Snakes of Belize
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- A short educational video on the snakes of Belize, debunking the mythologies of their danger and outlining basic behaviors and habits.
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Super useful, thanks!
Great info. I've been fascinated with snakes since I was a kid, I always wanna travel to exotic places around the globe and give amazing presentations with different species of snakes to locals such as United States, Peru, Africa, Asia, Costa Rica, etc whether I'm visiting at a school, rural village, zoo, things like that. If I catch a snake in the wild I need to identify the species before letting people know if it's safe/unsafe to get close or touch the animal if the snake expert says its okay
Really great video and synopsis for people like myself who want to learn more. The sound is a little low however so it was a little difficult to hear without using headphones. Thank you.
Hi Russ.
Are/were you associated with the Belize zoo at all? I found a coral snake in Belize in 1987/88, which didn’t match the description of any of the ones in the, supposedly comprehensive book I got from the Audubon society. I photographed it and took details. It was decades later when I took the details to the NHM in London, and whilst disappointed, I was reassured that science had high standards, because the information I had just wasn’t enough to identify or confirm it. It could have come from neighbouring countries, a zoo or the pet trade and I had nothing physical to show. So I may have discovered, even the most venomous snake in the Americas. Or not.
I was in the RAF at the time, and an RAF GP was very interested in snakes and their venom. He was writing a book on venomous snakes of Belize. I still have a copy of his pre-published work. Can’t recall his name and the book is in storage. I understand that Belize is pretty well researched, so I doubt the species count has increased much/at all. I run the Phylogeny Explorer Project which is an attempt to list and put on an evolutionary historical/tree-like dendrogram, all known species of life, extinct nd extant, across all kingdoms.
I really liked your work on the video, well done and thanks. I only found one (dead) Fer de Lance when there.
Hey Steve, no I am not. I was an independent researcher in Belize at this time. Regarding coral snakes in Belize, there are two confirmed species at the moment -- Micrurus hippocrepis and Micrurus diastema. I assume what you saw was the latter; its common name is the "variable coral snake" since its morphology is extremely variable from individual to individual.
Regarding your phylogeny project, that sounds like quite the undertaking, NCBI also has something of this nature right now you should check out if you haven't already, called "LifeMap". It's basically a massive interactive phylogency of all known life in a fixed branch tree:
lifemap-ncbi.univ-lyon1.fr/
Audio quality is very very low and hard to understand. Subtitles may help.
There's a dark red snake that is commonly found in the north of Belize. It is often been killed by everyone because it is said to be venomous. I don't think it's venomous and i believe it's a specie of earth snake. It's size is mostly around 2 to 3 feet in length. I want to know the true name and if it's venomous. It has a smooth looking appearance ..
I love snakes
The sound is low
Informative video
Sorry about the sound, I recorded the voice-over with my computer's microphone years ago when I made it and it apperantly wasn't a great microphone. The youtube autogenerated captions are okay for the most part, but some are wrong.