The King Brown Snake
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In this video we take a look at a legend amoungst the Australian Snakes, The King Brown, or Mulga Snake.
While the name "King Brown Snake" might be somewhat misleading due to this species not actually belonging to the Brown Snake Family at all, there can be little argument regarding the accuracy of the name "King"
The King Brown, or Mulga Snake can grow up to three meters long, making it a serious contender for the title of largest venomous snake in Australia, with this large size also comes large venom glands, and the King Brown happens to have the highest venom yield of any Australian snake, with up to 150milligrams of venom per milking.
As well as being a large snake, the Mulga also has a massive distribution, being found in every Australian State other then Victoria and Tasmania where its generally considered too cool for sucsesfull incubation of reptile eggs.
i remember coming across the most massive King Snake, about 40k's outside of Young NSW... He was coiled up sunbathing in the middle of the track i was walking on. I stopped on seeing it, the scales reflecting the sunshine made it easily visible. After around 20 seconds of me being there, it woke up, lifted its head out of its coil and looked at me, flicking its tongue at me. Then Raised its head about 4 feet above the ground, looked about the place and once it decided its exit route, very slowly slide off into the nearby long grass.. That's when i saw how truly massive it was, easily over 9 foot long, but thick like a Python... I waited about 5 minutes after it left and had a good look around, I came across its discarded skin nearby. I measured the discarded skin with my bush walking stick which was around three and a half foot long, and the skin was just under 3 lengths long and 30cm wide at the thickest part...
A 2 meter mad as hell one of these attacked me just out of Rocky about 45 years ago. I was only 16 at the time. Came out of a wood pile I was collecting wood from. Luckily there was a long handle shovel nearby. Had to change my dacks that day.
I know I am late to this party and this view is probably not popular, but I don't get the need to free handle. There is just no need for it. The more people see this kind of behavior, the more it becomes normalized. Then, someone who doesn't have the talents of this person might try to handle the snake and get bitten. If you want to free handle with the camera off, fine, everyone is free to live their best life. But when you publicly display a potentially dangerous behavior for no real purpose, please think about it before you film it and put it on youtube. The only valid purpose might be to prove how innocent snakes are and that we should protect them - I agree - and there are other ways to do that rather than display dangerous behavior. Best wishes.
George is a placid one isn’t he! Great work Nick, this was one of your smoothest videos yet, fascinating facts as always, with great transitions and I loved the b-roll shots. You have a pretty garden as well, I can’t wait to see plenty more videos as spring pushes on!
The Wildlife Brothers this is actually the garden area at work haha
Yeah I’ve only had George a few months but he is calming down very well, still has a few wild moments on hot days!
Oh very nice. I bet he’ll make a great education animal in years to come.
Great vid.
I have a brown snake too, every evening crossing my lown between 17:30 and 18:00 ...so I watching it ...and hope it helps keeping my house "RAT-FREE" ...yes ...I say yes to my new highly respected ped...my brown snake who defends me from mice & rats :)
I picked up a snake once; got bitten once; you take it from here Nick.
Great vids. Keep up the good work mate.
Fascinating how you are able to handle him like that
Saitama obviously not every venomous snake can be handled the same way, George is a captive bred animal that’s used in education so has been handled his whole life
I much prefer this style of delivery compared to the hyped up, yelly, shouting at the camera, American-trying-to-be-100x-more-enthusiastic-than-Irwin style that seems to be all over youtube. Not surprised those guys get bitten.
Well you sure know that kings personality and he sure was a placid boy, has to be one of the most beautiful too thanks for the great video Nick.
Gotta love carpet pythons George is a pretty good boy, his only been here a few months but is very responsive to consistent gentle handeling
Wow he is doing really well then for such a short time but amazing how consistant and as you say gentle handling works and for most snakes venomous or non venomous, l would even have a go at handling that boy.
G day Nick, hope your good. You have so many reptiles and animals in general, I was woundering if u could do a video on all the animals you own? It’d be good if I could see all of them, u seem to have a lot of interesting animals. Thanks!
"1500mg in one milking" not 150mg. Chewie (the snake) from Aus reptile park holds the record.
Great video
Tom Gray thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed it
The king brown snake has more deadly venom then the king cobra right?
U didn't mention what this Snakes Venom would do 2 us mere Humans if bitten by the King Brown.... could u pls share at some stage . Thx 4 sharing Ur Knowledge with us .
Our venomous snakes down here seem a lot more calmer than exotic species.
Fine looking friend that you have there.
I have long believed thjat the Mulga will chew on you eg: won't readily let you go when biting.
The new steve irwin. So good
Thanks, Ive got some great photos of these guys from out in the channel country and flood plains of the Cooper. As you know its impossible to be sure of the identification just from appearance, so I've always tried to get good photos of the head and sought help from people like yourself. I believe there is a large colour variation as evidenced in my pics. Anyway I reckon I've seen them up around 2.5 m judging from the vehicle tracks on the roads. Take care.
scary scary!!!
We were lucky enough on a hunting trip at Mitchell QLD to come across a group of these fellas.
There were 6 of them in an area about the size of a tennis court. They were all over 2 meters and in absolutely stunning condition. We were guessing they were gathered for mating
But it was awesome to see.
so does it go well with curry?
Harsh voice
Cool mate another goodie
Who pays your life insurance?
What a beautiful snake
King Browns are pretty relaxed snakes. Not like browns at all. Seems to me that to get bitten by one requires effort.
Have you seen my video on the eastern brown?
Beautiful snake, and so docile! NSW.
Mad video man thanks for making it
Seth extreme Fishing/adventures glad you enjoyed it mate!
I've seen this snake i just thought it was a nice looking eastern brown snake didn't know the difference between the two at the time
Cow muscle most people wouldn’t know the difference unless they saw them side by side
Wicked! Thank you. What a stunning King Brown 💖
awesome video. I remember dad killed a 3m one up at a cane farm near Abergowerie, in Far North QLD. It got into the cockatoo's cage, and was going eat a clutch of new borns.
He tried to decapitate it. However, on first two times he hit the thing it bounced off. He finally chopped it up into three pieces, bloody thing was still touching the ground when held from head height.
(I wasn't impressed, should of called a wrangler)
Quick couple of questions: How do these guys compare with Red Belly Black Snakes, in terms of fatalities? Red Belly Blacks seem rather harmless compares to the Common Brown and Fierce Snake. From what I have read they havent really killed anyone recently.
Lastly, in a previous video you mentioned Red Bellies adapted so, that they could eat Cane Toads without coming off second best. Due to the size of the King Brown are they able to do the same thing?
Rowan Sheppard your spot on that the red belly doesn’t kill many people (infact there hasn’t been a death from a red belly since the advent of antivenin) the mulga is roughly equivalent in toxicity to the red belly but has a huge quantity of venom in a bite
The eastern (or common) brown is certianly the most common cause of snake bite, fierce snakes on the other hand havnt caused a single death since the 1950s
How come it is so placid? Why doesn't it bite while held so close to the head?
Frank his a captive bred snake that’s just very used to handeling, not many of my venomous snakes are that relaxed!
Yeah, how come you didnt die! 😅😅😅
That snake is stoned
you are the best, keep it up
HAM777 cheers mate!
We have lots of what we have been told are pigmy mulgas where I work In a humid cave in the NT. We seem to find more each year, different size babies this year so maybe different clutches?
They pop up out of nowhere!
I can’t find much info on them at all, some of the babies are only about 20cm long. Do you know much about the pigmy mulga species?
who would win black headed python vs mulga snake
Wow, that snake is in a good mood especially for a juvenile
Ps. Doesn't the coastal taipan have the biggest yield @ 120-400 mg?
Great video thankyou. 👍
Very cool channel.👍👍
Free handling a king Brown wow
Just looking at him, he almost looks like a Naja
Well thats interesting, we were hunting in vic years ago and a giant brown snake bit my dad, lucky it didn't get through his army boots, we always said a king brown bit him, but must of been a giant eastern brown, the thing was huge and thick
Ryan Pedersen where in victoria where you?
While there’s no official records in victoria if you where hunting right along the Murray river it would be possible as they have been found just on the other side although still rare in most places
Also if it was further south I often catch tigersnakes that are completely patternless and a copper brown colour
@@WickedWildlife thats interesting too, we were in castelmaine, walking over rocks it was definitely a brown color with no markings
Thanks for the feedback :)
Ryan Pedersen my family where from harcourt near Castlemaine a few decades ago
100% no king brown snakes there
Have eastern browns, red belly’s, tiger snakes, the little whip snake and copperheads
My father has picture of himself from the early sixties with a red belly black snake he killed in the hills north of Harcourt, he said it was 7’4” long. Which is quite believable as he is 5’6” , he’s holding it up above his head and few inches of it is touching the ground. Be incredible to see one that big and old in the wild.
mate good videos could you do an episode on the copperhead cheers
Nick Brown it’s certianly on the to do list!
@@WickedWildlife cheers mate, also the Costal would be an interesting video to do as well as .Most people know about your boy slug, but not so much about his cousin and how much nuttier they are.
Nice to see video's being made with just information, rather than some twat in a hat( not yours) screaming danger,danger,danger. look how hard i am. love Australian Hots.been keeping snakes for 30 years just getting into small arboreal Viper's keep up the good work mate.
Nick Brown hey mate did you end up seeing our copperhead episode?
I saw one of these when I was a kid in Three Springs, W.A. and it stretched across a two lane dirt road. Biggest snake I ever saw in the wild. My Nanna tried to run it over on purpose (which I shudder about but was a common practice in the 70's) but she missed it thank goodness.
When I was a child in rural QLD in the 1980's not only did people try to hit snakes, we knew a woman who ran over goanna's on purpose because she didn't like them. When you drove along the road she commuted on every day you'd always see 1 or 2 goanna or snake roadkills and Dad would say "ughh, looks like she got another one". My parents didn't approve of it, most people didn't. But it just goes to show that when it's "normal" to do one bad thing, there's always stupid people who will take it another step farther.
So if a king brown tried to eat abrown snake or a taipan would it succeed in most cases and if either bit eachother in the process would either die from the venom?🤔
I believe they would be affected by each others venom. Snake venom is a protein and needs to enter the blood stream to be effective, if ingested snake venom won't hurt any animal (unless they have a cut or ulcer of course)
I've heard the venom can cause permanent damage to your muscles, does this mean that a compression bandage isn't a great idea? Necrosis etc?
always tourniquet until you get to a hospital
Myotoxic venom muscle damage.
What a beauty!
PLEASE stop saying “guys” No need!
Sorry you find it annoying, I’m busy enough trying to focus on the snake and keep my facts in order, so my usage of the word “guys” Probobly isn’t going to change any time soon 😂
These segments in my opinion, minimises the danger of these deadly creatures, especially to children.
Snakes should be feared, and keep away from, but when kids see people like yourself handing these deadly creatures, sends the wrong message.
While I appreciate that opinion I completely disagree
I do reptile shows at little country kindergartens all over rural victoria and south Australia, and at 3 years old most children are already capable of understanding the difference with an adult doing something had themselves
Additionally how far do we take this logic? Domestic dogs kill twice as many people as snakes annually (mostly children of course) would you suggest abstain from showing children that dogs are not out to hurt you?
If there’s any group of people that are at risk of seeing professionals like myself and trying to imitate that, it’s very much adult men, who should be well and truely capable of differentiating between themselves and a professional the same way they don’t watch Formula 1 and start drag racing on the street
@@WickedWildlife but kids are drag racing on the streets. I'm a grandmother who grew up on a dairy farm. And a shot gun was always the best, and right action with deadly snakes, if it be in the calf pen, chicken pen, hay shed or otherwise. Human life, and live stock far more valuable than a mungrel snake...
It was a sad day, when they became a protected creature. As crocodiles here in N Queensland. So young fella, showing 3 /4 year olds do as I say, not as I do, is not teaching them.
@@delwynhallett565 no, 18 year olds are drag racing on the streets, and if a man on UA-cam has more influence on your ADULT children then you do, that speaks more about your parenting than anything else
As for the “but I’m a farmer” line, I grew up on a sheep farm, I’ve lived and worked on remote mine sites (actually relocating snakes) and I think if you don’t like Australia, which includes everything that lives here, you should have left
My grand kids and I enjoy your program, Always 🐺❤️🐔🐍🦙🐞
Can't believe how relaxed you are around all of your snakes. Equally, how relaxed a lot of the snakes are around you. Im sure these questions have been asked before.
1.Are your snakes de-fanged.
2. If not are they milked for venom.
3. Do you have antigenic on stand by.
Kind regards
Gday
So 1. our snakes all have fangs and venom glands, removing these is actually illegal here
2. We don’t milk our snakes, it actually makes them more dangerous, as when we milk snakes the venom left in the gang is still enough to kill you, only now the snake is angry, all the worst snakes I’ve handled are snakes that have been milked regularly
3. We cannot actually keep antivenom or administer it to ourselves in Australia as there is the possibility of dangerous side effects, we do however always have compression bandages on hand
@@WickedWildlife cheers mate thank you for you reply. It's spins me out even more now. I was bitten by a red belly in 03, that made me sick enough. Great channel.