakes, coral snakes, sea snakes, and oceanian asps, thus it was eventually renamed Homoroselaps and was moved to the family Atractaspididae, for this reason, the Elapidae family is now abandoned and is no longer recognized, it is now replaced with five separate families that like harlequin snakes (genus Homoroselaps (formerly genus Elaps)) evolved independently with each other, the five snake families that replace the now-defunct family Elapidae include Micruridae (Coral Snakes), Hydrophiidae (Sea Snakes), Acanthophiidae (Oceanian Asps), Bungaridae (Land Kraits and African Garter Snakes), and Najidae (Cobras and Mambas), the former three families are now believed to be more closely related to the families Aparallactidae and Polemonidae, whereas the latter two are more closely related to vipers as well as the families Micrelapidae and Xenocalamidae, in fact, both Bungaridae and Najidae are part of the superfamily Viperoidea, where the Najidae family that is constituted by the mambas (subfamily Dendroaspidinae) and cobras (subfamily Najinae) is the sister group to the vipers (family Viperidae), while the Bungaridae family that is constituted by the land kraits and african garter snakes is basal to both, with the superfamily Xenocalamoidea that contains the families Micrelapidae and Xenocalamidae is the sister group to Viperoidea, while the coral snakes (family Micruridae), sea snakes (family Hydrophiidae), and oceanian asps (family Acanthophiidae) all constitute the superfamily Hydrophioidea, which is most closely related to the Aparallactoidea superfamily that contains the families Aparallactidae and Polemonidae, the similarities between harlequin snakes, cobras, mambas, land kraits, african garter snakes, coral snakes, sea snakes, and oceanian asps are all due to convergent evolution, the family Elapidae of snakes being a wastebasket taxon is similar to the order Insectivora of placental mammals being a wastebasket taxon as all of the small insectivorous placental mammals that still exist today are not as primitive as previously thought and are also proven to not form a single monophyletic group, for this reason, Insectivora is no longer recognized and is instead replaced with six unrelated orders, which are Macroscelidea for the elephant shrews (family Macroscelididae), Afrosoricida for the tenrecs (family Tenrecidae), otter shrews (family Potamogalidae), and golden moles (family Chrysochloridae), Soricomorpha for the solenodons (family Solenodontidae), shrews (family Soricidae), moles (family Talpidae), and desmans (family Desmanidae), Erinaceomorpha for the hedgehogs (family Erinaceidae) and gymnures (family Echinosoricidae), Scandentia for the treeshrews (families Ptilocercidae and Tupaiidae), and Dermoptera for the colugos (family Cynocephalidae), while the elephant shrews (or sengis) are classified within the tenrecs, otter shrews, and golden moles under the superorder Afrotheria, specifically the clade Afroinsectivora within the grandorder Afroinsectiphilia, the colugos and treeshrews both belong to the superorder Euarchontoglires, namely the grandorder Euarchonta, where colugos are most closely related to primates, while treeshrews (or banxrings) are basal to both colugos and primates and shrews, moles, desmans, solenodons, hedgehogs, and gymnures all belong to the superorder Laurasiatheria, where shrews, moles, desmans, and solenodons are all more closely related to bats while hedgehogs and gymnures are more closely related to both pangolins and carnivorans.
Send us a proper scientific study showing evidence that Elapidae is not a valid family…We really wonder what makes you write these comments with taxonomy which is not valid.
These most beautiful snakes are in deadly peril , as are our Reefs , and the 30 species of Sea-Snakes are in peril , gone are the days when a 3 day cruise along reef surrounding you 3 days in every direction, we need help and acknowledgement, Ric
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they only look good because they look like vipers. the typical elapid is quite ugly, except cobras or mambas, they look good as well
Many elapids are beautiful! What about coral snakes, kraits, taipans? 🙂
I came across a Death Adder on a bush walking track in Sydney's Northern Beaches area recently. It was on the move until it saw me coming, then it froze on the track. It did not bother to move until well after I walked around it. Lucky I noticed it, because it was so easy to step on. One snake that goes into stealth mode, rather than getting out of the way.
Thank you for watching! Death adders are surely very cryptic in their habitat.
I recently learned that these are elapids. Seems odd to have adders that are vipers and adders that are elapids but nature is crazy. At least King Cobras (even though they aren’t true cobras) are still elapids like true cobras.
Thanks for watching! The common name for species of the genus Acanthophis is confusing, yes.
hey, do you guys attend the upcoming WCH 10 in Malaysia?
No, unfortunately not.
Looks quite a bit like the American Tiger Rattlesnake.
The pattern is a bit similar, we agree.
I've heard stories of these biting straight through leather hiking boots, don't know if that is true?
We highly doubt that these stories are true. Death adders are way too small and their fangs not long enough to go through leather hiking boots.
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Matej if possible then make a video on spidertail viper … I have never see that properly in any video
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Have either one of you been bitten by a venomous snake?
No, we have never been bitten by a dangerously venomous snake.
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Cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for teaching me 'oviviviparous' I think it was.
Is the shingle back the same as we have had injured shingle backs give birth to live young while nursing them?.
Welcome! Actually, Shinglebacks are properly viviparous as far as we know 🙂 They even have placenta.
Its camouflage is perfection. Wild how they sit, cocked, ready to strike.
Yes, these snakes are amazingly camouflaged!
That is one gorgeous snake. Your Team really puts out some great video, always respectful to your surroundings, the snakes very really get worked up. Thanks Again for another fantastic video.
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Why does Australia NOT have any vipers...? It obviously wanted one!
And as I watched the video, my mind wandered a little bit and landed on a terrifying idea/image/concept, haha!
A cobra viper! A large, hooded, viper, with a dual sets of fangs: opposable, and extra long viper fangs...but then nestled in between them, an elapid's or cobra's set of fangs...used mostly for spitting its neuro-cyto-hemotoxic venom twice its 13-foot body length.
Or to go the other way...a sidewinder rattlemamba...and I'll just leave yous up to your own imagination as for an alarmingly terrifyin' description and/or mental picture of that particularly demon-incarnate reptilian... Slitherin' its way into people's nightmares any time soon! (And, snakes are my very favorite animals -- always have been -- but, NO THANK YOU 🐍 LmMFaO!)
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@@Ducatirati I had this idea a couple weeks ago, of a combination Predator Terminator, a Predaterminator! Then I looked it up, and it already exists...lol!
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Your videography is stunning but your narration is soporiphic.
Thanks for watching. Not sure which narration you mean in this video.
@@LivingZoology the whole thing
There is mostly text.
The American rattle snake can strike at 6 mph how fast is this snake?
We saw a study about the Mojave rattlesnake and the maximum speed they recorded was 4.8 m/s. Death adders are often claimed to be the fastest striking snakes but we have not seen a reliable study on the speed of their strike. However, they clearly belong to the fastest striking snakes in the world.
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Lovely video thanks so much , filming is amazing ..
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Amazing!!!
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Another excellent video.
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One of my very favorite snakes and LZ episodes! They are so beautiful, unique. Add the convergence aspect and you have something very special.
I hope you can spare a moment to ID the snakes @ 0:00 and @ 0:12 Some Aussie elapids still confusing to me.
Thank you very much!!! Those first two snakes are the Western brown snake and the Mulga snake!
@@LivingZoology Thanks :) Soon after I posted the question I found one of your Oz series, which I had seen before, and that did the trick.
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At my daughters house there has been 3 on the last year
Oh really? Nice!
@LivingZoology And a taipan behind the fridge . The house was so being built. My daughter saw something out of the corner of her eye. It freaked her out totally. Her partner got it out. He bagged it took it to a sugar can field
@@darrylweidenhofer Nice that your daughter's partner caught the snake and released it!
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It has a cats eye
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Angry noodles 😂
They are not angry 😉
@@LivingZoology danger noodles then
@@jtomtl 😀😀 Not dangerous if you don’t play with them.
@@LivingZoology I know, they are still wonderful noodles though, no legs you see
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