Venomous snakes of Europe - Nose-horned viper and Montpellier snake in Croatia
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2024
- Croatia has a high diversity of snakes in European standards. Some species are venomous, like the Nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes) and Eastern Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus). Living Zoology went for a short trip to Croatia and found both. Nose-horned viper is a front-fanged snake and it was the first venomous snake we found together. That's why it is in our logo. Malpolon is rear-fanged species and we found it for the first time during this trip.
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Awesome. The close up scenes... The drone scenes. And your videos are made by you 100 % without displaying pics shooted by others. Appreciate.
Thank you so much!!! You are right, our channel is made with our content and we are proud of it :)
Beautiful footage.
Now I really want to go to Croatia.
You should! It is a beautiful country :)
Wow, the Nose-horned is such a wonderful animal! I didn't even know it lives so close to me! Thank you for the amazing video and greetings from Budapest!
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, there are even populations in Southern Austria! And you almost get it in Hungary too :)
@@LivingZoology Yes, last night I read about it for hours. According to the habitat map, it appears as far "north" as the Drava river. Too bad it does not cross to Hungary. I guess I will take a trip to Croatia soon to check them out! Oh, and the Montpellier snake is gorgeous too, and the video itself was very professional!
costal region of Croatia is wonderful.. but inland is really amazing! Croatia is full of national parks, environment changes in a few km.. so is very easy to find an 'effervescent' biodiversity! visit inland Croatia..visit Velebit and like ever, compliments to living zoology for this video.
We agree, that Croatia is beautiful! Thanks for the tips! We should return and find more snakes there!
Great production once again , keep up the good job . Thank you !!
Thanks again! We were happy that at least Croatia was open so we could go somewhere outside the Czech Republic :)
@@LivingZoology .. Never knew such species of snakes existed in Europe..thank you for educating with such a wonderful production
It is so sweet that the team give us information about the snake logo. Not many youtube channel do that. I feel like it is a meaningful moment for the team to find the first snake around the area together and make it into their youtube channel logo. 💕
Thank you very much! We are happy that you are interested in our logo and why we chose this snake in it! :)
@@LivingZoology but i want to know, what hemotoxic and neurotoxic can do to our body ? Perhaps you can include some information in the video to educate people like me about the snake venom. 🙂
@@firebender1734 Basically you can die from their bite. That is the most dangerous European snake. But it is not agressive snake. It will bite only if provoked. Anti-venom exist.
@@firebender1734 -neurotoxins: affect the nervous system ( leading to paralyses, especially paralysis of heart and lung muscles will cause complications)
-cytotoxins: destroy skin, muscle and connective tissues (necrosis, muscle weakness), can also attack blood and heart cells and blood vessels (internal bleedings, circulatory shock, cardiac arrest)
-hemotoxin: affect the blood cotting, either decreasing it (internal bleeding,...) or increasing it (thrombosis)
Out of this world!
Glad that you like this video!
Awesome presentation loved watching you're video since I'm from Croatia
Oh wow! We love Croatia! We are now working on a new film from Croatia 🇭🇷
Those horn nose are beautiul! The grey is stunning and they fiesty :-))
Thanks for watching! :)
Just booked a trip to Croatia. Best areas to start looking?
Any areas with rock walls basically!
I still say Nature is the greatest Painter
Agreed!
You guys have received my love for snakes. Really.
Thank you very much! :)
The way you show snakes is as unique as it could get, inspires me to go and shoot these magnificent creatures... Cheers to LivingZoology
We are happy that our videos are a good inspiration, hopefully you meant shoot with a camera :D :D
Beautiful snakes and country❤️🐍
Thank you!!! And it is just 8 hours of driving from the Czech Republic!
I love this channel ❤️
Thank you so much!!!
I had no idea just how diverse and beautiful Croatia is, do you know the t bite ratio by Nose-horned viper and is there anti-venom for these snakes. Do people die from their bite ?
Yes, Croatia is very diverse and beautiful country! There is antivenom available for Nose-horned viper and there were some deaths in the past, although this snake does not kill many people each year. It is quite secretive.
That is the most dangerous European snake. You can definitely die from them. But they are not agressive. They will bite you only if you provoke them. Anti-venom exist. They look similar to stone, soo people usually step on them while walking.
When a bite is untreatened, death ratio is 5% (40/780), according to data from 1915. That's a long time ago and nowadays there's antivenom, but still it shows how potent the venom actually is.
With the antivenom today, deaths are very rare, still can be dangerous for children, older people or people suffering from previous illnesses
There was a horrible tragedy in my area (near Split-Croatia) that happened roughly 20 years ago or so. Few friends with their families went on a picnic on a nearby hill when one of them almost stepped on a nose horned viper by accident. The guy, in fear, kicked the snake which flew in the air and to their horror unfortunately landed directly in a stroller with a baby sleeping inside. The baby got bitten on the chin and died the very same day.
True story that sent shockwaves around the country, never to be forgotten 😢
Thanks for another wonderful video.
Thanks for watching!
While on holiday in Corfu I have seen horn nosed vipers. Does Corfu have the same diverse snake varieties as Croatia?
Yes, Corfu has quite similar snake fauna to Croatia.
Nice, I love Croatia a lot, many travels there
Croatia is a beautiful country and it is close to us! We will go there this year too!
Well, now you can keep the real pic of the nose-horned snake.❤ and it's beautiful 😍
Thank you!! :) It is!!!
No ADS skipping for this channel ❤️🇵🇭
Thank you so much Ronel!!! We appreciate that!
Did you see any Javan Mongoose: Herpestes javanicus?
No, we did not!
I love this channel so much ❤️
Wow, we are so happy for that! :)
@@LivingZoology ♥️
Finally you guys are back 🐍 , looking forward to the premier
Yes, it took us some time to edit the video also :)
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Great Camouflage they have.
Very true!
Wow! My next holiday will be in Istrien and Krk. Hope to find many reptiles. Any advices to spot some?
The key is to know how are reptiles behaving according to the time of the year and when are they active.
Do snakes have big lungs?
Because it looks like their whole body moves when they breathe.
Yes, they have long lungs (lung - only one is functional in most snakes).
Greetings from Greece guys .. Keep going the perfect job that you do!!
Thank you very much! Greetings from the Czech Republic! :)
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Most physical attributes in nature serves a function, so what is the purpose of the nasal horn on the featured viper?
Well, that is a good question!!! And in this case, nobody knows. There are other snakes, like Rhinoceros viper, Horned adder, Malagasy leaf-nosed snake etc. which have strange structures on their heads. And there is no 100 % explanation about the function. In arboreal snakes it is hypothesized that horns help them to estimate the distance from the prey so they can attack efficiently. May this be the function also in Nose-horned viper? Nobody knows.
Thank you greatly Crew.
Thank you too!
Stunning quality of the videos, well done, it was a pleasure to watch. May I ask in which area you have been herping?
Thank you very much!!!! We were on Krk island and Istria.
Thanks for showing amazing snake
Thank you very much for watching!!! :)
A great clip again! Awesome!
Thank you! We are happy that also snakes from Europe are interesting for our audience :)
horned vipers, kinda romantic. colder temperatures change everything .
Thank you for watching! :)
Wow beautiful snakes. That Montpellier snake was awesome. It looked quite big, how big do they grow? Thank you for yet another amazing video. I really must visit Europe one day & try to find the reptiles native to there. :D
Thank you!!! Montpellier snakes can get quite big, up to 2 metes. Europe does not have so many species, but it is certainly worth to visit!
@@LivingZoology Quite a large snake then. I haven't heard of that nasal habit before. I know a lot about the tropical snakes but didn't even know either of these species existed. Got a lot of your videos to catch up on, so enjoying all of them. Thank you. 🐍💕🐍
@@LivingZoology male western montpellier snakes can reach up to 200 cm, the average would be like 150-170cm, the eastern montpelliers, which you find in croatia, tend to be a bit smaller, so you actually found a pretty big one there :)
looks like a good 120cm, although it's hard to say. Did you mesure it?
Wht a beautiful snake. 😍 very informative. Chanal
Thank you very much!!
Pretty cool snakes
Thank you!! They are amazing and living so close to the Czech Republic!
@@LivingZoology yeah that would be pretty cool I know Europe may not have the diversity of reptiles like America south America and even central America and especially Africa Asia and Australia but it's still cool.
Very well pictured. Pl make ur letter more bolden nd visible so that it can be easily understand of snakes habitation
Thank you very much!
Awesome!
Thank you!!!
Great videos as always!!
Thank you very much!!!
Here in Serbia we have common european viper (vipera berus), horned viper(vipera ammodytes) and vipera ursinii. Vipera ursinii does not have really potent venom, but its capable of paralizing small reptiles, amphibians and small rodents. Im sure u already knew for it, but i just wanted to point it out xD
I think the same 3 species of vipers are also in Croatia. We have only berus in the Czech Republic. We would like to film Vipera ursinii in the future :)
@@LivingZoology cant wait to see it!
@@teofiloljubisavljevic7943 See you at 6 PM! ;)
In Greece we have 5 species. Vipera Ammodytes , Vipera Berus, Vipera Ursinii( Grecae ) Montivipera Xanthina and Macrovipera Schweizeri
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A really nice video again The Montpellier snake reminds me a little of the Boomslang from Africa. Would you say the snake population in Croatia is stable?. I love the way you have the sounds of the environment like cicadas and bird song, many film makes spoil their films with cheesy music.
Thank you very much! We were actually discussing together that Montpellier snake is a bit like Boomslang :) But it is much more terrestrial. We are very happy that nature sounds work well for our audience! It seems that snakes are common in Croatia and populations are stable.
I like that little one.
The little one had amazing colors!
How these snake survive the winter
They are hidden in shelters underground and they hibernate.
Coastal Croatia is warm. It has Mediterranean climate. Winters are mild here. There is no snow during winter (normaly). Palms grow here.
@@greengreeneya2102 Winters are mild, but still too cold for snakes to be active.
@@LivingZoology Snakes are in hibernation during winter (like in most non tropical climates). But winters in coastal Croatia are too mild to killed them obviously (temperatures below zero are rare). They can not survive in Continental Croatia were climate is much colder.
Just seen it. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!!! :) We hope you enjoyed!
I went to croatia for summer vacation somewhere in the 2000'S until 7 , its a nice country with good cheap prices for good food, it has beautifull creatures, I found mostly marine creatures like cuttlefish, and baby squid, crabs,hermitcrabs, small fish, small green eels, seacucumber, seamause worm,sea erchins and enemenie's , but also a few herps like lizards, firebelly toads and unfortunatly a escaped snake poking its head from a hole , and a dead blacksnake,Further big insects like a grasshopper and a bat.
Croatia has a very interesting nature! For us it is more expensive there than in the Czech Republic, but for short visit it is ok :) And they have much more snake species!
Great video as always ❤🐍
Glad you enjoyed!
These snakes are beautiful. Especially Poskok (Viper). But Croatia is full of even more beautiful and colorful snakes. The biggest European snake "Elaphe quatuorlineata" is also native in Croatia.
Yes, you are right!!! We wished to find more species! We must definitely come back!
The Javan Mongoose was introduced to control the Nose-horn Vipers, which was a very odd thing, as there better suited mongooses for the job , in that climate, like the Egyptian Mongoose from Spain and North Africa.
This happened on the island Mljet and mongooses killed all snakes there as far as we know. We never saw a mongoose in Croatia.
A Hierophis (Coluber) gemonensis?
Yes, we saw too. And we were happy to get in situ footage! It is in the video :)
Hi! Amazing video. I came to watch this one and another one of yours from krk and cres after finding a snake in a rocky slope in krk island, near baška. I was trying to find what specie it is but I don’t know...maybe it’s a vipera ammodites but I don’t know because I didn’t see her head. Could I send you guys a picture to check if you can recognize it?
I really would appreciate that. Greetings from Krk and congratulations for the videos
Hello! We just came back from North Macedonia! Great to know that you like this video, please send us the picture of a snake you saw :) You can send it to e-mail: dolinaym@gmail.com
@@LivingZoology email sent! ❤️
@@wacamalo Great! :) We are going to check it!
In my mind Croatia is synonymous to beautiful scenery and lovely beaches, but snakes and venom ? I am shocked.
Yes, there are snakes in Croatia! But most of them are harmless.
why does it breathe so intense?
Which one? Some snakes react to human presence by breathing faster and showing that they know about you.
@@LivingZoology this one 1:15, do they show this habit only to humans? do they recognize us among other big species?
@@impaugjuldivmax I had a lot of european adders doing the exact same thing, I think they want to look bigger and more scary to the attacker, usually they did it when coiled up and ready to strike, so I think it happens at a stage were they get very defensive. They try all they got then I suppose.
It didn't understand that those humans here came in peace 🤷♂️😂
I had no idea the horned nose was in Europe! 😄
Yes, it is! It is quite common in Balkan peninsula! :)
I saw it on your Instagram story. Was on Krk at exactly the same time😉
Oh, cool!!! What have you found? :)
@@LivingZoology Actually no nose horned viper, but many whipsnakes: Western Whipsnake, Balkan-Whipsnake and a melanistic Aesculapian snake. And all 4 lizard species. 2 Testudos and few amphibians. It was very cool😉
@@streitbergermatthias7626 That is cool!!! :) Congratulations! We saw also two Balkan Whipsnakes and quite many lizards of 5 species. Other snakes were dead on the road :/
This is interesting!
Great to hear that! ;)
Logo Genius
Thank you!! :)
Too bad you didnt find my favorite croatian snake Platyceps najadum dahlii we call it Šilac. It has a very interesting look.
Maybe in the future!!!
nice video again (y)
Thank you very much!!!
It would be nice if you got a video of hunt. I have some of them in my backyard. Nonvenomus one we call "smuk" and for viper we call her "poskok"
Yes, that would be awesome!!! It just needs a lot of time to get footage of the hunt. Yes, we were telling locals that we are looking for poskok :)
Its such a mystery why snakes grow so many different growths that look like horns. Intimidation perhaps?
It is thought that these horns can help snakes to target the prey well. But it has not yet been proven. Horns cannot work as intimidation, snakes have many other strategies for that, puffing, hissing, striking, opening their mouth, rattling...
Hoping the Greatest crew out there is well.
Thank you so much!
My neighbor has still a male Nose-horned viper; the female died in spring this year. He got the vipers 2004 or 2005!! The male is still very easily irritable after all these years! The female was always very calm.
Yes, they can live long, 15-20 years with no problem 🙂
It sounds as if there’s an agitated
rattlesnake waiting to pounce. The nose-horned viper is a fearsome looking snake, pity we never got to see it’s fangs. The other snake with the big eyes reminds me of a boomslang.
The sound in the background is made by cicadas. Typical sound of summer in Croatia :) We don't force snakes to show fangs if it yawns and we are fast enough we will film it. Yes, Montpellier snake resembles Boomslang a bit. And speaking of fangs, we filmed the fangs of Boomslang, watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/cP5kqH_N0u8/v-deo.html
Those are cicadas.
The fangs are about 1cm in length so not bad for a european snake 😉
Well thats my holiday to Croatia booked then.
It is a beautiful country, we can only recommend it! :)
Croatians call it "the jumper" , during the Croatian war of independence there was a brigade called "poskoci" the jumpers.
It is interesting, because these snakes don't really jump :)
Walk right by them & dont even know it. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
We have those dudes in romania too.
I even encountered one near the river next to my grandparents house.
Me and my friend captured him with some stick and we let him far from our neighbors so they wouldn't kill it
And it was a small baby too
The same one but more darker zig zags
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Yes, they live also in Romania. Great that you saved the snake, good job!! :)
So far I have never known that horned vipers exist in Europe, too.... For years I have thought they exist only in Africa. Oh, Saudi Arabia and its nearby countries...
Well, Horned desert viper has horns above eyes, Nose-horned viper on the nose. Rhinoceros viper also from Africa has two horns on the nose. It is a bit confusing if you don't know them yet, but finally they are quite easy to recognize :)
@@LivingZoology Thanks a lot!
I love the snakes, and the video of them, however, a lot of the writing was completely off the screen.
Thanks for watching. Did you see the whole screen? Nothing should be out of it.
Nice video, but I do not agree with your comments concerning the self-rubbing with Malpolon monspessulanus "behavior to avoid loss of evaporation ...". This behavior is an olfactory marking used for territory et female. 😉
If you're interested about have a look on internet you should find few things about it like "Chemical marking behaviour in the psammophiine snakes Malpolon monspessulanus and Psammophis phillipsi" By Cornelius C. de Haan & Alexandre Cluchier
Thank you, I just found a paper from Ton Steehouder, which was rejected from Salamandra journal and he is trying to show that several studies which support the avoiding loss of evaporation hypothesis, are wrong. But there is no evidence or proof about the social function from him. Then I found the study from Haan and Cluchier and they describe it much better and their hypothesis seems to be supported by observations. I was also watching some videos. It seems extremely surprising that such a special behavior in snakes haven't been studied by many more studies. We are happy that we wrote only that it is believed that this behavior should help the snake to aviod loss of evaporation, because it seems that several authors really think so. If we get the chance to film more footage of Montpellier snakes for future videos, we will go deeper into this topic and present the social function of this behavior. Do you personally have any sightings of social rubbing of Malpolon? You have some very nice videos about these snakes, congratulations! :)
@@LivingZoology Thank you, glad you like them. yes Ton Steehouder is very involved in the study of Malpolons, on his page you can access to all mails exchange between him and the review (... I have my opinion about the react of people from salamandra review, no more comments about...) Ton and C. de Haan are in my point of view the reference for this species. I saw several self rubbing and once a rubbing on the rocks at the exit of his hole. This species is so pasionating but not realy easy to follow and film in situ. Have you seen the video of "mister P" where, as explained on comments, he stayed 2H12 in "periscope mode" ?
Good luck for your futur videos
@@Frantz-G-regard-nature Yes, they are very cool and we love when they stay in periscope mode. Recently in Croatia we saw 3 apart the one we filmed but they dissapeared quickly. We will try next year in Croatia again :) It was good to read through these papers and great to see opinions of people who know a lot about Malpolons. We were just watching this one while having dinner :) ua-cam.com/video/2-JBNqnybB4/v-deo.html
Poor Malpolon, its tail was cut from a farmer propably, vey common
Probably, it was an old snake and old injury. But it survived, which is great!
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:)
Only 2... It's not variety.. its compulsion
Yes, 2 species. Croatia does not have 10 species of venomous snakes :D
@@LivingZoology in india we have 4-5 types of cobras, king cobra( although its name is cobra, but it doesn't belongs to that family), 2-3 types of karait, 2-3 types of vipers(russel, pit, malabar pit) and many non venomous & mild venomous snakes & from biggies there is rock python
Vipera berus also lives in the inland part of Croatia
@@t1621 yes the tropical countries are much more diverse, south america, asia especially south/ south-east, africa.... many snakes also many dangerous ones..
wildlife in europe unfortunately is not very diverse. Still we have to appreciate the cool animals we have around :)
@@t1621 but aren't rock pythons exclusively living in africa? Or did I miss something
Same species of animals and even same environment as most of Greece.
Yes, that is true!
Yes Coastal Croatia looks basically almost exactally as Greece.
@@greengreeneya2102 We have been to Greece also and we can confirm!
Hai. Search vava suresh or snake master program. Vava suresh is the world number one snake master. He catched 180 above king cobras.is a world record. And he saved 50,000 above more snakes.
180 King cobras is a record? Watch this, Ajay rescued more than 600 of them: ua-cam.com/video/QeFVZ4t6VhU/v-deo.html
Ajay giri is a snake master ok. But don't compare vava suresh and ajay giri. Vava suresh is world number one snake master. We love vava sir. He is a great man.
@@MuthuMuthu-gu1xt If you want to speak about numbers we gave you numbers. 600 compared to 180??? Funny. Also, Vava rescues snakes which does not need to be rescued! Why? It has no sense. ua-cam.com/video/u7AUpyhUYH0/v-deo.html
@@LivingZoology you just search google. 'Who is the best snake master in the world ' it's not ajay.it's vava sir. Are you know vava sir is not only a snake master he is a great man.
@@LivingZoology ajay catched 600 king cobras it's all use the sticks and bags. But vava suresh catched 180king cobras his hand. That is the different of a snake master and world number one snake master
Amazing creatures 😍
But IM STILL SCARED OF SNAKES 🐍🤣🏃♂️
They are really amazing! The only difference between scary and beautiful is knowledge :)
Nobody said they were scary 🙂
You need to read well before replying a comment
I'd rather call them CroNoms: Croatian Venoms
That is a very interesting name!!! Maybe in the next video we will use it :D