Gaboon viper facts!

[@debbybuff]

Very much liking the way Josh doesn't take his eyes off this slithering fellow.Respect.I think he has a long healthy future with these scaly guys.

[@pswish2163]

You can tell Josh is an expert because he literally never takes his eyes off this powerful snake. I recently learned of this breed while at a zoo. It's one of the most impressive animals I've ever seen. Would not want to encounter it in the wild.

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

Thats why we tag teamed this video; so one of us could talk and one could be a main wrangler. Whenever we do videos with dangerous animals we have a set of protocols that we follow, including backup handlers, med kits, emergency service on standby, etc.

[@gracenite1440]

I love how he said he doesn’t want to stress-out the snake: more than a base self-interest (of not wanting a stressed, dangerous animal in his presence) I have the sense Josh respects the animal’s own interests (of not getting distressed.) He also does a tremendous job when he describes how he can tell the snake is closer to “relaxed,” with details like the snake’s rate of respiration…. Lovely video!

[@DarkWidget]

@@thetattooedzookeeper6709 Honestly I love you guys for that, first video with you I see and finally someone who pays the respect that is needed!

[@Biobele]

You should come to Africa you can see them in the wild

[@clutchitup8565]

@@Biobele that's fucking cool!

[@alkatraz706]

it moves like a caterpillar lol

[@doodskie999]

Funny thing is, these snakes are also very tolerant, not very short tempered. Getting bit by this is like the same chances of getting bit by a shark which is super low. But if it does bite you, you are fcked.

[@alkatraz706]

@@doodskie999 they know people would leave them alone that's why they aren't aggresive as cobras..real OG mentality haha

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Yes, they move slow on cold flooring as seen here

[@loify8381]

The gaboon viper is basically a carnivorous, venomous and reptillian giant caterpillar

[@christopherfletcher5384]

That would be one scary butterfly

[@josephyang4997]

The way it moves is mesmerising.

[@chrisfalx3251]

Looks like gears moving

[@JohnAsubonteng]

there are a few other snakes that move as such i know of the puff adder

[@marlinfisher2529]

The Gabon viper is to beautiful for words.

[@CCCC-se3xi]

That man didn’t take his eyes off that snake for a second. I noticed that before he even mentioned it.

[@richiehoyt8487]

That is a commendably patient and tolerant snake. If someone kept poking and prodding at _me,_ and literally f%&king with my 'roll', I wouldn't be long lashing out at them!

[@caseyzehrer2357]

I can’t get over the pattern on these guys. My all time favorite.

[@aurieamoore5823]

I really like how the angle of the shot paired with the gaboon vipers natural patterning of pointed creams on the sides makes the rectilinear movement really visible on camera. You can especially see it around 2:03. Great camera work and beautiful viper.

[@MourningCoffeeMusic]

Fact # 1: THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL

[@The-GreenHornet]

Very professional presentation. The Gaboon viper is my favorite pit viper above all else, for obvious reasons. Absolutely beautiful markings along with a beautiful large head. Gaboon vipers are I believe the only snake that can actually strike backwards away from the direction in which they are facing. Which makes them require even more complete attention and respect.

[@thesheriff5091]

The thing i have noticed with gaboon vipers is they are more laid back then most other venemous species rarely striking at a snake hook etc very fascinating

[@aazhieryakes884]

I don't think they have a lot of natural predators. They are so venomous and big, not many critters, besides humans, mess with them.

[@suzz1776]

This is the weirdest but coolest looking snake iv ever seen. The skeleton looking coloring and the short and stubby with a huge head body shape is so cool looking but holy cow, thx God I don't live in an area with this thing. I just have to deal with millions of rattlers which I can hear b4 I see so I feel safe'ish where I live

[@mikethaxton4935]

Here in Texas when I was 9 I caught a Diamondback Rattlesnake behind the school we went to and I was showing off to some kids and got distracted and the snake slipped thru my hand and bit me on my hand and I nearly died. I'm 55 now and still have no fear them whatsoever. My grandpa who was Native American taught me to not fear snakes respect them.

[@dickchampagne4358]

Great advice that almost killed you. Smart!

[@JTTT59]

@@dickchampagne4358 he didn't follow the "respect them" part

[@scrappyanimations4096]

I had a similar encounter with a diamondback when i was a kid.I didn't pick one up, bur I was hopping along rocks on a river bed and all of a sudden I found myself face to face with this massive rattlesnake, it was already pissed off and staring at me and it was rattling it's tail. I had no idea what to do so I just stared it in the eyes for what seemed like an hour (it was probably like 5 seconds) and just like begged it with my eyes like Please Mr Snake dont bite me. I did not mean to disturb you I just want to leave. And it kind of respected that I think cause it ended up jumping into the river and swimming upstream. I had no idea snakes could swim before that and also it was FAST. Like really, REALLY fast. Learned alot that day.

[@kalebind]

@@scrappyanimations4096 we are not nearly as brisk nimble and quick to leap or slide as them... We should keep that circumstance in mind...

[@kalebind]

Please Mr Snake dont bite me.😆😍

[@knitter4years]

My absolute favorite snake is this snake. Thank you so much! It's gorgeous and I learned a lot

[@Bryanseas]

I really really like that u introduced josh as the expert, and let him loosen all his knowledge unto us

[@Bryanseas]

Cool back n forth between u guys lime a professional podcast

[@CraigPhiriMovesRSA]

Unlike the rest of the snakes he's keeping, the Gaboon Vipers "don't go to the bathroom"

[@SteveSJDR]

What a beautiful creature, it's my favourite snake too,

[@marlinfisher2529]

He is amazing to watch as he moves.

[@oprophetisfake9482]

I've never seen any snake move like this. I've just watched another video of one coming quite quickly straight towards the camera and it looked like a clockwork or battery toy. I had to check out this video to check that the first wasn't a prank.

[@motioninmind6015]

I'm here for the exact same reason after seeing that exact same video. I couldn't believe that was real, but the camera angle makes it look like a mechanical toy

[@stephengomme777]

I just seen 1 of these on KZbin shorts & thought it was clockwork toy it didn’t look like a real snake so I looked it up.

[@oprophetisfake9482]

@@motioninmind6015 Exactly I couldn't believe it and had to check other videos of the same snake. I'd never seen a snake move quite like that before.

[@chrissywilkens4880]

I came here from the video too! I thought it was a toy

[@etnebstudios8452]

Hop me in too

[@sarahstrickland744]

LOVE those video! This is my fave snake ever!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@leannelenz6651]

Very beautiful snake

[@darylsmioth1904]

Its a venomous caterpillar.

[@thegoatchild3545]

A great, very informative video, guys. Thank you! Gaboons are mesmerizing. 👍

[@jasonwatson1412]

Beautiful chonker, and quite placid for an extremely spicy burrito noodle. Wonderful specimen!

[@jaykriss724]

Sucha gorgeous snake

[@farmerj4687]

Late to the vid but this is great explaining, don’t let the slow movement catch you off guard, like you said they’re the fastest strikers

[@ancydrox411]

I didn't know snakes can be this cute until I discovered Gaboon viper 😍 the funniest part about this snake is the toy snake looks more real than this one 😁

[@shaofuchang515]

the skin patterns make it resemble a super plus sized caterpillar and anything but a contemporary noodle

[@scottzipperer6146]

After having East African and West African Gaboon vipers I can say intelligent snake as well mine were huge well over 5 ft and 25 to 30 lbs all though I never weighed them they would eat 10 lb rabbits no problem. All food for all my animals was frozen and thawed and warmed . My female E.Africican was gravid(pregnant) and gave birth to 52 healthy young

[@sharonbrewer1956]

Gaboon, puff adder, momba,and cobra are my favorites.

[@ransome51]

I once saw a documentary about them and it showed one hunkered down under some leaf litter. You could barely see it

[@Pecker13]

Good Old Dingo , showed one of these beautiful snakes , from that day there on , they became my fav Snake also . 1 thing not mentioned is that these Snakes can move very quickly over a short distance.

[@daytonabeachUSA]

Florida needs these

[@karyannfontaine8757]

I love to watch the rectilinear movement of the magnificent Gaboon Viper. All those muscles attached to each rib visibly working to move this snake along. The Gaboon Viper is the reason I keep Blood Pythons and Sumatran Pythons which are of the same body type, ambush predators. To me, the Gaboon Viper is one of the most beautiful snakes in the world. This one is a West African Gaboon Viper?

[@onlyren563]

This snake doesn’t look real to me for some reason 😂😂 looks like it’s walking rather then crawling just all weird 🧐

[@k.tucker2011]

Honestly, the first time I seen this snake I thought it was a toy 🤦 thank God I wasn't close to it

[@onlyren563]

@@k.tucker2011 Definitely looks like a toy! Can’t agree more!

[@bigl6322]

Pretty chill snake, I would be way pissed if I kept trying to exit, stage left, and some putz with a hook kept yanking me back!

[@alan.mcswank]

4:20 in other words, completely self-aware 😳

[@ramatgan1]

A beautiful snake and expertly camouflaged in the forests of Central and Western Africa under the dense vegetation.

[@denshv2072]

What a beauty!!!

[@OGRH]

Great video guys!!!

[@horseygurl143]

Wow! Very cool! gorgeous gaboon! So how often do they go get rid of that excess baggage holding them down? Must be a lot compared to other snakes. Great video!

[@west_coast_chondros]

one of my favorite looking snakes

[@JohnAsubonteng]

even for a million dollars i wont be in a close proximity to a green forest snake(non venomous) let alone a gaboon viper. you guys are really courageous

[@chaton20]

It’s kinda cute

[@sharonbrewer1956]

Also, salute to Josh for never taking his off the danger noodle

[@robertbishop5357]

What's the purpose of continuously sliding the hook under the snake while it's on the ground?

[@mirzamay]

He's keeping it in a central location for control. I believe a gaboon viper bite is pretty much 100% fatal without antivenom and fatal half the time with it. They are also the fastest striking, tied with the boomerang, or something like that. So don't let him crawl over here and there and get the drop on you. 🪦💀

[@ronaldbarnes3327]

Beautiful viper. Some are black and grey - almost blue. Another, the rhinoceras viper, is even more colorful but the strong patterns are beautiful on both. Anyone know what the horns on their snouts are for?

[@NBWDOUGHBOY]

Im terrified of Snakes but The Gaboon Viper is one of the Cooler Snake IMO

[@barbarawebster3203]

What an amazing creature I love the Gaboon Viper 🐍❤️

[@danielwade1978]

A snake that walks?!? Where the heck have I been? I’d say under a rock but I’d have been Gaboon food! 😆

[@brunabarreto3474]

That's a beautiful sock milipede.

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

Lol

[@derekw9608]

I could watch this beautiful snake inch worm its way across the ground all day lol

[@a.c.6475]

Hmm!...Josh knows full well how fast and capable these heavy vipers are!

[@dorianfarmer3350]

Hahaha at the poop packing trick

[@garyogilby3862]

The horns are the front sight for that badass gun.

[@ЕлінБерг]

I wonder if the constant smoothing with the hook is relaxing or pleasant feeling to the snake. It doesn't seem to get angry, like toddlers do when you keep putting them back where they started. Also - how do you get it back to its current home? Will it ever get to live wild again?

[@OGRH]

They caught it in Africa, after flying it over, they made this video, & flew it back where they released it back into the Kongo. Hope this helps!

[@aazhieryakes884]

People keep and breed venomous snakes. They are like regular pet snakes. Some folks even breed albino rattlesnakes. They are pets, like any other iguana or ball python someone has as a pet.

[@kevanewing8665]

Amazing how calm they are compared to a Lance head

[@markelhufft1921]

Now that's a spicy sausage. 🔥🔥🔥

[@sumaiyasoomro9784]

Small Strange Dangerous and Beautiful

[@philncider8077]

Beautiful 🐍

[@inutero10]

Gaboon viper is a cool ass name

[@damianw5861]

Cute snake that you can own as your last pet

[@xrpadoption3293]

Gorgeous!!!

[@Ontiming2023]

Talk about looks can be deceiving not like an average snake that’s fast so you might say oh he’s slow as shit no reaction time but the thing has more venom than the faster striking snakes

[@mariacristinaroque6203]

beautiful

[@doc-vg9lq]

how much does one of these cost?

[@Jett21887]

I didn’t believed until I found it on web, that snake move in unique way than other snakes 😅

[@morrisdennis]

They seem very docile, but don't be fooled

[@gingerisevil02]

How is this snake so relaxed?? I mean, it’s not like you can tame them can you?

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

It’s not so much about taming as it is creating a safe environment for both you and the snake. We kept our distance, had our tools ready, but at the same time did not antagonize the snake by any means and only used our tools to carefully put it back into position. Controlling your breathing (staying calm), not making quick/jerky movements help, and keeping an open area really help!

[@SB-199]

amazing snake 🐍... stripes are so mechanical... it looks like a toy snake... Amazing...

[@Youre_Right]

East African Gaboons don’t have horns and they have two pyramids under the eye. The puff adder is the snake with the fastest strike not the gaboon. Same family though.

[@HumanimalChannel]

Terrifying Looks like a wooden toy , the markings do their job its remarkable.

[@frontbattles8090]

I prefer the eastern Gaboon, its bigger and has an even wider head.

[@grimgolum6068]

If they will keep move around like that in few thousand years they can grow legs 100% because the evolution...

[@julians7268]

Wow. Gotta love the internet. What a cool video.

[@A0.917]

The pattern is freaky 😳

[@Steven_Rowe]

Everyone has their own idea what that fastest striking snake in the world is, some say it's the Australia death adder, who knows, not me.

[@Th-ch5ez]

It's a tsuchinoko.

[@Minilla4231]

I actually really like gaboon viper too

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

One of my absolute favorites!

[@leeandramurphy5903]

Gaboon vipers are one of the most beautiful snakes.

[@김어찌나이쁜지]

발있어서 걸어다니는건가요?

[@TheMegatron673]

where does the king baboon tarantula come from?

[@Alan-qb8dt]

Makes you wonder how evolution led that species to have such peculiar pattern when most snakes have really poor eye sight. Nature sure is mysterious 🤔

[@lawv804]

It's color pattern makes it look like it has dozens of legs.

[@angeleahsanchez5113]

the biggier the head the more venomous it is 😱

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

Thats actually an urban myth! Gaboon vipers have the longest tooth of any venomous snake, but they are not the most venomous and hide size has nothing to do with the toxicity level.

[@gingerisevil02]

@@thetattooedzookeeper6709 if you were bit by one of these guys, how doomed are you if ER doesn’t respond in time? I’d be terrified if I ever got bit that I was gonna die lol

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

@@gingerisevil02 so that depends on a couple of factors; how much venom is actually injected and your particular immune response. Also what comes into play is how close the nearest anti-venom is. Luckily here in the Midwest we have a a few hospitals that carry a variety of anti-venoms and if the local one doesn’t, one can be flown in. Basically, if you aren’t able to get proper treatment and anti-venom within the first 4hrs, it can be fatal.

[@kanomorojele4956]

4:46 🤔 if it is the fastest Striking then.. I'd say that Horn acts like the front-sight of a gun lol🔫 ..

[@GeorgeJones-qu6hg]

That snake moves and looks like a Gaboon Viper - large head, heavy body, catapillar motion - famly must be in Africa.

[@ahmetbey6466]

Gabon & cobra attack ?

[@evacervenova1736]

Som šťastná, ze tieto hady nežijú v mojej krajine. Jediny jedovaty had zijuci u nas je vretenica severská a ten chvala bohu do !esta nechodí 😅 da sa stretnut iba v lese a tam si davame pozor. Kvalitne tutisticke topanky, palicky a chodime iba po znacenych chodnikoch , vyhybame sa miestam jde by mohli byt. Slnečné stráne, skaly a pod. U nas je problem s medvedmi, premnozene a tie sa pre hadzaju aj okolo ludskych obydli a aj v mestach😅

[@DannyRedCheeks]

It’s like bizarroTyler and chandler

[@77Avadon77]

I always hold my poop in before I eat pizza for that same reason. I don't want to fly over the pizza and miss it 🤣😅🍕🍕🍕🍕

[@luiscuevas6756]

It walks waaaay too adorable for me not to pet it

[@richardnewton9586]

omg is that snake gorgeous

[@madrasman8883]

This snake is available with 'No Coil Guarantees'

[@binitasunwar6936]

When I am see this snak 1st time I think this is a robot snak 😅

[@elfiefromangelcity6142]

It's a bizarre chonk noodle...

[@freefloydfreefloyd6176]

I always wanted to know this....what will happen when I SWALLOW viper's venom right into my stomach ;>

[@Raphie009]

Unless you have open sores in your mouth/throat or stomach/intestinal ulcers,...nothing. Here's an easy mnemonic for remembering the difference between venom and poison: poison can't be _ingested_ , venom can't be _injected_ .

[@ChocolateMilk..]

@@Raphie009 You completely failed.

[@fajar2742]

CHONK !

[@ms-iz9ye]

Does Josh have a KZbin channel or anything?

[@thetattooedzookeeper6709]

Yup! kzbin.info/door/Y96NixNwyW_FiFjpioKzYA

[@beyondsafe9958]

Didn't the young guy died from a bite sometime ago. I think they said it was a black mamba

[@teyoskky5895]

Nope.