Highland copperhead, one of the most venomous snakes of Australia

[@TheErik249]

The photography is phenomenal! Whoever the cameraman or camerawoman is, you should be awarded for your awesome ability.

[@LivingZoology]

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[@chonqmonk]

What GORGEOUS snakes!!! I recently moved from Wisconsin to Montana, and I'm elated to report: *I HAVE A BACKYARD SNAKE!!!* I have wanted a wild backyard snake so much, ever since I decided not to keep captive snakes....and now I have one. He's a beautiful little terrestrial garter. Very mellow, doesn't mind us humans too much. I truly love the backyard snake!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for watching! So happy for you!!! Having a backyard snake is our dream for the future, enjoy it 🙂

[@cw4608]

Welcome to Montana

[@christophersmith2470]

I can't thank you 2 enough for showcasing a fairly rare and my 2nd favorite snake on Earth. The highland copperhead. Only my #1, Pseudechis Colletti, is more beautiful than the highland copperhead, IMO. I love the dark bronze coloration of the top 2/3 of their body, then brightly blended into the yellow then red scales. I also appreciate how you demonstrated their reluctance to bite, and causing the snake to turn its head away when your boot started crowding it. When striking, it wasn't even trying to actually bite you. As usual, unrivaled work from the best herp production team on Earth.

[@LivingZoology]

We are very happy that our video made you happy! Thank you so much!!!

[@nepaleseman1010]

Great as always. The photography and the sound of nature is phenomenal. Don't change your format its your format that puts you ahead of others, not that it's a competition.

[@cw4608]

I was going to post something along these lines, but you said it quite well!

[@garryembry9378]

Once again a brilliant video, you capture Australia so well. I live in Warburton Victoria and often see these beautiful highland copperheads, my favourite photo of one was taken on the first day of spring, it was cold and the snake was basking in the faint sunshine. Your science and videography are peerless. Thank you for featuring this overlooked snake.

[@LivingZoology]

Great that you enjoyed watching this video! The species you have in Warburton is the Lowland copperhead :) It looks quite similar to the Highland copperhead.

[@mikebeatty7814]

This is the first in depth video I have ever seen on this beautiful snake. Thank you so very much.

[@livius4278]

Your contents are always excellent!!!!! 💪💪

[@LivingZoology]

We are very happy you think so!

[@charlesgrotticelli2946]

Visually stunning. Beautiful. Very informative. Thank you.

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! 🙂

[@ronhughes1805]

Thanks for the such an interesting article. The photography is really amazing and certainly highlights the brilliant colours. So glad KZbin for reasons best known to itself popped with video.

[@etmax1]

Again absolutely mesmerising video footage of these beautiful snakes. We used to have a few acres in the Gippsland Lakes region of Victoria and there are a lot of lowland copperheads there. Once I was mowing the perimeter fence with a ride on mower and saw one in the grass tufts along the fence. Unfortunately all the ruckus startled it and it went under the mower 😞. If it would have kept its head down it would've been OK, but sadly it didn't. That was the only such unfortunate incident in 10 years, all the other times I encountered them I was able to admire them close up. I never expected there to be so many copperheads, growing up it was always brown, red belly black (my favourite) and tiger snakes I encountered.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much! Good to hear that most of your encounters with these snakes were peaceful and from a close distance :) These snakes are very peaceful and beautiful.

[@SiaK1976]

Nádhera,ste super pár sme šťastní že sme vás spoznali....držíme vám palce nech sa vám aj nadalej darí....

[@LivingZoology]

Ďakujeme! 🙂 Aj my sme radi, že sme vás stretli a mohli sme s vami objavovať krásy podmorského sveta. Nech sa vám tiež darí!

[@glennhynes5263]

Beautiful, yet again. Amazing that these snakes were considered not dangerous.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! These snakes are very calm 🙂

[@pothaudio]

The alternate scale pattern is amazing

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!

[@johninnh4880]

Another stunning video! Thanks for taking the time and effort to post it.

[@LivingZoology]

Very welcome! Great that you repeatedly enjoy watching our content 🙂

[@MountainMan2780-sj3hl]

Love the photography. ♥️ These are very common where I live and can spook you a bit if you encounter one trail running, but they are a very chill snake.

[@mariuzkreuz9373]

Love your videos, i used to think all australian snakes are agressive this one is so chill and a stuning individual!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you! Some Australian species are very defensive, yes. But in general, most Australian species are calm as most snakes worldwide are 🙂

[@lukebrady3728]

Hi guys, I have seen a few of your videos and absolutely love them. Really appreciate the work and production that's gone into making these. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺

[@LivingZoology]

Hello to Melbourne! Very nice to read that you love our videos, thank you! 🙂

[@prasannamane2989]

The Content you post here is definitely more better then animal planet and nat Geo.....Keep up the hardwork 🙏🙏

[@bradsillasen1972]

Way better, and CREDIBLE :)

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much, we appreciate it! 💚

[@highorbit]

Outstanding! I could see the pupil of the eye changing in many shots.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! Yes, well spotted! 🙂

[@DodderingOldMan]

Nice... I love this part of Australia, used to go camping in this region quite a bit as a kid. I'm pretty sure I saw one of these on a riverbank once, definitely looked about the right size and I think it had a bit of that reddish colouration... was several decades ago though, my memory is hazy :P

[@LivingZoology]

This part of Australia reminded us of Europe a bit! Thanks for watching our video and great that it brought back memories!

[@seanbennett7916]

Love the videos ❤. I especially like the ones you narrative as you go. Your doing very professional videos id love to see and hear you more often, reading text on screen is great sometimes but seeing and hearing is good too.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much! We try to combine nature history footage with text and some behind the scenes where we talk 🙂

[@adrianw3985]

Great content, keep it coming.

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks, will do!

[@marty.8225]

Fantastic capture as per usual 👍I visit the Australian highlands regularly and found them to be a very shy almost docile snake.Their colours come alive in the summer when the sun lights them up.

[@LivingZoology]

Many thanks! We really enjoyed filming these snakes, they are beautiful and placid.

[@tommyworles5344]

As a person who hates snakes but yet i learn to live coexisting with them because how important they are to a healthy ecosystem i always learn so much from you all really wish a sponsor or a nature channel would sogn you guys you have more then earned it. Also love that you use feet in your description now us people in the USA at least most not good with metric system hate to pause then go kook up length and weight.

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[@tkreitler]

Excellent work as usual. Have you been on any of the herpetology podcasts? I would like to listen to more about how you both got into doing this.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! Here are some interviews with us! m.kzbin.info/aero/PLj80DUXdImxYHfptFpqBAt8dcR4IbPtdB

[@tkreitler]

@@LivingZoology I didn't think to look on your channel. Forgive my laziness. Thank you!

[@KimSpurre104]

These are such beautiful snakes. I really didn’t know about them before I watched this.

[@LivingZoology]

Hello, thank you very much for watching! Great that you like this species!

[@doug-Hakura]

What a great colour on the reddish one. Thanks.

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you like it! Thanks!

[@Blues40]

Beautiful!! Thank you for sharing 🥰

[@LivingZoology]

Many many thanks! 🙂

[@johnschlesinger2009]

Thanks for showing the American copperhead - such a beautiful species.

[@LivingZoology]

Our pleasure! It is very interesting to us that such different snakes got the same common name!

[@Freakskpp]

So happy when i got the notification about a new video from you guys , and i knew it will be again a video with great content, amazing photography and new things to learn , thank you for your amazing work once again ❤️❤️❤️

[@LivingZoology]

We are delighted to read your comment! Thank you!

[@Blanchy10]

They are very cold tolerant. I saw one in a ski resort, early spring full snow cover. It was travelling along an over snow route

[@LivingZoology]

Yes, they are! Very similar to European adders here!

[@barry7608]

Nice, I live in red belly heaven here on the Central Coast of NSW. I have some great vids of my own as I quite encourage their presence. They are pretty shy, but when you come across a. big one it's a bit startling but you reach for the camera and zoom away. Love you work take care.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for watching! Red-bellies are cool! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5ymZX-hfNONm8U

[@Afro408]

Excellent video! Well filmed and narrated and I loved the fact that we could hear all our beautiful bush sounds, the kind I hear everyday in the NSW highlands, instead of some awful music. Thank you! 😁👍👏👏👏👏👏X1000

[@LivingZoology]

@@Afro408 Thank you very much! We are happy that you enjoyed watching our video! 🙂

[@sventer198]

What a beauty!

[@LivingZoology]

It is, thank you for watching!

[@bradsillasen1972]

Ha! An elapid trying to be a natricine, cool :) Beautiful species, and stunning videography as always.

[@LivingZoology]

Many thanks! Yes, this elapid has a similar ecological niche as Natrix natrix for example!

[@seshasatyakrishna5016]

Any chance that you guys can film: Golden Lance Head

[@LivingZoology]

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[@jeromebarlet8573]

I didn't know this specie ! Superb snake !

[@LivingZoology]

Awesome that you learned about it from our video!

[@jeromebarlet8573]

@@LivingZoology yes !!😉😉

[@rishekkumar_]

Size doesn't matter 😅 Here it is proven. Being approx 3.5 ft long with holding Australian most venomous snake. thanks to team for bringing the clip of that kind of beauty ❤

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much for watching! 🙂

[@cameraman655]

Beautiful snake, but I think that our Copperhead here in Texas is a bit more stunning, though nowhere as venomous as yours also ours is a Pit Viper. I lived in Aussie throughout much of the 80s and 90s (Brizzie area) and saw my share of Common Browns and 1 Taipan.

[@LivingZoology]

Copperheads in Texas are amazing, we agree! We were lucky to film 2 individuals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYu5gJ-Gh7Cmfdk

[@geist-0]

Yet another piece of peerless videography. Keep it up guys. Off on a tangent while watching, I was struck by how these elapids are in nearly all behavioral ways the opposite of the eastern browns and I was wondering why humans get so fascinated with dangerous snakes, the more so the better. Imagine how different would be the impact of this video if all your comments were about how tame and puppy-dog friendly were these snakes. Why did such (human) behavior evolve, what's the advantage?

[@TheJacksnipe]

If they were adapted to cold weather we could establish a population outside Australia, maybe in Germany, so that I don't have to travel so far 🙂 Nice video - like always!

[@LivingZoology]

They would maybe survive in Europe! One species of copperhead lives in Tasmania, which is quite cold 🙂

[@nassunarhania]

Wow! Australia is the one of the luckiest country with beautiful snakes.

[@LivingZoology]

Australia certainly has a high snake diversity!

[@desiolle2874]

We have Copperheads. Not these though. They're beautiful snakes and want no smoke.

[@johnsimon2988]

Does Australia have the least inhabitable various environments across the Country? Why else so many species of venomous elapids? Fast moving and difficult to catch prey as well?

[@LivingZoology]

There are many regions with a very harsh environment. Also, there are no vipers in Australia and few colubrids so elapids evolved into typical viper or colubrid ecological niches.

[@ahbenjamin2889]

May I ask which ONE is the most venomous snake in Australia??

[@LivingZoology]

This one: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3LEiGaLZp2lsLM

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[@Ducatirati]

You say the Eastern Brown is deadlier , which it is , the 2nd deadliest but aside from Pseudonaja Textilis, what about P Nuchalis, P Affinis/Dugite , P Mengdeni, / Gwada , and Red Bellied black, Pseudenchis Porphyrincus or King Brown, a Black snake Psuedechis Australis

[@LivingZoology]

P. textilis, P. affinis, P. mengdeni, P. nuchalis have more toxic or similarly toxic venom, the rest have less toxic venom.

[@Ducatirati]

@LivingZoology thank you , graciously , I've oft wondered , sincerely thanx completely computer challenged , and at 66 the memory tests you out , cheers

[@LivingZoology]

@@Ducatirati Welcome!

[@seanbennett7916]

Need to add these to school curriculum. We have it very easy in NA a 5 year old can tell a venomous from a non. But lots of places its not so easy, it looks more or less like any water snake. Would be easy just to grab it even knowing you could be bit, but that ones a lot more of a reality check, your going to have a very bad day if you do.

[@LivingZoology]

Education is very much needed, we agree! Please share our videos where you can!

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[@richardbuczkowski2709]

Very nice video. Beautiful snake. But, the Eastern Copperhead in the US is much prettier. By the way, where are you and your gf/wife from? The accent sounds European. Thank you guys. I love the t-shirt I bought from you guys as well. I’ll wear it proudly to show off your KZbin channel. Lol😂

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! The Eastern copperhead is a stunning species for sure. Did you watch this video? m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCVf4iciJp4oMk We live in the Czech Republic, Zuzana is Czech, I am Slovak 🙂 So nice that you bought a t-shirt!!! Which one? Thank you very much.

[@richardbuczkowski2709]

@@LivingZoology I bought the one with your logo you use on your KZbin videos. I bought a black tshirt. I’m Polish, but not from Poland. I was born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland.

[@johnsimon2988]

Australian copperheads are more frightening than US copperheads. By a longshot.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@LivingZoology]

They certainly have much more toxic venom.

[@BestInTheWorld365]

Is there anything in Australia that isn't highly venomous, dangerous, or out to kill you?

[@LivingZoology]

Yes, many animals there are not venomous or dangerous.

[@BestInTheWorld365]

@@LivingZoology 😅 thanks but I think I'll stick to pics and videos of Australia

[@claudiamanta1943]

9:29 Did they tell you that? That’s so not true. No snake likes cold weather especially when it’s also cloudy.

[@LivingZoology]

This species does not like hot weather, it thrives in cold climates.

[@paultrott-p6y]

The only snake in Australia that is found above the snow line I believe. Seen lots in the alpine areas and even one up at 1950m surprisingly