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Few points. 1. I've not heard of these snakes. 2. I didn't even know we had an _invasive_ species of snake in the UK. 3. Great to hear that they are not like other invasive species, Grey Squirrel, Mink, et al, that are not damaging the UK's native species. 4. Great video. Informative and concise with none of the bullshittery that you find in other _so called_ wildlife videos. 5. And I just subbed to your channel. 8-))...
This claim is that they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? If they are claiming that then I'm going to ask them to prove their claim. I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few areas in Germany where the Aesculapian snake exists. It feels great seeing them in the backyard garden from time to time
Thanks for the video. My snake mad son has found both adders and grass snakes. We are headed to London and will be taking a stroll along the canal. No expectations but you have to be in it to win it.
I saw 3 in the grounds of the zoo a few years ago. They were basking on a low wall in the NW corner and I thought it was a very convincing sculpture and almost touched one of them before I realised they were alive.
I saw a snake last year on Hampstead Heath near the big pond and shat myself and so did my dog. I thought it might have been a released pet as it looked like a small cobra snake but now seeing this vid, I didn’t realise there were more than grass snake ps or sadder so the Uk. Fab vid 👍
An extra non dangerous snake in Britain, thats awesome, now they must be somehow also get in the Netherlands and breed there, so we also have an cool partial tree snake 😃
Very nice to see them living in central London I've got some grass snakes living under my shed at the bottom of the garden in north London and see them most days in the summer.... 👍
In Kent when I lived there, in Sandwich( a real place not a joke), around 7/8 years old the village was a lot smaller, and from the village main area to my house it was about a mile, full of fields and scrub, and one day walking back home from school, I lifted this large stone out of curiosity for bugs, and instead I found a large corn snake underneath. And apparently there were quite a few living wild there, back then about 12 years ago. And in Ipswich, I've seen a wild yellow bellied slider terrapin living happily in the park near my university, basking in the sun on the shallow lake. Not to mention the various other invasive things, there's coypu tunnels left over in Byrons pool near Cambridge, seen tons of giant american crayfish, spotted asian longhorn harlequin beetles as well, plus non native wasp spiders a plenty, fire salamanders under logs in meadows, tons of muntjac and chinese water deer around. Also read about a wild racoon spotted in Scotland on trail cameras, and in St ives had a few chinese mitten crabs spotted in the rivers. And in London seen the wild parrots that live there. The UK is a hotspot for invasive things, who knows what might appear next? I bet if someone dumped a wild european jackal or two, no one would notice.
Wow that amazing. I often wish that we have more reptiles in England as they're beautiful & do such a good job eating vermin. I rescue exotic snakes & find them fascinating every single day & feel privileged to live along side them. 🐍💕🐍
I live In Gloucestershire and as a young un (early 80s) there was is a large long hedge that went down a steep hill on the side of a road. Near the bottom of the hill the hedge was a diff hedge to the rest (only about 10 ft long ) and under there was soooo many lizards and Slow worms that we found over a few years (some around 8 inches plus long) me and a few mates were down there one day looking for slow worms and I lifted the edge this large stone looking for slow worms and something large went for me and I dropped it. Dunno what it was as under the hedge it was shaded Never found out what it was.
Sounds like it could have been a spotted Hyena....they're native to Africa but have been reportedly found lurking in the hedges across parts of the UK....they're relatively harmless to humans, except when tearing your face off, and they have been welcomed by some experts for keeping down the lion population on the South Coast of England
Grass snake, despite their name, love the water. We had one visit our fishpond a few years ago. I had a very surreal experience with one a short while after that. I entered via the side-gate onto out back garden driveway, and looked down and there was a grass snake's head poking out from the bottom corner garage door. I think I must have taken it by surprise because it hissed at me then withdrew back into the garage. It was like looking at a bad special effect with a puppet in a TV show or film. I went in there and searched but I couldn't find it.
i grew up in Gloucestershire and found many adders and even took one home as a kid. my dad wasn't happy about that and told me to take it back where i found it which i did. adders are pretty docile but never take chances with them.
This is amazing, it’s a shame their in such a populated area though. Would be cold for them to be in some nature reserve where they can breed freely and not be disturbed
There's no shortage of snakes in temperate climates, and it's quite surprising to me that there aren't more aliens in the UK... Corn Snakes and King Snakes would be obvious examples of popular pet breeds that people might get bored with and release, once they got "too big," or lived "too long". I'm also surprised to hear that Aesculapian snakes will take rats... My corn snake is about 5', and there's no way she could take anything that big.
Hi. Corn, King & similar snakes wouldn't survive in our climate. Those are quite small snakes. You find people dump the larger ones like Boa Constrictors. Far too cold for them here. Wouldn't it be great if they could though 🐍😊🐍
Its the Camden Canal walk, if you come out of the train station & go along the Regents canal into Regents park its a really lovely few miles of leafy pathway that goes in a big circle.
As a snake owner I wish we did have snakes about the place. They’re actually a lot less scary than people think! Shame we haven’t got the right weather or environment for them though, these will be gone in the next year if you ask me
The weather is not a problem for these snakes they live in Germany and other European counties with similar climates to the uk it’s people that are the threat to these
The population in Wales has been there since the 60's. They are well adapted to our climate. As are many US snakes and some far east reptiles from countries with much harsher winters than ours. I've had pictures sent to me of Korean rat snakes on local commons, hognose snakes in the suburbs and a report of a kid bitten by something in a school grounds in a built up area in north east England. He was OK, but definite fang marks, so something viper like that was venomoid possibly, which is common in the pet trade.
Garter snakes could easily survive. Lots of snakes could survive in the UK. It doesn't get terribly cold. Many places in North America have brutally cold winters and have plenty of snakes. I'm sure they could survive in the UK. Get a copy of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America. Any snake that lives north of the 40th parallel could probably live in the UK.
They go into brumation like other snakes. They are native to mainland Europe and with overall temperatures rising in England and Wales they can thrive. There is another population in Snowdonia. These snakes are more likely to die from overheating.
@@francesmarie73 Very true. The entirety of the Zamenis genus including the Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus) seems to prefer colder temperatures. I live in Bulgaria and the other Zamenis species we have here, Z. situla, is virtually impossible to find during the summer unless you're lucky and hit a particularly cold and humid night.
Winters aren't bad in the UK. I saw plenty of palm trees in and around Liverpool and Manchester. If palms can live in the UK, then plenty of reptiles can survive there too.
I saw one on a walk in that exact spot easily 1.5 metres swimming in the canal then climbimg up the side and out into the sidegrowth. Realised it wasnt native and called the police to let them know and had a couple of clear pictures to send. Completely think the police thought i was mad.
Hey, that's only a harmless grass snake! The females are sometimes nearly black, and grow up to 4 ft long ...they love water. Frogs are their main diet..along with lizards and mice and even fish. Feel honoured to have seen one. They can climb a brick wall...amazing.!
Well, Will Atkins might be an expert on Aesculapians but he's got it wrong in respect of the only snake in the UK to be aboreal - Grass snakes often climb into trees to raid birds nests, to mate and even to lay their eggs into the frass of rotting tree stumps...
You'll find these 'experts' usually talk a load of crap. You'll probably never see an Aesculapian and they'll bite you if you touch them...and won't let go!! They are constrictors, but don't know if they'd wrap around your arm. They are not very pretty snakes.. indistinct markings, and grow about 4ft long. .... and I actually know what I'm talking about! Lol
@@kenthebean6619 So do I. Z. longissimus only lightly tags in self defense and doesn't latch on. The bite itself doesn't even hurt all that much and they definitely don't wrap around you, that's a feeding response and you don't get that from an animal in defense mode. Adult Z. longissimus are actually very chill and laid back snakes and you could get away without even getting bit, it's the juveniles who are biting machines.
@@ukan1527 couldn't disagree more. I've had a painfulbite on my hand. Only small teeth, but wouldn't stop bleeding. Everyone I have handled has been really aggressive...4 ft long..not juveniles..I have footage of this snake rearing up and striking out at me. They are vicious..in self defence obviously...and very quick to whip round at you. They actually hiss too. I have even released a smaller one that actually bit itself.. and wouldn't let go....of itself. Some people know..some just talk rubbish.
@@kenthebean6619 Where are you from? Could be because Z. longissimus might just be the only snake like that in your area so you don't have much to compare it to. Here in Bulgaria Z. longissimus is considered one of the calmest snakes - of course, they still bite and hiss in self defence and their bites do draw blood but it's really nothing special and barely hurts in comparison to something like D. caspius for example - although after years of field work with the latter and I'm already so used to their bites that I don't really pay them much mind they are still noticably more painful than Z. longissimus and while you might get away with straight up picking the Aesculapian up D. caspius is always fired up for dramatic defense.
So they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? Because if you are claiming that then I'm going to ask you to prove your claim. I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
Other then eating a few rats which people wont mind? We’ve already got native wildlife that do that. I dont know why someone would say hopefully they’ll live and breed in this one area if we find invasive species we shouod be doing out utmost to contain them.
Their is plenty of snakes in London especially in parliament
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That’s very funny.
😂😂
Whitehall is infected with Reptillian Snakes too,hIssing Sid's the lot of them!
Lol
Few points.
1. I've not heard of these snakes.
2. I didn't even know we had an _invasive_ species of snake in the UK.
3. Great to hear that they are not like other invasive species, Grey Squirrel, Mink, et al, that are not damaging the UK's native species.
4. Great video. Informative and concise with none of the bullshittery that you find in other _so called_ wildlife videos.
5. And I just subbed to your channel. 8-))...
not only that, they are hunting the UK invasive species like rats and grey squirrels
Most european invasive species are fine anyway. They survive in similar habitats in northern europe
They're not invasive, they're resident.
Japanese knotweed is invasive.
@@mickeythompson9537 True on that knotweed. _Though I've never been bitten by one!_ ;-))...
This claim is that they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? If they are claiming that then I'm going to ask them to prove their claim.
I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few areas in Germany where the Aesculapian snake exists. It feels great seeing them in the backyard garden from time to time
Are there snakes in Germany?
@@rhythm_1612_ Yeah, not that many. The area I live in has like 4 types, grass snakes, aesculapian snakes, adders and smooth snake
And I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few countries with no snakes. Thanks St Patrick. 👍
@@feargal2433 🤣👍🍀
Feargal, you need to come to Australia. We’ve got snakes we haven’t even used yet. Really bad ones.
Thanks for the video. My snake mad son has found both adders and grass snakes. We are headed to London and will be taking a stroll along the canal. No expectations but you have to be in it to win it.
Gl keep looking
I’ve put some hours in at that location trying to spot them, but only caught a couple of glimpses! Lots of toads and spiders though!!
Well I've learnt something today watching this!! Fascinating! 👍
This is awesome. Glad I found your channel. Definate sub from Somerset 😎 👍
Thanks! glad you like it
Do they still have them around.? I saw three grass snakes the other day in Essex it was really nice to see. Made my day
I saw 3 in the grounds of the zoo a few years ago. They were basking on a low wall in the NW corner and I thought it was a very convincing sculpture and almost touched one of them before I realised they were alive.
I saw a snake last year on Hampstead Heath near the big pond and shat myself and so did my dog. I thought it might have been a released pet as it looked like a small cobra snake but now seeing this vid, I didn’t realise there were more than grass snake ps or sadder so the Uk. Fab vid 👍
They're beautiful snakes, and it's great to hear that they are doing well in these two areas.
Lets hope they do not fancy a Red Squirrel meal either!
@geoffhunter7704 they're two far south for that, surely? Red squirrels mainly living in Scotland.
An extra non dangerous snake in Britain, thats awesome, now they must be somehow also get in the Netherlands and breed there, so we also have an cool partial tree snake 😃
you could buy a few and set them free in your country, just saying
No never do this. Introducing new species to an environment can completely devastate that environment
Surely the Netherlands is much too cold in winter for snakes? They have to survive somehow lol
Very nice to see them living in central London
I've got some grass snakes living under my shed at the bottom of the garden in north London and see them most days in the summer.... 👍
NOT IF YOU ARE A NESTING BIRD ,,,
Nothing compared to the threat presented by pet cats!
They're more into frogs and toads. and as mentioned here,grass snakes are not typically arboreal, which they'd need to be to visit bird's nests.
In Kent when I lived there, in Sandwich( a real place not a joke), around 7/8 years old the village was a lot smaller, and from the village main area to my house it was about a mile, full of fields and scrub, and one day walking back home from school, I lifted this large stone out of curiosity for bugs, and instead I found a large corn snake underneath. And apparently there were quite a few living wild there, back then about 12 years ago.
And in Ipswich, I've seen a wild yellow bellied slider terrapin living happily in the park near my university, basking in the sun on the shallow lake.
Not to mention the various other invasive things, there's coypu tunnels left over in Byrons pool near Cambridge, seen tons of giant american crayfish, spotted asian longhorn harlequin beetles as well, plus non native wasp spiders a plenty, fire salamanders under logs in meadows, tons of muntjac and chinese water deer around. Also read about a wild racoon spotted in Scotland on trail cameras, and in St ives had a few chinese mitten crabs spotted in the rivers. And in London seen the wild parrots that live there.
The UK is a hotspot for invasive things, who knows what might appear next? I bet if someone dumped a wild european jackal or two, no one would notice.
@@cameltoelover4107 Nobody said anything about hating them. But they are an invasive species, and pretty common.
without links, it's all a bit blah blah. some bloke once said he seen a .................
Wow that amazing. I often wish that we have more reptiles in England as they're beautiful & do such a good job eating vermin. I rescue exotic snakes & find them fascinating every single day & feel privileged to live along side them. 🐍💕🐍
A friend of mine used to have these all over his garden in France. Great snakes, very calm and docile.
Love seeing them swim and in long grass they are quick great to handle
I live In Gloucestershire and as a young un (early 80s) there was is a large long hedge that went down a steep hill on the side of a road. Near the bottom of the hill the hedge was a diff hedge to the rest (only about 10 ft long ) and under there was soooo many lizards and Slow worms that we found over a few years (some around 8 inches plus long) me and a few mates were down there one
day looking for slow worms and I lifted the edge this large stone looking for slow worms and something large went for me and I dropped it. Dunno what it was as under the hedge it was shaded Never found out what it was.
Probably a hobo 😂
Sounds like it could have been a spotted Hyena....they're native to Africa but have been reportedly found lurking in the hedges across parts of the UK....they're relatively harmless to humans, except when tearing your face off, and they have been welcomed by some experts for keeping down the lion population on the South Coast of England
Had to be an adder
@@prabshiro a bs imo
Very cool. Wish we had them in suburban NY
I've seen snakes swimming up the river Don in Sheffield on two separate occasions.
Grass snake, despite their name, love the water. We had one visit our fishpond a few years ago.
I had a very surreal experience with one a short while after that. I entered via the side-gate onto out back garden driveway, and looked down and there was a grass snake's head poking out from the bottom corner garage door. I think I must have taken it by surprise because it hissed at me then withdrew back into the garage.
It was like looking at a bad special effect with a puppet in a TV show or film.
I went in there and searched but I couldn't find it.
Just found this channel. What a nice video ❤
Brilliant vid . thank you. a good thing to have around to help keep down the squirrels and rats--goodness knows, in London, it is needed.
i grew up in Gloucestershire and found many adders and even took one home as a kid. my dad wasn't happy about that and told me to take it back where i found it which i did. adders are pretty docile but never take chances with them.
You were lucky not to suffer a painful bite and a trip to hospital.
@@michaelhaywood8262 Yeah I wouldn’t mess with them if you have allergies especially, same with hognosed snakes
First time I've heard of this snake. Around here we only get grass snake and Adder if you see one. Also that lizard Brown one
Thats a beautiful looking snake
I live directly below London on the coast, i certainly wouldn't mind seeing them here one day 😊
excellent i wanna do a video how to build a hibernaculum for reptiles/amphibians.Can't atm though the slow worms in my garden are in hibernation
1:09 'a load of snakes running around London'. Running? :)...
Nice vid!
Do one on waterdeer or muntjak.
Beautiful
I’ve seen a few red kites or green parrots quite recently around the london area
That's got to be a sight "snake running around London!"
Stumbled upon this and I can say I have seen one years ago walking through the park towards camden a big brownish thing sun bathing on the path ...
This is amazing, it’s a shame their in such a populated area though. Would be cold for them to be in some nature reserve where they can breed freely and not be disturbed
theres another population in north wales so they can cope with the cold fine
Wildlife Exposed TV really? Wow I live in South Wales
a successful introduction.
I hope they stay shy 😆
I found a baby North American cornsnake in the UK...from some thick grass near a river
Do you still have it
I’m sure I’ve read that there is now wild wallabies in the UK. And if you haven’t already then of course the wild boar.
Had a report of them being on Clee Hill. Something overwintering on the south slope longer than a access road was wide......
Cool vid, who knew!
There's no shortage of snakes in temperate climates, and it's quite surprising to me that there aren't more aliens in the UK... Corn Snakes and King Snakes would be obvious examples of popular pet breeds that people might get bored with and release, once they got "too big," or lived "too long".
I'm also surprised to hear that Aesculapian snakes will take rats... My corn snake is about 5', and there's no way she could take anything that big.
Hi. Corn, King & similar snakes wouldn't survive in our climate. Those are quite small snakes. You find people dump the larger ones like Boa Constrictors. Far too cold for them here. Wouldn't it be great if they could though 🐍😊🐍
royal pythons were all the rage when I was a kid 40 years ago must be a fair few abandoned
They wouldn't survive a British winter sadly
My corn snakes will happily put away large weaner rats. Maybe not full grown adult rats but they'd Def manage juveniles no issue
Are there any snakes in hackney
These snakes are very similar looking to the corn snakes I own, I do believe they are also colubrids
Where abouts in London is this!?
Regents Park .
Its the Camden Canal walk, if you come out of the train station & go along the Regents canal into Regents park its a really lovely few miles of leafy pathway that goes in a big circle.
As a snake owner I wish we did have snakes about the place. They’re actually a lot less scary than people think! Shame we haven’t got the right weather or environment for them though, these will be gone in the next year if you ask me
The weather is not a problem for these snakes they live in Germany and other European counties with similar climates to the uk it’s people that are the threat to these
@@oisin3495 oh fair enough, hopefully people leave them alone then I’d love to see snakes in the streets 😎
The population in Wales has been there since the 60's. They are well adapted to our climate. As are many US snakes and some far east reptiles from countries with much harsher winters than ours. I've had pictures sent to me of Korean rat snakes on local commons, hognose snakes in the suburbs and a report of a kid bitten by something in a school grounds in a built up area in north east England. He was OK, but definite fang marks, so something viper like that was venomoid possibly, which is common in the pet trade.
I saw one I believe, I thought it was adder couple yrs back on a canal in east London
Nice video
Do they claim expenses like the Westminster snakes
Anyone know what other snakes might survive in the UK?
Garter snakes could easily survive. Lots of snakes could survive in the UK. It doesn't get terribly cold. Many places in North America have brutally cold winters and have plenty of snakes. I'm sure they could survive in the UK. Get a copy of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America. Any snake that lives north of the 40th parallel could probably live in the UK.
There's actually 4 species of snake native to the British isles: Adder, Grass snake, Smooth snake and One-Eyed trouser snake......
OETS can get huuuuuuge .................... ;-)
This country has too many rat🐀🇬🇧 mice problems so more of these snakes would be great 👍👌
WHAT ABOUT NESTING BIRDS ,,
Not the zoo? That’s some coincidence given the Welsh mountain zoo, in Colwyn Bay
We saw one today, 11 June 2022, quite a long one, along the tow path near the zoo.
Let’s hope there in abundance now and clearing up the streets of London
Are you encountering any invasive species, particularly with the increases in temperature due to global warming?
I live on the tow path in North London, and I have never seen one.
There are plenty of snake varieties in the Houses of Parliament .
Still glad that we have no land snakes in New Zealand..You can keep them.
what about a écureuil roux ? that would be a problem
A mystery to me how they survive the winter at this northerly longitude, not just them but our few native reptiles.
They go into brumation like other snakes. They are native to mainland Europe and with overall temperatures rising in England and Wales they can thrive. There is another population in Snowdonia. These snakes are more likely to die from overheating.
@@francesmarie73 Very true. The entirety of the Zamenis genus including the Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus) seems to prefer colder temperatures. I live in Bulgaria and the other Zamenis species we have here, Z. situla, is virtually impossible to find during the summer unless you're lucky and hit a particularly cold and humid night.
Winters aren't bad in the UK. I saw plenty of palm trees in and around Liverpool and Manchester. If palms can live in the UK, then plenty of reptiles can survive there too.
What about the predation on birds?
How cute
It's weird how we have the eastern world flooding UK, and here we are with all these none native exotic animals. London even has Parakeets.
My Wife saw one of these snakes down here in Devon.
I saw one on a walk in that exact spot easily 1.5 metres swimming in the canal then climbimg up the side and out into the sidegrowth. Realised it wasnt native and called the police to let them know and had a couple of clear pictures to send. Completely think the police thought i was mad.
Hey, that's only a harmless grass snake! The females are sometimes nearly black, and grow up to 4 ft long ...they love water. Frogs are their main diet..along with lizards and mice and even fish. Feel honoured to have seen one. They can climb a brick wall...amazing.!
I think the London population has since petered out but the Colwyn Bay population still persists?
The Everglades would like to have a word about your definition of the word 'Huge'
Look for slow worms - they're pretty rare these days as well.
loads in my back garden. kent uk
Check out the Adder
i saw a grass snakes in my backyard
And there I was thinking they'd infested Westminster.
also in Derbyshire so no doubt many more colonies
You should try grass snakes 😂
If you have too many rat or mice problems why don't you import Tiger , Eastern Brown or Inland Taipans ?
Wow it's called Claus schwab viper parliament is full of them
I get grass snakes and slow worms in my garden
Well, Will Atkins might be an expert on Aesculapians but he's got it wrong in respect of the only snake in the UK to be aboreal - Grass snakes often climb into trees to raid birds nests, to mate and even to lay their eggs into the frass of rotting tree stumps...
True, there's a lot of snakes with arboreal tendencies in Europe. Hell, even Horn-nosed vipers do it on occasion!
You'll find these 'experts' usually talk a load of crap. You'll probably never see an Aesculapian and they'll bite you if you touch them...and won't let go!! They are constrictors, but don't know if they'd wrap around your arm. They are not very pretty snakes.. indistinct markings, and grow about 4ft long. .... and I actually know what I'm talking about! Lol
@@kenthebean6619 So do I. Z. longissimus only lightly tags in self defense and doesn't latch on. The bite itself doesn't even hurt all that much and they definitely don't wrap around you, that's a feeding response and you don't get that from an animal in defense mode. Adult Z. longissimus are actually very chill and laid back snakes and you could get away without even getting bit, it's the juveniles who are biting machines.
@@ukan1527 couldn't disagree more. I've had a painfulbite on my hand. Only small teeth, but wouldn't stop bleeding. Everyone I have handled has been really aggressive...4 ft long..not juveniles..I have footage of this snake rearing up and striking out at me. They are vicious..in self defence obviously...and very quick to whip round at you. They actually hiss too. I have even released a smaller one that actually bit itself.. and wouldn't let go....of itself. Some people know..some just talk rubbish.
@@kenthebean6619 Where are you from? Could be because Z. longissimus might just be the only snake like that in your area so you don't have much to compare it to. Here in Bulgaria Z. longissimus is considered one of the calmest snakes - of course, they still bite and hiss in self defence and their bites do draw blood but it's really nothing special and barely hurts in comparison to something like D. caspius for example - although after years of field work with the latter and I'm already so used to their bites that I don't really pay them much mind they are still noticably more painful than Z. longissimus and while you might get away with straight up picking the Aesculapian up D. caspius is always fired up for dramatic defense.
I'm in Southern California and would like to see rattlesnakes crawling around London, since it isn't English anymore 🇨🇳
What is it then? As a Norwegian who has lived in London for a couple of years studying, I think I smell a little racist.
I’m a Londoner and we’re considered racist if we say we are English we are supposed to say British so you’re correct
@@Agathanagatha I'm born and bred in Sunderland northeast England I'm English born in England and never will say I'm British.
@@paulAnthony7236 I totally agree 👍
@@Agathanagatha i was born and raised in kent uk and dilligaf ??
Harley Street's just a wriggle away.
Just leave them be, I'd rather a shy snake than a rat
thats so funny, these Snakes are awsome but we cannot any
I never knew that
In a way they maybe good as they eat rats 🐀 oh was mentioned in vid after I wrote this . Just as long as they are not dangerously venomous.
These were native to the UK before the ice age, when they were extincted here. The post ice age climate works for them again.
Garter snakes can easily survive in the UK.
Go wild in the country!
_Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free!_
I have photographed a grass snake in a tree 😎
A few cobras would liven things up a bit.
wow
Find a pikey WITH a job! The rarest of creatures!
Might they take a domestic cat?
No, the reverse, I should think.
I hate snakes…I don’t know why I’m watching this!
Well that was a big let down
“Huge”, he said. The oldest clickbait.
Alien species like terrapins i've seen them at lakes
Have you ever shopped I Primark, Lidl or Aldi there are a few alien species walking around there as well. 😉
Invasive will get some led just lyk the gray squirrels
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So they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? Because if you are claiming that then I'm going to ask you to prove your claim.
I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
Other then eating a few rats which people wont mind? We’ve already got native wildlife that do that. I dont know why someone would say hopefully they’ll live and breed in this one area if we find invasive species we shouod be doing out utmost to contain them.