Obligatory shoutout to Kevin Budden, the man who in July of 1950 captured a live taipan to allow the development of a taipan antivenom. As an amature herpatologist he travelled to Queensland to find the snake. On July 27th he managed to find one in a scrapyard but during the capture was alone and ended up holding the snake with no way to bag it. Walked to a road while still holding the snake to be given a lift by a passing truck driver. Convinced the truck driver to take him to another snake enthusiast to help bag and confirm the identity of the snake (While still holding it). Was sadly bitten on the thumb while bagging it. Made the truck driver promise to organise transport back south to researchers before he would go get medical treatment. Died July 28th after being given tiger snake venom which helped with the blood coagulating but did not help with the nerve damage caused by the nuerotoxins.
When you live somewhere so vast where a regular meal is a rare thing you can't afford an animal you bite running off before it drops and something else snatching it up.You need to be able to stop your prey as fast and efficiently as possible..No coincidence that Australia has the most types of the most venomous critters
That actually makes sense. I just learned the six-eyed sand spider has the most potent venom of any spider, and it lives in the remote deserts of southern Africa. Probably the same dynamic.
As an Australian, I think Bill Bryson summed up the lethality of the taipan excellently in writing “this is a snake so venomous, that should you encounter it your last words on earth would be “I say, is that a sn-“
The Inland Taipan isn’t just the most venomous snake, it’s the most venomous animal on earth. Fortunately they’re extremely docile creatures that live far away from populated areas.
I just wanna say thank you. Thank you for making educational videos of this quality for *free*. Thank you for sharing a passion with everyone. Thank you for making this platform better even if it is by a slight amount.
@@defcreator187 Why are you complaining? If I wasn't watching this, I'd be watching worthless content instead. I prefer spending my not so expensive internet subscription watching her videos and getting her the money she deserves.
a different video said that inland taipans are very shy and that's one reason they are so difficult to find. Nevertheless, I am NEVER going to Australia.
This is terrifying!! I was completely enthralled. I love when animations are included in these videos. It really helps to explain how it all works. The Inland Taipan's venom is a cheat code!!!
Hi from Australia 👋. I'd like to know why, how did this country end up with such a high number of venomous animals? Snakes, spiders and ocean creatures.
@@cognisentnt8613 Yep, the harsh, dry climate (less productive biosphere) I'd argue acts as a multiplier to all of those factors. It basically makes the outback into a petri dish for increasing toxicity which may then filter back into the more hospitable areas along the coasts. Another factor is the snake's prey: as the venom gets more toxic the prey will evolve countermeasures to combat the venom. Whether that extreme toxicity hangs around over evolutionary time depends on whether its worth it from an evolutionary perspective to spend all that energy to make a toxin that concentrated (you need a lot of energy to concentrate that much enzymatic killing power in a small amount of liquid) and that diverse (2 separate synthesis pathways means more complexity in manufacturing and packaging).
Fascinating and brilliant presentation as always! One thing I really appreciate about your videos, is that you take topics to the next level which lends itself to curiosity and asking ‘why?’, really promoting the science, research, and a desire for understanding. There are countless other videos about the most toxic snakes, and you can easily learn that the inland taipan tops the list with just a quick search. But your video addresses why it is so? What is it about the venom? How did the venom evolve or converge in relation to the region? What actually happens to the body as each component of the venom takes effect? I love how intellectual and interesting your topics always are; truly next level!
@@realscience and 100% deserved! I discovered your channel not so long ago, and all of your content great. Everything Sikeosomanic is true for me too. Truly an awesome channel and keep doing what you're doing!
Can confirm... The editing, topics, explanation has been top notch from the very start. I actually subscribed on the 1st video i saw, the one about orcas. Truly fascinating, keep up the awesome work
I loathe serpents. Not out of lack of knowledge, rather the contrary. Yet, I find they are quite fascinating. In my region of the world, constrictors share territory with snakes that use hemo toxins, as well as some that utilize a cocktail of neuro and hemo toxins to neutralize their prey.
It's the King Brown snake that Australian's fear most. Highly toxic, highly aggressive, it's a big, long snake and it's got a healthy body count of Australian lives under it's belt.
King Brown Aka Mulga snake is related to the Black snake species of elapid family of snakes in Australia. They are cannibalistic snake eaters who prey on other venomous snakes including Taipans . They rarely kill humans in Australia where antivenin is available for all citizens provided by Medicare. 65 percent of fatal snake bites in Australia are from the Eastern Brown snake LD 50 0.053mgkg sc the third most toxic venomous snake on Earth with a wide range in Australia and Papua New Guinea where people don't have access to antivenin or any other medical treatment in many regions of their country.
No , Not the king Brown, (Pseudechis Australis ) that is actually a black snake ,Very deadly , but the #2 Deadliest snake The Eastern Brown, PsudonajaTextillis is responsible for 60%of bites ,is the snake Australians fear cheers other snakes fear the king Brown ,a Black snake
@@Ducatirati red belly black will make you crook but they are more interested in other snakes for dinner; your thinking of the copper head I think my friend
During Australia's many droughts, the snakes that used their venom up on prey that then got a significant distance away before dying...died. This left the snakes whose venom was potent enough to produce an instant kill, to breed together. Perhaps a snake with coagulant venom genes bred with one that had beta neurotoxin (paradoxin) genes, and the result then meant that virtually all those snakes survived to breed, whereas none of the ones that lacked that gene combination made it through the next drought. This shows the concept of "selection pressure" very nicely. Selection pressure turns up in all kinds of places in our world...not just ecosystems.
@@b0nkeror452 Its primarily Alpha 😄 and probly cuz it stops shit quickly, youd have to wonder why the Inland version has both, maybe it hunts bigger slower stuff equally as often to do more damage over a day rather than in minutes
I discovered this channel in Germany through the "mission Erde" channel. Your films are so good, informative and really interesting. Also very understandable with the German subtitles. Thank you for your work and please keep it up. Love goes out to everyone in this community
I just wanted to say that I very much appreciated the depth you went into in this video. Chemical signalling, ion dynamics, cell structure, etc; these are all fascinating.
Straight out lie in saying people that were bitten before antivenom died No one has ever died from an inland taipan snake bite. Only a few people have been bitten by an inland taipan, and all survived due to prompt first aid and hospital treatment.
Not sure I've ever seen such a thorough explanation of how venom works. Well done! What's interesting is so many venomous snakes would make excellent captive pets...if not for the fact that 1 mistake could cost you anywhere between an ER visit and your life.
Yes but on the Amex advert, Steve says the Lime Bellied Brown snake was the most venomous! I don’t mind though, he was a legend and I will still run away from snakes 😊
Your narration is superb! Crisp, clear, evenly paced, with perfect pronunciation throughout. Thank you for such impeccable professionalism, a quality rare in both social media and irl.
Straight out lie in saying people that were bitten before antivenom died No one has ever died from an inland taipan snake bite. Only a few people have been bitten by an inland taipan, and all survived due to prompt first aid and hospital treatment.
The remarkable thing about inland taipans is how docile they are. I know two snake keepers who absolutely love handling them because of their laid-back nature. Being the most venomous snake doesn’t necessarily mean the most dangerous.
The movie Walking Tall about a laid back lawman that walked softly and carried a big stick...or the little skinny laid back punk taunting a group of outlaw bikers, while packing a 44 magnum wearing the T-shirt that reads don't make me open this can of whoop ass on you!". That'd be the inland Taipan😵!
Yea,Had one living around a homestead on a property I was working on, He/she was pretty chilled out.used to check me out when I watered the grass around the homestead. Freaked me out the first time though.haven one of them eyeball you for a bit.
Australia's equivalent to The Black Mamba. I came face to face with a Black Mamba on a bush walk. It was about 3.5 to 4m long. Needed a change of underwear afterwards
@@aarons6935 would want to get bitten by either of them. A snake catcher I know got a single bite from a BM last month. He was bagging it when he got pinned, so it was not a full on attack. Within 10 mins he couldn't walk. Took 10 vials of Antivenom to save him.
@aarons6935 Well The Mamba ,Azza they sure pack a punch , but the Costal is 66%deadlier I checked , but both their venoms is extremely toxic , it is different to Australian snakes , who have the most toxic venoms , but most have extremely small fangs , they wouldn't go through thick jeans, but the Coastal Tiapan are 13mm they will , but generally 5 ml fangs as they pray on small mammals frogs , all as well as the Mulga aka King Brown Psuedechis Australis a Black Snake, the largest Australian snake that mostly prays on all the deadliest snakes in Australia, it is about 7th deadliest on LD50 but immune to all other snake bites, it has the most venom in its glands than all snakes on the globe , as when it eats a 1.5 meter Tiapan , every bite gulp it pumps in venom so it breaks down the pray to a health shake , and I could bang on a manner of trivia , sorry for bending your eyes /ears Cheers
@@Ducatirati I spend a lot of time in the bush when I was in the military. Snakes I have come across : Black Mamba, Green Mamba, Puff Adder (very bad news character), Boomslang, Vine Snake and a Forest Cobra. Vine Snake there is no Antivenom if betten you have to go for a complete blood transfusion.
I had a close encounter with a coastal taipan in North Queensland when I was there as an exchange student. We were on our senior retreat and we were swimming in a water hole and I had one swim across the creek, literally right in front of me. I of course had no idea what kind of snake it was, but was told by a teacher who saw this, exactly what it was. They told me that taipans don't like to swim, so if I had been a little further up and had been in it's way, that it would have more than likely bitten me. I never got back in the creek after that. Lol
If that is actually what it was, you got very lucky. Bites on humans are extremely rare simply due to where they live. That also means that finding anti-venom isn't easy. On top of that, they tend to be very timid snakes, only biting when they feel like they have no other option. Snakes prefer to save their venom for prey; anything much larger than them isn't gonna die immediately from their venom, so there's still a potential for that creature to harm them even after a bite.
Coastal taipans are quite common in Nth Qld. I live near Cairns and have seen a few. They aren't aggressive unless you corner or poke at them. They like the long grass near a river at my place. I think they enjoy eating the barramundi frogs and grasshoppers here. My dogs scare them off if they get too close to the house or poultry pens. The fowl feed attracts mice which attracts snakes.
@@nahor88 dont want to meet up with any snake but the one snake that i would not want to meet up with is the BLACK MAMBA THE FASTEST SNAKE IN THE WORLD AND VERY AGGRESSIVE
The production, thought, and care that goes into making these videos is incredible. The narrator (I’m guessing she’s also the producer) is on the same level and professionalism as anything you might see in a Planet Earth documentary. Kudos and job well done. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you very much and congratulations! This is the ultimate best documentation in detail I‘ve ever seen ! All these details about this snake are astonishing and breathtakingly good! Regards, Bo 🇨🇭
The Inland Taipan is also known as the Fierce Snake, which is a bit of a misnomer because unlike other Australian venomous snakes who will attack when threatened, it's actually quite timid and will back off unless it's cornered. I still wouldn't go annoying one though.
Correct. Also I may not be up to date with my recollections but I believe that it was said in some publication on Joe Blakes that there had never been a recorded authenticated death from an Inland Taipan bite. Not to say there has never been 1 given the remoteness and sparse population of its home range. Been quite a few for the Coastal version before the advent of a specific antivenin due to the increased likelihood of human interaction - and the more extreme nervous nature of the beast and its readiness to bite. Most snakebite deaths in Australia are from Eastern Browns - another 1 that is quite prepared to defend itself. Different from the extremely common Red-Bellied Black which will occasionally stand up in bluff but will always choose flight over fight given the chance.
I very strongly disagree by experience. This snake is scared of nothing, even 80 tonne trucks. It will come after you without much of a reason if your in it's area.
@@richie5228 Both Andrew Vaughan (not Vaughn) and David Pitt were victims of COASTAL Taipans Not INLAND Taipans. Serum swabs and modern toxicology make diagnosing the type of snake involved considerably more accurate these days. 😉
"been a while since my college science classes" This was literally a topic on my biochemistry capstone program final a month ago. At only a LITTLE more depth. Literally. The exact same topic, snake venom and arachidonic acid affecting the choline system. You literally explained it better than a professor that's in the running for a nobel prize in the next 10 years.
Well, some professors at universities, especially the most brilliant/genius, are often incapable of conveying a clear message to others in about their field they are so refined with and have all the ins and outs of the literature down in such great depth! Short answer: conversations can be hard! Lol
I met a chap in Alpha Queensland who was bitten by a Taipan on his cattle station.... .he was lucky to survive, he was early 20's and in excellent shape......that is one serious dangerous snake....
I remember Steve Irwin coming face to face with one of these. Brutally daring yet showing the overall nature of the creature. Much respect for anyone that dares to handle this creature for science and the creation of antivenin.
The Century zinc mine is located in outback Queensland within the Inland Taipan's habitat. Fly-In Fly-Out (FiFo) workers stay in a camp made up of "dongas" (separate single bedroom and bathroom units about the size of 2 shipping containers) Walking around in the dark of night was an exciting adventure. Most of the snakes we saw were non-venomous pythons but any rustling sound would make you jump. All native animals are protected species so killing was not a legal option. Some workers were part-time volunteer snake handlers for which they received training. Their job was to pin down the snake with a "snake hook" or tongs, lift the snake up and drop it into an open-topped vessel or bag. The snake was then released back into the wild.
I'm pretty sure a Kiwi brought me the western taipan when I was working in the Pilbara. He'd put it in his lunch box with some water in case it got thirsty and told me to give it to the enviro when he got back. Enviro was gone for hours and it was swimming around on my desk. I was in hr site admin so all afternoon I had squealing men asking wtf it was and if it was poisonous. When I heard the enviro come in I walked out with a container in my hand to give to him and he took one look,turned pale and started backing away. With the wtf is that is that what I think it is and what do you want me to do about it. I said your the enviro it needs a new home.its just baby and I've had it with me for hours now. It's kind of pretty and fairly peaceful but there must be somewhere it can go away from the workers.he was not happy but he took it. I don't know what happened after that
Just to illustrate how deadly the Taipans are, I live in populated Eastern Queensland where a groundsman was bitten by an Eastern Brown snake ( less deadly than the Taipan) while working 'in the hospital grounds' I also work at, and he was a very sick boy nearly didn't survive. In another incident in the same area a woman in her 40's was bitten by an Eastern Brown whilst gardening, her son called the ambulance but by the time they got there (which wasn't long) she was already dead.
The Common/Eastern Brown snake Pseudonaja textiles does have the 2nd most toxic snake venom in the world...the venom yield varies enormously from 4mg-40mg+.... Comparison between Taipan and Brown snake envenomation is rather like comparing being hit by a family sedan or a 4WD.....you are going to be severely injured...if not killed....Now please ponder this in the last 12 years 7 children have died from snake envenomation.....360+ have died in farming accidents....600 children under 5 have drowned in residential swimming pools......The only people bitten by the world,s most venomous snake have been herpetologists....no deaths....yet.... however death shall occur if idiots handle , "play " with venomous snakes in isolated parts of Australia to whit The Channel Country, best wishes, Marcus Dorse herpetologist Toowoomba Qld Australia
Another great video. I've always been fascinated by toxicology and the natural evolution of venoms to better off prey in interesting and horrific ways, the Inland Taipan's gelatinising venom is just nature being metal AF...
If you like toxicology videos, check out the channel chubbyemu - it is a toxicologist who goes over medical cases explaining in detail what happened, how and why. Its like House in reverse.
I was just searching for cobra catching and educational videos about them as that is common here in the Philippines. Now, you earned a subscriber! I love how it was explained, I am not a snake enthusiast, biologist, or anything science related. But I love to watch educating videos with thorough explanations. Good job and kudos! More videos to come! :-)
This was such an interesting video. Natural selection and evolution never ceases to amaze me. That said, Australia seems to have taken the gold medal in creatures admired from a far.
The 30 min window for anti venom is only when you don't apply 1st aid. A compression bandage up the length of the limb will slow the venom down a lot, buying you several hours
my brother in the 50s regularly searched our farm in Tolga north queensland, for these taipans he got 50 australian pounds per snake at that time. the lab wanted their venom to help any snake bite victim to survive. with the antivenom. he was fortunate to get 2 or 3 without getting bitten himself.
This video is actually horribly inaccurate and misleading. Its not even the most potent venom in the animal kingdom for starters, whole video is a lie meant to showcase a snake they thought was cool and scarrryy so they could rack in views.
I’ve seen an all black snake while on a walk as a kid. I froze in my tracks just watching what it did and where it went. I knew it could see me as it stopped as well. The way it’s head shape and how dark it was made me think venomous snake as a kid. Even though my curiosity wanted to get closer I couldn’t. And watching this snake brought back those childhood memories locked away. Pretty sure it wasn’t the Taipan. I’m not exactly sure what type of snake it was, just know that it seemed intelligent in the way it stopped and stared at me while turning it’s head then slithered away.
Staying completely still is the best thing you could have done. I'm no expert but have been around many highly vemonous snakes in the Australian bush. One of my hobbies was going out to photograph them. The one you encountered was probably a red belly black snake. They are beautiful snakes, quite calm if you are but most are. Seeing them stand up flattening their neck like a cobra (tiger snakes do it better) is rather impressive.
Glad you chose to stay still and leave the snake alone. In regards to the Inland Taipan; bites from this particular snake are extremely rare because they are usually found in the Australian Outback, which is sparsely inhabited by humans.
@@michaeltuffin5002 l was climbing up a high waterfall in a rainforest in coastal Northern NSW. As my head rose above the last ledge I found myself face to face with a yellow belly black snake. Less than 2 feet (0•6m) away. It was the most beautiful sight incredibly glossy black and vivid yellow in the bright sunlight. I was almost frozen in the spot, but l slowly dropped back out of sight. I climbed up thru the bush instead and estimated it to be 5foot ( 1•5m) long. I had an encounter with a 20 foot reticulated python lower down the same creek that was.
The amount/depth of detail explaining the different neurotoxins was so satisfying! Haven't been so happy in a UA-cam video in a while. (Even though it was pretty grizzly imagining how that would feel..) Still, great piece!
8:06 Inland Taipan: my venom is already manifested overkill itself. but just to make sure, I will bite my prey several times more. it's like swatting flies with a sledgehammer
A fantastic, and easy to follow (even with the biochemistry) program. This is the best explanation about the chemistry and physiology of the Inland Taipan.
Wow! Thank you so much for this video! I'm covering the nervous system with my Bio students at the moment and this is gonna be such a great way of brining it to life for them. Loved the detail you go into with the effects on the neuromuscular junctions!
Your videos are fantastic! I just found the channel and love it. The voice over is done extremely well. I’m often annoyed by the voice over and narration in other science videos on UA-cam. Do you make the animations yourself? They’re done incredibly!
Unlikely. I'm Aussie too and regularly see snakes on my front and back porches, even had a carpet snake in the house and had to catch it in a box. And this is a suburb maybe 5 miles from a decent size city. When I was a kid and bushwalking regularly we would see snakes scattering away from our feet when startled. Sometimes they dont even scatter and you find yourself standing there with some dopey snake curled up a few inches from your foot.
I was VERY surprised that they didn't mention that. Even if this particular snake's prey don't account for any of the venom potency, the "arms race" theory is what we've all been taught, so they should have at least addressed the issue. Disappointing.
It seems like the most logical reason it has both kinds of venom is that at one point it mated with both species a long time ago. That would make sense too because the remoteness of it’s range area would mean they couldn’t be picky on who to mate with. Cross species mating is generally easier before the species become too distinct from each other. It’s also possible it developed the duel venom first and was the only subspecies that could survive out in the desert and the other subspecies couldn’t kill all the rare available prey to stay alive.
While the inland taipan has the most potent venom, the brown snake in Australia is responsible for more fatalities, due in part to aggressive and it's more invasive to populated areas. But the saw scaled viper is the deadliest snake in the world, responsible for more deaths than all other venomous snakes combined.
@@ronniekregar3482 the saw scaled Viper lives in africa, arabia, Southwestern Asia into India and Pakistan. It is responsible for the most human fatalities in the world from more than any other snake because of its wide range and coming into close contact with humans. The Russell's Viper lives in India to Taiwan and Java it is only responsible for the most casualties in India not the world.
It's considered prudent in Australia when walking through long grass to stomp your feet as you go. The vibrations scare away most snakes and makes you less likely to accidentally step on one. The exception, I've heard, are taipans. They'll come investigate. I don't know if it's true or not.
Go for a bushwalk when it's cold, ie, autumn, winter. When I was younger, I would never go and explore the property when it was hot ( unless on motorbike or bushbasher).
@@Adam-7_7_7in my experience when it is cooler is when I find snakes sunbathing on tracks in the Australia bushland. On hot days snakes are very active and I only see glaciers of them as a they slither quickly away into the bushland.
Mongooses would die if bitten, the mongoose found in Africa has adapted to the snake's venom on its own continent, Honey badgers are not immune either to venom, they just have really thick skin, which makes it hard for snakes to penetrate properly, but not the venom found in Australia; the mongoose bodies constitution has not evolved to suit an Inland-Tiapans bite. So the mongose would definitely win the fight but would die if bitten.
@@sparkynate91idk man I think the taipans venom would kill a honey badger it's venom is not like any other snakes venom yes we know the badger eat a cobra difference is the taipans venom is beyond godly worst it turns you to jelly man
A buddy caught a baby Coastal Taipan and bought it to my house to show me when we were 11 (him) and 12 (myself) in the 90's. Gorgeous little creature but we released it back in to the wild when my old man pointed out it could kill us both 50 times over with a single bite. Nearly got ourselves naturally selected out of existence but in all honesty it didn't really seem all that bothered to be handled.
I've heard from the people at the reptile park that Coastal Taipans are difficult to work with because their temperament can change quickly, making them hard to predict.
According to the head (in the 1960"s) of the Commonweath Serum Laboratories the most deadly venom of any snake was one of the sea snakes. He was the world authority on venom. Modern measures are based on the venom strength of the King Cobra, which is rated as a 1. He rated the sea snake at 150, Inland Taipan at 50, Eastern Brown at 25. Of course I am remembering this from at least 35 years ago when I read his book, and have forgotten his name. Australia has 9 out of the top 10 venoms of land based snakes, the one exception is the Black Mamba, which is fast and frightening and when I heard one going up a tree the body made loud slaps as it hit limbs.
australia has 21 of the 25 most venomous land snakes. the 4 that aren't australian are ranked. 12 indian cobra 13 black mamba 18 king cobra 25 eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Australia has 66 species of venomous snakes and only 10 species have killed humans. There's only 6 species of land snakes in Australia that ranks in the top 25 of the most toxic venomous snakes in the world. 1.Inland Taipan 2.Western Desert Taipan aka Central Ranges Taipan 3. Coastal Taipan 4. Eastern Brown snake 5.Mainland Tiger Snake 6. Death Adder
The venom of these snakes is so incredibly potent, but human deaths from their bites are almost unheard of. They know to preserve their venom for prey whenever possible so they'd rather flee or hide than fight larger animals, and they live in extremely remote regions that humans rarely explore.
Our hardcore Aus snakes aren’t as vicious as you think. Vast majority of the time, the first bite will be dry (unless it’s prey) It’s the snake saying “get the f**k away from me c**t”. If you get a second, tick, tick, tick......
another fact you may not know is that all snakes are poisonous not just so called 'poisonous' snakes, so the constrictors like pythons are also because of what they eat. Obviously the venomous snakes do what they do and are far more dangerous in their bite.
Only snakes that have poisonous toxins are the Asian tiger keelback snake, Garter snake and the Hognose snake that live on a diet of amphibians. Snakes in general, are venomous not poisonous. Venom is injected into the bloodstream from fangs that are connected to the venom glands to immobilize and kill prey. Poison has to come into contact with skin or be ingested to have a deadly effect on predators who are trying to kill snakes only as a defensive tactic against being eaten by them.
We " only " get the Coastal Taipan here. Pretty much the same thing tho'. There's sometimes a lot of difference between venomous and dangerous. Is it aggressive ? Is it insanely aggressive ? Will it chase you ? If it does will it catch you ? Will it bite more than once ? Does it have hypodermic fangs to get lots of venom into you ? Is the venom quick-acting so you might not have time to get to help ? Both types of Taipan score yes for all these questions, putting them at the top of the dangerous list.
@Science Troll Inland Taipan has never caused a fatality since they were discovered in 1879.Only a handful of people have been bitten in captivity and trying to catch them. Csl taipan polyvalent antivenìn is used when treating the bite of the Inland Taipan and has been successful in people making a full recovery 👍 in every case.
Excellent. I’ve always been highly curious about venom and was fortunate to meet a snake expert to ask him specifically about the venom of the Inland Taipan. He told me that because it’s main prey is the Plague Rat, which is highly aggressive and capable of fast retaliatory attack before succumbing to the venom, there has been an evolutionary arms race between them for countless generations. The rat has slowly become faster and more aggressive, and the venom faster acting and more potent. Quite a convincing explanation if you ask me.
I have a PhD in biotechnology and still cant get my head around how these venomous snakes have developed. Venom can kill the snake too. How they got evolved, and how first mutations of the production didnt kill the snake? How the storage and delivery system was evolved? You see its not only one thing but multiple things should evolve in parallel so that it works, otherwise, it would be useless or deadly for the snake.
Yep. Too many steps in the evolution process had to take place for it to be reality. These snakes didn't "evolve", but were created with the setup they have now. The venom could possibly have gotten a bit more toxic over a couple thousand years, but a snake evolving from nonvenomous to venomous is a fairytale. We don't see any examples of the evolutionary process (non-venomous snakes becoming venomous) happening today, like we should if evolution were true.
This anticoagulant if you think about it. Must be to NOT only help it die quicker but, it leaves a trail of blood/scent for the snake to follow to where its target fell due to the continual bleeding. Nature is something, evolution in its "design" is genius indeed!
'If you happen to be walking out in the arid open plains of southwest queensland australia.." why would someone carelessly venture into areas that can kill you with a sunstroke
How did snakes adapt to have venom if they were already able to catch and kill enough prey to survive and reproduce? Its the conundrum of evolution that always stumps me.
Eophis underwoodi was a small four legged snake discovered 165 million years ago but the gene for venom dates back over two hundred million years before their discovery. Paleontologist who study all forms of fossilized life life can give accurate dates going back over three hundred million years ago.
I will likely never need anti venom treatment, but a huge amount of thanks to the handlers that work with venomous snakes so anti venoms can be created. Wow!
@@gppsoftware The king cobra specialises in hunting snakes, its venom is more potent towards reptiles, especially snakes. Therefore, king cobra remains king of snakes.
One false move by Steve and he would have had a deadly snakebite to the head and out in the centre of nowhere he probably would not have survived even if he had antivenom with him. Absolute stupidity.
The king Taipan snake you can die less than 30 minutes, if not treated according to the snake bite instructions, but the thing that the king taipan does is, that the venom can actually like turn your blood into jelly substance
Yeah art n stuff , there are 3 taipans the 4th deadliest on planet the Costal Taipan , the 3rd venomous the Western Desert Taipan Oxyuranus Temporalis , and the Deadliest snake on earth The Inland Taipan Oxyuranus Microlepidotus, the second deadliest snake on earth is the Eastern Brown , PsudonajaTextillis , they are magnificent snakes my friend , cheers . artandstuff
Here in Aus we're taught the most venomous snake is the coral banded sea snake (luckily it's extremely friendly you can play with them and they just don't bite people) I've also read the snakes on Brazil's snake island have the strongest and fastest acting venom (due to the fact it evolved to eat birds on a small island it needed to adapt it's venom to kill almost instantaneously) I've also been told the Fleur de Lance has the strongest venom. The scariest thing about taipans is they're f_cking psychotic they legit will chase you and strike over and over until they run out of venom (a boy was once bitten 21 times between his ankle and hip in a matter of seconds) One chased my boss and I luckily we'd just finished installing a huge glass window and door we locked ourselves in that room and that snake legit was striking the window with all of its might over and over for a good 15 mins at least 🥺🥺
There’s two types of Taipans the Coastal (which is slightly less venomous) and the Inland (most venomous snake on earth) the coastal is far more aggressive and psychotic the inland is rather mild and shy but will still defend itself if cornered
There's also coastal taipans around Western Australia. Ive even come across one in suburbia on the way back from KFC one night. Because of so much housing development taking over bushland they don't have anywhere to go.
what i find incredible is the dose. a bite injects an amount equivalent in size of 1/2 a baby aspirin . i read that the black mamba is the most dangerous snake because while its venom is deadly though not the strongest, it is a super aggressive FAST snake. the combination of both factors place it at the top.
Yeah, but so incredibly rare to actually encounter an inland Taipan. Coastal Taipans are bloody everywhere in North Queensland and are crazy aggressive. Much more dangerous!
Excellent video presentation! I have learnt a little bit more about the creatures that inhabit my ‘backyard’ as I live in central Australia and travel throughout the Outback for my work. I sometimes see Snakes crossing roads and I wonder what variety they are. I saw one once that certainly resembles the Inland Taipan, I caught it thinking that it was a black headed sand Python, it was quite docile and made no attempt to bite and after I took photographs of it I released it again and it went on its journey into the desert. Ha Ha! Now I am thinking that maybe I accidentally caught an Inland Taipan by mistake!
yeh the old drop bears, have not heard of those for a while. Nastiest creature in Oz is the hornet imo. Small but vicious and unpredictable. You can be around them all day and everything is cool. Make one false move and they will nail you. Been stung twice and still have no idea why? Hurt for a week. That was one hornet. cant imagine what a pack on you would feel like
Then you have animals like honey badgers and mongooses that have developed either immunity or high resistance to venomous snakes. Imagine being a cobra with enough venom to kill an elephant but you bite a mongoose ten times and it still eats you.
@@SusanKay- Invasive species are a bigger problem than snakes in Australia. Only a .03 percent chance of dying with medical treatment in Australia from snake bites. Horses and dogs are responsible for more deaths than any other animal in Australia.
This has vexed me for years, Atrax Robustus The Sydney Funnelweb ,the male being 7 times more deadly and they (Scientists) think that Aboriginals, Who have been in Australia for between 45,000 and 65,000 years, they were a hamburger for these Primates , and the only case of a bite from an inland was 1946 , a full blood Aboriginal Australian man , said it Was an inland, he survived , did he have a form of immunity,surely in that many years a few would have been bitten ? Facinating but , TOP Q The RCvie .cheers
@el34glo59 Yeah , Atracidae my fave Mygalomorph, 6 now vie for deadliest, everyone knows Atrax Robustus, but Hadronyche Formidabilis , is the biggest and just as deadly my thinks , 36 Atracidae, 3 Atrax 32 Hadronyche And 1 all alone Illawarra wisharti, Atrax Sutherlandi, named after Aemon Sutherland who discovered the anti venine, it is a major curiosity of mine this Venom , I have theories on , especially when you look at snake Divergance and Venoms , and the RED on Atrax Sutherlandi is insane , they are all mad , beautiful, God they look good after molting , Cheers all
About 40 years ago, I was driving through south west Queensland in the area known as the Channel Country and came across a snake. (It happens often in our remote areas.) I stopped the car and grabbed my camera and chased the snake to get a better photo. I'm ashamed to admit that when the snake turned to face me, I ran back to swap my camera for my rifle, thinking that while I was prepared to shoot the snake with a camera, now I was going to shoot it with my rifle. Fortunately, the snake managed to slither into a hole when my bullet just missed it. Fortunately for the snake, and also for me. When I was a 10 year old, I used to catch blue tongue lizards to keep as pets and often came across brown and tiger snakes. They're not as deadly as the Western Taipan, but for sure, they're also capable of killing an adult. (Or child.) I usually threw the snakes away (having already having grabbed them by their tails. Yes) but sometimes I killed them with sticks. As an adult, I feel very bad about this. But yeah, I was young and no, my parents had no idea what I was up to, other than I came home with new reptile pets. As I grew older, my sympathies and attitudes towards snakes changed. I mean, I used to catch other reptiles as pets: blue tongue lizards are very placid and friendly! I feel bad about my attitude towards snakes and now, if and whenever I encounter one, I either just wait for them to move away or I'll just walk away from them. Snakes won't normallly attack humans, not unless you provoke them. For people who don't live in Australia, I learnt these lessons as a youngster. I also used to surf and my attitude to sharks have changed too. The only creature you really need to worry about are crocodiles. They might not be venomous, but they'll stalk and kill you if they have half a chance … whereas snakes and sharks won't.
If you ever see almost any venomous Aussie snake crossing your path,(pretty rare) stand still and let it pass. If it stops, remain calm and keep still. After five or ten seconds it will move off, having determined that you are of no threat. This WILL seem like the longest few seconds of your life, but they will almost always be on their way. In the bush the most dangerous areas are when you are walking across a log and you can't see where your front foot will land. Best to check, just in case a "little fella" is sunbathing on the other side especially if the weather is in the high teens 18, 19, or 20c, they might be trying to catch the sun to stay warm. "Get ready for a surprise"
Obligatory shoutout to Kevin Budden, the man who in July of 1950 captured a live taipan to allow the development of a taipan antivenom.
As an amature herpatologist he travelled to Queensland to find the snake.
On July 27th he managed to find one in a scrapyard but during the capture was alone and ended up holding the snake with no way to bag it.
Walked to a road while still holding the snake to be given a lift by a passing truck driver.
Convinced the truck driver to take him to another snake enthusiast to help bag and confirm the identity of the snake (While still holding it).
Was sadly bitten on the thumb while bagging it.
Made the truck driver promise to organise transport back south to researchers before he would go get medical treatment.
Died July 28th after being given tiger snake venom which helped with the blood coagulating but did not help with the nerve damage caused by the nuerotoxins.
A madman and a legend. I'd say "Rest In Peace" but I cannot imagine that he is not already one of the most satisfied souls to pass, ever.
True Blue Legend
Dad saw sÀA
He was only 19!
@@tsm784 ...Oooff.
When you live somewhere so vast where a regular meal is a rare thing you can't afford an animal you bite running off before it drops and something else snatching it up.You need to be able to stop your prey as fast and efficiently as possible..No coincidence that Australia has the most types of the most venomous critters
Not to mention the prey scratching, biting or hurting the snake. Venom needs to be able to incapacitate immediately.
Esp given how huge Australia is. Lol
That actually makes sense. I just learned the six-eyed sand spider has the most potent venom of any spider, and it lives in the remote deserts of southern Africa. Probably the same dynamic.
@@AdrianCHOY that’s literally what he said by saying “when you live somewhere so vast”
Lets not forget Africa.
As an Australian, I think Bill Bryson summed up the lethality of the taipan excellently in writing “this is a snake so venomous, that should you encounter it your last words on earth would be “I say, is that a sn-“
The Inland Taipan isn’t just the most venomous snake, it’s the most venomous animal on earth. Fortunately they’re extremely docile creatures that live far away from populated areas.
And they'd rather not waste their venom on people if they don't have to.
Nope. The box jellyfish 🪼 is the most venomous animal on earth
@@QueenSlytherinnot true. The venom in a box jellyfish is enough to kill 60 adult humans. The Inland Taipan is 100.
@@stellarwind1946box jelly kills you faster though
@@chriskarsseboom2200 not sure. Taipan venom is specifically tailored for warm-blooded mammals.
I just wanna say thank you. Thank you for making educational videos of this quality for *free*. Thank you for sharing a passion with everyone. Thank you for making this platform better even if it is by a slight amount.
@@defcreator187 Why are you complaining? If I wasn't watching this, I'd be watching worthless content instead. I prefer spending my not so expensive internet subscription watching her videos and getting her the money she deserves.
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a different video said that inland taipans are very shy and that's one reason they are so difficult to find. Nevertheless, I am NEVER going to Australia.
This is terrifying!! I was completely enthralled. I love when animations are included in these videos. It really helps to explain how it all works. The Inland Taipan's venom is a cheat code!!!
Hi from Australia 👋. I'd like to know why, how did this country end up with such a high number of venomous animals? Snakes, spiders and ocean creatures.
Veritasium has a video on this
God hates it.
Big space = low chance for food = need way to ensure catch = ultra potent venom
Does that make sense?
@@satyakonala not a great one with a mostly mathematical approach. At least he doesn't convince me.
@@cognisentnt8613 Yep, the harsh, dry climate (less productive biosphere) I'd argue acts as a multiplier to all of those factors. It basically makes the outback into a petri dish for increasing toxicity which may then filter back into the more hospitable areas along the coasts. Another factor is the snake's prey: as the venom gets more toxic the prey will evolve countermeasures to combat the venom. Whether that extreme toxicity hangs around over evolutionary time depends on whether its worth it from an evolutionary perspective to spend all that energy to make a toxin that concentrated (you need a lot of energy to concentrate that much enzymatic killing power in a small amount of liquid) and that diverse (2 separate synthesis pathways means more complexity in manufacturing and packaging).
Fascinating and brilliant presentation as always! One thing I really appreciate about your videos, is that you take topics to the next level which lends itself to curiosity and asking ‘why?’, really promoting the science, research, and a desire for understanding. There are countless other videos about the most toxic snakes, and you can easily learn that the inland taipan tops the list with just a quick search. But your video addresses why it is so? What is it about the venom? How did the venom evolve or converge in relation to the region? What actually happens to the body as each component of the venom takes effect? I love how intellectual and interesting your topics always are; truly next level!
this is the best comment I have ever gotten :)
@@realscience and 100% deserved! I discovered your channel not so long ago, and all of your content great. Everything Sikeosomanic is true for me too. Truly an awesome channel and keep doing what you're doing!
Can confirm... The editing, topics, explanation has been top notch from the very start. I actually subscribed on the 1st video i saw, the one about orcas. Truly fascinating, keep up the awesome work
I loathe serpents. Not out of lack of knowledge, rather the contrary.
Yet, I find they are quite fascinating. In my region of the world, constrictors share territory with snakes that use hemo toxins, as well as some that utilize a cocktail of neuro and hemo toxins to neutralize their prey.
Black Mambas are not found in South America. Kindly revise the visuals since you haave indicated they are found in South America instead of Africa
It's the King Brown snake that Australian's fear most. Highly toxic, highly aggressive, it's a big, long snake and it's got a healthy body count of Australian lives under it's belt.
King Brown Aka Mulga snake is related to the Black snake species of elapid family of snakes in Australia. They are cannibalistic snake eaters who prey on other venomous snakes including Taipans . They rarely kill humans in Australia where antivenin is available for all citizens provided by Medicare. 65 percent of fatal snake bites in Australia are from the Eastern Brown snake LD 50 0.053mgkg sc the third most toxic venomous snake on Earth with a wide range in Australia and Papua New Guinea where people don't have access to antivenin or any other medical treatment in many regions of their country.
No , Not the king Brown, (Pseudechis Australis )
that is actually a black snake ,Very deadly , but the #2 Deadliest snake The Eastern Brown, PsudonajaTextillis is responsible for 60%of bites ,is the snake Australians fear cheers other snakes fear the king Brown ,a Black snake
@@Ducatirati red belly black will make you crook but they are more interested in other snakes for dinner; your thinking of the copper head I think my friend
Browns and tigers snakes wil chase you.
But, wherever red bellies are, there wint be any browns..
That's what I said.
During Australia's many droughts, the snakes that used their venom up on prey that then got a significant distance away before dying...died. This left the snakes whose venom was potent enough to produce an instant kill, to breed together. Perhaps a snake with coagulant venom genes bred with one that had beta neurotoxin (paradoxin) genes, and the result then meant that virtually all those snakes survived to breed, whereas none of the ones that lacked that gene combination made it through the next drought. This shows the concept of "selection pressure" very nicely. Selection pressure turns up in all kinds of places in our world...not just ecosystems.
This reminds me the golden lancehead Bothrops insularis
Yup, it’s about Evolution… either adapt to your environment or become extinct…
Why does the coastal taipan have primarily have beta and not both then
@@b0nkeror452 idk, same thing can be said for the central taipan too I suppose
@@b0nkeror452 Its primarily Alpha 😄 and probly cuz it stops shit quickly, youd have to wonder why the Inland version has both, maybe it hunts bigger slower stuff equally as often to do more damage over a day rather than in minutes
I discovered this channel in Germany through the "mission Erde" channel. Your films are so good, informative and really interesting. Also very understandable with the German subtitles. Thank you for your work and please keep it up. Love goes out to everyone in this community
I just wanted to say that I very much appreciated the depth you went into in this video. Chemical signalling, ion dynamics, cell structure, etc; these are all fascinating.
Straight out lie in saying people that were bitten before antivenom died No one has ever died from an inland taipan snake bite. Only a few people have been bitten by an inland taipan, and all survived due to prompt first aid and hospital treatment.
This reminds me of tutorials for case discussion in med school.
Very very advanced level yet concise and leaner-oriented.
Great job!
So basically med school is easy and you’re getting overpaid. Got it
Wow. That was quite a stretch…
I didn’t finish med school btw
One reason being it’s so difficult it makes your life hell
@@rodrigorosatoalves Clearly you didn't finish, your ability to format a sentence is disgusting.
You were never in med school.
@@aarons6935
Says who?
Get a life
Not sure I've ever seen such a thorough explanation of how venom works. Well done! What's interesting is so many venomous snakes would make excellent captive pets...if not for the fact that 1 mistake could cost you anywhere between an ER visit and your life.
A "captive pet" is your own projection. "Entrapment" is their projection.
Pet snakes or any reptile really is a waste of time. They serve NO purpose..
Steve Irwin laying right in front of an Inland Taipan and says "And here she is, the most venomous snake in the world......isn't she a beauty!"
I remember it well---what a legend!
Yes but on the Amex advert, Steve says the Lime Bellied Brown snake was the most venomous! I don’t mind though, he was a legend and I will still run away from snakes 😊
I remember him picking it up like a teddy bear and saying "if she bites me I'm in real big trouble because there's no help for miles!" 😂🤣
yep, my all time hero.
He was reckless...and he ended up paying the price.
Great video. I'm an Aussie and you summed up the Inland Taipan's awesomeness beautifully. Well done.
Your narration is superb! Crisp, clear, evenly paced, with perfect pronunciation throughout. Thank you for such impeccable professionalism, a quality rare in both social media and irl.
Straight out lie in saying people that were bitten before antivenom died No one has ever died from an inland taipan snake bite. Only a few people have been bitten by an inland taipan, and all survived due to prompt first aid and hospital treatment.
That was an amazing video! Thanks for a wonderfully produced and thought out production.
The remarkable thing about inland taipans is how docile they are. I know two snake keepers who absolutely love handling them because of their laid-back nature. Being the most venomous snake doesn’t necessarily mean the most dangerous.
The movie Walking Tall about a laid back lawman that walked softly and carried a big stick...or the little skinny laid back punk taunting a group of outlaw bikers, while packing a 44 magnum wearing the T-shirt that reads don't make me open this can of whoop ass on you!". That'd be the inland Taipan😵!
Yeah, by comparison the costal taipan is much more aggressive. Eastern brown is next level angry haha
Yea,Had one living around a homestead on a property I was working on,
He/she was pretty chilled out.used to check me out when I watered the
grass around the homestead.
Freaked me out the first time though.haven one of them eyeball you for a bit.
When you are the deadliest thing living, and know it, there is no reason to be stressed: that's everything else's job.
@@kylewood2715 a species of box jellyfish has venom that can kill in 15 minutes, 3 times faster than this snakes venom.
Australia's equivalent to The Black Mamba. I came face to face with a Black Mamba on a bush walk. It was about 3.5 to 4m long. Needed a change of underwear afterwards
COASTAL TIAPAN, MORE LIKE MAMBA , JUST MORE DEADLY VENOM , CLEVER , KICK UP A STORM
Black mamba isn't as venomous
@@aarons6935 would want to get bitten by either of them. A snake catcher I know got a single bite from a BM last month. He was bagging it when he got pinned, so it was not a full on attack. Within 10 mins he couldn't walk. Took 10 vials of Antivenom to save him.
@aarons6935 Well The Mamba ,Azza they sure pack a punch , but the Costal is 66%deadlier I checked , but both their venoms is extremely toxic , it is different to Australian snakes , who have the most toxic venoms , but most have extremely small fangs , they wouldn't go through thick jeans, but the Coastal Tiapan are 13mm they will , but generally 5 ml fangs as they pray on small mammals frogs , all as well as the Mulga aka King Brown Psuedechis Australis a Black Snake, the largest Australian snake that mostly prays on all the deadliest snakes in Australia, it is about 7th deadliest on LD50 but immune to all other snake bites, it has the most venom in its glands than all snakes on the globe , as when it eats a 1.5 meter Tiapan , every bite gulp it pumps in venom so it breaks down the pray to a health shake , and I could bang on a manner of trivia , sorry for bending your eyes /ears Cheers
@@Ducatirati I spend a lot of time in the bush when I was in the military. Snakes I have come across : Black Mamba, Green Mamba, Puff Adder (very bad news character), Boomslang, Vine Snake and a Forest Cobra. Vine Snake there is no Antivenom if betten you have to go for a complete blood transfusion.
I wasn't expecting such a thorough explanation. INSANE
I had a close encounter with a coastal taipan in North Queensland when I was there as an exchange student. We were on our senior retreat and we were swimming in a water hole and I had one swim across the creek, literally right in front of me. I of course had no idea what kind of snake it was, but was told by a teacher who saw this, exactly what it was. They told me that taipans don't like to swim, so if I had been a little further up and had been in it's way, that it would have more than likely bitten me. I never got back in the creek after that. Lol
If that is actually what it was, you got very lucky. Bites on humans are extremely rare simply due to where they live. That also means that finding anti-venom isn't easy. On top of that, they tend to be very timid snakes, only biting when they feel like they have no other option. Snakes prefer to save their venom for prey; anything much larger than them isn't gonna die immediately from their venom, so there's still a potential for that creature to harm them even after a bite.
Coastal taipans are quite common in Nth Qld. I live near Cairns and have seen a few. They aren't aggressive unless you corner or poke at them. They like the long grass near a river at my place. I think they enjoy eating the barramundi frogs and grasshoppers here. My dogs scare them off if they get too close to the house or poultry pens. The fowl feed attracts mice which attracts snakes.
@@nahor88 dont want to meet up with any snake but the one snake that i would not want to meet up with is the BLACK MAMBA THE FASTEST SNAKE IN THE WORLD AND VERY AGGRESSIVE
Coastal taipan is not an inland taipan.
@@lucylovic We know that. This thread is a friendly little chat about coastal taipans which still deliver a deadly bite. Where do u live?
The production, thought, and care that goes into making these videos is incredible. The narrator (I’m guessing she’s also the producer) is on the same level and professionalism as anything you might see in a Planet Earth documentary. Kudos and job well done. Keep up the excellent work.
She lost me when she started citing evolution. That's always the first sign of ignorance...
You share a moniker with a certain site .....
@@Sparky71870the first sign of ignorance? You mean the first sign of understanding anything about biology?
@@liamdoesmath2106 If you've ever studied biology, which I actually have done, you would know that evolution is a crock of shit.
@@liamdoesmath2106 Just another creationist whack-job. Ignore, it's the only way.
Thank you very much and congratulations! This is the ultimate best documentation in detail I‘ve ever seen ! All these details about this snake are astonishing and breathtakingly good! Regards, Bo 🇨🇭
The Inland Taipan is also known as the Fierce Snake, which is a bit of a misnomer because unlike other Australian venomous snakes who will attack when threatened, it's actually quite timid and will back off unless it's cornered. I still wouldn't go annoying one though.
Correct. Also I may not be up to date with my recollections but I believe that it was said in some publication on Joe Blakes that there had never been a recorded authenticated death from an Inland Taipan bite. Not to say there has never been 1 given the remoteness and sparse population of its home range. Been quite a few for the Coastal version before the advent of a specific antivenin due to the increased likelihood of human interaction - and the more extreme nervous nature of the beast and its readiness to bite. Most snakebite deaths in Australia are from Eastern Browns - another 1 that is quite prepared to defend itself. Different from the extremely common Red-Bellied Black which will occasionally stand up in bluff but will always choose flight over fight given the chance.
@@theoztreecrasher2647 I'm sure the first Australians suffered a few hits, but they would have learned quickly
@@ray.shoesmith Yep. Natural Selection at its finest - under the guidance of the Rainbow Serpent Creator. :o
I very strongly disagree by experience. This snake is scared of nothing, even 80 tonne trucks. It will come after you without much of a reason if your in it's area.
@@richie5228 Both Andrew Vaughan (not Vaughn) and David Pitt were victims of COASTAL Taipans Not INLAND Taipans. Serum swabs and modern toxicology make diagnosing the type of snake involved considerably more accurate these days. 😉
"been a while since my college science classes"
This was literally a topic on my biochemistry capstone program final a month ago. At only a LITTLE more depth. Literally. The exact same topic, snake venom and arachidonic acid affecting the choline system.
You literally explained it better than a professor that's in the running for a nobel prize in the next 10 years.
Woow
Well, some professors at universities, especially the most brilliant/genius, are often incapable of conveying a clear message to others in about their field they are so refined with and have all the ins and outs of the literature down in such great depth! Short answer: conversations can be hard! Lol
That's, like literally so cool. Literally.
I met a chap in Alpha Queensland who was bitten by a Taipan on his cattle station....
.he was lucky to survive, he was early 20's and in excellent shape......that is one serious
dangerous snake....
I remember Steve Irwin coming face to face with one of these. Brutally daring yet showing the overall nature of the creature. Much respect for anyone that dares to handle this creature for science and the creation of antivenin.
RIP to that absolute legend.
Very irresponsible one false move and the snake would have reacted.
The Century zinc mine is located in outback Queensland within the Inland Taipan's habitat. Fly-In Fly-Out (FiFo) workers stay in a camp made up of "dongas" (separate single bedroom and bathroom units about the size of 2 shipping containers) Walking around in the dark of night was an exciting adventure. Most of the snakes we saw were non-venomous pythons but any rustling sound would make you jump. All native animals are protected species so killing was not a legal option. Some workers were part-time volunteer snake handlers for which they received training. Their job was to pin down the snake with a "snake hook" or tongs, lift the snake up and drop it into an open-topped vessel or bag. The snake was then released back into the wild.
I'm pretty sure a Kiwi brought me the western taipan when I was working in the Pilbara. He'd put it in his lunch box with some water in case it got thirsty and told me to give it to the enviro when he got back. Enviro was gone for hours and it was swimming around on my desk. I was in hr site admin so all afternoon I had squealing men asking wtf it was and if it was poisonous. When I heard the enviro come in I walked out with a container in my hand to give to him and he took one look,turned pale and started backing away. With the wtf is that is that what I think it is and what do you want me to do about it. I said your the enviro it needs a new home.its just baby and I've had it with me for hours now. It's kind of pretty and fairly peaceful but there must be somewhere it can go away from the workers.he was not happy but he took it. I don't know what happened after that
Just to illustrate how deadly the Taipans are, I live in populated Eastern Queensland where a groundsman was bitten by an Eastern Brown snake ( less deadly than the Taipan) while working 'in the hospital grounds' I also work at, and he was a very sick boy nearly didn't survive. In another incident in the same area a woman in her 40's was bitten by an Eastern Brown whilst gardening, her son called the ambulance but by the time they got there (which wasn't long) she was already dead.
Both eastern brown?
Eastern brown, ,western brown,, and mulga these are worse snake of australia
And another is there is tiger snake,,
Thats the 2nd most deadliest venom in a snake in the world mate 😋 & the Coastal QLD Taipan is 3rd deadliest venom, altho the deadliest snake overall
The Common/Eastern Brown snake Pseudonaja textiles does have the 2nd most toxic snake venom in the world...the venom yield varies enormously from 4mg-40mg+.... Comparison between Taipan and Brown snake envenomation is rather like comparing being hit by a family sedan or a 4WD.....you are going to be severely injured...if not killed....Now please ponder this in the last 12 years 7 children have died from snake envenomation.....360+ have died in farming accidents....600 children under 5 have drowned in residential swimming pools......The only people bitten by the world,s most venomous snake have been herpetologists....no deaths....yet.... however death shall occur if idiots handle , "play " with venomous snakes in isolated parts of Australia to whit The Channel Country, best wishes, Marcus Dorse herpetologist Toowoomba Qld Australia
My dog got bitten by an eastern brown and never made it home which was 15 minutes away
Another great video.
I've always been fascinated by toxicology and the natural evolution of venoms to better off prey in interesting and horrific ways, the Inland Taipan's gelatinising venom is just nature being metal AF...
If you like toxicology videos, check out the channel chubbyemu - it is a toxicologist who goes over medical cases explaining in detail what happened, how and why. Its like House in reverse.
I was just searching for cobra catching and educational videos about them as that is common here in the Philippines. Now, you earned a subscriber! I love how it was explained, I am not a snake enthusiast, biologist, or anything science related. But I love to watch educating videos with thorough explanations. Good job and kudos! More videos to come! :-)
This was such an interesting video. Natural selection and evolution never ceases to amaze me. That said, Australia seems to have taken the gold medal in creatures admired from a far.
The 30 min window for anti venom is only when you don't apply 1st aid. A compression bandage up the length of the limb will slow the venom down a lot, buying you several hours
Unless the snake injected the venom into an artery or vein. You’re screw by the time you even have time to react
You don't have hours even with a pressure bandage.
my brother in the 50s regularly searched our farm in Tolga north queensland, for these taipans he got 50 australian pounds per snake at that time. the lab wanted their venom to help any snake bite victim to survive. with the antivenom. he was fortunate to get 2 or 3 without getting bitten himself.
So the fourth one got him eh?
I recently subscribed and am very impressed with the content. Thanks for breaking down a complicated subject for the rest of us "non-biology majors."
This video is actually horribly inaccurate and misleading. Its not even the most potent venom in the animal kingdom for starters, whole video is a lie meant to showcase a snake they thought was cool and scarrryy so they could rack in views.
I’ve seen an all black snake while on a walk as a kid. I froze in my tracks just watching what it did and where it went. I knew it could see me as it stopped as well. The way it’s head shape and how dark it was made me think venomous snake as a kid. Even though my curiosity wanted to get closer I couldn’t. And watching this snake brought back those childhood memories locked away.
Pretty sure it wasn’t the Taipan. I’m not exactly sure what type of snake it was, just know that it seemed intelligent in the way it stopped and stared at me while turning it’s head then slithered away.
Staying completely still is the best thing you could have done. I'm no expert but have been around many highly vemonous snakes in the Australian bush. One of my hobbies was going out to photograph them.
The one you encountered was probably a red belly black snake. They are beautiful snakes, quite calm if you are but most are. Seeing them stand up flattening their neck like a cobra (tiger snakes do it better) is rather impressive.
Glad you chose to stay still and leave the snake alone. In regards to the Inland Taipan; bites from this particular snake are extremely rare because they are usually found in the Australian Outback, which is sparsely inhabited by humans.
I see heaps of snakes in the bush and my advice is respect their space.
Red belly black probably... it will retreat..
@@michaeltuffin5002 l was climbing up a high waterfall in a rainforest in coastal Northern NSW. As my head rose above the last ledge I found myself face to face with a yellow belly black snake. Less than 2 feet (0•6m)
away. It was the most beautiful sight incredibly glossy black and vivid yellow in the bright sunlight. I was almost frozen in the spot, but l slowly dropped back out of sight. I climbed up thru the bush instead and estimated it to be 5foot ( 1•5m) long.
I had an encounter with a 20 foot reticulated python lower down the same creek that was.
Thanks!
The amount/depth of detail explaining the different neurotoxins was so satisfying! Haven't been so happy in a UA-cam video in a while. (Even though it was pretty grizzly imagining how that would feel..) Still, great piece!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Nice writing, awesome narration.
Kudos to the whole team. Personally, I am a fan of Stephanie's narration. She even better than Siguorney Weaver.
What fascinates me about venomous species is the different types of venom, how some acts on the nervous system, some on blood, muscles etc.
Damn, this was a legitimately great presentation. Lots of info and not presented in an overly diluted way.
8:06 Inland Taipan: my venom is already manifested overkill itself. but just to make sure, I will bite my prey several times more. it's like swatting flies with a sledgehammer
Your stories about wildlife encounters are so vivid and engaging-they make me feel like I’m right there with you
What a brilliant video. So informative. Fluid and interesting. Great stuff
Moral of the story: don’t go to Australia
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Well that’s not the answer.
The problem is that I live in Australia 😂.
A fantastic, and easy to follow (even with the biochemistry) program. This is the best explanation about the chemistry and physiology of the Inland Taipan.
Wow! Thank you so much for this video! I'm covering the nervous system with my Bio students at the moment and this is gonna be such a great way of brining it to life for them. Loved the detail you go into with the effects on the neuromuscular junctions!
What a great ad for Australia tourism 👌
Excellent video! Looks like it was more challenging than most to make. I have a tough time with chemistry. You're a great UA-camr!
Your videos are fantastic! I just found the channel and love it. The voice over is done extremely well. I’m often annoyed by the voice over and narration in other science videos on UA-cam. Do you make the animations yourself? They’re done incredibly!
The videos are made by a small team. Kirtan is the man for almost all of our animations :)
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@@rageagainstthemachine7434 ,why are you shouting?
@@opiumtrail7032 I CAN'T SHOUT , ALL I CAN DO IS TYPE !!!!!! FU _ K STICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent and indepth explanation of how venom works - and very accessible
fascinating, thank you very much. as an aussie dont stress ive never ever seen a snake in my 37 yrs. and i always am in the coutry and melbourne
Unlikely. I'm Aussie too and regularly see snakes on my front and back porches, even had a carpet snake in the house and had to catch it in a box. And this is a suburb maybe 5 miles from a decent size city.
When I was a kid and bushwalking regularly we would see snakes scattering away from our feet when startled.
Sometimes they dont even scatter and you find yourself standing there with some dopey snake curled up a few inches from your foot.
We have red belly and brown snakes here in my big garden...2 hours South of Sydney. Every summer we are on high alert.
I wouldnt be suprised if his venom is so strong is because the animals they eat had gotten a better resistence to it over time
I was VERY surprised that they didn't mention that. Even if this particular snake's prey don't account for any of the venom potency, the "arms race" theory is what we've all been taught, so they should have at least addressed the issue. Disappointing.
There is actually a snake in Australia that is resistant to all the snakes venoms. It even eats the Inland taipan with ease
Stephanie Sammann is hands down the best narrator I have listened too. Keep it up. Listen to her Orcas, Lions, and other game videos. The best!
This is the best video I've seen on snake venom! Great job!
Your videos are incredible. Thank you for the massive effort and research behind them.
much love from Cairns. this snake is our biggest contribution to society
Very good! Small correction, though: the Elapids (Elapidae) are not a genus, but a family of venomous snakes.
It seems like the most logical reason it has both kinds of venom is that at one point it mated with both species a long time ago. That would make sense too because the remoteness of it’s range area would mean they couldn’t be picky on who to mate with. Cross species mating is generally easier before the species become too distinct from each other.
It’s also possible it developed the duel venom first and was the only subspecies that could survive out in the desert and the other subspecies couldn’t kill all the rare available prey to stay alive.
While the inland taipan has the most potent venom, the brown snake in Australia is responsible for more fatalities, due in part to aggressive and it's more invasive to populated areas. But the saw scaled viper is the deadliest snake in the world, responsible for more deaths than all other venomous snakes combined.
Russel's viper
@@ronniekregar3482 the saw scaled Viper lives in africa, arabia, Southwestern Asia into India and Pakistan. It is responsible for the most human fatalities in the world from more than any other snake because of its wide range and coming into close contact with humans. The Russell's Viper lives in India to Taiwan and Java it is only responsible for the most casualties in India not the world.
@@richardhincemon9423Because of poor snakebite treatment, access to hospitals and antivenom being unavailable.
This is awesome. Thank you Real Science for giving us such amazing content for free 🙌👏
It's considered prudent in Australia when walking through long grass to stomp your feet as you go. The vibrations scare away most snakes and makes you less likely to accidentally step on one. The exception, I've heard, are taipans. They'll come investigate. I don't know if it's true or not.
I don't actually know but I doubt they would
Go for a bushwalk when it's cold, ie, autumn, winter.
When I was younger, I would never go and explore the property when it was hot ( unless on motorbike or bushbasher).
Stomping your feet attracts drop bears.
@@Adam-7_7_7in my experience when it is cooler is when I find snakes sunbathing on tracks in the Australia bushland. On hot days snakes are very active and I only see glaciers of them as a they slither quickly away into the bushland.
I lived up at Mt Buller in Victoria agree best bush walks where in the middle of winter and middle of rhe night
"Inland taipan can kill 100 humans with a single bite"
Cat & mongoose: "that makes me hungry."
Mongooses would die if bitten, the mongoose found in Africa has adapted to the snake's venom on its own continent, Honey badgers are not immune either to venom, they just have really thick skin, which makes it hard for snakes to penetrate properly, but not the venom found in Australia; the mongoose bodies constitution has not evolved to suit an Inland-Tiapans bite. So the mongose would definitely win the fight but would die if bitten.
I bet a honeybadger would see that and laugh! Honeybadger don't give a F!
@@sparkynate91I agree with you haha
@@sparkynate91idk man I think the taipans venom would kill a honey badger it's venom is not like any other snakes venom yes we know the badger eat a cobra difference is the taipans venom is beyond godly worst it turns you to jelly man
@@GhostOfexistence-c7j the mongoose is immune bcoz of receptor level non recognition by the venom protein
A buddy caught a baby Coastal Taipan and bought it to my house to show me when we were 11 (him) and 12 (myself) in the 90's. Gorgeous little creature but we released it back in to the wild when my old man pointed out it could kill us both 50 times over with a single bite. Nearly got ourselves naturally selected out of existence but in all honesty it didn't really seem all that bothered to be handled.
“Naturally selected out of existence “ 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've heard from the people at the reptile park that Coastal Taipans are difficult to work with because their temperament can change quickly, making them hard to predict.
According to the head (in the 1960"s) of the Commonweath Serum Laboratories the most deadly venom of any snake was one of the sea snakes.
He was the world authority on venom.
Modern measures are based on the venom strength of the King Cobra, which is rated as a 1.
He rated the sea snake at 150, Inland Taipan at 50, Eastern Brown at 25.
Of course I am remembering this from at least 35 years ago when I read his book, and have forgotten his name.
Australia has 9 out of the top 10 venoms of land based snakes, the one exception is the Black Mamba, which is fast and frightening and when I heard one going up a tree the body made loud slaps as it hit limbs.
@richardhincemon Yes. Also they continue to bite and bite. Thus pumping large amounts of venom. Quantity defeats quality. Very dangerous animal.
australia has 21 of the 25 most venomous land snakes.
the 4 that aren't australian are ranked.
12 indian cobra
13 black mamba
18 king cobra
25 eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Australia has 66 species of venomous snakes and only 10 species have killed humans. There's only 6 species of land snakes in Australia that ranks in the top 25 of the most toxic venomous snakes in the world.
1.Inland Taipan
2.Western Desert Taipan aka Central Ranges Taipan
3. Coastal Taipan
4. Eastern Brown snake
5.Mainland Tiger Snake
6. Death Adder
This girl explains things very well, even on a medical school lecture level.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
The venom of these snakes is so incredibly potent, but human deaths from their bites are almost unheard of. They know to preserve their venom for prey whenever possible so they'd rather flee or hide than fight larger animals, and they live in extremely remote regions that humans rarely explore.
...until gold is found there... LOL
@@JakeWitmer Or Uranium. Maybe that's how they evolved so fast!? 😜😁
Google "Worker killed by taipan in central Queensland" - that was in 2012, so "rare" but not unheard of
@@jamiefenner9443 ok I added an almost
Nice to hear a competent voice along with a great script. Thank you.
This was an amazing video, interesting in every aspect and visually appealing
Marvelous work, keep up the good content
Our hardcore Aus snakes aren’t as vicious as you think. Vast majority of the time, the first bite will be dry (unless it’s prey) It’s the snake saying “get the f**k away from me c**t”. If you get a second, tick, tick, tick......
People always seem to think that snakes are evil malicious things out to get you but they’re really not. They’re just scared
Yes but not the Coastal Taipan.
another fact you may not know is that all snakes are poisonous not just so called 'poisonous' snakes, so the constrictors like pythons are also because of what they eat. Obviously the venomous snakes do what they do and are far more dangerous in their bite.
Only snakes that have poisonous toxins are the Asian tiger keelback snake, Garter snake and the Hognose snake that live on a diet of amphibians. Snakes in general, are venomous not poisonous. Venom is injected into the bloodstream from fangs that are connected to the venom glands to immobilize and kill prey. Poison has to come into contact with skin or be ingested to have a deadly effect on predators who are trying to kill snakes only as a defensive tactic against being eaten by them.
If I didn't know better I'd think this venom was originally designed to defend the snake from an animal the size of a diplodocus.
We " only " get the Coastal Taipan here. Pretty much the same thing tho'. There's sometimes a lot of difference between venomous and dangerous. Is it aggressive ? Is it insanely aggressive ? Will it chase you ? If it does will it catch you ? Will it bite more than once ? Does it have hypodermic fangs to get lots of venom into you ? Is the venom quick-acting so you might not have time to get to help ? Both types of Taipan score yes for all these questions, putting them at the top of the dangerous list.
They’re known to be quite docile and have never killed a person that’s known
@@HkFinn83 I don't know where you heard that, but it's entirely wrong.Sounds like someone got them mixed up with the West Australian Tiger snake.
@Science Troll Inland Taipan has never caused a fatality since they were discovered in 1879.Only a handful of people have been bitten in captivity and trying to catch them. Csl taipan polyvalent antivenìn is used when treating the bite of the Inland Taipan and has been successful in people making a full recovery 👍 in every case.
@@richardhincemon Actually I don't know why I wrote that the inland is aggressive . . . they seem to be pretty laid back.
@@HkFinn83 But not afraid of people like some suggest.
Excellent.
I’ve always been highly curious about venom and was fortunate to meet a snake expert to ask him specifically about the venom of the Inland Taipan. He told me that because it’s main prey is the Plague Rat, which is highly aggressive and capable of fast retaliatory attack before succumbing to the venom, there has been an evolutionary arms race between them for countless generations. The rat has slowly become faster and more aggressive, and the venom faster acting and more potent. Quite a convincing explanation if you ask me.
I have a PhD in biotechnology and still cant get my head around how these venomous snakes have developed.
Venom can kill the snake too. How they got evolved, and how first mutations of the production didnt kill the snake?
How the storage and delivery system was evolved?
You see its not only one thing but multiple things should evolve in parallel so that it works, otherwise, it would be useless or deadly for the snake.
Yep. Too many steps in the evolution process had to take place for it to be reality. These snakes didn't "evolve", but were created with the setup they have now. The venom could possibly have gotten a bit more toxic over a couple thousand years, but a snake evolving from nonvenomous to venomous is a fairytale. We don't see any examples of the evolutionary process (non-venomous snakes becoming venomous) happening today, like we should if evolution were true.
@@michaelharrington75 Sounds like you missed the school or you didn't believe in it.
@@drpk6514 I definitely don't believe in it. It's impossible, and there's no evidence for it. Schools are lying when they teach evolution.
This is why Elapidae is old news , they now are in 5 families , no more Elapids
This anticoagulant if you think about it. Must be to NOT only help it die quicker but, it leaves a trail of blood/scent for the snake to follow to where its target fell due to the continual bleeding. Nature is something, evolution in its "design" is genius indeed!
Magnific video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with we all.
Nature is as incredible as it is brutal, but try to understand it is fantastic.
'If you happen to be walking out in the arid open plains of southwest queensland australia.."
why would someone carelessly venture into areas that can kill you with a sunstroke
Yep. There have certainly been more deaths from thirst than snakebite in the Australian outback! (And in other desert areas of the world.)
How did snakes adapt to have venom if they were already able to catch and kill enough prey to survive and reproduce? Its the conundrum of evolution that always stumps me.
Eophis underwoodi was a small four legged snake discovered 165 million years ago but the gene for venom dates back over two hundred million years before their discovery. Paleontologist who study all forms of fossilized life life can give accurate dates going back over three hundred million years ago.
Top tier background music. Completely changed the video’s vibe.
thanks I try!
Always Australia. Greetings from SA!
I will likely never need anti venom treatment, but a huge amount of thanks to the handlers that work with venomous snakes so anti venoms can be created. Wow!
As a kid, I had Cobras on pedestal of lethality, higher than even our indeginious rattlesnakes.
Then I learned about this guy as a young adault.
@@gppsoftware The king cobra specialises in hunting snakes, its venom is more potent towards reptiles, especially snakes. Therefore, king cobra remains king of snakes.
@@gppsoftware Yes but that venom will be less potent to reptiles than mammals, and the cobra could probably eat a taipan for breakfast.
Meanwhile, steve irwin handled it with grace, while having it right next to its head like it was a newborn or a puppy. RIP to one of the world's GOATs
Yeah look where he is now because he messed with the wrong animal. What a legend.
@@althalus3267 lol people die every day my friend. We know his name…will history know yours? Probably not
One false move by Steve and he would have had a deadly snakebite to the head and out in the centre of nowhere he probably would not have survived even if he had antivenom with him. Absolute stupidity.
The king Taipan snake you can die less than 30 minutes, if not treated according to the snake bite instructions, but the thing that the king taipan does is, that the venom can actually like turn your blood into jelly substance
Yeah art n stuff , there are 3 taipans the 4th deadliest on planet the Costal Taipan , the 3rd venomous the Western Desert Taipan Oxyuranus Temporalis , and the Deadliest snake on earth The Inland Taipan Oxyuranus Microlepidotus, the second deadliest snake on earth is the Eastern Brown , PsudonajaTextillis , they are magnificent snakes my friend , cheers . artandstuff
@Terrbear there is no King Taipan.
Here in Aus we're taught the most venomous snake is the coral banded sea snake (luckily it's extremely friendly you can play with them and they just don't bite people)
I've also read the snakes on Brazil's snake island have the strongest and fastest acting venom (due to the fact it evolved to eat birds on a small island it needed to adapt it's venom to kill almost instantaneously)
I've also been told the Fleur de Lance has the strongest venom.
The scariest thing about taipans is they're f_cking psychotic they legit will chase you and strike over and over until they run out of venom (a boy was once bitten 21 times between his ankle and hip in a matter of seconds)
One chased my boss and I luckily we'd just finished installing a huge glass window and door we locked ourselves in that room and that snake legit was striking the window with all of its might over and over for a good 15 mins at least 🥺🥺
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
There’s two types of Taipans the Coastal (which is slightly less venomous) and the Inland (most venomous snake on earth) the coastal is far more aggressive and psychotic the inland is rather mild and shy but will still defend itself if cornered
We're never taught the most venomous snake is the coral banded sea snake here.
@hoffjdod3276 how tf a snake psychotic
Please don't play with Coral snakes
There's also coastal taipans around Western Australia. Ive even come across one in suburbia on the way back from KFC one night. Because of so much housing development taking over bushland they don't have anywhere to go.
Natural habitat lose is common here too in Florida USA. The wildlife has nowhere to go and gets slaughtered on the roadways.
what i find incredible is the dose. a bite injects an amount equivalent in size of 1/2 a baby aspirin .
i read that the black mamba is the most dangerous snake because while its venom is deadly though not the strongest, it is a super aggressive FAST snake. the combination of both factors place it at the top.
I wonder if the mongoose or the honey badger can survive the bite
Yeah, but so incredibly rare to actually encounter an inland Taipan. Coastal Taipans are bloody everywhere in North Queensland and are crazy aggressive. Much more dangerous!
The videography in this documentary is fantastic. National Geographic has outdone itself with this film
Excellent video presentation! I have learnt a little bit more about the creatures that inhabit my ‘backyard’ as I live in central Australia and travel throughout the Outback for my work. I sometimes see Snakes crossing roads and I wonder what variety they are. I saw one once that certainly resembles the Inland Taipan, I caught it thinking that it was a black headed sand Python, it was quite docile and made no attempt to bite and after I took photographs of it I released it again and it went on its journey into the desert. Ha Ha! Now I am thinking that maybe I accidentally caught an Inland Taipan by mistake!
This animal is not docile. Its called the Fierce snake or savage snake by the Australian Aboriginals for a reason.
Bruh is out here caching snakes he can't even identify. In fucking Australia. Future Darwin nominee potential in this one
Drop bears, seriously that is what us Australians really fear. Vicious blood thirsty mammals that rely on the element of surprise than venom.
Ha, ha...!!
Would be a more believable joke if you had large mammals there like grizzlies
yeh the old drop bears, have not heard of those for a while. Nastiest creature in Oz is the hornet imo. Small but vicious and unpredictable. You can be around them all day and everything is cool. Make one false move and they will nail you. Been stung twice and still have no idea why? Hurt for a week. That was one hornet. cant imagine what a pack on you would feel like
Then you have animals like honey badgers and mongooses that have developed either immunity or high resistance to venomous snakes. Imagine being a cobra with enough venom to kill an elephant but you bite a mongoose ten times and it still eats you.
We need to introduce mongoose, meerkats and honey badgers to Australia
Invasive species of wildlife in Australia are not allowed all species of snakes are protected by law in Australia.
@@SusanKay- Invasive species are a bigger problem than snakes in Australia. Only a .03 percent chance of dying with medical treatment in Australia from snake bites. Horses and dogs are responsible for more deaths than any other animal in Australia.
Yes because introducing invasive species to Australia has worked so well in the last 200+ years.
Mongoose and meerkats are not immune to the venom of Australian snakes. They will die.
I'd like to see how you'd explain the Australian Funnel Web spider and it's venom that strangely is more poisonous to primates.
I think that you must have meant that it's venom is more venomous to primates. Poisonous means that you get sick or die from eating it.
Yeah its very odd. They still haven't figured that out
This has vexed me for years, Atrax Robustus The Sydney Funnelweb ,the male being 7 times more deadly and they (Scientists) think that Aboriginals, Who have been in Australia for between 45,000 and 65,000 years, they were a hamburger for these Primates , and the only case of a bite from an inland was 1946 , a full blood Aboriginal Australian man , said it Was an inland, he survived , did he have a form of immunity,surely in that many years a few would have been bitten ? Facinating but , TOP Q The RCvie .cheers
@el34glo59 Yeah , Atracidae my fave Mygalomorph, 6 now vie for deadliest, everyone knows Atrax Robustus, but Hadronyche Formidabilis , is the biggest and just as deadly my thinks , 36 Atracidae, 3 Atrax 32 Hadronyche And 1 all alone Illawarra wisharti, Atrax Sutherlandi, named after Aemon Sutherland who discovered the anti venine, it is a major curiosity of mine this Venom , I have theories on , especially when you look at snake Divergance and Venoms , and the RED on Atrax Sutherlandi is insane , they are all mad , beautiful, God they look good after molting , Cheers all
Finding a snake video that tells me stuff I didn't know before is so rare. I love this.
About 40 years ago, I was driving through south west Queensland in the area known as the Channel Country and came across a snake. (It happens often in our remote areas.) I stopped the car and grabbed my camera and chased the snake to get a better photo. I'm ashamed to admit that when the snake turned to face me, I ran back to swap my camera for my rifle, thinking that while I was prepared to shoot the snake with a camera, now I was going to shoot it with my rifle. Fortunately, the snake managed to slither into a hole when my bullet just missed it. Fortunately for the snake, and also for me. When I was a 10 year old, I used to catch blue tongue lizards to keep as pets and often came across brown and tiger snakes. They're not as deadly as the Western Taipan, but for sure, they're also capable of killing an adult. (Or child.) I usually threw the snakes away (having already having grabbed them by their tails. Yes) but sometimes I killed them with sticks. As an adult, I feel very bad about this. But yeah, I was young and no, my parents had no idea what I was up to, other than I came home with new reptile pets.
As I grew older, my sympathies and attitudes towards snakes changed. I mean, I used to catch other reptiles as pets: blue tongue lizards are very placid and friendly! I feel bad about my attitude towards snakes and now, if and whenever I encounter one, I either just wait for them to move away or I'll just walk away from them. Snakes won't normallly attack humans, not unless you provoke them. For people who don't live in Australia, I learnt these lessons as a youngster. I also used to surf and my attitude to sharks have changed too. The only creature you really need to worry about are crocodiles. They might not be venomous, but they'll stalk and kill you if they have half a chance … whereas snakes and sharks won't.
I agree entirely but this snake is the exception, there's always an exception to every rule and this snake is it.
If you ever see almost any venomous Aussie snake crossing your path,(pretty rare) stand still and let it pass. If it stops, remain calm and keep still. After five or ten seconds it will move off, having determined that you are of no threat. This WILL seem like the longest few seconds of your life, but they will almost always be on their way. In the bush the most dangerous areas are when you are walking across a log and you can't see where your front foot will land. Best to check, just in case a "little fella" is sunbathing on the other side especially if the weather is in the high teens 18, 19, or 20c, they might be trying to catch the sun to stay warm. "Get ready for a surprise"
This snake is hardcore.