Most people who get bit aren’t paying attention and step on them. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t always rattle, sometimes they would rather not be seen or heard.
@@dalemoore2359 most people get bit trying to catch or kill them and no they do not always rattle and they will also freeze and be completely still. It's a predator response they freeze so you don't see them hopefully as most predators hunt by movement if there is no movement you're likely to not see them. They also sleep which many people don't realize all beit with their eyes open. I've been standing with my toes like 2 inches from a diamond back before I saw it coiled under the pine straw. It never twitched. When I spotted it I just calmly took a step backwards and no issues. It never did rattle not once.
The problem is that they blend in. They will be minding their own business and you accidentally step near them because they are made to look like their environment. My niece was opening a gate at 10pm to get into her property. She started dragging the gate open and heard a rattle. She immediately dropped the gate and froze. Someone was looking out for her because the bottom of the gate landed on the rattlesnake and pinned it to the ground. If she had a better gate that swung open easily who knows what would have happened.
At first I thought it was a drone you were using now I realize you were actually standing there, stick or no stick, DUDE?! Glad to see you are still alive and kicking! Great footage.
All the venomous in Austrailia, seem to be more like loners. It seems about the only time you see two or more snakes together is when they are making babies..lol! My question to you is: are their any genus or species of venomous who den with multiple snakes, or do they just hide away by themselves? Thanks bro!!🐍🐍🤘😎🤘
Hell, it seems every critter in Australia wants to kill you! Both on land and in the water. You've got some of the most poisonous snakes in the world there.
I'm curious, how is there enough food nearby to sustain a snake population that large? Impressive footage, thanks for sharing Michael, it's the closet I'll ever want to be and safer for the snakes!
There is a den similar to that in Northern Colorado in Weld county. They call it a colony cause of the multiple dens combined to make one huge winter hibernation den.
I live in AZ too. I've run into bunches of them buzzers over the years. Even had one of my dogs bit! I wnt to know where that dens at. What state cause I don't want to get near it! Yikes!!! Jim BCC AZ
I walked on to one of these dens 50 years ago in south central texas. Boots, belts, hat bands, purses, wallets, wall hangings, custom saddle bags, overnight bags...
I knew there were snake nests to hatch. But I had no clue this many full grown snakes hung out together in the same spot. Must be a rodent palooza by you to keep all them fed.
Rattlesnakes don't eat that much. During winter they hardly eat at all. I imagine there are tons of ground squirrels or prairie dogs or whatever they have out there in the spring and summer. A coyote can eat a rodent every day maybe multiple, where a rattlesnake will eat once or twice a month. I would much rather have a pack of coyotes than 100 rattlesnakes live next to me. People who haven't lived near venomous snakes don't respect how dangerous they are and how little they offer to the ecosystem. I was hoping the guy would dump 50 gallons of gasoline down that whole and light a match.
@@miketaylor00"How dangerous they are and how little they offer to the ecosystem" Hi, I live in range of multiple venomous snake species and I'm also a certified naturalist. In the USA, only about 5 people a year die from snakebite. Although surprise bites can and do happen, most occur when people go out of their way to interact with and attempt to handle snakes. Wild snakes are rather shy of people and most prefer to flee or attempt to stay hidden. All species are important parts of the environment they evolved in, and removing any of them negatively impacts the environment and can even start collapsing the whole ecosystem. In particular, rattlesnakes are important predators of small mammals and birds (they don't eat the *most*, but that doesn't make their contributions negligible--it's a food web, not a food chain!--) and themselves are food for a wide variety of predatory birds, mammals, and even other snakes, such as the nonvenomous kingsnakes and indigo snakes.
A number of years ago I was out with a buddy NW of Glasgow, MT and we took a number of photos of a very large den just like this. Another friend had gotten tagged by a prairie rattler working around a grain bin one night near the town of Nashua. I saw the fang marks and told him it was a prairie rattler that did not envenomate (HE HAD NO SYMPTOMS). He scoffed, saying there were none north of the Missouri river and had lived there all his life and never seen one. I showed him the pics and he was very surprised. They are just very non-aggressive and don't strike unless they are stepped on or picked up and handled. Great video! Knowing what I know, I spot them more than most people I know but they all seem very eager to escape rather than strike!
I've never heard that before. I assumed all Rattlesnakes were like the ones we have in Arizona. They don't go looking to strike but they camouflage too well and you can step out on your back porch and get bit because they are laying against the stucco/concrete to get heat. Oh and they definitely use their venom here.
I grew up in the 70's at the Glasgow AFB - we had a cabin at "The Pines" between Fort Peck and Glasgow. I remember there being plenty of rattlesnakes there. Never saw one while growing up at the Glasgow AFB.
@@davidtodd4798 because finding rattlesnakes is hard. They're extremely cool animals. He has a bushcrafting/wilderness channel and locating rattlesnakes in our area is really difficult.
For those of you wondering how in gods earth is he walking around amongst the snakes, it is very simple really, he is more that likely wearing tall plastic snake protectors. Rattlers can't strike very high.
Do they live together like this for long? Or do they all go their separate ways at some point? I ask because there must be some serious competition for food?
@Vada Minot I've heard that. Never been lucky enough to go herping out west for rattlesnakes. Gotta look at em in my snake room. Would love to go sometime tho
Also, to input that they in no way, shape, or form are out to get us humans. As they could of easily all slithered up to him and ended him after 2-4 bites.
@@billyswamphawk53 Some of the ones here in Tuolumne and Calaveras are very light colored and you can barely see the patterns on their back. Most of the young ones are yellowish. The NorPacs in the East Bay Hills are generally darker and you can see their markings clearly. Same with most of them further north in the Sierra foothills. Having said that I caught a large dark one near Copperopolis in the late 80s and took him to the Lindsey Museum in Walnut Creek. The snake guy did not believe me when I went in and said I had a NorPac around 5 ft. long. He comes out with a little cage and short tongs and said "Holy shit!" He went in and got another guy, a much bigger cage and much longer snake tongs. After they got him stretched out as best as the could, they estimated he was between 5'-3"and 5'-5".
😦😧😱😵⚰ I know it's a stick with a go pro, but why are the rattlers not striking at the lens. Would love to know, thanks for sharing your footage man amazing. 👍🏻
That’s cool. I know of one in Nor Cal and i need to go back the spring /summer. Im not sure how big it is, all i know is that when I started jumping across these rocks at the base of this cliff....it was loud and you could tell there were hundreds. Great video...id have to be in a double snake bite suit.
How do you film this? Is the camera on like a 15 foot boom or what? It would seem walking around that den would be so sketchy, like a hidden straggler on the outskirts when you’re filming the 200 snakes on top of each other there’s one you don’t see and you step on it or something. With so much going on in the main part of the den it seems impossible to be aware of each and every one of them, how do you not step on one of the stragglers(I know there’s stragglers because I see stragglers) lol you’re nuts.
I'm Steve-O and this is Rattlesnake mega den, okay so basically I'm going to try jumping this den filled of rattlesnakes with my bike. Let's see what happens! Okay here I go, let me just build some speed up, ahh yeah here we go. OOPS! Hang on now! Ahh shit! The rattlesnakes are biting me! AHHHH!!! the rattlesnakes are biting me in the face and in my balls! AHHH shit! AHHHHH!!!!!
They should throw people in there who abuse children
My ex-mother in law
Agree
I'd pay to watch that 😳
Bullies too.
Women too
⭐ Yep. Looks like you gotta really be asking for it to get bit by a rattlesnake. They seem to prefer to evade than strike. ⭐
Rattlesnakes are timid and would prefer to avoid conflict.
Most people who get bit aren’t paying attention and step on them. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t always rattle, sometimes they would rather not be seen or heard.
@@dalemoore2359 most people get bit trying to catch or kill them and no they do not always rattle and they will also freeze and be completely still. It's a predator response they freeze so you don't see them hopefully as most predators hunt by movement if there is no movement you're likely to not see them. They also sleep which many people don't realize all beit with their eyes open. I've been standing with my toes like 2 inches from a diamond back before I saw it coiled under the pine straw. It never twitched. When I spotted it I just calmly took a step backwards and no issues. It never did rattle not once.
The problem is that they blend in. They will be minding their own business and you accidentally step near them because they are made to look like their environment. My niece was opening a gate at 10pm to get into her property. She started dragging the gate open and heard a rattle. She immediately dropped the gate and froze. Someone was looking out for her because the bottom of the gate landed on the rattlesnake and pinned it to the ground. If she had a better gate that swung open easily who knows what would have happened.
Oh you found my in laws house.
You know you wrong for that😅🤣😂💯
Lol
this comment is so underrated lmao 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
@@jajafruit right!
This was both satisfying and terrifying at the same time 😩
That's one hell of a den!
TexasTimelapse that hole at 3:19 is like a breeding ground
Right
that’s one den from hell!
At first I thought it was a drone you were using now I realize you were actually standing there, stick or no stick, DUDE?! Glad to see you are still alive and kicking! Great footage.
No, its a drone, look at the grass, it swinged
Bruh it's a stick 5:10
Thought the same.. then seen the shadow.. must have had on a thick snake proof clothes on
That is insane!
They probably haven't been this active in awhile
I don't mind snakes at all and find them fascinating, but this puts me on edge for some reason. That must be a hell of a sight to see in person.
They're scary cuz if you don't see one and step too close they'll strike on reflex. One careless step then you get a forever nap
@@CynicalMartian yeah that’s the main reason. Your recording and all of a sudden, hey! Where did snake number 423 go? Oh @##$&
I'd take a snake over a spider ANY day, you can always tell a venomous snake. Spiders freak me out!
I'm from Australia and this video terrifies me more than anything I've seen here
All the venomous in Austrailia, seem to be more like loners. It seems about the only time you see two or more snakes together is when they are making babies..lol!
My question to you is: are their any genus or species of venomous who den with multiple snakes, or do they just hide away by themselves? Thanks bro!!🐍🐍🤘😎🤘
Hell, it seems every critter in Australia wants to kill you! Both on land and in the water. You've got some of the most poisonous snakes in the world there.
try spelunking even better
This footage is better than national Geographics! Even national geographics won't get this close. bravo sir!
I'm curious, how is there enough food nearby to sustain a snake population that large? Impressive footage, thanks for sharing Michael, it's the closet I'll ever want to be and safer for the snakes!
I thought the same thing.
Maybe waking up from the winter and they will soon disperse and go their on way.
field mice multiply faster as do other small rodents and snakes eat very little
This is a fk fest not dinner and a movie.
You don’t know anything about snakes. They only eat a small meal every two weeks
Stick or no stick, there were lone stragglers all over the place. Amazed you got away without getting lit up.
Seeing them throw themselves further down the hole actually makes me be like, just leave them be!
Reminds me of a majority of our current politicians in office.
>tfw a "den of vipers" is actually quite chill and just wants to keep to itself
I hate them !!!
There is a den similar to that in Northern Colorado in Weld county. They call it a colony cause of the multiple dens combined to make one huge winter hibernation den.
They can call it what ever they want. I call it a target rich environment. I hate snakes.
In the 18 years of my life spent in weld county ive never seen or heard of a large den like that! Would have been fascinating to see!
I work in the hot sun of Arizona and this video gave me the chills 😅
I live in AZ too. I've run into bunches of them buzzers over the years. Even had one of my dogs bit! I wnt to know where that dens at. What state cause I don't want to get near it! Yikes!!! Jim BCC AZ
I'm sitting in a living room on the East Coast & I still jumped at 3:00.
How were you brave enough to get that close to film this? I would be terrified. I bet there's a ton more back in that hole.
For anyone wondering how this was recorded, it was a long stick and a go pro 5:10
It doesn't matter you can still see homeboys extremely close. And he walking around like it's nothing. I mean seriously that's like a landmine field
That must have been a pole 40 feet long! I thought it was a drone
A 10' pole to be exact!
And Balls of Steel to boot! Lol
Did you have waders on?
I walked on to one of these dens 50 years ago in south central texas. Boots, belts, hat bands, purses, wallets, wall hangings, custom saddle bags, overnight bags...
I like how the bullsnake at the end was making a way bigger and sassier show than any of the rattlers 😂
Because he is not poissnes😛😛😛😛
@@DeepakVerma-tx5nf neither are the rattlesnakes.. they're VENOMOUS.
@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 she is talking about bullsnake
@@DeepakVerma-tx5nf he meant no snake on earth is poisonous. They are either venomous or non venomous.
@@oldrango883 ok god of universe👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Anything else
I knew there were snake nests to hatch. But I had no clue this many full grown snakes hung out together in the same spot. Must be a rodent palooza by you to keep all them fed.
No hatching, rattlesnakes give live birth.
Rattlesnakes don't eat that much. During winter they hardly eat at all. I imagine there are tons of ground squirrels or prairie dogs or whatever they have out there in the spring and summer. A coyote can eat a rodent every day maybe multiple, where a rattlesnake will eat once or twice a month. I would much rather have a pack of coyotes than 100 rattlesnakes live next to me. People who haven't lived near venomous snakes don't respect how dangerous they are and how little they offer to the ecosystem. I was hoping the guy would dump 50 gallons of gasoline down that whole and light a match.
Rattlers give love birth.
@@miketaylor00"How dangerous they are and how little they offer to the ecosystem" Hi, I live in range of multiple venomous snake species and I'm also a certified naturalist. In the USA, only about 5 people a year die from snakebite. Although surprise bites can and do happen, most occur when people go out of their way to interact with and attempt to handle snakes. Wild snakes are rather shy of people and most prefer to flee or attempt to stay hidden.
All species are important parts of the environment they evolved in, and removing any of them negatively impacts the environment and can even start collapsing the whole ecosystem. In particular, rattlesnakes are important predators of small mammals and birds (they don't eat the *most*, but that doesn't make their contributions negligible--it's a food web, not a food chain!--) and themselves are food for a wide variety of predatory birds, mammals, and even other snakes, such as the nonvenomous kingsnakes and indigo snakes.
A number of years ago I was out with a buddy NW of Glasgow, MT and we took a number of photos of a very large den just like this. Another friend had gotten tagged by a prairie rattler working around a grain bin one night near the town of Nashua. I saw the fang marks and told him it was a prairie rattler that did not envenomate (HE HAD NO SYMPTOMS). He scoffed, saying there were none north of the Missouri river and had lived there all his life and never seen one. I showed him the pics and he was very surprised. They are just very non-aggressive and don't strike unless they are stepped on or picked up and handled. Great video! Knowing what I know, I spot them more than most people I know but they all seem very eager to escape rather than strike!
I've never heard that before. I assumed all Rattlesnakes were like the ones we have in Arizona. They don't go looking to strike but they camouflage too well and you can step out on your back porch and get bit because they are laying against the stucco/concrete to get heat. Oh and they definitely use their venom here.
I grew up in the 70's at the Glasgow AFB - we had a cabin at "The Pines" between Fort Peck and Glasgow. I remember there being plenty of rattlesnakes there. Never saw one while growing up at the Glasgow AFB.
That Gopher snake at the end is pissssed you blew his cover
Man I'd give so much to be able to find a den like that. My brother and I have been looking for the local dens for years.
What for?
@@davidtodd4798 because finding rattlesnakes is hard. They're extremely cool animals. He has a bushcrafting/wilderness channel and locating rattlesnakes in our area is really difficult.
Indiana Jones: “Snakes why it have to be snakes ?” Michael Delaney: “Rattlers very dangerous, you go first.” 🐍
that gopher snake tried being all tough lmao
Thanks for sharing man!
Looks like a time to get out the flamethrower
The stuff of nightmares. What would happen if you accidently stumbled into that pit?
Just came and subbed after seeing this on FB. Absolutely insane
how are you still alive??
Holy vibrating nastiness Batman
I would love too see that.
Great video bud 👍👍
Imagine riding your bike on a trail and you hit a rock or something and fall straight into that pit
You would be dead in about 1.5 min
I never saw numbers this great.
That bullsnake at the end is ready for the buffet!
I know Rattlesnakes are not aggressive unless provoked.
But I’m surprised not one attempted to strike the camera.
So cool!
Never seen anything like this before...great footage
A rattlesnake roundup in all in one place, boots and chili for everyone.
I have a pair rattle snake boots love them bro everyone says nice boots
For those of you wondering how in gods earth is he walking around amongst the snakes, it is very simple really, he is more that likely wearing tall plastic snake protectors. Rattlers can't strike very high.
Waking up in a rattlesnake pit is my own personal hell.
Amazing video. Incredible creatures.
My worse nightmare, wherever this is I want to be nowhere close
Amen
Do they live together like this for long? Or do they all go their separate ways at some point?
I ask because there must be some serious competition for food?
They hibernate together in the den. Then spread out during the summer.
That Bull Snake at the end trying to be Billy Badass, is at the largest all you can eat buffet that there ever was.
One like for the balls of steel cameraman ✌🏼
U said one like so u got one like
Haha cool cool 😎
wow - amazing footage
Imagine falling into that 😵
I would say to that person “it was nice knowing you!”
When i read what you write my body get cold 😁😁
One trip or misstep and it would be over ! This gives me the EEEEBBEEEEGGEEEEBEEES ! LOL
Do they practice social distancing?
XRP Xtra Rice Please I sure as well will myself
They dont have a measurement for feet (because they have none) so I dont think they do.
6:31 this is not a rattlesnake... who see it?
Bull snake
Yes that’s what I was going to say.
@@jeffersonwilson1774 nice one too
@Vada Minot I've heard that. Never been lucky enough to go herping out west for rattlesnakes. Gotta look at em in my snake room. Would love to go sometime tho
Yep, it's a bull/gopher snake. Nonvenomous but can be feisty.
I just want to know what protection u r wearing and did u record this video using selfie stick or what?
Great video. Hilarious that the only snake that strikes is the one gopher snake at the end!!!
Amazing captures that confirms that snakes are in fact social animals !!
Also, to input that they in no way, shape, or form are out to get us humans. As they could of easily all slithered up to him and ended him after 2-4 bites.
@@imnotagamer22 Absolutely !!! Snakes have no animosity toward humans all they thrive to do is reproduce and defend their lives and their young !!
Luke Waggoner no it’s a camera with a hockey stick. Already established. Please do research
“Those snakes are more afraid of you then you are of them”. hmm... not one of those snakes had pee running down it’s leg though.
@@angelofverdun456 I've never feared snakes there is no reason to fear them but they do deserve respect !!! ua-cam.com/video/N_j_y5u-R2M/v-deo.html
now I know why there are so many snakes in dry areas like that
Excellent footage of congress 👍
That's the biggest den of rattlesnakes I've ever seen
I'm surprised that you couldn't hear his steel balls clanking together as he walked up to the den...lol.
You’re crazy man lol , how long is the pole you mounted the camera on ?
haha probably, its a normal hockey stick that I mount the GoPro to.
Wow
@@mjdelaney44 a hockey stick. You must be Canadian.
About 100 yards long, I hope!
Lots of Prairie Rattlers right there.. coool!!! 😍😍😍
They look very similar to the Northern Pacific Rattlers here in Northern California.
@@mkay1957 Nahh Northern Pacific Rattlers patterns are different.
@@billyswamphawk53 Some of the ones here in Tuolumne and Calaveras are very light colored and you can barely see the patterns on their back. Most of the young ones are yellowish.
The NorPacs in the East Bay Hills are generally darker and you can see their markings clearly. Same with most of them further north in the Sierra foothills.
Having said that I caught a large dark one near Copperopolis in the late 80s and took him to the Lindsey Museum in Walnut Creek. The snake guy did not believe me when I went in and said I had a NorPac around 5 ft. long. He comes out with a little cage and short tongs and said "Holy shit!" He went in and got another guy, a much bigger cage and much longer snake tongs. After they got him stretched out as best as the could, they estimated he was between 5'-3"and 5'-5".
@@mkay1957 That is extremely Huge for that Species. Way beyond its normal size. So a Very Great find. & yes they all very in Color Phases.
@@billyswamphawk53 Two of the old timers in the Copperopolis area told my brother that there were bigger ones than that.
Imagine falling in there....
Ohhhh.i can't even imagine
I'd rather not imagine that thanks haha
😦😧😱😵⚰ I know it's a stick with a go pro, but why are the rattlers not striking at the lens. Would love to know, thanks for sharing your footage man amazing. 👍🏻
Micheal, what part of montana is this? I would love to see this! Im in Colstrip.
I can't even imagine getting so close to all of those rattlesnake's. Are you filming with a drone?
You can see the GoPro and stick in the shadow. He was up close and personal.
@@dalemoore2359 Thank you for pointing that out, I'm terrified of snake's. I can't even imagine getting anywhere near them.
How amazing bro
Awww how cute!!!! Snakey cuddles!!
I saw that before in the border Texas /Mexico. Exactly a side of Falfurrias TX
The nature in U.S. is very dangerous... i live in Russia nowadays rarely you can see grassnake ( not venomous ) in field and frogs in the ponds....
bears, moose, nuclear weapons, the russian tundras have thier own dangers (said in nature documentarian voice.)
How deep is the cave?
Could you put the camera deep in the cave with a light?
Bro this video is old as fuck. It's not a live stream it's a UA-cam video.
The portal to hell does exist.
That’s cool. I know of one in Nor Cal and i need to go back the spring /summer. Im not sure how big it is, all i know is that when I started jumping across these rocks at the base of this cliff....it was loud and you could tell there were hundreds. Great video...id have to be in a double snake bite suit.
Joe Garwood what area of nor cal?
@@MikeRoweDose near Sonoma/ Lake County
@@joegarwood8089 bro where? I live in this area lol
These are super small compared to the Timber & Eastern Diamondbacks we see in Ga.
Right? We got some huge ones in the south. I live on the ga/al state line and we never see this many but the ones we do see are giants!
You literally discover my nightmare
Even if you get to a hospital in time , there ain’t no crofab going to save you if you fall into a pit of those !
If I saw something like this near my house it’s time to move
How do you film this? Is the camera on like a 15 foot boom or what? It would seem walking around that den would be so sketchy, like a hidden straggler on the outskirts when you’re filming the 200 snakes on top of each other there’s one you don’t see and you step on it or something. With so much going on in the main part of the den it seems impossible to be aware of each and every one of them, how do you not step on one of the stragglers(I know there’s stragglers because I see stragglers) lol you’re nuts.
This is my WORST nightmare, all wrapped up in one little video. 👩🏻🦱
the first five seconds were "oh, i don't see anythinGOD JESUS CHRIST" and screamed a little 😅 i'm omw to show my mom
Awesome, and for a South African we don't see stuff like this, what rattle snakes are they? Diamond or Mojave ? Would like to know...
Prairie
Neither. Theres no raccoon tails on any of them so they’re Praire Rattlesnakes
Scares me to think I could have my dog running around out there.
Seriously is this guy using a drone or inviting himself to the death party?
Fuck imagine skydiving out of a plane and landing in that bunch of venom noodles!
Where is this it looks like South Dakota or Wyoming ?
I'm Steve-O and this is Rattlesnake mega den, okay so basically I'm going to try jumping this den filled of rattlesnakes with my bike. Let's see what happens! Okay here I go, let me just build some speed up, ahh yeah here we go. OOPS! Hang on now! Ahh shit! The rattlesnakes are biting me! AHHHH!!! the rattlesnakes are biting me in the face and in my balls! AHHH shit! AHHHHH!!!!!
pushes button on walkie talkie: "yes captain, im going to need a nuke in my position. tell my wife and kids i love them. Over"
Dude you are insane getting that close to those snakes. Ughhhh. Its a wonder you wasnt bit.
Now, if you were holding the camera with your hand, that's a MAN! LOL. A crazy man!!
That last snake is a bull snake not a rattle snake. You can tell because if it’s darker pattern and no rattle, also more aggressive .
I'd go in there dressed like the dude who runs around cod with the flamethrower and torching that whole damn spot lol
Where the heck do you find all of these dens??
Big bowl of danger noodles
Perfect example that these delicate creatures are not out to get people. They could of ended him, but they was just doing snake things 🐍
Snake things😂
Does anyone actually know how many snakes are in there?
They seem calm you got some big kahunas bro
Could i use like 10-25 seconds maximum of your clip... Zoomed in? For a youtube video.
That is one of the most beautiful sights i have ever seen
Daniel Lobo1 i think you mean nightmare lol
Totally agree with you, Daniel. It's always been my dream to see a rattlesnake den like that. Just look at all those beauties!!!
They need to put a Barb wire fence around the den and a warning sign. X
Agreed.
OK, we get it... the treasure is in that hole! And... I'd like to see you drop 20 mice on that big pile. They'd like a snack!