This is a superb video showing off a magnificent creature. One question, is the guy at the end holding the bag in the palm of his hand with the mamba inside (at 14:30)??
Thank you for watching our videos! Very happy that you also enjoyed this one :) We went to different places, but this was on the coast North of Mombasa.
@@abocas you should pull up the black mamba habited range map:) it covers a lot of East, Central, West and South Africa. For some reason I think people think they are rare but they aren’t endangered or anything, they’re just hard to find because they are stealthy and have good camouflage. They aren’t even sure if it really lives in West Africa it’s so stealthy lol.
Fantastic footage. Am glad I live in Central Kenya where there're virtually no snakes. Just the 'incidental' green snake that pops in your face when you're picking coffee. I am also thankful for the one or two mongoose I see in the compound.
Those green snakes are mamba family too. They are actually green mambas and are also very poisnous. We used to chase them on trees when i was young tryjng to kill them not knowing how poisnous they are. Smh
@@JayW254 Are they really? They're just a couple of foot long and appear quite shy and non aggressive. The local name is 'mūrarū'. People often confuse them with green mamba.
@@JayW254 This is a big myth. Many people think that every green snake in the trees is a Green mamba. Not true. Most of them are bush snakes, the only other deadly venomous snake which is green and lives in the trees is a male Boomslang. In Kenya, Green mambas are only in the coast and Jameson's mambas in Kakamega.
@@LivingZoology I may be wrong calling them green mamba but they are alot of this green snakes living on trees along the river in Nakuru and it is true they are not a long as the black mamba.
14:32 Isn't that chap risking getting nailed through the bag holding it like that? Really enjoying your videos. Thanks, stay safe 🙂 Edit: Saw a similar comment below that you'd addressed explaining the situation. Still enjoying your vids though 🙂
Second longest venomous snake after the King Cobra right? Correct me if I'm wrong. We find King Cobras in our backyard regularly in India (Western Ghats). They are very polite and won't cross any human path way. They give you ample chances and warnings before striking. Magnificent creature in the snake family. Very good video and the way it captures every motion of the Mamba is incredible. keep up the good work.
Yes, after the King cobra :) We would love to return to Agumbe! Hopefully India will open borders soon. Have you seen our videos from India? th-cam.com/video/qgcU0CluSpY/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/-GW7V7CbwRs/w-d-xo.html
Great Video❤️ I am always amazed how fast a mamba can strike over and over and I love how you reacted to all comments in this comment section 👍 love from India
@@LivingZoology we have a few green snakes in central Kenya called 'Muraru' that young kids chase and play with...some are found in green places near the river or in the tea bushes or coffee bushes...are they poisonous coz I have never heard of any fatalities with these small green snakes? how do we differentiate between poisonous green snakes in Central Kenya and the non poisonous ones in coffee , tea or other bushes in cool areas? please respond
Superb footage how you captured the snake without it reacting to the presence of the crew. Most footage Ive ever seen of mambas they are very reactive to perceived threat. Great job to all concerned for capturing and bit killing at that resort. Great job
Thank you very much!!! The behavior of the snake is a reaction to the behavior of the film crew. We work very carefully and try not to scare the snake. All mambas we have been working with were calm and we were able to show that their reputation is not deserved. If you start to jump around the snake and scare it, it will sure defend itself.
@@Mark13091961 Mambas are always difficult to find, we walked in a dense forests and bushes for 2 days and found nothing. We were lucky that one mamba went into this property so we could rescue it.
I always felt that African Mamba & Australian Taipan are closely related. There heads, there way of moving the striking positions are so similar. May be caught in continental drift... Jokes apart. Do tell if you find the similarities. As always awesome footage and that catch and washing the sand from snakes mouth was a noble deed... You guys ROCK 😍😍😍
They are not closely related, but both belong to elapids. They are a nice example of convergent evolution. We hope to find and film taipans in the future, so we can then make a video with Black mamba together and discuss the similarities. Thanks, it was needed to be done so the animal was in good condition! :)
This is epic, I didn't know that the name black mamba comes because of black color in the mouth, thank you so much, I have enjoyed this video and am looking forward to share it with my friends.
Yeah, I have been confused with these snakes black mamba and house snakes, because they have pretty some color, so I found house snake , sometimes I think it's mamba after sometime observing it actually the eyes of house snake is different from that of mamba, mamba usually has black eyes right? so it's really difficult to differentiate immediately 😃😃.
@@alfazoologist9741 The head of mambas has a coffin shape. Also the eyes are different. The scales on mamba's head are very big. It is always good to be careful before you see the head of the snake!
@@LivingZoology Thanks! it's also useful information because sometimes it takes me long time to understand the snake species most likely for some new species in my life.
There appears to be African snakes which are the same species i.e. the Puff Adder which vary in colouration from area to area. The puffy from South Africa is vastly different from the ones in West Africa. However the Black Mamba appears to be uniformly the same throughout the continent. Is this the only snake like this?
You are right that puffies are very different in their coloration and many other snakes too. In fact, also Black mambas are different, but not so much. If you compare the mamba we filmed in South Africa (th-cam.com/video/hG4Wvp0U18A/w-d-xo.html) and this one, you will see the difference. Mambas in Kenya are more olive and also sometimes speckled! In general, there are species, which are very variable, some a bit, some very similar across regions. Vine snakes of one species tend to look similar for example.
Excellent video EXCEPT there were at least EIGHT stops where I had to click SKIP ADS! Living Zoology please do not ruin your otherwise excellent videos with greedy ads!
Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on TH-cam as they appear much less with most people. They appear to each viewer differently according to country and other parameters. On the other hand, we need to keep the ads appear on our videos, otherwise we would need to stop doing this job and do something else.
Fantastic Job Guys. I really adore the work you guys do to help ppl because it is such a risky job. It gives me jitters and chills even when watching the video but you guys are so brave to be on the front 👍
Love how u handle the snake even if its so venomous👍👍...although can't the snake suffocate inside that bag and did they let the snake free to the wild after catching it
Thank you for watching!!! Snakes are totally fine in these snake bags. Snake went into snake farm where they will extract venom from it to produce antivenom for saving lives of people who get bitten.
I think I am so pleased to find this video ... I spend much time in Kenya, north if Mombasa. I have a traditional house in an area about 40km inland from Malindi. Since we have intruded on the snakes, we get unwelcome visitors in and around the house. The villagers here kill them. And to be honest I am not about to share my house with vipers, pythons and cobras which are the predominant snakes around here. I have seen the odd black mamba but they are shy and most often move away. But my question is: do you know of someone to call to have the snakes removed/rescued/caught not too far from Mombasa-Malindi area?? Bio-ken snake farm .... I will see if I can Google it :-)
I have a ball python and I’m still scared of him. He gives me the evil eye and Im pretty sure he holds grudges. Won’t be surprised if I wake up to find him ruling the world and I’ll be his first meal. So, when I see a snake like a Black Mamba, a species that commands real respect, I get my perspective put in the proper order. To be honest I think Whiskers is mad about his name. I let an 8 yr old name the poor guy after something he doesn’t even have. I tried to appease him and call him whiskey when my son isn’t around. But our snake isn’t fooled by my attempts to placate him. Oh well, if you don’t hear from me check my snakes stomach for evidence of my demise.
Nice story! :) We also have 2 Ball pythons at home! And they are the most cute animals you can imagine. We do workshops for children about snakes where they can pet these cool snakes. We see calmness in each snake species, with the venomous ones you need to be more careful, but from our experience even working with Black mambas is a very peaceful situation.
Landon´s Channel, dude i never done this before, but have you thought ab writing a book or something like that? You are very funny and that in a good solid nice way!
This video is great i did a report in 4th grade about black mambas so this was awesome to watch what id like to see are snakes that are rare you don't normally hear about or see like the video on the twig snake that was cool bc ive never seen anyone make a video about that snake jus a thoughy
to handle this kinf of snake is really so risky and it takes not only to be pro but to so ffff fearless, good job guys, nice documentary and great rescue as usual
Thank you for the information on these snake. All your information is correct. I didn't know they could flatten the neck out. If I'm correct some are green.
The green ones are of course called green mambas (dendroaspis angusticeps). Unlike the black mamba, there are several species of the green mamba, eastern, western and jameson’s.
Cool video, but kind of humorous as well. 'Waterboarding' one of the deadliest snakes, then learning how to tie a knot on the job was less than....a heart attack, lol.
Thanks for watching! The team wanted to clean the snake's mouth which is correct. There are different ways how to bag a snake and we wanted to show how guys in Kenya do it.
African culture is beautiful. The way they can build a barn like that, from only sticks, and dried grass. The tribal huts are also a sight to behold! If only I had the income to support a trip to Africa! 💖👍🐍
With due respect to your guts, however handling mamba like this is still extremely dangerous for the strength and the speed the mamba strikes. One slip of mistake that the end of someone life. To let go of the mamba head is like no return.
You need to be careful, of course. And don't do anything what might be risky before you see the personality of the snake. We did not come very close before we worked with the snake a bit.
Fastest snake I ever saw is a sidewinder rattlesnake in the Mojave desert. Good luck outrunning one of those lol. Super good camo too I set up my tent 3 ft from one because I didn’t see it next to the rock.
That is an empty bag. He has the bag with the mamba in the backpack 🙂 We did not realize that it would look like he is holding the bag with the mamba when we were editing the video, sorry.
Actually, this mamba was very calm! :) It is also a lot about how you work with the snake, we try to be respectful so snakes are not stressed and defensive.
So , someone finds a snake a little too close to their home and they call someone like the people who caught this mamba, correct? Do the snake catchers charge a fee for catching the snake? If so, how much does this service cost? If they do not charge for catching the snake, do they get paid for the venom? How does the business side of catching snakes like a black mamba work? I cannot imagine they are doing it solely out of the goodness of their hearts. Plus, they do have to buy gas and eat. I have always wondered how this works.
All snake catchers and organizations saving snakes we worked with are really doing this because they want to help snakes and people. Some get paid the fuel, some have a small fee. In this case we paid the fuel and took these guys into our car, mamba was around 90 km from the place where we stayed. They are from Bio-Ken snake farm. They do a great job in education about snakes, snake rescue calls, venom extraction, etc. We are not sure from where they get their funding, but they really operate on the level that they try to solve the human-snake conflict.
@@LivingZoology I have just always wondered about this. These people are really putting their lives at risk in a great many ways with these snakes, yet they are not getting any compensation for it. I get the need to educate. This is vital. The ecosystem of Africa would die if these snakes were wiped out. The entire continent would be waist deep in rodent droppings. I know the companies making the antivenins are making money. I just wonder if that money ever gets to the people supplying the venom. A live healthy, happy black mamba will produce more venom that an unhealthy stressed mamba any day. Speaking as an Ameican, guys like you and your firends in this video are doing more good in the long run for the African ecosystem than a good rain fall, but you are also worth your weights in gold. Animal Planet and NatGeo channels should be paying you for your content here, to follow you around, and actually do good programing educating people like me here in the US. Your channel is fascinating. These snakes are incredible. I do not think I would fear them if I ran across one in the wild because of you. I would, however, give them a huge amount of space and respect. Thank you again for another great video.
@@jazzbariman We really appreciate what you just wrote. We are happy that we have the chance to show our work here on TH-cam and since 2020 one of us can have this as the full-time job. We are working in Living Zoology since 2015 and we always put our time, money and lives into this. Every shot, every photo can theoretically be deadly. But we still did it and will do it. We feel the urgency to educate about these animals, about nature and different ecological topics. It is something you do because you feel that this is what you should do because you are giving your heart into it. We would also not ask money for rescuing a snake. If some big TV would be interested in helping us spreading valuable information, we will be happy. For now we are living our dream with having this channel and reading such amazing comments as yours :)
@@LivingZoology When I was younger, my family had two dogs, sisters. I would find one sleeping, looking all cute. I would go up to pet her. My mother would see me going into pet the dog. She would tell me, "Leave her alone. She's sleeping." I hear her voice to this day in my head when doing the same thing to my cats. I hear my mom's voice over your videos. She is telling me these animals are sleeping, hunting, whatever. Leave them alone. My mother was the kindest woman on the planet. She was loved by all human and animal. She was a protector, a caring woman. I hear her talking when I watch your videos. I am not overly or remotely spiritual. But, weirdly, I hear her loudest in your videos of the black mambas. Keep up the great work. For some reason, I think my mom is in your videos. If you knew me, you would find this as bizarre as I do. Great channel. Thank you for responding to my questions and reading my thoughts. You are doing great work.
In Kenyan Villages, rules of engagement when you are in the vicinity of a black or green mamba or any snake in general is get a big ass stick and some rocks. It's unfortunate but most villagers don't know how to handle these creatures.
Yes, most villagers are afraid of course and want to kill snakes. We had a great chance to educate locals several times during our rescues! th-cam.com/video/ZdZwCYP6sUU/w-d-xo.html
That water manoeuvre, with the guy holding the snakes' head like that, is one I would never have done. Secure it and bag it as quickly as possible. What if he had lost his grip?
Working with venomous snakes always brings a possible danger. You need to trust people you work with. And most importantly, we do this work because we love these animals. That snake had mouth full of sand and it needed to be cleaned at least a bit.
Interesting video of catching a mamba in Kenya, but I was surprised by the way the person holding the mamba walked off. It looked like he was holding the bag with his hand underneath supporting it. t was concerned snakes might bite through the bags.
Thank you for watching! He was holding an empty bag, the mamba is in his backpack. Here we have a more complete footage where it is shown how the mamba is put in the bakpack: th-cam.com/video/C5nVscSjqsM/w-d-xo.html
@@davidhowse884 Some other people asked about this, we should have included the part when they put the bag into the backpack :D Very welcome, thank you very much for your comment!
@@LivingZoology Living Zoology has produced some fascinating video. Regarding snakes, I think I'm glad UK just has the relatively small and relatively less venomous adder, two of which I have come across in a lifetime of hill walks.. I will just watch the video footage of the dangerous species around the rest of the world. I am sad so many people die from snake bite worldwide. I am impressed by those who love and respect the species, seeing its place in the tree of life. I have on another channel seen Jason Arnold catch many mambas in Durban South Africa.
@@davidhowse884 Thank you very much! We also have only one venomous snake in the Czech Republic - the European adder. So we have only one option - to travel around the world and search for snakes there :) But snakes here are also cool! We have worked on this documentary for 6 years: th-cam.com/video/mjWNCWMTBjY/w-d-xo.html
Photos of handling never come first. They come at the end when we already know the personality of the snake and we can assure that everything will be safe.
Mambas are special, very fast and most catchers use this technique and they catch the snake by the head. We personally would probably go for putting the snake directly into the bag. But Bio-Ken in Kenya has great experience and does a great job!
This is totally ridiculous I know,but I have a phobia about venomous snakes!!The Black Mamba is one of them.Seeing that I live in UK I,m not likely to encounter one!!(Hopefully!!)
@Christine Coates. I have a horror of Black Mambas , that coffin shaped head and black mouth makes my skin crawl … I don’t feel this way about any other snake🤷♀️‼️. I live in the UK myself …
I don’t think this person is talking about the snake. He/she must be talking about the people. Maybe he/she has never seen black people handling snakes.
Unfortunately, we cannot pay the narrator for each short video. But we are producing long narrated documentaries, such as th-cam.com/video/Rq2k4Tzu198/w-d-xo.html There will be one about venomous snakes of Africa coming next year.
This is fantastic footage. Never seen dendroaspis p. filmed like this before! Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you very much!!! Check out our video about 3 species of mambas! m.th-cam.com/video/hG4Wvp0U18A/w-d-xo.html
Dendro in Greek means Tree and aspis means shield. Dendroaspis is greek origin name.
There is a TH-cam channel where a guy named Jason captures and releases Mambas by himself, in homes.
This is a superb video showing off a magnificent creature. One question, is the guy at the end holding the bag in the palm of his hand with the mamba inside (at 14:30)??
Thank you very much!!! :) No, he is holding a spare bag, the bag with mamba is inside his backpack :)
I also wanted to comment on this. He is luck not to have been bitten.
@@LivingZoology Whew! Thanks for clearing that up for me....I was sweating bullets just watching him carry that bag so haphazardly.
Nice I see you visited Bio Ken Farms? Been there several times. Good fellows
Yes we did! We cooperated with them during two Kenya trips :) th-cam.com/video/vHtm5wAZgL0/w-d-xo.html
Kenya is just so beautiful with such amazing wildlife... great footage this.
It really is! We enjoyed our time there a lot!
@@LivingZoology come again on holiday... no work... I'll host you
@@Michaelkaydee We should learn how to relax! :D Haha, but we love animals, so each trip is work, but we love it! :D
@@LivingZoology hahaha... a working holiday then 😁
Thats an amazing catch. Respect to you sir and thank you once again for an amazing video. Where in Kenya were you?
Thank you for watching our videos! Very happy that you also enjoyed this one :) We went to different places, but this was on the coast North of Mombasa.
Oh shit, I just walked around the mangroves in that area a few days ago.
Had NO idea there could be mambas ....
@@abocas you should pull up the black mamba habited range map:) it covers a lot of East, Central, West and South Africa. For some reason I think people think they are rare but they aren’t endangered or anything, they’re just hard to find because they are stealthy and have good camouflage. They aren’t even sure if it really lives in West Africa it’s so stealthy lol.
Fantastic footage. Am glad I live in Central Kenya where there're virtually no snakes. Just the 'incidental' green snake that pops in your face when you're picking coffee. I am also thankful for the one or two mongoose I see in the compound.
Glad you enjoyed it!!! Thank you! Yes, in Central Kenya there are not so many snakes because of high altitude.
Those green snakes are mamba family too. They are actually green mambas and are also very poisnous. We used to chase them on trees when i was young tryjng to kill them not knowing how poisnous they are. Smh
@@JayW254 Are they really? They're just a couple of foot long and appear quite shy and non aggressive. The local name is 'mūrarū'. People often confuse them with green mamba.
@@JayW254 This is a big myth. Many people think that every green snake in the trees is a Green mamba. Not true. Most of them are bush snakes, the only other deadly venomous snake which is green and lives in the trees is a male Boomslang. In Kenya, Green mambas are only in the coast and Jameson's mambas in Kakamega.
@@LivingZoology I may be wrong calling them green mamba but they are alot of this green snakes living on trees along the river in Nakuru and it is true they are not a long as the black mamba.
This channel is better than animal planet!
Wow, thank you so much!!!
Great 👌 content and beautifully presented thank you for your time and effort
Many many thanks! Great that you love our video!
When a Black Mamba strikes is it a singular strike or repetitive ones?
Black mambas tend to strike more than once.
Once again another awesome video I have yet to be disappointed and look forward to the next one
Thanks again! :)
You guys make the best videos.
Thank you so much!!! That is so good to read :)
14:32 Isn't that chap risking getting nailed through the bag holding it like that? Really enjoying your videos. Thanks, stay safe 🙂
Edit: Saw a similar comment below that you'd addressed explaining the situation.
Still enjoying your vids though 🙂
Thank you for watching! :) Great that you went through the comments to find the answer!
Second longest venomous snake after the King Cobra right? Correct me if I'm wrong.
We find King Cobras in our backyard regularly in India (Western Ghats). They are very polite and won't cross any human path way. They give you ample chances and warnings before striking. Magnificent creature in the snake family.
Very good video and the way it captures every motion of the Mamba is incredible. keep up the good work.
Yes, after the King cobra :) We would love to return to Agumbe! Hopefully India will open borders soon. Have you seen our videos from India? th-cam.com/video/qgcU0CluSpY/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/-GW7V7CbwRs/w-d-xo.html
Wow, you are.so lucky to be able to see a King Cobra for real, don't have those or Black or Green Mambas in Canada.
Super video👌🏻. Black, Blue n Green Mambas are there.
Other than those 3 types do you get Yellow Mambas?
Thank you!!! Western Green mamba can get yellowish.
Have you met Simon and souxie from snakes in the city
No, this was filmed in Kenya and that series is about Durban in South Africa.
@@LivingZoology oh ok
@@LivingZoology guys you know your doing a very god job
@@LivingZoology just keep doing it
Thank you!!
Where is Bio-Ken located? I'm moving to the Amboseli area but would love to meet up to go on snake hunts like this, if possible.
On the coast! :)
@@LivingZoology Cool! I do go to the coast to occasionally, so I may see if I can pay them a visit sometime.
Wow! Skvělé video.
Děkujeme moc!!! :)
Man honestly i love all your videos
This is next level 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can watch all day long
Thank you so much!!! It means a lot for us :)
Great Video❤️ I am always amazed how fast a mamba can strike over and over and I love how you reacted to all comments in this comment section 👍 love from India
Thank you very much!!! We really enjoyed filming this mamba! Love to India! We hope to come back there soon!
@@LivingZoology we have a few green snakes in central Kenya called 'Muraru' that young kids chase and play with...some are found in green places near the river or in the tea bushes or coffee bushes...are they poisonous coz I have never heard of any fatalities with these small green snakes? how do we differentiate between poisonous green snakes in Central Kenya and the non poisonous ones in coffee , tea or other bushes in cool areas? please respond
So calm. Unusual in the snake community. How refreshing!
Many many thanks!!! :) Glad to hear that you enjoyed watching.
Superb footage how you captured the snake without it reacting to the presence of the crew. Most footage Ive ever seen of mambas they are very reactive to perceived threat. Great job to all concerned for capturing and bit killing at that resort. Great job
Thank you very much!!! The behavior of the snake is a reaction to the behavior of the film crew. We work very carefully and try not to scare the snake. All mambas we have been working with were calm and we were able to show that their reputation is not deserved. If you start to jump around the snake and scare it, it will sure defend itself.
Living Zoology having travelled to the right place, how easy are they to find?
@@Mark13091961 Mambas are always difficult to find, we walked in a dense forests and bushes for 2 days and found nothing. We were lucky that one mamba went into this property so we could rescue it.
Living Zoology ok thank you. Great footage, these are fascinating
@@LivingZoology South Africa
That mamba looks longer than 2 meters. Amazing how this snake always seems to be smiling!!
Yes, mambas are always smiling :) We also though that it is longer but it wasn't.
@John C. Yes, we originally thought that it is bigger!
Desertwolfarmory sent me :-)
Sorry? :)
I always felt that African Mamba & Australian Taipan are closely related. There heads, there way of moving the striking positions are so similar. May be caught in continental drift... Jokes apart. Do tell if you find the similarities.
As always awesome footage and that catch and washing the sand from snakes mouth was a noble deed...
You guys ROCK 😍😍😍
They are not closely related, but both belong to elapids. They are a nice example of convergent evolution. We hope to find and film taipans in the future, so we can then make a video with Black mamba together and discuss the similarities. Thanks, it was needed to be done so the animal was in good condition! :)
Very very professional
Many thanks!
This is epic, I didn't know that the name black mamba comes because of black color in the mouth, thank you so much, I have enjoyed this video and am looking forward to share it with my friends.
Thank you so much! We are happy that you learned something new :)
Yeah, I have been confused with these snakes black mamba and house snakes, because they have pretty some color, so I found house snake , sometimes I think it's mamba after sometime observing it actually the eyes of house snake is different from that of mamba, mamba usually has black eyes right? so it's really difficult to differentiate immediately 😃😃.
@@alfazoologist9741 The head of mambas has a coffin shape. Also the eyes are different. The scales on mamba's head are very big. It is always good to be careful before you see the head of the snake!
@@LivingZoology Thanks! it's also useful information because sometimes it takes me long time to understand the snake species most likely for some new species in my life.
Super video, opravdu se povedlo. A i s češtinou!
Děkujeme!!! :)
There appears to be African snakes which are the same species i.e. the Puff Adder which vary in colouration from area to area. The puffy from South Africa is vastly different from the ones in West Africa. However the Black Mamba appears to be uniformly the same throughout the continent. Is this the only snake like this?
You are right that puffies are very different in their coloration and many other snakes too. In fact, also Black mambas are different, but not so much. If you compare the mamba we filmed in South Africa (th-cam.com/video/hG4Wvp0U18A/w-d-xo.html) and this one, you will see the difference. Mambas in Kenya are more olive and also sometimes speckled! In general, there are species, which are very variable, some a bit, some very similar across regions. Vine snakes of one species tend to look similar for example.
Very interesting video of the capture of a dangerous snake. Super. Paul👍
Thank you very much for watching!!! :) Nebo možná spíše díky moc za zhlédnutí :)
Excellent video EXCEPT there were at least EIGHT stops where I had to click SKIP ADS! Living Zoology please do not ruin your otherwise excellent videos with greedy ads!
Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on TH-cam as they appear much less with most people. They appear to each viewer differently according to country and other parameters. On the other hand, we need to keep the ads appear on our videos, otherwise we would need to stop doing this job and do something else.
Ads provide an income for the video providers.
It is helping :-)
Fantastic Job Guys. I really adore the work you guys do to help ppl because it is such a risky job. It gives me jitters and chills even when watching the video but you guys are so brave to be on the front 👍
Thank you very much for your support! Much appreciated!
3 longest venomous snakes: Lachesis muta ,Dendroaspis polylepis and Ophiophagus hannah. Which is the longest?
The longest is Ophiophagus hannah.
Love how u handle the snake even if its so venomous👍👍...although can't the snake suffocate inside that bag and did they let the snake free to the wild after catching it
Thank you for watching!!! Snakes are totally fine in these snake bags. Snake went into snake farm where they will extract venom from it to produce antivenom for saving lives of people who get bitten.
I like how this channel has been getting more views
We are very happy that we are reaching broader audience! :)
Wow...that was very nice work!
Thank you very much!
Wow! it have been long time waiting for the black mamba from Kenya, I can't wait this, thank you so much.
And it is coming soon! :)
@@LivingZoology That sounds so good, waiting here dude.
I think I am so pleased to find this video ...
I spend much time in Kenya, north if Mombasa.
I have a traditional house in an area about 40km inland from Malindi.
Since we have intruded on the snakes, we get unwelcome visitors in and around the house.
The villagers here kill them.
And to be honest I am not about to share my house with vipers, pythons and cobras which are the predominant snakes around here.
I have seen the odd black mamba but they are shy and most often move away.
But my question is: do you know of someone to call to have the snakes removed/rescued/caught not too far from Mombasa-Malindi area??
Bio-ken snake farm .... I will see if I can Google it :-)
Thank you for watching!!! Definitely call Bio-ken snake farm, they do a great job! :)
I have a ball python and I’m still scared of him. He gives me the evil eye and Im pretty sure he holds grudges. Won’t be surprised if I wake up to find him ruling the world and I’ll be his first meal. So, when I see a snake like a Black Mamba, a species that commands real respect, I get my perspective put in the proper order.
To be honest I think Whiskers is mad about his name. I let an 8 yr old name the poor guy after something he doesn’t even have. I tried to appease him and call him whiskey when my son isn’t around. But our snake isn’t fooled by my attempts to placate him. Oh well, if you don’t hear from me check my snakes stomach for evidence of my demise.
Nice story! :) We also have 2 Ball pythons at home! And they are the most cute animals you can imagine. We do workshops for children about snakes where they can pet these cool snakes. We see calmness in each snake species, with the venomous ones you need to be more careful, but from our experience even working with Black mambas is a very peaceful situation.
Haha you made me laugh with this comment. Thanks. I have a male aberrant California Kingsnake that's little over 3months now. His name is Ziggy..😃
Landon´s Channel, dude i never done this before, but have you thought ab writing a book or something like that? You are very funny and that in a good solid nice way!
Eeeks
Hi python lunch girl are you still around 😄
Great Video always from you people 👍
Many many thanks!
This video is great i did a report in 4th grade about black mambas so this was awesome to watch what id like to see are snakes that are rare you don't normally hear about or see like the video on the twig snake that was cool bc ive never seen anyone make a video about that snake jus a thoughy
Thank you very much for watching this video! Maybe you will be interested in this one also: th-cam.com/video/hG4Wvp0U18A/w-d-xo.html
Awesome rescue
Thank you!
He is a strong and brave man.
Yes, he is!
to handle this kinf of snake is really so risky and it takes not only to be pro but to so ffff fearless, good job guys, nice documentary and great rescue as usual
Thanks 👍 You are right, handling Black mambas is potentially very risky and needs to be done very carefully!
Thank you for the information on these snake. All your information is correct. I didn't know they could flatten the neck out. If I'm correct some are green.
Thank you very much for watching this video! Maybe we can recommend another one: th-cam.com/video/hG4Wvp0U18A/w-d-xo.html
The green ones are of course called green mambas (dendroaspis angusticeps). Unlike the black mamba, there are several species of the green mamba, eastern, western and jameson’s.
Cool video, but kind of humorous as well. 'Waterboarding' one of the deadliest snakes, then learning how to tie a knot on the job was less than....a heart attack, lol.
Thanks for watching! The team wanted to clean the snake's mouth which is correct. There are different ways how to bag a snake and we wanted to show how guys in Kenya do it.
Mamba I love u
It is a beautiful snake, right?
Awesome 👍
Thanks 🤗
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
African culture is beautiful. The way they can build a barn like that, from only sticks, and dried grass. The tribal huts are also a sight to behold! If only I had the income to support a trip to Africa! 💖👍🐍
You are right, African culture is very interesting! We like those roofs made of dry grass :) Hopefully one day you will be able to see Africa!
Good 👍
Thanks!!
That is a big dangerous Snake 🐍
It was just under 2 meters long.
Great job always
@@markrumfola9833 Thank you! :)
Hes soo deadly he had to check his own body to make sure it wasn't prey!
😀😀
With due respect to your guts, however handling mamba like this is still extremely dangerous for the strength and the speed the mamba strikes. One slip of mistake that the end of someone life. To let go of the mamba head is like no return.
You need to be careful, of course. And don't do anything what might be risky before you see the personality of the snake. We did not come very close before we worked with the snake a bit.
Fastest snake I ever saw is a sidewinder rattlesnake in the Mojave desert. Good luck outrunning one of those lol. Super good camo too I set up my tent 3 ft from one because I didn’t see it next to the rock.
There are many fast snakes. But no viper is a match to some colubrids, sand snakes, Dahl’s whip snakes, etc.
That is a big mamba!
Actually, it was not so huge, under 2 meters. When we saw it first we though it is bigger.
Subscribed
Thank you! :)
Beautiful and deadly.
Thank you for watching!
I would not hold the bag in my palm like he did at the end!
That is an empty bag. He has the bag with the mamba in the backpack 🙂 We did not realize that it would look like he is holding the bag with the mamba when we were editing the video, sorry.
@ZambaKE Yes, we noticed that ordinary Kenyans have usually a big fear of snakes!
Nice of them to wash the snake's mouth out but the wetter those scales get the slicker they'll get. >.>
It was important because the sand in the snake's mouth can hurt the animal.
This snake is the second longest snake behind the King Cobra
Black mamba is the second longest VENOMOUS snake after King cobra. There are other non-venomous snakes which are longer than these two.
Living Zoology oh sorry that’s what I meant but forgot to put venomous
That was one feisty snake
Actually, this mamba was very calm! :) It is also a lot about how you work with the snake, we try to be respectful so snakes are not stressed and defensive.
they live in southern somalia to.
Yes, you are right.
So , someone finds a snake a little too close to their home and they call someone like the people who caught this mamba, correct? Do the snake catchers charge a fee for catching the snake? If so, how much does this service cost? If they do not charge for catching the snake, do they get paid for the venom? How does the business side of catching snakes like a black mamba work? I cannot imagine they are doing it solely out of the goodness of their hearts. Plus, they do have to buy gas and eat. I have always wondered how this works.
All snake catchers and organizations saving snakes we worked with are really doing this because they want to help snakes and people. Some get paid the fuel, some have a small fee. In this case we paid the fuel and took these guys into our car, mamba was around 90 km from the place where we stayed. They are from Bio-Ken snake farm. They do a great job in education about snakes, snake rescue calls, venom extraction, etc. We are not sure from where they get their funding, but they really operate on the level that they try to solve the human-snake conflict.
@@LivingZoology I have just always wondered about this. These people are really putting their lives at risk in a great many ways with these snakes, yet they are not getting any compensation for it. I get the need to educate. This is vital. The ecosystem of Africa would die if these snakes were wiped out. The entire continent would be waist deep in rodent droppings. I know the companies making the antivenins are making money. I just wonder if that money ever gets to the people supplying the venom. A live healthy, happy black mamba will produce more venom that an unhealthy stressed mamba any day. Speaking as an Ameican, guys like you and your firends in this video are doing more good in the long run for the African ecosystem than a good rain fall, but you are also worth your weights in gold. Animal Planet and NatGeo channels should be paying you for your content here, to follow you around, and actually do good programing educating people like me here in the US. Your channel is fascinating. These snakes are incredible. I do not think I would fear them if I ran across one in the wild because of you. I would, however, give them a huge amount of space and respect. Thank you again for another great video.
@@jazzbariman We really appreciate what you just wrote. We are happy that we have the chance to show our work here on TH-cam and since 2020 one of us can have this as the full-time job. We are working in Living Zoology since 2015 and we always put our time, money and lives into this. Every shot, every photo can theoretically be deadly. But we still did it and will do it. We feel the urgency to educate about these animals, about nature and different ecological topics. It is something you do because you feel that this is what you should do because you are giving your heart into it. We would also not ask money for rescuing a snake. If some big TV would be interested in helping us spreading valuable information, we will be happy. For now we are living our dream with having this channel and reading such amazing comments as yours :)
@@LivingZoology When I was younger, my family had two dogs, sisters. I would find one sleeping, looking all cute. I would go up to pet her. My mother would see me going into pet the dog. She would tell me, "Leave her alone. She's sleeping." I hear her voice to this day in my head when doing the same thing to my cats. I hear my mom's voice over your videos. She is telling me these animals are sleeping, hunting, whatever. Leave them alone. My mother was the kindest woman on the planet. She was loved by all human and animal. She was a protector, a caring woman. I hear her talking when I watch your videos. I am not overly or remotely spiritual. But, weirdly, I hear her loudest in your videos of the black mambas. Keep up the great work. For some reason, I think my mom is in your videos. If you knew me, you would find this as bizarre as I do. Great channel. Thank you for responding to my questions and reading my thoughts. You are doing great work.
In Kenyan Villages, rules of engagement when you are in the vicinity of a black or green mamba or any snake in general is get a big ass stick and some rocks. It's unfortunate but most villagers don't know how to handle these creatures.
Yes, most villagers are afraid of course and want to kill snakes. We had a great chance to educate locals several times during our rescues! th-cam.com/video/ZdZwCYP6sUU/w-d-xo.html
That water manoeuvre, with the guy holding the snakes' head like that, is one I would never have done. Secure it and bag it as quickly as possible. What if he had lost his grip?
Working with venomous snakes always brings a possible danger. You need to trust people you work with. And most importantly, we do this work because we love these animals. That snake had mouth full of sand and it needed to be cleaned at least a bit.
Interesting video of catching a mamba in Kenya, but I was surprised by the way the person holding the mamba walked off. It looked like he was holding the bag with his hand underneath supporting it. t was concerned snakes might bite through the bags.
Thank you for watching! He was holding an empty bag, the mamba is in his backpack. Here we have a more complete footage where it is shown how the mamba is put in the bakpack: th-cam.com/video/C5nVscSjqsM/w-d-xo.html
@@LivingZoology Phew! Glad the catcher got home safely! Thank you for your reply and extra footage.
@@davidhowse884 Some other people asked about this, we should have included the part when they put the bag into the backpack :D Very welcome, thank you very much for your comment!
@@LivingZoology Living Zoology has produced some fascinating video. Regarding snakes, I think I'm glad UK just has the relatively small and relatively less venomous adder, two of which I have come across in a lifetime of hill walks.. I will just watch the video footage of the dangerous species around the rest of the world. I am sad so many people die from snake bite worldwide. I am impressed by those who love and respect the species, seeing its place in the tree of life. I have on another channel seen Jason Arnold catch many mambas in Durban South Africa.
@@davidhowse884 Thank you very much! We also have only one venomous snake in the Czech Republic - the European adder. So we have only one option - to travel around the world and search for snakes there :) But snakes here are also cool! We have worked on this documentary for 6 years: th-cam.com/video/mjWNCWMTBjY/w-d-xo.html
When did Louis Theroux become a snake hunter?
We needed to google who it is :D So Matej looks like him? :D
@@LivingZoology A bit, but less nerdy
@@victorcarbino8736 Ok :D :D
Very dengres black mamba
Yes, Black mamba is very venomous but there are much more dangerous species in terms of fatalities in Africa!
Old information Black mamba you cantry information please please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Old venomous snake name
@@savejhaqeeqat4174 Which informations you would like to know? :)
Watshap mobile no sand comment please 🙏🙏🙏🙏
It can bite through the bag.. why are you holding it like that.. smh
He is holding it carefully in the same position as it was before when it was outside the bag.
Im talking about the guy holding the snake when they are taking it away at the end of the video..
@@pesos1274 Oh, he is not holding the bag with the snake. The snake is in the bag in his backpack.
blazing fast
Yes, Black mambas are fast.
"But first, let's stop to take a picture of all of us holding this incredibly dangerous snake."
Photos of handling never come first. They come at the end when we already know the personality of the snake and we can assure that everything will be safe.
If a person doesn't learn anything from your videos they simply were not paying attention
Thank you so much, we hope that people learn at least something! :)
👍👍👍
Thanks!
Handling with mouths of sneak with hand is wrong specially at the time to release
Mambas are special, very fast and most catchers use this technique and they catch the snake by the head. We personally would probably go for putting the snake directly into the bag. But Bio-Ken in Kenya has great experience and does a great job!
Mamba.king.snake.afrika.respekt.
Thank you for watching!
They say opposites attract. So I would like to see what happens when a black mamba and a cottonmouth of the same size meet for the first time!
Thank you for watching! Nothing would probably happen, mambas don't eat other snakes.
This is totally ridiculous I know,but I have a phobia about venomous snakes!!The Black Mamba is one of them.Seeing that I live in UK I,m not likely to encounter one!!(Hopefully!!)
It is totally fine to be afraid of venomous snakes. You can try to overcome this fear by watching our videos :) It is safe!
@Christine Coates. I have a horror of Black Mambas , that coffin shaped head and black mouth makes my skin crawl … I don’t feel this way about any other snake🤷♀️‼️. I live in the UK myself …
And careful
Of course!
This mamba is definitely longer than two metres.
We thought so too initially, but when we looked closely it seemed to be just under 2 meters.
woowwww they are BLACK !!!
Mambas are not black, the inside of their mouth is black, hence the name. Hopefully your comment is about the snake.
I don’t think this person is talking about the snake. He/she must be talking about the people. Maybe he/she has never seen black people handling snakes.
Mamba is this BLACK DOP wkwkwkw
Thank you for watching!
Wait this is racist
Why and what?
😂
they crazy trying to save such poison snake. if its bite you got very little time to live.
Snakes have their place in nature.
Boring no narrator
Unfortunately, we cannot pay the narrator for each short video. But we are producing long narrated documentaries, such as th-cam.com/video/Rq2k4Tzu198/w-d-xo.html There will be one about venomous snakes of Africa coming next year.
You should have killed that snake. It will kill a person later, it came to human habitation it will return.
There is no need to kill the snake if it can be professionally rescued.
@@LivingZoology A wild animal that attacked a human developed a pattern. It can pose a danger from developing a habit lacking fear.