It's nice youve been able to keep them alive so long im going to keep non venomous snakes but im not brave enough to keep the venomous ones. I still love looking at them though such neat animals
I've been subscribed for a long time now and I still don't understand how you don't have more subscribers. The cinematography is top notch and you seem to have a real passion for your work. I'm hoping this channel gets the recommendation it deserves in 2021.
Thank you very much for following our work for a long time :) We are trying to do our work as good as we can and maybe more followers will come in the future ;) We recently started membership program and we already have 10 members!
Really, you don't know why? People still hate these animals. For proof you need only look as far as the videos of them being killed or otherwise abused. Plus, anything truly educational won't generally get the number of views that titillation does. Perhaps the only things that people will will admit to liking about them are their skins and watching them eat.
@@jeffking6286 their newer videos do have narration, personally i don't mind reading subtext but i see your point, that could be a deal breaker for some people.
Absolutely fantastic content in this video. The beauty of that yellow Cape cobra is stunning, and yet it’s venom is so toxic! Also love the exotic copper coloured variety! Would love to see a battle between an adult Cape cobra and a fully grown mongoose! Thanks for the awesome video, amazing camera work!!
The Kalahari Cape Cobra's coloring is breathtaking! All the different morphs are beautiful! Your photography and videos are always stunning with perfect, crisp colors! The subject matter you choose is very intriguing and your locations are diverse. I'm certainly looking forward to more wonderful videos from your team! Please stay safe and take good care of yourselves. Your videos are really the best around reporting on the varied zoology in our world. From Phoenix, AZ USA 🇺🇸
Thank you very much! We are very happy to hear that you like our channel! :) We are trying to stay safe, but now battling with covid for over a month! Take care and have a great day in Arizona! We loved our trip to the deserts of this state.
I’ve never heard of a meerkat killing any snakes. Usually they’re just trying to run them off. Meerkats are pretty neat animals too. I’ve seen videos where one took a bite from a puff adder and another was bit on the face by a Cobra. After being sick for 2-3 days they both survive. Really amazing for such a tiny animal. They must share some venom resistance with the mongoose. I know they can still die from bites so it must depend on the amount injected. I find it fascinating how animals in the same region evolved together. That yellow cape cobra was beautiful but my favorite snake is the Gaboon. I enjoyed your video on the Hybrid Gaboon, that probably the most beautiful snake I’ve ever seen
Snakes are so maligned as an animal on land, like sharks are in the ocean..... To me they are amazing, and my encounters with them are once in Australia, a small brown snake, at a safe distance. We parted company, and it's still a fond memory from my younger days.... We dont have them here in NZ, thus I enjoy watching wonderful videos like this to see a close encounter with reptiles.....I mean as close that neither the snake or those filming them arent harmed or injured.
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Fantastic footage once again. Great images of the rescue it is fantastic to see people who loves so snakes that they take some risks to conserve them. It is a also interesting to do a little observation about evolutive convergence because some patterns of nivea looks really like the pattern of Oxyuranus microlepidotus what lives in comparable dry environment.
Many thanks!! We love to show these interesting snake rescue calls. You are right that Cape cobra might resemble the Inland taipan a bit, we cannot wait to go to Australia and find out by ourselves.
Another spectacular video! It takes tremendous patience and knowledge about your subject to be able to capture it on video in its natural surroundings, behaving naturally. A joy to watch! Thank you, stay safe, and keep up the excellent work!
I talk to a friend sometimes from Montagu in South Africa who i met through snake groups on Facebook, and there he is, Gerrie Heyns. 😃 He is a fellow Metal head too 🤘 They do come in variable colors, cape cobras are really pretty snakes. 🧡🐍
My favorite Naja Spezies I keep a lot of them 👌 And i must say that your videos are one of my favorite videos when it comes do snakes ✌️ Keep up your great Work 👌 Greetings Form Austria And what venomus snakes do you keep? ✌️
Thank you very much!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic! Which cobra species do you have? We don't keep any venomous snakes, we would have no time to take care of them as we travel a lot to find wild snakes :)
@@LivingZoology ok,thats great 👌 I wisch i have the time and the Money for traveling a lot. And when you live for that than you have an gread live I love snakes,venomus more than other because there where much more colourefull as the non venom snakes And i have i my snake room Naja naja Naja nivea Naja kaouthia Naja pallida Naja siamensis And a lot of other snakes. Zbs. C.atrox A.squamigera A.hispida D.polylepis D. polylepis D.viridis D.angusticeps D. jamesoni And other snakes.
@@camillodorfler432 Wow, cool collection!!! We decided to save money for traveling instead of buying snakes. For about 5 years it was a hobby, now it is a job for one of us :)
@@LivingZoology Thank you! Yeah,thats Sounds like you live a life what are where great. I will saw e naja in the nature,thats one of my Dreams 😁 Love the Spezies of naja and when i have the time and the Money for doing this than i look where i can find wild najas do look how the are live in the nature. I hope that i can make this in the next years 😉 ✌️
@@LivingZoology and what i Mist say is that the snakes where a lot of work,really a lot But when you Love this than this is no "work" as when you go do work and make a job what are not yours
Thanks 👍We work gently and let the snake do its thing in its natural environment. We try to minimize the stressful contact, we work in a small team with small equipment, so we can observe snakes behaving naturally :)
Wonderful video...except...Something new and bad: 3 times the video stopped and I had to click 'Skip Ad' to make it continue. Please stop the excess advertising.
Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on UA-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.
Nice that such a dangerous snake is so visible. In the United States all ours blend into the environment, makes for quite a few accidents if you go walking off the beaten path.
Why do snakes look like their environment so often? It's crazy, i've seen a speckled rattlesnake which looked exactly like the rocks in the area? The cape cobra looks amazing.
@@LivingZoology Yes, i know the benefits of it but how does that work? I'm from Germany and our Adder doesn't look like their environment in most cases.
@@TheGForceJunkie Just millions of years of evolution. In some species individuals which are better camouflaged survive better. In some, it is beneficial to have bright colors to show predators that they are venomous.
That glass tube they are using to contain the cobra looks strangely familiar....I just can't place where I've seen it before. Maybe an advertisement of some type? Where on Earth have I seen that before?
The orange and the yellow cobra are absolutely beautiful animals and that was one luck cobra that those guys were able to rescue by cutting out of that box they got lucky all the way around the snake lucky that they didnt accidentally cut it while cutting the box and the guys luck that they didnt get bitten by the snake
Thank you for watching! Some of these cobras are really beautiful. The rescue was done by a great snake catcher with great experience, so it went well :)
@@ebe7840 Yes and no. The image of snakes is slowly canning and it is partially because of these snakes lovers. if you do that for sensationalism it is not good (some people have venomous snakes only for adrenalin "hooo it kills me easily, it's fun"). If you do that to understand better and to educate the people to explain why these animals have the right to live it is a good thing. Snakes are not pet as cat and dogs, but captive born snakes could be ambassador for their group. A lot of important discoveries have been make by amateurs herpetologist especially for mating.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I have numerous questions. So here are mine from this video. 1. When you say that this snake has the most potent venom, is there a quantitative measurement for rating the potency of venom? If so, what is that measurement and where is the cape cobra on that level? 2. If the meerkats had killed the cobra, would then have eaten it? It appears the snake was in an area he had no business being in and the meerkats did not want him there. 3. and my last question for this round. Are the species of cobra able to be cross bred with another species? Could a cape cobra be bred with a king cobra for example? I think of cobras as a group of animals like I would cats or dogs which are bred across the various species. Do you know if this is possible or if this has been done with cobras? On a side note, I shared your channel with the teacheers at my school. My director of instruction is facinated by some of your videos. We discussed your channel for about an hour. Your fan base is spreading in Wisconsin. Thank you for another great video. I would like to see more of the snake cathcer in this one. He was great. I loved how he handled the snake. Your channel surprises me and I look forward to your videos. Thank you again.
The toxicity is evaluate in the LD50. The snake what have the lowest is more toxic (lesser mg to kill). nivea is amongst the highest rate. Indeed it seems that the most toxic of Naja group is Naja philippinensis. But it would say that some species what have a lesser toxic venom have some terrible consequences like the Naja haje what have neurotoxins but also cardiotoxine, coagulant, haemorrhigine and cytotoxins. If nivea is in the area it is sometimes to take a young of meerkat. Cross a Cape with a king is possible because the cape is a Naja and the king is Ophiophagus than it is not a question of species but a question of genera.
Thank you very much for watching! We see that there is already an answer to your questions, we will write our point of view. 1. The way to measure the toxicity is indeed LD50. It is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, that is required to kill half the members of a tested population. Cape cobra is high in the list. But to give you a context, it is a bit tricky to rank snake species according to this. LD50 is tested on mice, so the most venomous snake in the world is the Inland taipan. This snake has extremely toxic venom and is adapted to hunt rodents in the desert, where it needs to kill them very quickly so they don't run away. But what if LD50 was tested on different animals? Some other snakes could go up in the list. 2. Meerkats eat snakes in the wild so if they killed a cobra, they would probably use the chance to feed. You are right, here they just warned the snake not to go into their burrow, maybe they had babies there? It was strange that this group had only 4 individuals, or at least that is what we saw that morning. Cape cobra is from genus Naja, King cobra from genus Ophiophagus. It is too far for a hybridization, we think. Moreover, both species like to hunt other snakes and King cobra feeds almost exclusively on other snakes. Both species are also cannibalistic. We are super grateful that you are sharing our channel among colleagues and we hope that they also enjoy watching our videos :) Really, we appreciate your support a lot! If you are interested in Gerrie's story, please watch the full interview with him: ua-cam.com/video/2X3DcSpelDg/v-deo.html
@@LivingZoology My Director of Instruction at the school I teach at "hates snakes" until she saw the color of the Black Spitting Cobra and the Red Spitting Cobra in two of your videos. She was shocked and amazed/ Then I could see she was getting a little more facinated by your videos. Whether her squimishness about snakes disappears completely, I do not know. But her amazment at the quality of your photography and videography was very evident in the way she was watching and the level of her attention she paid to your videos. I am planning on joining your group soon. I have not done it yet for a few reasons that have more to do with unauthorized use of my bank account than anything else. Let's just say that there is someone in the UK who needs a swift kick to his anatomy. Thank you again for another GREAT video and for educating me and answering my questions. I am amazed at the level of your productions and your expertise in talking about and educating us about these snakes. Thank you again.
I'm pissed! The habbie looks just like SoCal so why don't we have those. All we have is stupid rattlesnakes ...drat:( Oh well. Maybe I need to move to SA. Beautiful video as always.
@@LivingZoology It surely would. But at least we do have some nice buzzers:) Add: Of all California snakes, my favs are the unsung Lyre snakes, racers/whips, and Long-nosed. ...as for buzzers, the nice peach colored Panamints, lutosis (never seen cuz haven't been up there in recent times), and albeit dirt common, winders.
@15:26 yes, "The rescuer needs to be creative (have patience too) sometimes"🙏 @17:30 "like the flow of molten gold😍", is this extreme colour morph, a part of sexual selection, let alone the fact that they are easily spotted by birds of prey 🤔
I always heard that king cobras were the largest and most toxic of the cobras. They are all fascinating. I hate handling snakes of any kind, venomous or not.
I have had my cobra 30+ years. It has scared a few but never bit. It is a tattoo on my left arm. Best videos, period
Thanks for watching! Great that you have a cobra for such a long time! ;)
It's nice youve been able to keep them alive so long im going to keep non venomous snakes but im not brave enough to keep the venomous ones.
I still love looking at them though such neat animals
I've been subscribed for a long time now and I still don't understand how you don't have more subscribers. The cinematography is top notch and you seem to have a real passion for your work. I'm hoping this channel gets the recommendation it deserves in 2021.
Thank you very much for following our work for a long time :) We are trying to do our work as good as we can and maybe more followers will come in the future ;) We recently started membership program and we already have 10 members!
Really, you don't know why? People still hate these animals. For proof you need only look as far as the videos of them being killed or otherwise abused. Plus, anything truly educational won't generally get the number of views that titillation does. Perhaps the only things that people will will admit to liking about them are their skins and watching them eat.
@@LivingZoology a~>1lq
I think it’s because there’s no narration
@@jeffking6286 their newer videos do have narration, personally i don't mind reading subtext but i see your point, that could be a deal breaker for some people.
I like those videos because there is no speak . Nature noises + text = The perfect choice !
Thank you very much, we are happy that you like this choice!
Absolutely fantastic content in this video. The beauty of that yellow Cape cobra is stunning, and yet it’s venom is so toxic! Also love the exotic copper coloured variety!
Would love to see a battle between an adult Cape cobra and a fully grown mongoose!
Thanks for the awesome video, amazing camera work!!
Thank you very much for watching and we are happy that you enjoyed it!
Stunning!!! I was completely mesmerized!!! beautifully shot!! Thank you all for sharing these Nature moments.
Thank you so much for watching!!! We are happy that you like this video! Check out also the others on our channel!
@@LivingZoology for sure!! I subbed!!😉
One of the prettiest snakes!
Yes, these cobras are so variable in color! You will see 4 colors in the video!
Was really looking forward to this one. Probably my all time favourite cobra. Great video!
Thank you so much!!! :) We are very happy that this video about your favorite cobra did not disappoint!
The Kalahari Cape Cobra's coloring is breathtaking! All the different morphs are beautiful! Your photography and videos are always stunning with perfect, crisp colors! The subject matter you choose is very intriguing and your locations are diverse. I'm certainly looking forward to more wonderful videos from your team! Please stay safe and take good care of yourselves. Your videos are really the best around reporting on the varied zoology in our world.
From Phoenix, AZ USA 🇺🇸
Thank you very much! We are very happy to hear that you like our channel! :) We are trying to stay safe, but now battling with covid for over a month! Take care and have a great day in Arizona! We loved our trip to the deserts of this state.
God bless you all for the generosity and immense patience to help that poor fellow
Thanks a lot!
I love the Cape Cobra. 🐍 I love it’s colors.🌈 I love the Orange. 🍊 I could’ve swore I had a comment somewhere on this upload.🤎
Thank you for watching! Cape cobras are awesome snakes, so elegant and variable in color!
That Cape cobra is stunning
We agree!
the most beautiful background music: birds chirping.
feels like i'm in my home town
Thank you! The best music for most scenes is the nature sound! :)
This is what the bush sounds like in safrica
@@hospagalief We love that sound!
Excellent work and what a gem of a channel. Love every single one of your videos
Very happy to know that!!! Many thanks!
Excellent. You have the best drone footage.
Thank you very much!
I’ve never heard of a meerkat killing any snakes. Usually they’re just trying to run them off. Meerkats are pretty neat animals too. I’ve seen videos where one took a bite from a puff adder and another was bit on the face by a Cobra. After being sick for 2-3 days they both survive. Really amazing for such a tiny animal. They must share some venom resistance with the mongoose. I know they can still die from bites so it must depend on the amount injected. I find it fascinating how animals in the same region evolved together. That yellow cape cobra was beautiful but my favorite snake is the Gaboon. I enjoyed your video on the Hybrid Gaboon, that probably the most beautiful snake I’ve ever seen
Thank you very much for watching!!! Happy that you like our videos and you are finding your favorite species there :)
Snakes are so maligned as an animal on land, like sharks are in the ocean.....
To me they are amazing, and my encounters with them are once in Australia, a small brown snake, at a safe distance.
We parted company, and it's still a fond memory from my younger days....
We dont have them here in NZ, thus I enjoy watching wonderful videos like this to see a close encounter with reptiles.....I mean as close that neither the snake or those filming them arent harmed or injured.
Thank you for watching and we are happy that you like this video!
This video is awesome! There's no awful background music or over-dramatic narrator. It just lets the footage speak for itself!
@@cherrybunches Thank you so much!! Happy that you like our video! 🙂
I love the video. The Cape cobras are beautiful creatures.
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Excellent video!
I also noticed the Tourniquet shirt when they were getting snake out of the fixture. That is one of my old favorite bands. 🤘
Thank you very much!!! :) Good spotting, Gerrie is a great Tourniquet fan!
This channel is so underrated💜
Thank you for your support!!!
Love this video and this is one that I kept going back to over and over
That is awesome!!! Thank you so much for that!
Fantastic footage once again. Great images of the rescue it is fantastic to see people who loves so snakes that they take some risks to conserve them. It is a also interesting to do a little observation about evolutive convergence because some patterns of nivea looks really like the pattern of Oxyuranus microlepidotus what lives in comparable dry environment.
Many thanks!! We love to show these interesting snake rescue calls. You are right that Cape cobra might resemble the Inland taipan a bit, we cannot wait to go to Australia and find out by ourselves.
Amazing documentary, i love your videos about snakes! Very good work and pictures! Great!
Thank you very much! It is great that you like our snake videos!
quality videos also very natural ... great footage
Just beautiful, what an amazing snake.
Thank you very much for watching!
Beautiful snakes. Especially the Kalahari color morph. Very good rescue
Thank you very much!!! It was interesting to put everything what we have about Cape cobras into one video :)
Very instructive and somewhat relaxing video. Nice work!
Thank you very much for watching! 🙂
great video again , awesome snakes , any chance on a video about Aspidelaps species ? :D
Thank you very much!!! Unfortunately, we did not find Aspidelaps...
They are nice creatures as long as they live in the wild.
Thanks for watching!
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER GREAT ONE 👍🐍
Thank you so much for watching!! 🙂🐍
What an incredible video! What makes it better is that there's no annoying background music.
Thank you very much for watching!!! :)
wonderful video, very informative too. photography standards just excellent..thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Excited for this one
Great, see you on Saturday! :)
Another spectacular video! It takes tremendous patience and knowledge about your subject to be able to capture it on video in its natural surroundings, behaving naturally. A joy to watch! Thank you, stay safe, and keep up the excellent work!
Thank you very much! We spend lot of time with observing these animals and filming them :)
Wow! Cape cobras are awesome, but how big are cape cobras grows in terms of size??.
Naja nivea grows maximum size 1,6 /1,8m
My nivea is 8 years and is 1,49cm
Its a beautyful snake ✌️
Maximum length is about 1.8 meters.
@@LivingZoology That is quite long snakes leading to black mamba I guess which grows up to 2.3 meters. Thank you so much.
@@camillodorfler432 Wow, that is amazing, thank you.
@@alfazoologist9741 Naja melanoleuca is considerably longer than nivea (this is the second longest cobra of all).
Another great video! Thanks much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great stuff,,I do like the Speckled coloured Capes...🤞
Hopefully you will enjoy watching the video tomorrow! :)
@@LivingZoology I most certainly will.👍
Wonderful video. So glad that I subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you! We hope that you will like also other videos on our channel!
that juvenile cobra is obviously an actor. great posing dude. lol
Yes, juveniles tend to pose a lot! They know that they are small so they try to scare the potential predator.
niiice dooocumenting and amazing rescue .well done guys bravo!
Thank you so much! Great that you like the rescue, it was not an easy one and Gerrie Heyns did a great job there!
Very good video. The subject has been beautifully described. Photography is excellent. Well done. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much for watching!
Thank you for your channel.
May i ask you what kind of camera you use ?
Thank you.
Thank you for watching videos on our channel. We use mainly Canon GX10.
I talk to a friend sometimes from Montagu in South Africa who i met through snake groups on Facebook, and there he is, Gerrie Heyns. 😃 He is a fellow Metal head too 🤘
They do come in variable colors, cape cobras are really pretty snakes. 🧡🐍
Haha, that is cool! Gerrie is very friendly guy and we loved to work with him! Yes, he loves metal, he was talking about it a lot! 😃
Man that one bird! The rest are beautiful sounding
Thanks for watching!
Excellent, amazing video!
Thank you very much!
Very nice video and music.Great video! 🦊
Many thanks!!
Wonderful video.
Thank you very much!
@@LivingZoology very very wonderful video
Bom trabalho meninos!!👍❤
Thank you for watching! :)
Pretty colours. Our Australia n snakes are much more venomous but at least there fangs are small and they don't spit neither
Yes, these cobras are amazingly colorful.
Love watching you're videos very educational
That is great! Thank you!
Im more of a viper guy than elapids but that's a beautiful cobra..great video as usual guys..thanks
Thanks 👍Many people prefer vipers but elapids are very cool in our opinion :)
Great work !!!!🤟🤟💪💪
Thanks 🔥
Adoro seus vídeos 👏👏👏
Muchas gracias!!! :)
Spectacular camera work. Who did it?
We filmed it, same as all videos on our channel :)
great video as always. matej my fried you never stop amaze me, keep up the good work brother..
thanks and much love from indonesia..
Thank you you very much from me and Zuzana, our whole team :D :D Happy that you enjoy watching our videos! Greetings from the Czech Republic!
Fantastic video, as always !!
Thank you very much!!! :)
Fantastic definition in these videos 😊
Glad you like them!
Pls add voice over to the videos.. this makes more involvement and presents in a great way
What about this one? ua-cam.com/video/Rq2k4Tzu198/v-deo.html
Waiting 😍
Great! :)
I wanted to ask are the backgrounds sounds added or are they true to the locality?
They are recorded at one of the localities where we filmed cobras.
Such a beautiful color on this snake.
We can only agree!
Good Afternoon great Crew 👍
Thank you very much!
You found a beautiful specimen
We think so too! But which one do you mean? :D
@@LivingZoology The reddish-orange one with black spots
This video is wonderful like other snakes filming by your experienced film group.
Thank you very much!!! Greetings from our film group consisting of Matej and Zuzana! :)
My favorite Naja Spezies
I keep a lot of them 👌
And i must say that your videos are one of my favorite videos when it comes do snakes ✌️
Keep up your great Work 👌
Greetings Form Austria
And what venomus snakes do you keep? ✌️
Thank you very much!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic! Which cobra species do you have? We don't keep any venomous snakes, we would have no time to take care of them as we travel a lot to find wild snakes :)
@@LivingZoology ok,thats great 👌
I wisch i have the time and the Money for traveling a lot.
And when you live for that than you have an gread live
I love snakes,venomus more than other because there where much more colourefull as the non venom snakes
And i have i my snake room
Naja naja
Naja nivea
Naja kaouthia
Naja pallida
Naja siamensis
And a lot of other snakes. Zbs. C.atrox
A.squamigera
A.hispida
D.polylepis
D. polylepis
D.viridis
D.angusticeps
D. jamesoni
And other snakes.
@@camillodorfler432 Wow, cool collection!!! We decided to save money for traveling instead of buying snakes. For about 5 years it was a hobby, now it is a job for one of us :)
@@LivingZoology Thank you!
Yeah,thats Sounds like you live a life what are where great. I will saw e naja in the nature,thats one of my Dreams 😁
Love the Spezies of naja and when i have the time and the Money for doing this than i look where i can find wild najas do look how the are live in the nature. I hope that i can make this in the next years 😉
✌️
@@LivingZoology and what i Mist say is that the snakes where a lot of work,really a lot
But when you Love this than this is no "work" as when you go do work and make a job what are not yours
Them some nice species of cobra🔥
Thank you very much!
Lovely najas....
Yes, they are awesome! Thank you!
Suppose the meerkats were not hungry or defending their offspring :-)
Beautiful footage, I may add ....
Thank you for watching!!! It looked like they just did not want to have cobra in their burrow.
Thank you some of my question about eating other snakes has been answered. This snake is a beauty.
Happy that we answered some questions and you enjoyed watching this video!
Nice nice i always wonder the technique and equipment u use to capture those nice creatures at close scale with out them not noticing.
Thanks 👍We work gently and let the snake do its thing in its natural environment. We try to minimize the stressful contact, we work in a small team with small equipment, so we can observe snakes behaving naturally :)
Thank u for the reply
Great photography guys
Thanks so much!
Wonderful video...except...Something new and bad: 3 times the video stopped and I had to click 'Skip Ad' to make it continue. Please stop the excess advertising.
Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on UA-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.
Nice that such a dangerous snake is so visible. In the United States all ours blend into the environment, makes for quite a few accidents if you go walking off the beaten path.
Coral snakes certainly don't blend in the environment in the USA :)
Waooooo so beautiful place
Thank you very much!
Why do snakes look like their environment so often? It's crazy, i've seen a speckled rattlesnake which looked exactly like the rocks in the area? The cape cobra looks amazing.
Because they try to stay camouflaged as they have many predators 🙂
@@LivingZoology Yes, i know the benefits of it but how does that work? I'm from Germany and our Adder doesn't look like their environment in most cases.
@@TheGForceJunkie Just millions of years of evolution. In some species individuals which are better camouflaged survive better. In some, it is beneficial to have bright colors to show predators that they are venomous.
Most attractive and active among all cobra species
These are beautiful snakes indeed!
Tyler Mac nice color
Thank you for watching!
The background music is amazing. Can someone please suggest the source of the music. Thanks in advance
Thank you! There is the sound of nature recorded in South Africa in the background.
I love snakes and other animals
I wanted to be a zoologist
We also had that dream when we were young :) We went for it and studied zoology. But eventually we ended up with wildlife filming!
Do what you want. I’m behind both of you 100%.🤎
Most toxic? Where is Gabon Viper
We were speaking about the most toxic cobra in Africa.
@@LivingZoologythere are only 2 cobras there, Naja and Cape?
@@RixiV11 All true cobras are Naja.
Such regal ans elegant animal....
Yes, they are very elegant!
That glass tube they are using to contain the cobra looks strangely familiar....I just can't place where I've seen it before. Maybe an advertisement of some type? Where on Earth have I seen that before?
These snake tubes are from plastic and we guess that something similar is used for many other things.
Good work bro
Thank you so much 😀
Cape.cobras.super.video.afrika
Thank you for watching!
awwwww.. rescued from the claws of death.. or a hole in a box.. either way.. yayyyyy
Thanks for watching!
I heard that this snake was more dangerous than the Black Mamba when it came to venomous snakes in Africa
That is true! It comes to human houses much more often and bites more people.
@@LivingZoology But in the hobby of keeping venomus snakes i say from the Handling its a naja Nivea much more relaxed as a Dendroaspis polylepis
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@@camillodorfler432 Yes, for manipulation, Cape cobra is easier than mamba.
@@LivingZoology yes of curse
A Mamba bite you all day long 😉
@@LivingZoology a black Mamba
The other mambas are much more relaxed as the black one
Make a video on cape cobra hunting
Maybe we will be lucky to witness that in the future.
The orange and the yellow cobra are absolutely beautiful animals and that was one luck cobra that those guys were able to rescue by cutting out of that box they got lucky all the way around the snake lucky that they didnt accidentally cut it while cutting the box and the guys luck that they didnt get bitten by the snake
Thank you for watching! Some of these cobras are really beautiful. The rescue was done by a great snake catcher with great experience, so it went well :)
id like to see a small doc about the inland taipan
We hope to go to Australia in the future.
background music just wow!
Thank you! Music provided by nature :)
I hope the Reptile ban won't hurt Yinz
In the Czech Republic, there is no reptile ban.
Thank you
Am scared of snakes and don't like But they are beautiful ❤️
Great that you think that snakes are beautiful! :) Thanks for watching this video!
To keep a snake in a glas box is wrong. That is super max for snakes.
Which glass box do you mean??? There was nothing like that during the rescue.
@@LivingZoology no box ,
Just that people who have snakes i their homes, like a
pet. Thats wrong.
@@ebe7840 Yes and no. The image of snakes is slowly canning and it is partially because of these snakes lovers. if you do that for sensationalism it is not good (some people have venomous snakes only for adrenalin "hooo it kills me easily, it's fun"). If you do that to understand better and to educate the people to explain why these animals have the right to live it is a good thing. Snakes are not pet as cat and dogs, but captive born snakes could be ambassador for their group. A lot of important discoveries have been make by amateurs herpetologist especially for mating.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I have numerous questions. So here are mine from this video. 1. When you say that this snake has the most potent venom, is there a quantitative measurement for rating the potency of venom? If so, what is that measurement and where is the cape cobra on that level? 2. If the meerkats had killed the cobra, would then have eaten it? It appears the snake was in an area he had no business being in and the meerkats did not want him there. 3. and my last question for this round. Are the species of cobra able to be cross bred with another species? Could a cape cobra be bred with a king cobra for example? I think of cobras as a group of animals like I would cats or dogs which are bred across the various species. Do you know if this is possible or if this has been done with cobras? On a side note, I shared your channel with the teacheers at my school. My director of instruction is facinated by some of your videos. We discussed your channel for about an hour. Your fan base is spreading in Wisconsin. Thank you for another great video. I would like to see more of the snake cathcer in this one. He was great. I loved how he handled the snake. Your channel surprises me and I look forward to your videos. Thank you again.
The toxicity is evaluate in the LD50. The snake what have the lowest is more toxic (lesser mg to kill). nivea is amongst the highest rate. Indeed it seems that the most toxic of Naja group is Naja philippinensis. But it would say that some species what have a lesser toxic venom have some terrible consequences like the Naja haje what have neurotoxins but also cardiotoxine, coagulant, haemorrhigine and cytotoxins. If nivea is in the area it is sometimes to take a young of meerkat. Cross a Cape with a king is possible because the cape is a Naja and the king is Ophiophagus than it is not a question of species but a question of genera.
Thank you very much for watching! We see that there is already an answer to your questions, we will write our point of view. 1. The way to measure the toxicity is indeed LD50. It is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, that is required to kill half the members of a tested population. Cape cobra is high in the list. But to give you a context, it is a bit tricky to rank snake species according to this. LD50 is tested on mice, so the most venomous snake in the world is the Inland taipan. This snake has extremely toxic venom and is adapted to hunt rodents in the desert, where it needs to kill them very quickly so they don't run away. But what if LD50 was tested on different animals? Some other snakes could go up in the list. 2. Meerkats eat snakes in the wild so if they killed a cobra, they would probably use the chance to feed. You are right, here they just warned the snake not to go into their burrow, maybe they had babies there? It was strange that this group had only 4 individuals, or at least that is what we saw that morning. Cape cobra is from genus Naja, King cobra from genus Ophiophagus. It is too far for a hybridization, we think. Moreover, both species like to hunt other snakes and King cobra feeds almost exclusively on other snakes. Both species are also cannibalistic. We are super grateful that you are sharing our channel among colleagues and we hope that they also enjoy watching our videos :) Really, we appreciate your support a lot! If you are interested in Gerrie's story, please watch the full interview with him: ua-cam.com/video/2X3DcSpelDg/v-deo.html
@@LivingZoology Hihi we answer almost in the same time and same answer. To cool.
@@LivingZoology My Director of Instruction at the school I teach at "hates snakes" until she saw the color of the Black Spitting Cobra and the Red Spitting Cobra in two of your videos. She was shocked and amazed/ Then I could see she was getting a little more facinated by your videos. Whether her squimishness about snakes disappears completely, I do not know. But her amazment at the quality of your photography and videography was very evident in the way she was watching and the level of her attention she paid to your videos. I am planning on joining your group soon. I have not done it yet for a few reasons that have more to do with unauthorized use of my bank account than anything else. Let's just say that there is someone in the UK who needs a swift kick to his anatomy. Thank you again for another GREAT video and for educating me and answering my questions. I am amazed at the level of your productions and your expertise in talking about and educating us about these snakes. Thank you again.
Gold cobra
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I'm pissed! The habbie looks just like SoCal so why don't we have those. All we have is stupid rattlesnakes ...drat:( Oh well. Maybe I need to move to SA. Beautiful video as always.
Africa has some cool snakes! Rattlesnakes are also cool, but if you had cobras everything would be better :D
@@LivingZoology It surely would. But at least we do have some nice buzzers:)
Add: Of all California snakes, my favs are the unsung Lyre snakes, racers/whips, and Long-nosed. ...as for buzzers, the nice peach colored Panamints, lutosis (never seen cuz haven't been up there in recent times), and albeit dirt common, winders.
@@bradsillasen1972 Sure, you have some cool snakes there! Winders are pretty awesome!
App anger video banaya kro
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@@LivingZoology hame sneck video Pasand hai♥️♥️
Proof that yinz are the Best.
Thank you very much!!!
This cobra is the venomous of most cobras
Yes, this species is one of the most venomous cobras.
@15:26 yes, "The rescuer needs to be creative (have patience too) sometimes"🙏
@17:30 "like the flow of molten gold😍", is this extreme colour morph, a part of sexual selection, let alone the fact that they are easily spotted by birds of prey 🤔
The bright yellow cobras are active in the heat of the day and their color helps them to absorb less heat.
@@LivingZoology 🙏, sir; that is an interesting adaptation.
I always heard that king cobras were the largest and most toxic of the cobras. They are all fascinating. I hate handling snakes of any kind, venomous or not.
King cobras are the longest venomous snakes in the world. However, their venom is not the most toxic among cobras, Cape cobra for example is higher.
Actually, the king cobra is not a "true" cobra - it's more closely related to mambas. And it does not have the most potential venom.