Professionally Training with Venomous Reptiles!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- We took the "Snake Handling and Relocation" course at Save the Snakes! We learned a ton about proper snake relocation, bite avoidance and treatment, and handling of venomous snakes. We thought we'd share the awesome experience with you!
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This is a prime example of one of the many reasons I have SO MUCH respect for Emily and Ed!!
They're reptile professionals, have YEARS of experience, literally own a zoo, and they're still continuing their education! They both are such great role models for how everyone should look at animal keeping! You'll never know everything, so never stop learning!
They are amazing humans doing amazing things that only other amazing people appreciate! I hope the pro create and spread more humans like them around the world lol
one of the first things you learn in the animal world is that you will never stop learning. hope you appreciate this bit of advise from a twenty one year old college student.
Years of experience……but doesn’t know how to properly use the #1 tool of their trade.
@@k24civic they don’t usually work with hots and if you can just use your hands it’s better for the snakes body to not be on a hook
@@shellyb2042 working with hots or non hots…..you use a hook. I guess they dont teach that anymore. When i first got into snake handling over 20 years ago we ALWAYS used a hook regardless of hot or not.
Well Emily and Ed have already added a few "spicy" noodles to their zoo too. So the venomous training makes a lot of sense. Oh and one of the rattlesnakes in the zoo is named "Justin Timbersnake".
Oooh! So they have true danger noodles, too? I caught a glimpse of a different "hot" reptile in the zoo opening video and assumed that was what they got. (If you go to that video, it's at 5:26.)
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Snake owners are so punny with their names...
Haha I see what you did there
@@ace_of_cups4096 NO WE ARE NOT
A small request, some people (like myself) really rely on the subtitles to be able to understand your videos, ESPECIALLY when masks are being worn. The subtitles auto generate at the bottom of the screen, so they cover up any notes that you add there. It would be really helpful to your deaf viewers and anyone who relys on the subtitles if you could put the notes somewhere else on the screen whenever possible. Either at the top or to the side of a shot would be great.
Thank you for including subtitles in your videos, they are very helpful.
Finally a respectful constructive request that just explains why the request will be an improvement and also thanks the content creator for including subs. :) Often it's just condescending demands that turn people from supporting the poster.
@Duncan’s Videos that's not what this comment is about. They're asking if they could move the notes added in to the video because the cc covers them.
@Duncan’s Videos she was literally just explaining it to you. Nobody came at you crazy. How about you chill out weirdo
@@brittnaynowell8791 brittnay i think you came across very reasonably and i didnt detect any hostility from you at all
the cc moves? i tried moving it a bit higher and it worked! hopfully it works for all platforms?
The gopher snake is just so chill. It's just like "Yup this is a normal day at work." The rattle snake also seemed like a very chill dude.
if these are training animals, yeah, it's probably a basic tuesday for them. Understandable
@@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken hard working babies
@@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken they use fleshly wild caught venomous snake for training here in Australia so you learn to deal with them how you will encounter them in the wild
@@turtleman190 freshly?
@@the_undead freshly means newly/recently
Snake in the bucket: "Finally, she closed the lid. I can take a nap." Emily opens the bucket. Snake in the Bucket: "Ohhhh noooo, not again."
“..it’s that time of the month again..”
Nice
Interesting how once the snake is hooked in the air it doesn’t move, because my Jungle Carpet Python always climbs the hook.
ground-dwellers may not climb the hook, but arboreal species definitely will, from what i've seen watching videos on YT lol
@@hitsujiyume yup, big chunky rattlers aren't exactly the best climbers
I thought they meant the snake would calm down as in be less scared/ angry, not as in stop moving, but I could be wrong
@@loppydoodle726 in video they said it was because snake thinks its on a branch and rather not fall. So it stops struggling a bit once in the air. As the other comments mentioned, being on a "branch" (the hook) is less of an issue for snakes already accustomed to climbing.
@@popenieafantome9527 that makes sense! thanks!
Emily is like they're "into reptiles" while owning a reptile zoo... So modest. Great to see you still want to learn stuff. Such a great example.
Using the bucket lid as a shield on your non-hook-holding hand while dealing with a venomous snake is so clever and sensible!
She explains in another video that it's also to keep their hands busy, to avoid reaching forward to grab something out of instinct.
"Emerald tree boas, not as cool as green tree pythons." Gee, I wonder who wrote that? 😂
Also the rattlesnake you guys were practicing hooking on seemed pretty chill.
Time stamp?
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@@nightstar3574 thank youu!!
I used to be scared of reptiles, but thanks to your channel, I’ve become obsessed. I just got my first reptile the other day- a sweet little crested gecko. Thank you!
Congrats!!
yayyy im so glad :)
Cool! I got my first the other day too, a rosy boa.
I too used to have a chronic phobia of snakes and couldn’t even look at one on a screen without having a panic attack, watching your channel has helped to desensitise my phobia
cute! i have a little crested gecko too
Being a city-guy who lives in an area with absolutely no venomous snakes, (sans eastern hogs but rear-fanged doesn't really count ;P), I feel like it is important to teach people like me to learn how to be respectful to our legless friends when visiting their homes
Where’s that at, Further north? In West Virginia we have two venomous species (copperheads and timber rattlesnake)
@@ethancooper1560 I live in New York, which does have timbers and I think copperheads, but the NYC/Long Island area (which is where I live) doesn't have them. I've visited parks upstate which have big signs explaining how to be safe in rattlesnake territory
Adders, for me!
This is another reason I admire you both: as knowledgeable as you are, you are willing to learn more and to acknowledge that you don't have all the answers (such as using a snake hook). This was an excellent video, Emily & Ed, thanks for sharing.
Ahh! I really can't wait to see your facility, and since my sister moved to Wisconsin, I finally have an excuse!
You don’t need an excuse to visit MN. 😉
I think It’s in Minnesota
Its in Minnesota, sorry to burst you bubble
(Y'all, the facility's on the Minnesota Wisconsin border very near the Twin Cities. OP's valid. Even Ed & Emily are still living in Wisconsin. /I'm/ in Wisconsin and have gone multiple times since the storefront opened.)
Bye 👋
I love Save The Snakes. I bought their entire sticker collection, knowing the money was for a great cause. I wish I could take their training course though. That would be epic.
Wait they have stickers
I love how Emily compared the rattle snake scales to an alligator lol
That must be a wild thing to tell people that you'd got a 3 foot adult pet alligator
Also, I’d love to see a video where you play a game at home or with the zoo staff, in which you practice your hook techniques on various inanimate objects (and maybe a more amenable snake or two as a final round). Like a fishing or hook-a-duck carnival game, but with snake hooks!
That. Was. COOL!!!
That HUGE snake and it's "rattling muscles!"
Great information and even better knowing you'll be sharing it with all of us subscribers.
The horror of knowing Rattle Snake Round-ups STILL happen!
It's awful to know, but like those Turtle Races, we can't do anything about things if we don't know about them.
Thanks Emily and Ed!
i know right!!! i would never be able to myself so i’ll live vicariously through emily and ed 😂
Idk if I missed it in the video, but what's a rattle snake round-up?
edit: nvm, I found the explanation just a few seconds after commenting 😅
I actually lived a few mins outside of Sacramento. I didn't know they had this! Very helpful to know.
And Mr. Cool, was very chill XD. And the tubed rattler did NOT look amused :3
This reminds me of my anatomy teacher who found out how to get out of speeding tickets. Her graduate thesis was herp related so she had various properly labeled buckets for transporting venomous snakes. Cops spotted them every of the time and wanted to get away ASAP. She told us she never actually had a snake in the buckets when she was pulled over, the cops just assumed she did. Haha
I'm stealing this trick!
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This is really cool! Also, I’ve been loving the Rex stream
When you came out with the Trans Pride logo I bought a hoodie. I've worn it almost every day since then, but today was the first time someone actually recognize the color as trans Pride. We ended up having a little conversation about it and it was awesome! And now she is interested in looking up snake Discovery!
I just love how the first two snakes (the venomous and non-venomous) were just, straight chilling while there being handle like, yeah, another day another bucket, just a normal shift in my job.
learning to use a snake hook. Goes to show that you can take things for granted and then learn something new about something you thought you knew. I like how you guys went to get proper training.
I really want to be like you guys but I can't because I live in a country were there are no snakes in the wild or captivity and you are not allowed to bring any in so I love watching your videos because it makes me feel like a part of the reptile industry
Just a shot in the dark, I'm assuming you live in New Zealand?
Where do you live that no snakes are allowed to be kept in captivity?
@@Rryan8065 New Zealand probably. They don't want to take the risk of irresponsible owners releasing their pet snakes into the wild and completely destroying the eco system.
@@phamhuubaochung can snakes even survive in New Zealand?
Or Iceland, there are no reptiles here, wild or in captivity.
Oh my gosh, I'm meeting up with Michael in a couple days to volunteer with him! It's so cool seeing you guys in my area working with local nonprofits! Too bad I didn't get to meet you! 😭
I love professionals who keep up their education. There's ALWAYS more you don't know!
I know it's bc they're so used to it, but I love how calm all the snakes were with the hooks! Kinda cute how they were just chillin' :)
My 4 year old little girl was so excited when she heard that Emily was in Sacramento, only 30 minutes away from us. She has been telling me that she wants to go to the zoo and meet Rex for so long.
Yes please do the venomous snake cert, and go see Chandler from Chandler’s Wild Life in Florida! He’s in the process of building his own facility, a huge wildlife park!
Emily and Ed: talking about how sleepy the owl looks
The owl: “I have seen the pits of the underworld, I have seen things that should never be seen, the more time I wast sleeping, the closer they are”
Back when I worked in cat & dog rescue, Kevlar gloves were being developed for safer handling of ferals. Has there been any gloves developed that are dexterous & tough enough for handling "hots"?
There's a HUGE difference between gloves like what Wildlife Aid over in Britain uses for angry foxes and a snake with reach. Even with gloves on one misjudgement and that snake is withing striking distance of your entire body, face and all. Best bet handling "hots" will always be keeping distance. (Go watch any of Wildlife Aid's videos, especially fox and raptor rescuses, for their big red gloves.)
There's one brand called venom defenders and that's it.
I love how chill Mister Cool is. I almost want to hug him, but I don’t want to get nommed.
You guys have a rattle snake at Snake Discovery... I am assuming that's what the building is called. I am not surprised you guys are doing this training.when will we get a video about your first hot?
I used to be quite scared by snakes but watching your channel has helped me actually understand and be more comfortable with snakes ty so much
That's so cool I aspire to be like you when I'm older, I love reptiles and have 3 musk turtles and 2 leopard geckos but can't wait to get more like snakes and crested geckos are my favourite.
Totally understandeble. I have my 2 leogeckos for 4years now, been fascinated by reptiles since childhood
Next year i when i get more space i finally want to get my first snake (wester hognose)
And if everything goes well in 2 years, doing the "dangerous animal certification" (something similar to that training in that video) in germany with exam questions and practise days
Its about handling crocodile/alligator , big snakes, big lizards (monitors for example)
And venemous snakes.
My Step-dad almost stepped on Rattlesnake in Theodore National Park, ND at night. He was trying to catch a pic of a deer. No rattle just hissed, he had roll away he was so close. I was right behind him on the foot trail.
Apparently when I was 3 I stepped on a rattler, but I didn't notice, and apparently the snake didn't care. Everyone around us however was freaking out
Totally adding this course to my bucket list!!
Also, that tubed rattlesnake was SUPER adorable with his grumpy look hehe
Love your videos snake discovery you’re my favorite you tuber
Honestly keeping venomous reptiles is one of the most rewarding personal experiences. You can't really grasp it until you've done it.
Now we need a day in a life of Ed and Emily...its getting more interesting
It was so fun to watch you learning more about snakes and handling them. I grew up with the rattlesnake in southern Oregon. My dad would show me and my siblings the snakes and tell us about them and to leave them alone. He brought home lizards, particularly what we called blue bellies and made sure the we knew what we were allowed to handle safely and what we were not allowed to handle. This was a very enjoyable video!
I grew up in northern Oregon (Portland… yeah I know lmao), and my dad went down south for something and actually found a rattlesnake shed that he brought home to show me since I loved snakes! I’ll have to go herping for some blue bellies next time I’m down there. I’ve only ever managed to catch those dopey little salamanders cause they always go for fishing lines before the fish can
Man I’d love to see a cross between these guys and viperkeeper, it’d two of my favourite herp channels in one go.
Finally someone on youtube handling venomous correctly! Taught many people how to handle venomous, from private keepers to Zoo keepers doing some cpd training. Only thing I do differently is use translucent boxes as alot safer when you can see the snake. Bravo 👏
Mr. Cool was really chill. I love seeing their different personalities. I feel sorry for the people that don’t know/acknowledge that all other animals have different characters and temperaments just like people.
I'm stoked for this. I love how you make education so much fun. I actually told my coworker how a snake is sexed and I learned that from snake discovery. Love you guys!
The garter at 4:32 is a Santa Cruz garter (Thamnophis atratus atratus) for those wondering
So excited!!! We love ed and emily :D
That rattlesnake had an amazing rattle. It was super long. So gorgeous!!🐍❤️🐍
Non-venomous "decoy" noodle: _gets picked up_ "oh."
Decoy: _gets picked up again_ "we doing this again? Okay."
Decoy: _picked up a third time_ "weeeee"
Haven’t seen a Snake Discovery video in a while. Nice to see Ed participate on camera more than before.
Just today I searched "snake discovery venomous,"and thought I watched them all. When this one popped up, I was like how could I have missed this?! But it's BRAND NEW!!!
So sorry to see the addition of venomous snakes. I just loved y’all because you hadn’t gone down “that road” I seriously hope everyone stays safe!
Mr Cool seems like such a chill dude
This is absolutely extraordinary, this is most interesting and how they taught y'all to move a snake, relocate a snake, how to handle a hook and two hooks, how the fangs work, what to do when bitten, what to do when someone else is bitten, and most of all proving false information. This course is awesome and one day I hope I can too visit there and learn all those things, also great video!! Thanks for taking us a long!! Left a like have fun!! :D
Would love to do something like this!
You two are so amazing and it’s great you are learning and teaching what you learn and know. Rex is my favorite one you own.
I like how the snakes just chill out when they get picked up by the hook
Almost 2 decades since I've lived in northern California. So nice to see all the herps that live there again. Including the rattlers. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. By-the-by, we only have three species of snake in Tasmania, all venomous, and two highly (both elapids).
What species? Going to take a guess on one species: tiger snake?
@@elizabethandcookie4816 Tiger snake, and the Copperhead snake, who are both elapids, and can be mistaken for one another. The third species is the tiny White-lipped snake. Venomous, but hard-pressed actually to bite you. We have one beautiful Blue-tongue skink, 14 smaller skinks, and one lizard species. All cold adapted to one degree or another.
That’s so awesome I love how much they support others in the community and it’s amazing they they are still learning tips and tricks anyone who thinks they know it all knows the minimum bc there is always room to grow!! I wish there where more classes like this throughout the whole country bc so many ppl still kill snakes out of fear and out dated knowledge passed down especially in the south where every single grandma will say they only good snake is a dead snake!! Save the snakes is doing amazing things I hope they get the support they need!! Congratulations to them for doing such great work!!
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Great video. I’d love to do a workshop like this. My only experience of handling a wild snake was when I offered to grab a large carpet python that had made its way into a bathroom in a regional hospital here in Australia. He was curled around the toilet pedestal and the person in the room had been using the toilet for a couple of days and hadn’t noticed the snake. All I could do was grab the snake behind the head and try to unwind it. He didn’t like that at all. I took him outside into some parkland and let him go. Even all these years later I can’t think how I plucked up the courage to do it. I don’t think I could manage to do it today.
Ed: “ he’s like ‘go away I’m sleeping’”!
Owl: 👁👄👁
If you want to sometime you guys should come down to reptile gardens in rapid City South Dakota it's a pretty cool place they have Gators birds and snakes also many types of venomous snakes as well as turtles and some lizards but not many
I did this through the African Snakebite Institute. One of the best experiences of my life
I know you guys have protection and stuff but I would still be kind of nervous around the venomous snake but you guys are just really confident
Great video! Love seeing my old friend Michael Starkey! We've got a great, thriving herp community in the Sacramento Area, so I'm glad you guys came to visit!
Just, wow!!! Amazing!!! A course like this is such a great opportunity!!
My hometown is Sacramento and I moved back a couple years ago! I'll definitely have to check them out! Also cool to learn not only so much with you guys, but also about my own area!! Thanks!!! 🥰
Unfortunately, there’s a couple towns in my area that still do Rattlesnake Roundups. People that are opposed to them on the basis of them being cruel are seen as overly sensitive weirdos that just go around looking for anything to get upset about. After all, they’re “just snakes”.
It’s really difficult to get them shut down because they bring in money for these little towns and bring in tourists. And locals see it as a good thing because they like the idea of cutting down on the number of rattlers in the area (then they wonder why there’s a boom in the rodent population after the roundup).
There’s also a prevalent attitude of “the only good snake is a dead snake”, so gopher snakes, rat snakes, hognoses, water snakes, garters, etc often get rounded up and/or killed in the excitement over the Roundup.
The snakes at the roundup are put on display, messed with, forced to “race”, used as if they are toys for people’s entertainment, tortured, and then killed as entertainment (sometimes not effectively, so instead of dying quickly, they die slowly bleeding to death or suffocating in a bag of decapitated snake bodies).
Basically, it’s horrific.
If it were being done to an animal species with fur and not scales people would be *outraged* but because snakes are “scary” (and frankly, because Christianity has associated them with Satan) it’s fine and even noble to treat them this way.
Honestly, they should be made illegal.
Post stats on how many rats and mice are killed by rattlers alone in town, and multiply that by number of snakes killed. Shame people that if they have rodent problems, it's their own fault. It's a jerk move, but it might have some benefit
Is it possible to get fish and game dept. involved (if there is one)? Like start writing up how horribly cruel it is, stats, ending the roundups,, etc
Rock To my knowledge the most Texas Parks and Wildlife has done is proposed a ban on “gassing”. That’s where hired poachers flood rattlesnake dens with gasoline in order to grab them.
This ban was seen as a first step towards stopping Roundups entirely or turning them in to education events.
But instead of just banning gassing outright, Texas Parks and Wildlife decided to get together a committee on it.
More than a third of the members of the committee were from the town that holds the nation’s largest Rattlesnake Roundup every year.
You can guess how they felt about any attempts to ban gassing or limit anything having to do with Roundups. And you can probably guess whether or not the ban passed.
That was in 2016 and to my knowledge nothing big has been attempted since.
We still have rattlesnake roundups every year in my state (OK) Its called the rattlesnake festival they round up all kinds, put them in a cold room in a wooden fence thing with some plexiglass spots(for kids to see them) and a guy grabbing random rattlesnakes (with a hook)and pointing out what kind of rattlesnake they are. I always went to them as a kid never knew they were bad. You'd often have to pay to get in too. But otherwise the festival was just a normal thing, food trucks, and booths and such.
9:52 I thought his nostrils were his eyes at first and I was like “Aww! What a cute silly looking lad”
….then I shifted my gaze up a bit and felt the need to retreat my statement
When Emily opened it to the Eastern Indigo page at the end of the video I got super excited because I am lucky enough ro get to work with an Indigo at my job and they are absolutely amazing snakes!!
its lovely how you are still trying to learn everything you can
Awesome opportunity!! 💛😊 congrats thank you for sharing!
I wish to go to the facility
I just want to take a moment and say thank you. I've been watching your content for a while and I really appreciate you not crapping on us in the venomous hobby. Thank you. I really appreciate you showing us that you took this course as well.
Love this vid just like all others!! Going along with other comments, Emily and Ed are so humble because they have so much experience with reptiles, yet they go to others and ask for help when they need it and they didn’t just jump into the program without doing the proper training with handling venomous snakes 🐍🐍 I also want to make a video request! I love Doug the boa constrictor so much, he’s probably my fav snake on your channel! I would LOVE a boa constrictor care guide and facts about them since I will be getting one soon, and I have done all my research on them, but I would love having a trusted video to go to. Thanks so much!!
Mr. Cool was super cool and seemingly chill.
literally the coolest channel ever
After watching I immediately went and bought the children’s book. I will update how it is, but my nephews love snakes and I can’t wait to have some reliable information on a wide range of species!
HI LOVE YOUR VIDS SO MUCH, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW, sorry got a little excited for being second to comment. Thanks for sharing important and interesting info. I wouldn't know what to do if I saw a snake in the wild without you :]
Cool, I took that same 1 day course in Jacksonville FL, at the Rattlesnake Conservancy. I took it mainly to keep neighbors from killing snakes.
I just bought the book "Snakes For Kids". So excited to receive it and share it with others.
Seeing you both touching the rattler was a good show of scale. They are huge.
Being from texas, we were actually taught and grow up knowing that the symbolism for the rattlesnake was more along the lines of literally don’t tread on us or we’ll bite back. As in, respect us and our space and we won’t hurt you. Just had to point that out!! Lol it’s not to say “we’ll get you, snakes chase and hurt you” 😅😂
Oh gosh, feeling that rattlesnake tail while its rattling musta felt so cool. What a great experience! And the shot down the tube of the face was awesome
I want to feel his vibrating tail safely! So cool! And I loved that owl. The very best part of the video was that beautiful owl!!;
It’s incredible that you teach us everything, but you’re teachable as well, and continue to pass helpful info along, that’s so important for conservation, and to see resources out there for noob handlers !!! Cool!! I had no idea
Mr. Cool was one of the chillest venomous snakes I think I've seen
That was an easy bookmark. I look forward to taking the courses my next trip through Cali
Oh now we’re so sad! You guys were so close to our house! But it was so cool to see that you guys came here!
Dang! All of those snakes are amazing!
I love how this video shows that even professionals (or just well-trained people) have things to learn and that there’s things the they still don’t know and even do things wrong or the not as effective way. (Emily learning about the snake hook positioning, for example)
It’s so cool that you guys are sharing all of this wonderful information.
I'm doing a venomous snake handling course next weekend to be able to catch and release/relocate all kinds of snakes, and hopefully monitors, here in Australia
What an amazing experience! Thank you for sharing. 🤗
Ed: He looks so sleepy!
Owl: 👁👄👁
March 5 I’m going to go to your guises zoo and I’m so excited I’ve been begging my dad since it was open
Emily and Ed first sparked my love for reptiles, then continued to encourage it. After 4 years, I am finally getting my first ball python the next breeding season! Blue eyed Lucy here I come!
This is awesome! I really could have used this training a while back, we found a copperhead at an amusement park and it would have been great to know how to move it to a trash can to contain it 😂 it unfortunately ended up going under a vending machine so they had to call in animal control to move it. Normally I would leave a snake alone but I didn't want it to bite someone who walked up to get something from the machine!
You guys definitely have to go back for the advanced snake handling. That would be so cool to participate in!