Deadly venomous snakes and eyes, vertical and circular pupil, many snake species from the world
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- How to recognize a deadly venomous snake from a harmless snake species? Sometimes you can find an advise that venomous snakes have vertical pupils and non-venomous snakes have circular pupils. Is it true? Do all deadly venomous snakes have vertical pupils and all non-venomous snakes have a circular pupil? In this video, we are showing many examples of snakes from around the world with their eyes. You will see cobras, mambas, a krait, coral snakes, a sea snake, rattlesnakes, eyelash pit vipers, adders, Gaboon vipers, nigh adder, boomslang, twig snake and vine snake, kingsnake, cat-eyed snakes, Aesculapian snakes, sand snakes and many more!
My pupils popped out of my head watching this video. The footage is excellent, the snakes just speak for themselves, and the sequence of species one after the other is like a fashion parade. Anyone who does not appreciate the beauty of snakes should watch this and believe. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!!! If this video makes even one person to respect snakes, we will be super happy! It is great to publish something like this, there are 6 years of work in it.
Very well said, great video!
Incredible footage! Thank you for the science lesson!
Glad you enjoyed it! Very welcome! :)
Stunning!!! Absolutely fascinating! Hope schools can watch this!
Thank you so much! It would be great if schools use our videos for education!
@@LivingZoology It's easy, just tell each school district how many people u reach and all the positive comments. There's a 1000 school districts US
Really makes the point that the pupils are not much help in identifying venomous species. As always, a stunning video, excellent photography of so many beautiful specimens. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! We hope that this video provides all the necessary information about this topic :)
Fantastic work, fantastic channel! Thanks for sharinhg!!!!
Great video, lived every second of it. Such beautiful fascinating creatures, venomous or not 🐍🐍💕🐍🐍
Thank you!!! Couldn't agree more! We also live all those beautiful moments with snakes again when we edit our videos!
Wonderful,,,educational
FILMING!!!
Thank you very much!!! :)
Once again the footage was super, the closeups were damn good and you are right, pupils alone cannot determine if the snake is venomous or non-venomous
Thank you so much! It was great to go through all our footage filmed in 6 years to see how many details of snakes we have 🙂
Great video keep it up
Thank you very much!
BEST video Friends!!!! Congratulations and Thanks!!!!
Thank you so much!!! :)
Amazing footage and you really capture the beauty of these creatures. Could you please include the common names of the snakes.
Thank you, great that you love this video! There is not enough space to include common names unfortunately and also the scientific names are sometimes the only existing.
I know what they are alluding to in the thumbnail - some people have the misconception that round pupils mean "non-venomous" so they are showing a clear example of that being false. Green Mambas are so pretty BTW 💚 - I love how the Green Mamba looks like it is smiling with that upward curve to it's lip 😊.
This thumbnail should make people think, how exactly is it with snake pupils? The answer with many examples will be in the video :)
there whole purpose is to kill, you never see em, playing, bastard evil things
Hello great crew. Thank you always.
Thank you very much!!!
Great job by your team
Thank you for watching! :)
Görsel şölen resmen. Çok güzel hazırlanmış ve hepsi birbirinden güzel görüntüler.
Thank you for watching!!!
Awesome footage!
Tho can I suggest not using red font, I honestly couldn’t read it against the dark background and just gave up trying.
Thank you very much! Thank you for the suggestion, we agree that the rend font might be problematic.
great video, again!
one minor comment is that it would have been better if you used the common names of snakes instead of their scientific names
Thank you very much! It is difficult to choose, some people comment that they want scientific names when we use common ones 😀
Great looking Snakes 🐍
Many thanks! :)
The pupil advice is valid here in Italy. The only venomous snakes here are Vipera aspis, vipera berus and vipera ammodytes, all with vertical pupils. Besides them, the non venomous snakes are colubrids with round pupils such as natrix natrix. But as you said in this accurate video, this advice only works in specific regions, most often with temperate climate.
Yes, in some countries it works, same here in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, people often tend to think that this rule will help them to recognize venomous snakes anywhere. Thank you for watching!
I'd advise against that logic if visiting Australia
Great Video so many cool snakes. thanks 😊
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video. Would help though to have the common name of each snake as well since it’s what most know.
Thank you very much!!! Unfortunately, adding common names would make the footage full of text and snakes would not be visible :D
The footage is as stunning as the diversity . If im close enough to see the shape of the iris, I think Im too close!
Thank you very much!!! Well, you can observe the snake with binoculars for example 😉 But of course, it is good to keep your distance if you are not an expert!
@@LivingZoology I live in the UK and even after almost 60 years here have never seen one in the wild. Even when in Ghana I was never fortunate enough to see one when in rural Ghana I even offered to pay locals to take me to see some (rock pythons) but they were too scared lol
I can only imagine the time and patience to accumulate the footage you have. I would love to see you feature a West African forest cobra if possible. Keep up the great work
@@Mark13091961 Yes, it takes a lot of time and effort to find snakes! And it is such a great feeling to find a snake! Thank you for your support! We hope to film snakes in West Africa in the future!
@@LivingZoology I appreciate your efforts, thank you
Excellent and informative video! I try to inform friends here in the southeast U.S. that the general rule is: head shape and pupil shape, so that they don’t hurt themselves running from ratsnakes and watersnakes. Many people see a black snake and immediately yell, “Cottonmouth! Water Moccasin!”. If the snake has a pattern, they yell, “Copperhead!” or “Rattlesnake!”. I understand their “Better safe than sorry” rationale, especially with children and pets involved, but a little bit of knowledge can equate to free pest control. If you have a Ratsnake, or one of it’s cousins close to your door, that might be a red flag that you have a rodent problem. They follow their food, the same way someone pulls through a drive-thru.
Thank you very much!! In Europe people also think that checking only pupils on a snake is a good way how to tell if it is dangerous or not. It works here, but not worldwide. We hope that this video will help many people to identify snakes!
@@LivingZoology >> It works here, but not worldwide.
Exactly! I never saw a single snake in 2,500 miles through 5 provinces of South Africa. There are many round-eyed, highly venomous snakes throughout the places I went, from Limpopo Province down to Kwazulu-Natal. Cobra, Mamba, Boomslang, etc. They of course have vipers like adders as well, so the “pupil rule” goes right out the window.
What was most educational about this video is the snakes with horizontal pupils, quite similar to cephalopods! It’s like seeing an octopus eye. I never knew there were snakes like that! Thank you!
@@MrAtlantafalcon Many rules tend to be used generally even though they don't work everywhere. It is the same with "Red touches yellow, kills a fellow". It does not work at all in Latin America and people can get bitten if they follow it. We are happy that you found this video very educational and you learned something new! :)
Such amazing diversity!
We tried to put there as many species as possible and still, we did not include all we have! :)
INTERESTING INFORMATION THANK YOU LOVE THE VIDEOS 👍🐍 KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK
Thanks for watching! We are happy that you found this information useful :)
Just beautiful
Thanks for watching! :)
Amazing and beautiful animals. Spectacular and awesome photography. Thank you.
Many thanks! This is so nice to see that a viewer enjoyed watching our video! :)
Tedy, at´ už ty záběry byly natočeny v teráriu (a vím, že někteří přírodovědci to tak dělají), a nebo ve volné přírodě, jsou naprosto uchvacující a to jak kvalitou obrazu, tak těmi hady. Super, díky
Všechno je z přírody 🙂Hady hledáme, pak natáčíme, jsou tam záběry z posledních 6 let naší práce 🙂Jsme rádi, že se Vám video líbilo!
Fantastic as always. The images of these diverse species are truly beautiful. The schleigelii are truly incredible. But I love the colour of pallida also. I love them all. As simple diagnostic they are always wrong. Other examples here: Like All white mushrooms are edible (thanks to Amanita verna and Amanita virosa to be completely white and lethal!), The poisonous mushrooms smells bad (Thanks to Amanita phalloïdes to have such a good smell and to be the most dangerous of all mushrooms) etc....PS: I have post a comment about the sindwinder move and a reflexion about evolution of body movements on your other film. All the best.
Thank you!!! We tried to make a video with spectacular diversity, but snakes from some regions are still missing. We hope to add them in the future :) As you say, these simple rules are tricky in nature, there are always exceptions.
awesome high quality footage, thx for that!
Thank you very much, we are happy that you like it!
Great vid love what you guys do! One small subtitle mistake: Natrix natrix at 11:14 not Z. longissimus
Thank you for watching!!! Well, that is indeed a baby Zamenis longissimus! ;) Many people are confused by this.
My Boa Constrictor pupils can be horizontal, vertical, a cross or round. Their eyes are fascinating to watch & you can tell a lot about their mood among other things by watching them & knowing them. 🐍💕🐍
Yes, the shape of the pupil can change, which is amazing!
IS IT that the SLIT PUPILS ARE ALWAYS VENÓMOÒÌOÒ
❤❤❤wow I’m speechless
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful pictures.
Many thanks!!!
The elapids have a round pupils as the pit vipers have the slit pupils. The Elapids have smaller fangs that are fixed, as the vipers have larger fangs and are not fixed.
Yes, you are right.
Very informative
Glad you think so!
I had a Venomous Lecturer with both High Achieving "Vertical Pupils" and those "Circular Pupils" stuck on Repeating, Repeating, in fact one bloke took 4 year's at 1st year
We hope that you found our video interesting!
Excellent video! I am hoping that there more videos on the snakes of Asia, including the Burmese pythons and reticulated pythons!🥰👍🐍❤
Thank you! We hope that Asia will open soon!
Amazing and really educative video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@LivingZoology It's important to show people such things about reptiles, so it was great video so far.
Excellent work. Just a point that if we see a snake then let it go its way and we better go our way rather than researching on them.
Beautiful frames ..keep going.
Thank you very much!!! If people are interested in snakes and they want to observe them from a safe distance, why not and it is practical to have some general knowledge :) Hopefully, some of it is in this video.
That was the most interesting video that I've seen, bravo I'm so glad I subscribed to your website....
Wow, thank you! We are very happy that you like this video! Thank you for subscription and enjoy all videos on our channel! :)
Spectacular 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Awesome...as always ! Ty4Sharing Thumbs up.
Thank you! Cheers! Happy that you enjoy watching our videos!
@@LivingZoology Yw
Getting close enough to view pupil shape is ill advised. Head-shape is a safer way to detect venom-gland presence and approachability.
Of course, it is dangerous to come very close to snakes if you are not a trained professional. But many people try to recognize snakes with pupils so we wanted to make a video about this topic.
Look at their cute little faces 🥰 see their little breathing, precious creatures. Even tho they are dangerous to humans, they are still in need of protection from being killed. They dont have arms or legs and they cant even see very well if at all. They have very little protection so their venom is all they have. God bless these creatures. They need a safe place to thrive too. 😇🥰❤️ Everytime most humans see a snake, their first reaction is to kill the poor things. Its very heartbreaking! 😢🥺 We get snakes into our basement but I wont let anyone hurt them. I pick them up and help them get back outdoors.
Thank you very much for watching! 🙂You are absolutely right that snakes are often killed and these poor animals only want peace! It is great that you are helping snakes! 🐍❤️
Does the horizontal pupils mean they are nocturnal?
No, snakes which have them are usually arboreal, with great vision and diurnal.
They are Amazing 👏
Thank you for watching!!!
Always
07:30 😮😮
Very cool snake, right? 🙂
Boom slang has round eyes and venomous
Yes, also mambas or cobras have circular pupils.
Is that Namib tiger snake?🤔
We filmed the tiger snake in South Africa.
The eye of a Snake would tell you a lot about them but in fact it’s sometimes the body language & posture that can normally tell the difference between Venomous to Non Venomous. The Malayopython reticulus is a great looking Snake because no other Snake has a glossy camouflage like that with a golden yellow head.
The pupils are never an only clue which should be followed. Other characteristics need to be examined.
Non venomous snakes has head that somewhat look like lizard , venomous has more rounder or more pointy head . Non venomous somewhat has cute face, while venomous snake look menacing in their face .
Did you watch the video?
Personally I actively avoid snakes but if is not a Boa or Python and it is in my yard, it is a dead snake if I see it. My rule of thumb is all snakes are bad snakes but dead snakes are good snakes. There are many beautiful snakes but I do not trust any of them. Great video though with excellent close ups.
Thank you for watching. Recognizing if the snake is venomous or not gives you the chance to step out of the attitude 'dead snake is a good snake'.
What really identifies a snake based on its pupil is its hunting lifestyle. Rounded pupils tend to be diurnal and slit eyes are nocturnal. Given that pit vipers like rattlesnakes, vipers and relatives are commonly associated as venomous by society, people assume that all pupil eyed snakes are venomous. However, there are plenty of diurnal snakes too like mambas, coral snakes and cobras
Even the hunting lifestyle cannot be connected totally with pupils. Coral snakes are nocturnal, kraits are nocturnal, many Australian elapids are nocturnal. Many vipers are also active during the day and they are not strictly nocturnal.
I live in Southern Africa and its just chaos when we see a snake. All vertical eyed snakes want to envenom or constrict. Its hard to even differentiate a green mamba, boomslang or green snake when frightened. And some people will say yeah, this looks like this and that looks like that but snakes change color as they grow. Even professionals have a hard time differentiating brown colored snakes at first glance until they either have it hooked or it opens it's mouth or hood to say it is a cobra, black mamba or something else.
Of course, identification in tough conditions might be tricky! That is why education is important and we tried to give more info with this video. If people learned at least one new thing, it was beneficial. A professional should of course be able to tell easily if the snake is venomous or not. Determination of species, especially when the snake was not caught, is more difficult, yes.
@@LivingZoology Thank you so much for the video :D
I love snake
I Love these Chanel ❤️
From : Indonesia
Thank you so much!!!
If you love snakes and if you live in indonesia, then you live in the right country. :-)
I´m from Germany and snakes are my favourite animals too. In Germany, we have only
seven different species of snakes, so I live in the wrong country. :-))
@@clausfries5590 We are in the Czech Republic, also not the best :D
@@LivingZoology Yes, I know. My answer belongs to the comment of Ciparay.
By the way, I like your vids very much.
Before I even watch, anyone who says round pupils means non-venomous should go try to pet a boomslang and they'll find out 😇
Very true and that is the purpose of this video :)
Not just Boomslang there many more examples of round pupil being one of the deadliest. I know @livingzoology don't have footage from australia yet, but the most venomous snake inland taipan also has round pupil. Australia has mostly elapids and they are all highly venomous with round pupils.
What about the king cobra
It is in the video, watch closely.
If you can tell if its pupils are vertical or round, you're probably too close.
You might have binoculars for example. There are situations when you see pupils from a safe distance.
I know that you people know the boomslang and it has a very large, rounded eye?☺
Yes, we know Boomslang :) ua-cam.com/video/cP5kqH_N0u8/v-deo.html
Pretty sure there's no feature that definitively means venomous or non-venomous. A rattle is a good tell for a rattlesnake. Generally best to leave the one's that hood alone. Red on yellow..............
Yes, there is no simple rule! But many people still think some rules work in general so we wanted to make a video about this 'rule'.
God bless for people , who skipped this video before first 15 seconds 🙏
😅😅
Because they did not want to watch beautiful footage of amazing snakes? :D
@@LivingZoology No.... they think your statement is true, which was shown at the beginning of the video.
" non venomous have round pupils" 😅😅
Cobras ang black mambas has circular pupil.
Yes, true. We show it in our video.
Basic rule. All Snakes are to be treated as venomous until proven otherwise
Very true. Video is saying the same message.
I think the message should be if you come across one of these beautiful creatures in the wild leave it in peace
That is the message of many of our videos, we try to show people that snakes are beautiful, play an important role in nature and they don't want to bite people.
@@LivingZoology an thank you for that
Hmm!...not true, the red snake is a spitting cobra, highly venomous!
Hopefully the video explains the topic well.
Hell, NO ITS BOTHING TO DO WITH THE EYES VERTICAL OR WGATEVER .
EVEN ROUND EYES ONES ARE POISONOUS.
We know and we are demonstrating it in our video.
Big boo boo on the left picture lol regardless what's the snake on the right?
The snake on the right is a huge Eyelash pit viper! :)
i think it’s the other way around
Watch the video and you will know how it is ;)
How to identify harmless rat snake?
Rat snakes have big eyes with circular pupils, they are usually brown or olive, slender, fast and diurnal snakes. Their head is longer than the head of a cobra and the eyes are bigger.
@@LivingZoology thank you.. we in western ghats of india see lot of snakes and they all look same to me except for pythons and vipers. Need to learn a lot
@@vishalnayak3966 It is very important to recognize snake species so you can tell which one is venomous and which one is not. Watch our documentary from India, we worked also in Western Ghats: ua-cam.com/video/qgcU0CluSpY/v-deo.html
No yyou are wrong because many circular pupil snake is very dangerous like tipans cobras mambas and kraits
Watch the video and see for yourself what is presented there.
Is this a test to see if people actually believe this theory or is this a theory that you've actually heard people use in the past??
We heard people think this. We decided to put together different examples from the world showing that it does not work in most regions.
This is somewhat of a "layman's" theory as a quick identifier for safety when outdoors. However, as these creators are pointing out, it is not an absolute rule!
@@colacolette19 This rule does not work in most regions of the world, but many people think it does, so we wanted to inform about it in this video :)
Elapids are my favorite. They look just like colubrids, if colubrids decided they wanted to kill you
Elapids are also our favorites. In fact, they look a bit different than colubrids, but we agree that on first sight the representatives of both groups might appear the same to somebody :)
that is only valid for vipers being the only venomous snake of europe and most widespread speciese in the world,its not true abt cobras ,coral snakes,mambas and other venomous species found in africa,asia,australia.
We know, we made this video for those who don't know. There are vipers with circular pupil too.
@@LivingZoology yeah I was actually surprised when I saw that one, I initially thought they all have cat eyes
Imagine if God creating snake with foot 😂
We would call them lizards :D
Hello there u are wrong, in thumbnail
Left one is green Mamba which is very dangerous and u are claiming it as non venomous
You think we don't know what snake it is? We filmed and photographed it :D Don't you see the big question mark in the thumbnail? It is like this on purpose to make people think about it and learn the truth in the video.
Thanks for telling but u better talk to me little polietly.
U see I talked in a simple manner
useless bloody things, snakes, the way constrictors kill is truly evil
Considering your previous comments we assume that this is a sarcasm :D
I always was told kind of rounded head nonvenomous . Rectangular head venomous. Or big cat like eyes meant they was venomous. Small eyes nonvenomous. I guess where u grew up different story 2 tell apart. I just know a snake is dangerous 2 me no matter what kind. I'm gone.
The shape of the head or size of eyes does not work either. The point of the video is that these simple rules don't work in general worldwide.
⚠️ TRIANGLE HEADED🔺 BUDDIES ARE OUR SUSPECTS😍
The shape of the head is also not a good way everywhere how to tell if the snake is venomous!
@@LivingZoology seems a trained eye is the only way to identify venomous or non venomous
They should title this one, EASTERN GREEN MAMBA vs EYELASH PIT VIPER
Why, this video is not going to be about these two snakes only.
Only snake i like is the King Snake. Other then that i hate all
The others did something bad to you?
@@LivingZoology they didnt. I just dont like them
@@markokolega133 Sorry for you.
Eyes dont tell if the snakes venomous or not shit a king cobra has circle eyes and its venomous and a California king snake does to and it's none venomous. The best way to tell if the snakes venomous or not is the head shape
the best way is to get bitten
Very true and that is the point of this video :) Watch and see!
As a joke, good. But what if it is a dry bite? :D
@@LivingZoology The bite may be dry but shorts wouldn't be
@@kamelionify got a point even though I wouldn't try get myself bit by a snake even though I have been bitten but they were just python but if you did get bitten you can tell by the teeth Mark's