Venomous snakes in the UK - The Adder
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- Kim talks about Adders and shows some wild footage before handling some non native captive born snakes that share characteristics with the Adder. Wild Willow helps by holding a Western Hognose as Kim tries to stop a Milk Snake escaping!
Really Wild Learning is run by Kim Insull and is based in North Devon. They provide ethical, educational animal encounters to the public and run workshops in schools as well as attending a variety of events. You can often see Kim and his animals in Devon Libraries, at festivals and often at local attractions. Really Wild Learning also attends birthday parties for animal loving children in the area.
Kim has been fascinated by reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates since childhood and created Really Wild Learning having taught Art / Photography in school for 17 years. He is enthusiastic about everything he does and believes that all kids should experience wildlife up close as it builds confidence whilst also creating respect and appreciation for the natural world.
My best friend got bitten by an adder on a local riverbank. He immediately felt unwell and drove to hospital, he was the centre of attention for 24 hours or so as none of the nurses had seen or treated an adder bite. We had a cat catch and bring a harmless grass snake into our house growing up, saw plenty over the years - Cambridgeshire.
was bitten by one drove to the hosp about 25 mins later was in hosp for about a week didnt really hurt to much
I've been bitten by one on a fishing trip, wasn't too bad. I thought it was an insect bite as I never saw the snake but the thang markings it left were clear as day for the doctor - Tbh the tetanus shot I got was more painful
Got bitten as a kid, it hurt similar to a bee or one of those bigger wasps we have in 🇸🇪 but the pain, itch and swelling stayed for 2-3 days.
If you have an allergic reaction to the venom I guess it might be more of a mess tho...
But honestly I've had far worse experiences being eaten alive by clouds of mosquitoes xD
Did you say “only venomous snake “?? Am packing my bags to UK from Texas
Yeah, lol.
Got zero where I live.
@@xXTR4IRSOF7 They're about. Just rare at this point.
But they can be very very temperamental, despite not having the most dangerous bite compared to other snakes they are still very dangerous because they will go for you very quickly if you disturb them
*laughs in Australian* 😂
As an Aussie, we are very careful around snakes and you kinda learn how to scare them off when bush walking (make noise and stomp!). I don't think we've actually had a snake death since the seventies here, not since our government developed the universal antivenom. I have a few friends who grew up on farms and they naturally walk with their heads down looking for snakes. The antivenom really changed everything.
No, we're averaging about 2 deaths a year.
Last was in January in Queensland.
No spider bites since the 70s, snake deaths still happen. Problem is when they happen in remote areas away from emergency services can’t get the antivenom in time. Especially If people aren’t carrying a snake bandage they die very quickly if they’ve been bitten by a death adder, tiger snake , brown or coastal taipan.
It's the only venomous snake here in Sweden aswell.
Also the only one in Belgium
Same species?
The one place in the world where I want to go is Sweden and I'm from south Wales uk
No idea why I felt the need to share that info
@@aronrhys4920 well ya did share that info and now we know....and knowing is half the battle
Never seen one snake in the UK in 57 years.....! And iv lived all over the UK... Wild camped everywhere..... The only snakes iv seen are the two living next door to me..!!.. Proper snakes..
i saw one once on a Nottingham forest golf course
@@smarkydjango3703 wot marks neighbour 😆 lol
Me neither
Scottish Borders on the hot rocks spring morning ya got Great chance see them
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They’re so cool too- they’re eyes are amber and their patterns look so good
We got loads of adders in my home town in South Wales
Hey thank for today I had a fantastic day with you and your reptiles
I got bitten about 50 years ago, my fault.
They took me to a Doctor who said 'they're no big problem' and gave me some anti histamines.
She said they only kill the very old or the very young, I was about 15 and super fit.
I was very ill in bed for two days, chucked up every time I tried to eat.
Don't underestimate them, especially if you have young children.
Nice video about a very misunderstood creature! We also only have the Natrix Natrix and Vipera Berus here in Denmark, and the adder is my all time favorite animal
Willow is a real sweetie. She handles the snakes like a pro.
Thanks so much, I will pass on your kind words. I'll make sure she features in more videos.
I found one at Dalby Forest, caught it, filmed it, told my mates how safe it was.
Week later in the press it’s reported someone died after getting bit at the same location.
Hope it wasn’t the one I was messing with getting it’s own back 😂
Stunning little creature 👍
In fact, I have a video of it on my channel. Called “Dalby Abbey”. Didn’t know it was illegal.
Nobodies died from an Adder bite in the UK since 1975.
@@smalon75 perhaps he only nearly died then, many moons has passed by so I don’t remember if I read it or was told about it.
I work 15min away from Dalby- I remember a guy not long ago getting bitten- trying to pick it up!!!
My property is overrun by Adders cut most of the tall woodland grass back but on average can find 10 snakes around my property when looking. Having to rescue some that fall into the cattle grid that can't locate the escape pipe. They love the black mono blocks to rest on.
Seen plenty around Dumfriesshire. Easy to find them
People getting bitten is very rare. There was one person in my village who was bitten by an adder in the ankle a few years ago, just as you say she didn't see it and stepped on it. Most common problems around here is dogs getting bitten by them. Don't forget we now also have the Aesculapian snake which can be found in London and Wales. Not a native snake and probably came over in shipping containers.
Small nitpick here - Grass snake (Natrix natrix / helvetica) scales are also keeled like those of V. berus. Other than that the video is splendid, it's good to have knowledgeable people talk about the reality of what snakes are.
Saw one in my garden ( Hampshire ) last year. My cat had a stand off with it !
I used to work on a network rail contract and the lads on site told me they would come across snakes alllll the time around the tracks in the middle of nowhere !
Yeah they can be really common!
True sunbathing adder's , not interested in eating you or your work mate's , warming up for spring and summer season .
6:44 I wasn’t paying full attention and I thought you just flung a snake off to the side 🤣🤣
Back in the 60s when I was knee high to a grasshopper we used to catch Adders on the local common.
My Uncle taught us how to handle them and gave us the good advice "stay away from the end that bites."
By the way,we never harmed them.
I saw an adder in 1962 at Sychnant Pass,North Wales.I have remembered it all these years.In fact I sometimes go there on my motorbike and sit quietly on the hillside amongst the rocks and bracken hoping to see another one.But they may have gone from the area.Incidentally ,I recall a bloke being bitten by an adder and ending up in intensive care.I think he lost some skin from his finger and the finger went permanently numb.Also TV star Paul O'Grady was bitten by one in his own living room!(He lives in the country).I once saw a fantastic photo of a striking adder taken by a bloke who found it on a beach and thought it was dead.He kneeled down to photograph it and it struck at the camera.The photo showed the mouth fully agape and it looked like it really meant business!
Great video, we need more vids like this
Brilliantly informative 🔥🔥🔥 Subbed! ✊🏻😎
Seen a large black adder on the pavement about a year and a halve ago, I’ve seen grass snakes as well before but this was a lot bigger, must have been a fully grown one as it was large and as soon as it got closer it hurried away into the bushes
I remember reading once evidence from Europe that suggests the single-colour adders are much more deadly.
@@mikemoreno4469 That is false. Black or patternless adders are simply a morphological mutation and in no way affect the potency or amount of its venom.
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I think the word nadder, which is the root of the word adder, is a more proper name for "snakes" than the word snake is because the Old English word nædder, which is the root of nadder, was the usual word for "snakes" even though snake came from the Old English word snaca. Another reason is that nædder came from an Indo-European word for nadder or "snake" while snake came from an Indo-European word for creep or crawl. Do you think so?
Very informative. Thank you mate.
Great video hopefully people won't kill these fantastic pest controller's of Britain . Thanks
My male western hognose is all bad attitude 😂
He tends to calm down once he finally has the courage to slither on to my hand but then he just poo's on me and then slithers/rolls in to a ball and covers himself in it 😂
Don't worry about standing on them - if you're about to, they hiss to warn you. I know! Also I saw one shedding its skin. I kept the skin.
I got bitten by an adder when I was 5 yrs old. I can tell you that an adder bite hurts A LOT! Because of that, I am now terrified of snakes. However, I am quite fascinated by them. I could easily live in a world with no snakes!
If you bit a snake it would hurt the snake as well
@@unnamedchannel1237 I’m not planning on biting a snake!
Move to new Zealand or ireland
Great video mate I see quite a few snake where I'm at 😅 kinda makes my 25 year old self act like a child in aw as they are so beautiful
A snake is my dream pet and I also live in the uk
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Great video. Even better vibe.
Saw an adder in the outskirts of Falkirk...I bricked it ran for it!!😂
The red on black thing only works on US coral snakes. Outside of the US there are coral snakes that are red and black (and other colours, too).
love adders & grass snakes
Iv subbed, video was well done and very easy to listen to so I'll be watching more
Excellent. Many thanks.
No wonder I never saw one while living in Herefordshire, that camouflage is something else 🤙🏻
Learned something new !
They really do not want anything from people , let them be if you are lucky enough to take a photo , please share .
Kind regards Rob
There's adder snakes next to me and I actually saw one a couple of years ago and I fell in love with it as I love snakes If you go to Simonside.in northumberland there's a big chance you could see a number of adders. There is also lizards in the same place as well.
thrunton woods another good place
This next to Simonside nice to know
Seen a lot up at Ingram valley too while I was planting trees.
Not only in the UK. Across central and northern Europe.
The is a black adder in England. I thought the only one was Rowan Atkinson.
Great video they say that adder bites aren't very bad but they are still a viper aren't they ?? My friends labradour was bitten buy one and her throat was a really really bad infected mess yellow puss really bad.
To say the bite is minor, is untrue. My neighbour was bitten and had to go to intensive care. There were three serious bites last year within a few hundred yards of us. They seem to like short grass next to bracken. Now they are protected there is no limit on their numbers other than their food supply, lizards. We now have to wear hiking boots or gumboots for safety.
Well, the adders were there first :) So it´s fine that humans have to take precautions.
A neighbor woman died from adder bite here. Cats sometimes kill adders and eat them like our cat did.
@@ostgoten77 And that's why cats should be in a voliere. They are the worst pest for the natural wildlife there have ever been.
yep the only venomous snake indigenous to the uk. but we also have scorpions, false widow spiders woodlouse spider segesteria florentina (vampire spider) just to name a few spiders over here that can make a good day go bad quite quickly there has even been black widows found around ports aswel.
Scorpions? Ya lying mate. No way true scorpions can survive the winters.
@@heuvelke1065 yep we do have scorpions look it up especially round harbours
infact they are called European yellow tailed scorpions
Another good reason to live in New Zealand or the local pub!
No way mate. New Zealand is way to cold for me.besides Australia is a very tame country well almost. Come to Australia and the 10most poisonous snake breeds in the world
One?????? You can have some of ours in Australia - we’ve got the odd one to spare.
Well they are our only venomous snakes but we have many other species including smooth snakes and grass snakes as well as aesculapian snake which lives in the trees and on the ground
There was a near fatal envenomation by an Adder in North Yorkshire in 2019 in a young teen boy. He was presented to A&E in a very poorly state shortly after the incident. I gather it was an accidental treading incident. D-dimer tests (a measure of blood that is clotted) would normally be 120 ish in such a young male. His was 10,000. I gather after a few days of hospital care, he returned home with no ill effects.
I just turned around on a walk thinking about snakes. If I get bitten what next?
if you see an adder near your home your blessed, leave it alone and it will make sure there are no rats or mice around.
That’s awesome
My dad got bitten by an adder when we were on holiday in the Welsh mountains thankfully we managed to get him treatment a taxi driver took him to Aberwyswith hospital
If he was healthy he probably wouldn't have even gotten close to dying from that bite, but treatment is always best, so he wasn't in any proper fatal danger. (unless he was above the age of 60 or had health issues)
@@striderwhiston9897 He was in good health he's in his late 50s and goes for 3+ mile runs everyday.
Got bit by an adder back in the 70's. My fault...trying to catch a worm for bait and lifted a rock and went to grab the worm, my hand going over the adder. Hand swelled up...up to just above the wrist and I did get the sweats, but that was it. Been bitten by a western hognose too...a pet and my fault again....hand swelled up to just above the wrist and was numb, but that was it.
I have seen real deadly snakes many tropical countries but i didn't even know we had them in my own country the UK, i always assumed our climate was too cold for snakes because most snakes and reptiles need year round warm climates.
They live underground most of the time
Greetings from the USA, Jam. Snakes can survive and thrive in cold climates. We have rattlesnakes in all of the contiguous 48 states and across the southern tier of Canadian provinces. They go underground and hibernate in the winter in areas with caves and porous rock formations.
All that said, snakes do indeed get bigger and deadlier in the southern US where it’s warmer most of the year.
Cheers!
My ex gf had a Jack Russell and it was bitten by an Adder in the neck. The dog’s head swelled from the top of his nose up to it’s brow. The skin from under his chin sagged right down to the bottom of his chest, the fur separated and the skin underneath was purple. Survived it . Oh and snake wasn’t harmed. This was somewhere in the New Forest
"most misunderstood snakes" lol :)
Why didn't the Viper wipe 'err nose? Because the Adder ad err handkerchief
- I'll let myself out
I was thinking there’s no snakes in uk because of cold weather
Another amazing fact about UK snakes is that none of them are native to the island of Ireland. In fact, Ireland has no native snakes at all.
Very nice video. But that rhyme with the coral snake can be dangerous - applies only in the USA. In other parts of the world it does not apply.
never even knew we had snakes in the uk. and apparently where i am in the midlands the adder is more common
2 weeks ago I got bit by 1, totally didn't expect to find 1 in Darlington.
I've seen a severed dead slow worm and that's it... So far
I came across an adder out walking in the woods and had to stop a dog walker from going near
So much knowledge, nice one bro👊🏽
So Ragnar Lothbrok got killed by these?
I've seen Vipers in France, natural to their countryside. I wonder if they are the same snake. I almost stepped on one a few years back in France, I was wearing wellies. My friends said they attempt to slide off very fast but if bitten I would need to go to hospital just for an anti venom, may cause large swelling and a bit of pain.
Crafty bugger looks like it'a using a piezoelectric effect to warm its' marrow. I guess that tends to get the blood flowing, when you are cold blooded. 1:19 The original land electricians.
Snakes a sensitive little things aren't they?
can adders or grass snakes be red and black? I found 2 large snakes in a compost pile before (doubt them being adders as picked one up no problem) but can grass snakes be red and black and over 1 metre long? or were they likely released pets?
nice video mate, i'm 33 and have always been an out-door type person ever since childhood. ive dabbled in bushcraft and allsorts but ive never been lucky enough to see one of these beauties, or any snake for that matter. my mum claims to have seen an adder while in the local woods one day but she says it was completely black so surely she must have been mistaken. am i right in thinking there are only 2 species of snake native to the UK, the grass snake and the adder? the grass snake being green and the adder having those gorgeous markings
I’m 13 and live in the uk I have seen 2 snakes in my life one was in the like marsh places and it was a adder sat in a bushy area, and the other one was I was swimming in a river with my mates and a snake swam past my mates😳❤️
Both the Grass snake and the Adder can differ a whole lot in colourations! The grass snake can be black, green, brown, and blue. The adders can also be a ton of different colours even pure black with no markings, those are the melanistic type :)
Adders - GREAT AT MATH!!!
The adders are out about doing what adders do! When the ground is warming up, they get out to warm their bodies up.
so ive seen adders localy where i like in dunkeld scotland (north central) my question is how do they survive the snow and cold winters we have here?
I am sure that, back in 2005, there was a girl who got bitten by an adder. Apparently, she nearly died because of the adder biting her. They were killing adders back then.
Probably anaphylactic shock
No. It definaly was the venom that nearly killed her.
Cool video , went to my local country park, went though back way, was my 2 kids that spotted it adder bout 3 , 4ft long in bush way u described female sure it was ,
My cat killed and brought home an Adder/ Viper. Was not impressed! Well I was literally impressed but not best pleased 😆
Come to Australia there plenty of venomous snakes
Masha'Allah ❤️.. It's Because Of The chemicals Sprayed on agricultural land
Never seen one, but my mum has in cornwall. she ran the other way because she is scared of snakes.
Just one thing the snakes are only protected from harm, killing and injury. It isn't technically illegal to move them around, take them etc. You need a DWA Dangerous Wild Animals licence to keep them. That is the real issue they need more protection - habitats and of course taking - that way better outcomes can arise from conservation works and other land use changes which disturb, harm and remove their habitats...
as a kid in the 50s i caught lots of adders and grass snakes.i got bit by an adult adder a wasp sting is worse.
Lucky you my dad was hospitalised by one for nearly a week
Rubbish, the Adder is the only UK creature with a "medically significant" bite, meaning you are advised to seek medical advice.
Where I live the adder is virtually extinct, so depressing. I remember in 1975, I found 30 adders in an hour near Eastbourne. I doubt anyone will see numbers like that in the UK ever again.
Don't get any local to me either.
@@johnnygray2801 Where about in the UK do you live?.
@@nepaleseman1010 Merseyside mate, probably never heard of it so just google it. Right up northwest, next to manchester.
@@johnnygray2801 I live on the south coast and I have seen many many adders here this year alone, doesn’t seem like they’re going from here anytime soon
@@crimson6864 I think they're going from a lot of places.
Adders were probably the snakes used to execute Ragnar Lothbrock.
lol would need few of them, that venom is not the strongest
@@smarkydjango3703 The reason most people think their venom isn't that strong is that most people don´t get envenomated when bitten. A pit full of adders could sure kill a grown man.
@@danedoes8532 yes your right bro
I would love Willow to play with my snake.
I need to move to the mars after this
I remember hearing there are only two countries in the world where more of the snakes are venomous than not. One was Madagascar. In the other one ALL the snakes are venomous. Where is this this deadly place? Scotland! (It has only one species, the Adder).
Australia has 140 species of land snakes, 100 of which are venomous, 12 of these deadly.
fummmmmmmm that's me running away, after seeing one of these.
Please don't lose any sleep over these fantastic pest controller's .
If you encounter one...you'd best have a cunning plaaaaaaan
Very sad their numbers are dropping
what snake species were being introduced to the British Isles?
Anacondas I think?
I live in Scotland and have never seen a snake here, would absolutely love to but its a bit cold for them I think, I just feel lucky to have my corn snake and sonoran gopher snake 🐍lovely noodles 💜🏴
Scotland does have adders, just like the rest of the UK. They are incredibly shy though, so they can be difficult to spot.
Saw a sign once years ago on the A93 in Aberdeenshire!
Beware of adders... I like you never saw one!
Nobody's died from an adder bite in the UK since 1976. So you'll probably be fine.
I grew up in an area with a lot of heathland and quite a few kids got bit by them, all they used to do was take them to hospital and give them some sort of antidote, they were sick and shortly after they were fine, they're not that poisonous.
I still walk across the heath and at certain times of the year they sunbathe on the paths so you have to get a stick and flick them off to get by, which isn't a problem because they're dopey things, they only bite if they think you're going to tread on them.
Adders gonna add 🐍
I am safe and well thank you good sir
if a clutch of black mambas, hatched and got free in the UK, would it be problematc?
No. They simply can’t survive the temps.
whew.
I hated snakes when I was a kid, never saw one but appears looked under the bed when I go home from Epping Forest.
Well I then move to Aus.
Did I tell you I hate snakes
Some of them here are a bit agro and not to be messed with like the Eastern Brown snake.
It's the only venomous snake in the nederlands here aswell
Wow England has so few snake species. But then again is a colder country meaning most snake species couldn’t survive there naturally if brought in and released to the wild.
Down under where I live we have a very nice selection of pythons and elapids. But I’d say the best thing about snakes here are that encounters in urban areas are very rare and confined mainly to the tropical north. The warmer climate means snakes that live close to humans can move quickly to get away from approaching humans and are a lot less prone to bite when In a defensive phase if they have an escape route. More so than some Asian viper species and African elapids
We have 3 species of Rattlesnakes in Canada
@@squamishfish woah really? I did not expect that given that I mainly hear about rattlers living in warmer parts of the Americas. But then again vipers seem to be more capable of adapting to colder climates than elapids so I shouldn’t be too surprised
@@unstoppableExodia we use to have four species the 3 we have now are the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake in the desert area of British Columbia , The prairie Rattlesnake in the dry lands of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Mississauga Rattlesnake in the southern Niagara region of Ontario , Ontario use to have the Timber Rattlesnake but none have been seen for a few years
same in Latvia