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[@xBloodxFangx]

We went hiking once and spotted a rattlesnake hanging out on a rock. My dad asked "They're poisonous right?" I said "Nah lots of people eat them." and he looked at me all confused.

[@williammerkel1410]

People that don't know the difference between poisonous and venomous deserve to be teased and messed with.

[@willow2950]

@@williammerkel1410 agreed, bro my pet peeve is when people mix them up, I always mess with them and people look at me like I’m crazy-

[@artsyscrub3226]

​@@williammerkel1410 Unless it's a language barrier thing bc some languages have the same word for both poisonous and venomous

[@williammerkel1410]

@@artsyscrub3226 fluent English speakers deserve it, you are very much correct though that some languages do not make the distinction, and even if they do separate them linguistically eventually it may not be in the same way that English does.

[@Yanivosaurus]

@@artsyscrub3226 The you are an idiot for knowing those languages Jk Jk

[@giovannigiovanni9377]

"tHeYEr goNe"😂😂😂

[@mvgs1225]

What is the name of the snake

[@mundo8169]

😂😂😂😊

[@havik7069]

You know snake is dangerous if you see it wielding a switchblade saying, "come here Mama real slow now! Gimme that wallet, car keys, and your telephone number!"

[@elliewellie_YouTube]

No snake is dangerous if you leave it alone.

[@Yanivosaurus]

“Nothing is dangerous if you don’t go near it”

[@TillerTH]

Cottonmouth has entered the chat

[@themaskedman8668]

Bro i wanna pet them all 😂 no joke only if i could with the venemous

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

@@TillerTHfunny how ignorant people can be, thinking a snake can chase you 😂

[@FighteroftheNightman]

​@@the_canadian_goose6033they absolutely do chase you. Anyone from the south east us knows that.

[@debraheyneker3545]

And DONT KILL THEM....❤

[@zebsphotography]

Hiking in Australia you just have to consider every snake is venomous, and then go and pick them up.

[@Ragnarra]

Like Steve Irwin.

[@LosttRebel]

​@Ragnarra NOOO FOULL 💀

[@Ragnarra]

@@LosttRebel use a snake handler stick though and don’t be stupid. Likewise don’t try to cut its head off, its cold blooded so it can keep moving for up to an hour afterwards.

[@jacobcarolan1172]

You don’t really have to worry about poisonous snakes. Just don’t eat random snakes you find in the woods and you will be totally safe.

[@mlane2012]

That's what I say, " Let them be".

[@sakuraice22]

My tip is to learn about the dangerous snakes in your area, if you know what you shouldn't mess with you'll be fine with the rest.

[@levigerman8187]

Garter snakes are awesome, we've had many as pets.

[@nealp.2841]

Garter snakes are disgusting!! They have that musk that smells horrible! They're not good pets..

[@Yanivosaurus]

Before I ate them all! JK JK

[@Lucid_-6]

​@@nealp.2841oh shut up ive had mine for 4 years and hes never musked

[@elliewellie_YouTube]

They can actually cohab in captivity!

[@camarofish344]

@@Lucid_-6one time I caught one out in the woods, that musk reeks to high hell… still love garters tho

[@Unknown_Gamer999]

Most of the time you leave them alone they'll leave you alone....

[@Project_Prescott]

garter snake be vibin there

[@KaotikWolff]

Well said my man lol. Though there is one snake that is considered venomous and poisonous. The keelback I believe it’s called.

[@mothsmothy]

Yep! The tiger keelback is a poisonous snake. Odd how nature works sometimes.

[@jynnsomething4617]

Some locales of garter are also poisonous. Note that he didn't say snakes are only venomous though, he said the only ones you need to worry about are venomous. Unless you're going around eating snakes, their poison is irrelevant.

[@richardhincemon]

Asian tiger keelback snake 😮

[@mantisdude4212]

​@@mothsmothy venomous too. One of the few colubrids to have caused fatalities.

[@SpencerHHO]

In the colder states in Australia, Victoria and Tasmania it's easy to tell. If it lives in thise states it is venomous and it is probably VERY venemous. In warmer parts of the country you also have plenty of pythons that are relatively benign as well as Taipans lol

[@Ragnarra]

As far as everyone is concerned everything wants to kill you in Australia even the damn wombats if you hit one in your car. If its not the snakes, its the crocs, if its not the crocs its the jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, rockfish, the spiders hell even the dingoes will take small children because they are easy prey. Its best to assume the worst and move on. Try not to die.

[@silentopinion]

I've noticed that some venomous snakes have perpetual angry eyes too.

[@ThememeLizatd]

I found a ringed neck snake in my fire escape and it forgot how to snake

[@klaytonb9609]

Honestly, I'd probably be one of those dead guys because I grew up being taught that if they have slits for pupils and a triangular head then it's venomous but if it has a round head and round pupils then it's relatively harmless.

[@JesseWright68]

That rule applies to vipers, but if you use it and pick up a coral snake you'll soon learn the rule's shortcomings.

[@_StarFlower]

They have more triangular heads than the nonvenomous 😂

[@wolfstar5000]

Most snakes that have slit pupils are nocturnal.

[@jynnsomething4617]

Ironically garter snakes are venomous, just not medically significant unless you're a frog or fish. Even more ironically, some locales are also poisonous.

[@Thebrickhouse01]

Awesome advice!

[@trinityadams2733]

Also, most venomous snakes have arrow shaped heads, so there's also somethinh to look out foe, wven though non-venomous snakes use that to their advantage by making their heads into an arrow shape

[@pvzkingGW2]

All venomous snakes have one thing in common they all have venom

[@peeperleviathan2839]

🤯

[@emuhlbauer1190]

Instructions unclear, booped a black mamba, bc i was 100% sure it was a black mamba🤣

[@GoingSwimmingly]

Honestly I think your best bet is to know which snakes are dangerous in your area, and try to recognize these

[@NorthViewModelShop]

I just stay away from danger noodles all together

[@PeskyBee1616]

no I have to pick them up

[@camarofish344]

I will grab it if it isn’t fast enough

[@22christyking]

Wow thanks that really help

[@girunit1387]

For the record, Garter snakes are rear fanged venomous snakes.

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

Mildly venomous

[@shadowcharizard4592]

their venom is not medically significant however, unless you happen to be allergic

[@mvubu6823]

Treat all guns like they are loaded.

[@noureldin6388]

Good video

[@Birchlead]

Always be familiar with your local fauna and flora.

[@shadowcharizard4592]

yeah, I'm super lucky that there's only 4 venomous species where I live, so I memorized them, anything I don't recognize is probably safe

[@MindBlownShorts1]

Thank you sir, for not explaining HOW TO TELL IF A SNAKE IS DANGEROUS ☠️

[@shadowcharizard4592]

thats because the only way to tell if a snake is dangerous is to recognize them, if you don't know what kind of snake it is, leave it alone

[@ZoroastrianFlame]

I'm Australian and seen Browns, red bellys, Southern Taipan, Tiger. Never seen one that didn't want to have a go. You Americans have such nice snakes. Even the Venemous snakes say look out I'm about.. I dare you to turn rocks over down my way.. Mwah from Australia

[@houndgirl7365]

We do~ too bad people are killing off rattlers indiscriminately leading them to an evolutionary pathway for them to lose their rattles. People are so dense snakes are not evil they are defensive and want to get away. If they attack its because they think they can't escape :/

[@jimmyhamm6041]

I use to as a kid flip rocks and get ridd of poisonous water snakes . But now I just let them be what they were created to do hunt small nuance mammals destructive vermin.

[@ZoroastrianFlame]

@@jimmyhamm6041 Here in Australia we're taught as kids to treat each piece of tin, or rock as being something home. The "natives" aren't nice here in Australia..

[@jamesontheSecond]

You can normally see venom glands on venomous snake they'll have a diamond/heart shaped head

[@JunaidWolf3]

Him: “If your not 💯 sure what a snake is u should let it be” Me: a snake is a reptile that doesn’t have arms or legs but is made up of mostly muscle and moves by moving it’s body

[@secondsfromdisaster5360]

So just so people know about any animal with the "slit/cat eye" pupils. Those kind of eyes belong to nocturnal animals, daytime animals have round pupils

[@SangitaMalik-xq7rj]

Venomous snakes are usually hyper active

[@cb9996]

Yeah im not trying to be close enough to a suspected venomous snake to be able to see its pupils

[@Listenclearly1979]

How do you know? Live in Australia, almost all of our snakes are deadly if you get bitten

[@kels--]

Maybe published research?

[@epicgamer2.o148]

How did you now

[@Listenclearly1979]

@@epicgamer2.o148 I'm Australian, it's common knowledge here, you have to be aware when outdoors here or you'll end up in a bad way

[@Listenclearly1979]

I should have worded my comment better. Sorry

[@brandibastian4193]

Yeah, in the US those charts we saw back in school about the slip pupils and the heat pits and the belly scales and all that are usually good indicators of who's dangerous and not but not always because you know that's just for pit vipers. And there's one North American snake that has medically significant venom that is not a pit viper and that's a coral snake. And then you've got stuff like hognoses which can be kept as pets but they technically have venom So I feel like if you're in the US and you're in a situation where you see a snake and you're like, is it dangerous or not? That might be a good rule of thumb but you probably should not get that close if it's dangerous. But if you like stepped on something and got bit that would be a good way to find out if it's dangerous or not

[@iLoveBigKnockers]

Pretty sure all venomous snakes are venomous, and there's always one good way to find out

[@cavi5514]

We get snakes that come from the woods behind our house to nest in our front yard every year. As the babies grow they start climbing all over the bushes along the front of the house. I’ll be going up the stairs and suddenly all the bushes will shake as the snakes dart back down.

[@mikemoffitt8645]

Excellent Advice !!!!

[@barbscale]

There is one rule all venomous snakes follow. They all have venom

[@johndotter351]

North American Gopher snakes loves sharing its tail like a rattle snake and coil up like them!

[@squigglydickley1851]

The thing with the slitted eyes is only true in North America as far as I know. All our venomous snakes, aside from the coral snake, are pit vipers, and have heat sensory pits and slitted eyes. We’re a little lucky that way.

[@trunkk]

Coral snakes do not fit the pupal description. They are also the most venomous in North America.

[@squigglydickley1851]

​@trunkk that's why I said "aside from the coral snake" 😂 they're really identifiable anyway, red touch yellow and all that. Also, I wasn't aware that they were the most venomous snake in North America, so I learned something new today; thank you!

[@SirGiraffe1]

I believe I’ve been on that trail before. Is it by chance at coopers rock in West Virginia?

[@thescaredshadow]

What a handsome lad.

[@hereticFox716]

Just cause i feel like leaving a comment heres two funfacts: not every venomous snake is dangerous, hognose snakes are venomous but harmless to humans unless allergic and theres a species of venomous snake that is also poisonous which is part of the rhabdophis genus/family that are related to Garter snakes

[@thereallawnnerd]

Slit pupils only works in the US unless it's a coral snake

[@JohnJohn-ry7qt]

Im just watching this so i can grab a snake and take a selfie with it

[@MrBusyBusinessMan]

If its got a triangle looking head, cat eyes, and curls back when you get close to it, its probably a pit viper. Very venomous

[@shadowcharizard4592]

good luck getting close enough to check the eyes, many snakes flatten their head to appear venomous, and nearly all snakes curl up to strike, so none of those are reliable

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

All boas and pythons have cat eyes

[@zerochaotics1135]

I've disprove the slit pupils thing to friends so much, seeing as I own 4 constrictors, and 1 mildly venomous hog nose

[@shawnmoore8460]

As a fellow hognose owner I do the same thing I also usually bring up how black mambas and king cobras have round pupils

[@zerochaotics1135]

@@shawnmoore8460 it can get tiring but my hognose is a friendly boy so he's easy to use as an example Especially how snakes pupils can dilate like ours.

[@eatingelizabethsfrizbee]

Best advice for the outdoors, leave the wildlife alone 😊

[@eviedart4585]

As explained in the video, poisonous is deadly or very harmful to *eat* or *drink.* Venomous is deadly or harmful when it is *injected*

[@tomatkinson6996]

All venomous snakes in the United States (except the Coral Snake) do in fact have vertical pupils. Here in the USA this applies. In order to differentiate a Coral Snake from other "ringed patterned" snakes, besides round pupils remember this..if red touches yellow it can kill a fellow. Red touches black..venom lack

[@thekingofnot8453]

These captions are killing my eyes

[@dontask4413]

Leave them alone. The equivalent for us is like aliens picking you up and then putting you back after playing with you.

[@timhensley3695]

When my neighbor was a little girl she was walking a dirt path and saw a black snake killing a copperhead. It twisted around it and then stretched out breaking every bone in its body 😱

[@elisiahpoe6996]

The black mamba i held said otherwise.

[@kaithecrow9931]

i heard that most venomous snakes have diamond shaped heads

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

That’s only for vipers

[@mouserr]

head shape is a more valid way to identify a venomous snake. most but not all have sharp wedge shaped heads also snakes with clearly visible pits on their snouts should be treated as if they are confirmed pit vipers and left alone because pit vipers tend to have a short fuse that was burnt up yesterday

[@hereticFox716]

Nah a pit vipers fuse burnt up the day it was born

[@jynnsomething4617]

Head shape is also not a reliable indicator. A lot of snakes flatten their heads to look like they have that "triangular head", and a lot of venomous snakes don't have that head shape at all.

[@D3lil4hh]

@@jynnsomething4617exactly and some harmless snakes have similar head shapes to some

[@deputydan2226]

They're all dangerous noodles, however mostly all venomous snakes have slight hoods over their eyes, but if you dont know what you're doing, maybe avoid them all 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Karl.Jayce-DE]

I was walking a few days through the forest and in front of me on trail was this little snake. I was standing there literally 30min scared to cross over 😅 he had his head up all the time... eventually i ran on another side.. snakes are my worst fear. Small or big..

[@edwardsmith-mf1co]

I believe that slits in the eyes is an American thing possibly north and South America in Australia and Africa not so much around add snake can be deadly

[@vernon_Richmond]

If you don't see a raddle on a raddle snake you know it was a accident that happened to it

[@PaleotrexProductions]

No I'm not worried about venom, I'm worried about if snake is poisonous. I want to bite into it and live

[@bigbox1469]

i feel sorry for everyone who didnt finish this video

[@DRAGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOONNN]

It is my life choices by the fact that I love picking up snakes I'm 9 lol

[@erikadowdy2382]

U should probably Just Let It Be with EVERY animal u see😊

[@DonAlfonso63]

I thought all snakes with no round head are venomous, but not all with round head are not.😀

[@tylersharp5751]

You can’t identify based of singular characteristics usually but that’s not to say venomous snakes don’t have genetic rules being that they have more arrow shaped over rounded heads or the slit pupil thing also if it’s got a rattle best leave ol boy alone

[@airborne9534]

mess with it, you stress with it

[@AdrenalinePumpingCoasters]

I live in UK and I have 6 pet snakes 3 are corn snakes and 3 a ball pythons and soon I'm getting a Californian kingsnake and the only snake I need to worry about is a black adder because I know what they look like and they live on the hills near my house and they are the only venomous snake in uk

[@shekm0de]

That didn’t give an answer whatsoever lol. What a waste of my time

[@averysteele1289]

A lot of venomous snakes have triangular heads

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

Only vipers do

[@BlackKraya]

If unsure, boop it

[@vibix340]

I got bite by a copper head it was a baby so I thought that your channel is very interesting

[@Kim-ev8pr]

Good advice! Leave all wild animals alone!!

[@goerizal1]

a boomslang have rounded pupils.

[@NqniKun2001]

Just ask him bruh💀

[@VanishingPoint1970]

I love snakes

[@juliehayden5656]

I caught a few Dead garter, snakes

[@dakotafrank5907]

Ya not me. I’m chasing a black mamba when I see one

[@bizarrebravo9874]

Also, garter snakes are rear fanged venomous.

[@pacotaco5526]

No they are not rear fanged and their venom is so mild it barely has any affect

[@vamsikrishnakrishnaraj-cu9vp]

You see a snake ..........you run from it . End of story .

[@jimmyhamm6041]

Was by my riverside in my home town and was walking close to the water 💧 and so masterfully a water snake was so camouflaged with the dirt shore I backed off and grabbed a long stick dropped it over it and no movement tried a second time and he moved . Scary .

[@littlechickenman]

I know when i see a snake around if its venomous or not... Because where i live all the snakes are venomous 🙃 (except of course the ones in zoos).

[@tassaladden]

Were i live the only snake that is venomous has patterns, the harmless one does not.

[@jeegsaw527]

circular pupil means the snake is diurnal, right ?

[@user-li1wt8fu7m]

Correct! it also sometimes means Crepuscular. Which means up at Dusk, Like Cornsnakes for example.

[@bryanbryan5214]

All snakes are venomous that’s how you stay alive.

[@nealp.2841]

All venomous snakes have a triangular shaped head because of the venom glands behind their eyes.

[@pacotaco5526]

Not necessarily true Although all pit vipers (rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths) in the eastern United States have broad triangular heads, so do some non-venomous species such as water snakes (Nerodia).

[@richardhincemon]

Elapid family of snakes have round pupils with smaller heads and Viperidae family of snakes have triangle heads with elliptical pupils many snakes can flatten their heads making them appear triangle shaped.😮

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

That’s just plain wrong

[@rajithakanakam2474]

Which type of snake

[@user-pe5nh9xw2u]

What is the name of this snake

[@SwiFTDBL]

You can look for venom glands but like he said some venomous snakes don’t have big glands so…

[@the_canadian_goose6033]

Most venomous snakes don’t have visibly big venom glands

[@chewybaca4159]

Solid advice but the question i have for you is did you know that technically garter snakes are fixed Fanged elapids much like the hognose and are technically venomous

[@chasinbns2868]

They are rear fanged not fixed fanged like elapids

[@Mr.crocodile1]

Bro all I find is COPRA HEADS AT MY HOUSE how do u find all the harmless stuff?

[@olorinmagus4479]

“How do you know if a snake is dangerous?” You assume it is and leave it the fuck alone

[@bolezy9070]

Garder snakes are actually rear fang venomous.

[@jynnsomething4617]

Close. They don't have fangs. Hognoses are rear-fanged. Garters have the glands for venom, but not the fangs. They effectively grind their venom (which sits in their saliva) into their prey. Some locales are also poisonous because of certain salamanders they eat.

[@liammorgangreer6884]

Venom snakes are not afraid to run because they know they can kill you

[@__tadpole__8195]

They actually usually do run. Just like most snakes. Because most of the time even if they bite a predator they could get bit back. Venom is used to subdue prey first, self defense last.

[@pacotaco5526]

Actually bee stings kill more people than snakes do.

[@shadowcharizard4592]

venom killing you tomorrow doesn't help the snake today, and they know that, the want you to be away