Australia's Largest Venomous Snake: The King Brown

[@notorious_turtle]

“I’m so happy to find a king brown” - says no Australian ever.

[@gregcoleman6670]

Lucky there was a roadside camera in the exact spot you needed to hit the brakes due to the surprise snake spotting. Amazing.

[@Dreama40]

Not lucky at all, he hired 24,000 cameramen for the job and had them located every 50 yards along the highway just in case a snake surprised them, this was not luck but forward planning.

[@bassmanpedro1]

Back in October 2008 we moved from Victoria to far north Queensland (a 10 minute drive from Port Douglas). My wife flew up with our animals and I drove the car up. Wanted to see some of inland Australia so took the Kidman Way rather than the Newell Hwy. Stayed in Cobar the first night and somewhere between Cobar and Bourke on the second morning saw this snake lying on the road. I don't like to run over anything even when it's dead (in fact I'll usually stop and put it on the side of the road so that anything feeding on the corpse doesn't get run over too) so I gave the snake a wide berth and noticed that it didn't look damaged. Intending to get a photograph, I stopped past the snake, grabbed the camera and jogged back down the road towards the snake. As I approached it, the head and first couple of feet of the body raised up off the road. It wasn't dead, obviously! It glided away into the grass at the side of the road and when it's head was just going into the grass its tail was just moving from the middle of the road. This was a BIG snake! Quite a bit bigger than the supposed three metre one encountered at night in this video. I'm interested in all wildlife but I'm no expert on snake identification. However, I'm pretty sure this was a Mulga/King Brown. It was an even bronze colour (ie no pattern), and I'd seen Eastern Browns and Copperheads before. This was much longer and bulkier than any of them. I'm just thankful that it moved away before I got near it. Back then I wasn't carrying a pressure bandage, I was at least 30 minutes away from either Cobar or Bourke, and there was no mobile phone coverage out there. If I'd been bitten I'd probably have been a goner. Whenever I do any outback travel now I carry a pressure bandage and a satellite phone.

[@ryanpedersen5722]

Wow that snake catch was amazing

[@technoendo]

Another great video! Fantastic job. I appreciate that some content creators would push the sensationalism even further but y'all were restrained. It was sensible to let that first brown go with no headlamp -- there will be more!

[@MadeintheWild]

Thank you so much for your kind comments! Yes we have thought hard about making the right balance between entertainment to get people excited about wildlife (our mission!), yet not over-sensationalise a subject for no reason. Yes exactly, we were gutted we didn't have a head torch at the most crucial time for the big one at night, but as you say, more around the corner!

[@jash714]

Why is the king brown called so even though it's more greenish..?

[@MadeintheWild]

Very good point, I'm not entirely sure as generally King Brown's have very variable colouration. In fact they are part of the black snake family too. Their other common name is called the Mulga snake, as they like to live in mulga tree habitat :)

[@jash714]

Wowww it's quite interesting

[@anandadaquino3604]

I don't know what I watch it. Snakes terrifie me hahaha

[@MadeintheWild]

Ananda D'Aquino 🐍🐍😅😅

[@j-1159]

Never heard of the Inland Taipan obviously

[@johnprice2606]

When driving in the outback and a road train approaches pull over to the side of the road (you must give way to them). You can't see oncoming traffic through the dust. There was no educational value in interacting with the Mulga snakes.

[@jeaniekurosu5313]

Mr. Randal one of my sons saw your episode, didn’t you find a King brown snake in a Dried stream in Queensland when teamed up with a snake Wrangler Jim?

[@stevegant7286]

He's just a little guy, they grow much larger!

[@jamiewalters774]

Nice catch 😂 that was incredible

[@bradhodges8833]

It's the king of Australian snakes and areas period not just the outback, 😂🤦

[@scoutjohnson1803]

I thought the English were more sensible than messing with snakes like those!

[@jeewanisadamali4910]

So amazing

[@phillipcox516]

The King Brown (AKA) the Mulga snake is a close relative to the Black Snake, it should not be confused with the Eastern Brown snake the second most deadly snake in the world behind the Inland Taipan. I don't even think the King Brown ( Mulga Snake), is even in the top 10 . AUS

[@jamesmontgomery7513]

Glad you mentioned its other name Mulga Snake . This guy metions no actual facts about the King Brown. Australian venomous snakes are in the Elapidae family, along with cobras and sea snakes , they have fixed front fangs. Active nocternal and diurnal . Dont know why this video was made if little focus on education for viewers about our amazing snakes.

[@johnoleary5293]

@@jamesmontgomery7513 Yes it’s a member of the black snake family, so not as potent a venom as the eastern brown. The thing, though, is that the king brown pumps so much venom into the bite. This makes it extremely dangerous.

[@schweppes59]

aye, 'the king brown' is in fact a black snake & the docs administer black snake antivenom to those unfortunate enough to get bitten by the mulga/king brown snake. It was famous with us kids growing up in the bush where we learned to respect the bloody big 'brown snakes' which sat up to have a look at you before continuing on about their business of chasing frogs around the cattle troughs & water tank overflows.

[@waynemoy5471]

Still waiting for the 3 meter snake, can't believe you people doing false advertising

[@phillipwinning2935]

Australia Zoo have a 3 metre Mulga ,( king brown ) takes to men to hold and milk it

[@shikarbabulall3897]

The black mama grows slightly bigger or bigger than that easily and its the fastest snake in the world and the most aggressive.

[@WickedWildlife]

shikar babulall yet the black mamba kills a handful of people a year while the slow, short, fat saw scaled viper kills thousands

[@shikarbabulall3897]

@@WickedWildlife I'm not sure how many they kill all I know is they are dangerous and it will attack anyone when provoked

[@Boozoobajou1]

The King Brown would have the Mamba for lunch immune to the most toxic venom and loves eating snakes. And like the Australian elapids, the venom of the BM is mostly neurotoxic so the Mamba would be just another day in the office for the KB.

[@dunruden9720]

The black mama is different to the black mamba!

[@jeewanisadamali4910]

@@Boozoobajou1 no black mamba is big

[@HT-vf7ok]

Makes me wonder how they can live in such harsh environment.

[@MadeintheWild]

It is mindblowing actually. We have lots of videos coming soon from arid parts of Africa with so many desert adapted species, it is amazing too.

[@Steven_Rowe]

So as a young boy in London we used to go to Epping Forest where address lived and I never saw one. I used to check under the bed just in case one caught the bus to our place and hid under my bed. Did I tell you how much I hate snakes????? Well years later what did I do????? I moved to where????? Australia, remember I told you I hate snakes. I clearly remember back in 1978 going shooting in Walget in NSW and my mate stood on a King Brown. It was like in slow motion, it shipped around and stuck him on the boot then slithered down a hole. We could see the venom on his boots. If he's had been bit we would have been up shit creek. Well he is now a snake catcher in Coonababran and knows a lot about snakes unlike me. He told me that the King Brown is not a brown snake but is related to the black snake. Just so you know, I HATE SNAKES.. a few years ago a bloke in Tamworth got bitten by a Eastern Brown snake, he was taken to the hospital straight away and given antivenin but died within the hour.

[@dunruden9720]

Coonabarabran

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@dunruden9720 what's Coonabarabran According to the media it was Tamworth. Actually my mate who stood on the brown lives in Coonabarabran and he is the resident snake catcher.

[@iannoone7428]

That’s a terrible way of catching . If you did this in other states you would have you licence taken away . There’s no need to be rough with them at all

[@jeewanisadamali4910]

I think he did that because it's easier and don't want it to run away ...but what you were telling is true👍👍👍

[@markrigg6623]

That snake is not 3 metres matey. Not even close. Clickbait lies.

[@ajo3085]

I'm with you mate. We breed them pretty big where I come from but I've never seen one at 3 meters and if that bloke in the video was much over 2, then I need my eyes checked.

[@jeewanisadamali4910]

Tpreee

[@jimcrawford5039]

I thought he said 2 metres.

[@xaj1543]

@@jimcrawford5039 It says 3 metres in the title.

[@jimcrawford5039]

They mainly come out at night to hunt.

[@reskiadindaarzi9657]

black headed python vs king brown snake

[@surabhiarun9298]

Yea it was, but why do we have to torture a poor snake?

[@jeewanisadamali4910]

Yes I love snake

[@mikehunt3852]

Weren't 3 metre