Scrub python, the largest snake of Australia
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The Scrub python (Simalia kinghorni) lives in the northeastern Australia, in rainforests and woodlands of Queensland. It is the largest and longest snake of Australia! This video shows Scrub pythons in their natural habitat. They belong to largest arboreal snakes on Earth. Watch more videos about snakes of Australia here: • Scrub python, the larg...
When the group TLC was singing about not wanting any scrubs, they were not referring to this one... What a gorgeous snake!
They were not, we are sure 😀 Thanks for watching!
Spectacular videography! Nothing like an in-situ presentation of snakes and wildlife in general. Very difficult to capture on video - kudos to you. And congratulations on obtaining your Ph.D.!
Thank you very much! Great that you love our natural history content! Matej is very happy that his Ph.D. is finished!
As usual your camera work is the best! It's probably the other way around perhaps a stray Scrub Pythons hanging on to bush after a flood, landed on Papua New Guinea. After eons of evolution on an island a different diet, and selective pressure, eventually became a separate yet linked new species - the Amethystine Python.
Thank you! We meant the information more in a systematic way, before it was one species, but later scientists splitted Scrub python as a separates species 🙂 We did no see any phylogeographic study on history of Simalia genus, do you know about any?
Great to see the end result, you guys got some amazing footage! Looking forward to more videos of the Australian trip :)
More to come! Great that you like this one, Hasani! 🙂 Many greetings from both of us!
This is some of the best footage and content I have ever seen. Thank you guys so much.
Wow, thank you! Please watch more videos from our channel 🙂
Always enjoy watching your videos and always manage to learn something new 🙌. You two definitely have the dream job and I truly appreciate you sharing these videos because it’s fulfilling my childhood dream of seeing these amazing reptiles in the wild. So thank you so much again and I wish you both all the best just be careful out there and enjoy every moment 🙋♂️✌️
That’s great that you always enjoy watching our videos! We will keep trying to continue doing this until it will be possible 🙂
Really appreciate your hard work,you guys are doing a great job...
So nice of you, thank you very much! ❤️
Loved this. I'm hoping there's more on Australian pythons and this was just a taster. Especially the different carpet pythons filmed in the wild.
Thank you! We have nice footage of Carpet pythons, you will love it! 🙂
Great videography, Scrubbys are very common in my area, as are Carpets, I didn't know that our Scrub Python was a subspecies of the Amethystine Python, I've always used both names for the same snake as I thought they were the same species !! Love your work and have subscribed !! 🪱😎
Thank you for watching! Many more videos about snakes from Australia to come! Yes, Scrub python was not a separate species in the past :) Thank you very much for subscribing!
"Scrub python" and "amethystine python" are synonymous - different "common" names for the same species / subspecies, although, of course, each subspecies has a different Latin / scientific name - they can all be loosely called "scrub" or "amethystine" pythons. Hope that explanation wasn't confusing.
Thank you guys for making us seeing the magical beauty of this living things 🔱💯
Thank you so much for watching our video! :)
Very nice footage from this beautyful snake. They look so pretty. Thaks for this nice natural dokumentation.
Thank you very much! These pythons are really beautiful!
@@LivingZoology Yes, i only can confirm... 🙃💚🐍
Nádherný had! Chovám dva druhy krajt a jsou to úžasní hadi! Děkuji za video!A držím palce do další práce!!!👍
Děkujeme za sledování! Krajty jsou skvělé! Mějte se hezky! 🙂
Truly amazing footage well done!!
Thank you very much!
Finally you guys posted..awesome I love it💚💚💚
Hope you enjoyed it! We are having technical issues with our editing computer so everything is slow now unfortunately :/
@@LivingZoology I really enjoyed it thank you guys for feeding my love for snakes💚💚
Truly beautiful snake. I enjoy your videos immensely. Thank you so much for sharing
❤ From Australia
Thank you very much! Great to see a comment from a fan from Australia! ❤️
Such an effortless climber, stunning footage
Thank you very much for watching!
Fascinating, great mini doc
Thank you very much! Check some more on our channel!
Beautiful footage as always. That snake has such beautiful eyes.
Thank you very much! We really loved to work with Scrub pythons.
Beautiful snake love the markings. Never heard of a scrub python b4
Thank you very much for watching!
Great video guys, I also love Scrub pythons, I spent some time around Darwin, where I saw carpet and water pythons and but as you know there are no scrub pythons around Darwin.
Thank you! Darwin must be a beautiful area, we would love to visit it in the future!
Awesome~👍
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
Thanks for visiting! 🙏🙂
Iv personally seen a python around 10 meters in the wild in cairns nth qld. It went from the bush on one side of the road, all the way across into the bush. Roads are generally about 9 meters wide so it was over 9 easily. I think it was the sanke steve erwin was looking for when he cae up to cairns for his final adventure. He never found it so he went to port douglas to film on the reef. Thats where he passed away.
It is a pity that such a sighting was not properly recorded and snake was not measured 🥲 We hope that sometimes huge snakes can still survive even nowadays!
What a beautiful snake, I have never had of this python before but it's really cool, thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for watching! These pythons were very interesting to observe!
No voice-over? -_-
Felt like I was in class flipping through slide shows with cricket sounds on. Only to nod off every 5-10 seconds and having the teacher slam a book on my desk
Most of our videos are made this way, only with the natural sound. We also produce long narrated documentaries, but it takes a long time to finish those.
@@LivingZoology oh yea not discrediting or anything. Was trying to make a funny analogy. Different people have different way of learning. This was the first video I seen from y’all, and I’m mostly a verbal learner so it was quiet different for me.
I hope in your next video you will encounter Inland Carpet Pythons (morelia spilota metcalfei) because with your cinematography they would be the most beautiful carpet python ever!
We have some nice footage of Carpet pythons, you will love it! 🙂
@@LivingZoology can't wait!!
great work as always love the channel :)
Thank you very much! It is always great to see comments from people who regularly return to our channel 🙂
I remember learning about these on Austin Stevens show, one of my favorite snakes.
Thank you for watching!
Amazing snakes and excellent footage. One of these tried to eat my dog a few years ago. Thank goodness my wife was home and managed to save it. Once they get to about 4.5 m, they actually fatten up quite a bit and are capable of eating a small child. One of these had a go at a 22 months old toddler about 5 years ago just North of Cairns. There're some unofficial records of individuals up to 8.5 m long, but 6-7 m is much more realistic. The largest one I've seen I'm my backyard in suburban Cairns was 4.2m long.
Thank you very much! We heard about cases when Scrub pythons tried to eat kids. Great that your wife managed to save your dog! As you say, this species rarely grows over 5 meters nowadays and those extreme records were not reliably measured.
Why you didn't tell me that you posted a new video?? This is what I have been waiting for, thank you, thank you, I can't wait to watch this, Ahoj 😉.
Finally the first video about a snake species from Australia is here! Ahoj :)
Thanks for video
Thank you for watching!
Beautifully crafted!
Thank you very much!
As always amazing footage! I hope I can pay Cairns a visit end of this year.
Another amazing spot close to: Papua New Guinea! I saw the related relative of the scrub python and colleges stayed in a conservation area and were astonished by the abundance of snakes. If you are still in Oz, maybe you can give it a try (Wanang Conservation Area, Madang Province)
Thank you so much! You should visit Cairns, it is a beautiful area! Maybe we will have a chance to visit Papua-New Guinea in the future 🙂
@@LivingZoology I agree its an amazing area! Ive have been in Cairns some years ago and hope to go again this autmn. But thats not sure yet.
I am sure PNG would be an amazing trip. Looking eg. for Simalia boeleni
@@frizzledgDid you happen to meet in hear about a well-known herpetologist in Cairns named Peter Krauss?
Bringing awesome content & I’ve got a question for you
Has long size for scrub Python been influenced by their environment they inhabit?
Thank you! Well, Scrub python is rather extremelly long for a highly arboreal snake. Its size is probably connected more with the fact that it belongs to pythons than with some special environmental pressure.
I'm down in Melbourne and have never really been interested in visiting Queensland because I don't like hot weather (it does get hotter here, but it's always warm up there). Now, I am really comfortable with my choice to stay down south 😬
Yes, it can be very hot in the northern part of Queensland!
@@LivingZoology it does look beautiful, but I know I'd be whinging about humidity and constantly running out of mosquito repellant 😅
@@loretta_3843 We agree that the humidity was high and mosquitos plentiful 😅 But the rainforest is only on the coast, if you travel inland the landscape is much drier.
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Outstanding!!
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Jinak prví živou celý pár jsem cca 1991 viděl u mého kolegy Petra Plískala v Hulíně tehdy měl odchyt cca 3,5 až 4 metry díky s pozdravem Petr.
To už byla pěkná velikost!
I saw one in the kimberlies which I thought was a log across the road but when we drove over it moved
Couldn’t see tail or head and the road was quite wide
Thanks for watching!
I love your work 👍.I have a question. What is the largest snake species of Australia. Is it Simalia kinghorni or Simalia amethistina?
Thank you so much! The largest is Simalia kinghorni, S. amethistina lives in PNG 🙂
@@LivingZoology okay.. thanks
Velmy pekne video.
Skoda,ze nieje doplnene o data ohladne teploty den-noc,pripadne mensia casova os. Pripadne vlhkost. Asi by to hodne ludi zaujmalo.
Diky za sledovanie! 🙂Zvazujeme tieto hodnoty do buducna zaznamenavat. Nemame uplne predstavu, kolko chovatelov z celeho sveta nas sleduje.
@@LivingZoology myslim,ze hodne.
Wow, they are built for climbing!
Yes, they climb very well!
Zdravím Morelia amethistina to je požíráč klokanů psů koček a prý nejdelší byla větší než krajta písmenková díky s pozdravem Petr.
U různých druhů krajt se objevuje spousta starých záznamů o ohromných délkách, které nejsou dostatečně doloženy. Snažíme se proto uvádět ověřené údaje.
This snake fully grown is only a meter shorter than a green ananconda
And unlike an ananconda has a genuine record for eating kids
Yes, Scrub pythons are one of the biggest snakes in the world. However, it is important not to trust records which are not reliably measured and published. If you know about a well documented case of a Scrub python killing a child, send it to us please. We know about several cases when the python tried but the kid was saved by someone else!
They can get as big as a retic, just not as thick
There are records without evidence saying that they can get really big, but we only trust those records which were supported by trustworthy measurements.
@@LivingZoology there’s photographs proving so
DAMN ! I had no idea the Aussie Python got so long ! 5.65m is 18.5ft !!
Yes, this species can grow really long!
The Australian scrub python is also known as the amethystine python. The largest and longest snake in Australia is the Australian scrub python. These behemoths can attain lengths of over 26 feet and weigh more than 50 pounds.
29 feet longest found
@@mollymuch2808 That's CRAZY ! When/where was that?
What about the mating season, reproduction, and the measurement of baby pythons?
This species has mating season from July to September and babies usually measure around 700 mm.
It's a very long worm.
Thank you for watching!
I don't think of Australia as "a hotspot of python diversity", but I'd like to see more of them. I hope you have footage of these various pythons. Also, I heard you finished your dissertation. Are you officially doctor Louis now?
Well, Australasia is a hotspot of python diversity if you check how many species live there compared to the rest of the world :) Yes, we have material for a nice video about 3 more python species. I am now doctor Matej ;)
@@LivingZoology I'm sure there'll be plenty of interesting pythons in your new video. Congrats on the PhD!
14 species
There are 14 species of pythons in Australia
Totally natural to Australia
It looks like there are 13 species according to current taxonomy.
Why is length beneficial to survival?
The larger you are the less predators you have.
Are males or females larger? Because you first say "Males are usually longer and heavier than females" but follow that statement with "Usually python females grow bigger than males." I believe you are pointing out that male carpet pythons are larger than females, which is unusual among pythons. Is that what you are saying?
Males are larger. The second sentence is about pythons in general as a group :)
@@LivingZoology Thought so. Good video!
@@victorcarbino8736 Thank you!
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Hello! 🙂
Don't morph this up plz it's so beautiful
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Hello to India!
This snake fully grown is only a meter shorter than a green ananconda
And unlike an ananconda has a genuine record for eating kids
Yes, Scrub pythons are one of the biggest snakes in the world. However, it is important not to trust records which are not reliably measured and published. If you know about a well documented case of a Scrub python killing a child, send it to us please. We know about several cases when the python tried but the kid was saved by someone else!