Venomous palm pit vipers from Costa Rica, Bothriechis, African bush vipers, Indian pit vipers

[@davidgray761]

Just fantastic!! Thanks for all your great work!

[@LivingZoology]

Many thanks! Happy that you like this video, check out more on our channel!

[@thatdudeingray4546]

No narrator, no music. Just peaceful nature sounds, just magnificent!!!

[@LivingZoology]

Great that you love our style of presenting content! 🙂

[@adamanteus11]

another great video , i love the arboreal vipers :)

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! :)

[@tvland2007]

Such beautiful and deadly creatures! Fascinating!

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@hendu7111]

Stunning video. Man. Top notch on these. I need to get to Costa Rica.

[@LivingZoology]

You should! Thank you for watching!

[@herbhunter5520]

Again, beautiful stuff!

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks again!

[@apple11117]

Wow!!! Thank you so much for another amazing, high quality documentary! I love this channel so much!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much for your comment! It is great to know that you love our channel! :)

[@sahasmehta1608]

This is so cool wish you guys had more attention

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you!!

[@deckard5558]

The sounds! So lovely!

[@LivingZoology]

Glad to know that you love the sounds!

[@misssweetpea6936]

Your channel is better than a National Geographic

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much!!! We appreciate this a lot!

[@rosesippel2932]

Such BEAUTIFUL coloration of these pit vipers

[@LivingZoology]

We agree, their coloration is exquisite!

[@marcelocoto3245]

Rewatching this nice video! I remember when I saw a Bothriechis nigroviridis in Coronado, San José, Costa Rica. That was back in July of 2017. I even took a picture of the snake. Unfortunately, it wasn't a very high quality pic. But at least I remember the snake very vividly

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it again! :) These pit vipers are really stunning!

[@florianrav8179]

incredible video thank you !

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@SUSHANT6611]

Amazing footage....i enjoy every video of thia channel....you guys are doing amazing work.... Just one suggestion add background music to videos....it will keep viewers connected to it.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much!!! Actually, most people enjoy the fact that there is no music just sound of nature 🙂We have many comments saying this.

[@steveknight8046]

I prefer the natural sounds included in the video, I think music would spoil it for me if I'm honest. The sound of the flowing water and birds singing is very soothing. No music can replicate that in my opinion.

[@vijayadurga9199]

Very knowledgeable and interesting documentary to the nature lovers.

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!!!

[@markrumfola9833]

Thank you again folks.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you too!

[@fullyenvenomated757]

I'm a fairly new subscriber and venomous snake keeper and enthusiast. Im very impressed with your work. The amount of time, energy and patience is shown in every video. Thank you for educating the misinformed about these beautiful and wonderful creatures. Maybe one day everyone will understand that just because they aren't furry warm and cuddly doesn't mean that they don't have a purpose. Looking forward to another video.

[@LivingZoology]

Welcome aboard! Thank you so much, we are happy to hear that you like our videos! We hope to educate as many people as possible with our channel.

[@Lucian_King]

Yeah, every single animal out there in nature certainly do have a purpose. They control and maintain the good health of the ecosystem, balancing it as it should. They all are important in their own way in the food chain. For instance, if we happen to eradicate all snakes there are on the planet, then there'd be over population, leading to the destruction of nature itself as there won't be any balance at all..

[@jameskandy]

Wow stunning!!!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you! 😊

[@marcrudolph4170]

Very nice, love the quality of the video and the examples of convergent evolution. Fascinating -- thanks for taking the time.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much for watching!!! :)

[@user-pt2zj8jp9q]

Amazing.video.venomous.snake.

[@LivingZoology]

Many many thanks.

[@jozsefemodi8724]

Fantastic shots!! Beautiful creatures! Thank you for your insight into this world!

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@joshbainbridge5086]

Bush vipers and cobras are my favourite snakes

[@LivingZoology]

These two groups of snakes are awesome!

[@richardrozet2790]

Your videos just keep getting better!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much! We are happy that you think so :)

[@thomaszaccone3960]

They are quite beautiful.

[@LivingZoology]

We completely agree!

[@alfazoologist9741]

Wow! This is going to be great for me to know more about these vipers, because recently I drawn the photo of Bush viper.

[@LivingZoology]

Hopefully this video will be interesting :)

[@alfazoologist9741]

@@LivingZoology Yeah, thank you so much.

[@DevaNeeramanii]

So Exquisitely beauty-full!

[@LivingZoology]

Many thanks! Happy that you like it!!

[@marcelocoto3245]

Amazing video

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!

[@terrysordal1693]

Another amazing/awesome video! Thanks LZ!!!

[@LivingZoology]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for returning to our channel!

[@PaulJonas-q7p]

Exceptional documentary educational and enjoyable but ive got to disagree on the first arboreal snake in costorica it was lime green you said its camouflage was Exceptional i think it stood out like a sore thumb very different green compared to the surrounding jungle easy to spot for any experienced herpatologist i doubt you'd agree thanks for an excellent film

[@glennhynes5263]

Just beautiful.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!

[@anandg5843]

No.☝: resplendent beauty of B. lateralis 🙏

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for your opinion! :) B. lateralis is a cool species!

[@anandg5843]

@@LivingZoology immensely colourful; 🙏, we have Malabar Vine Snake (Ahaetulla malabarica) here in Kerala... almost similar colour tone but more metallic green shade...cool and shy.

[@JuggleZephyr]

Great film! However the part on the Atheris nitschei is a bit misleading I think. In the film it is suggested that this species is restricted to high elevation forests, which is not the case. Atheris nitschei is also found in medium and high elevation savanna, swamps and woodland, starting as low as 1000m asl. It makes this convergent even more interesting I think! Why would Bothriechis nigroviridis and Atheris nitschei look so similar if they do not necessarily live in similar habitat ? It might be more related to their lifestyle and diet ? It might also be that Atheris nitschei is a montane forest species that adapted to lower elevation habitats...

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you!!! We did not want to say that Atheris nitschei lives only in forests, but the habitat we saw was a montane forest, so we could show only footage of it. We focused on the convergence, because we think that it will be interesting for many viewers and many did not hear about it before maybe. It would be great to see nitschei in some other habitat also, we think that they adapted to lower elevations and evolved primarily for similar habitat as nigroviridis.

[@JuggleZephyr]

@@LivingZoology No worries! It might just be me nitpicking, I just think it might have been good to add a commentary on the real range and habitats of nitschei. Otherwise some viewers might get a wrong idea. Convergence can be due to many things, not only habitats and elevation. In this case I agree it is likely that both those species adapted to high elevation forests, but we have no real proof of that and only studies on population history might give us answers.

[@mainemade300]

Do one on trantulas that would be awesome 👍👍👍👍

[@LivingZoology]

We are specialised on snakes and other reptiles and amphibians, but we sometimes see tarantulas 🙂

[@PaulJonas-q7p]

Be awesome I keep old world tarantulas poecolotheria Metallica regalis stropotopelma calciatum just these few for now but many on my wish list thanks freind

[@angangaus]

Oh dear here we go...😍😍😍

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks for watching!!! Which species did you like the most?

[@MrGert1960]

Beautiful snakes, pure nature.......fantastic footage as always! 5 stars!

[@LivingZoology]

Many thanks! Happy about it!! :)

[@sauravsmn45]

These snakes are very beautiful and I think deadly too.

[@LivingZoology]

Yes, they are beautiful! Species shown in this video are not extremely venomous, they are small also so the amount of venom injected is not big.

[@catonhlee]

My favorite types of snakes!

[@LivingZoology]

Great, so you will really enjoy watching this one! :)

[@ygjt76v0-----]

Enjoying bite of snake 😂

[@ceratophrys]

nice and interesting, thank's !

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you! 🙏🙂

[@petrnovak3445]

Zdravím nádhera ale musím uznat že ta zvířata v přírodě vypadají lépe než v lidské péči... Díky s pozdravem Petr.

[@LivingZoology]

Díky za sledování! Hadi vypadají moc krásně ve svém přirozeném prostředí! Tito zelení krasavci dvojnásob!

[@gentilfilho]

Hello guys, i do think that's a documentary about Bothrops species would be great. Crotallus is common in some areas and can be a good option too, but Lachesis is quite rare mainly in the Atlantic Forest. I am a huge fan of your channel! You are doing a great work including to professional herpetologists

[@LivingZoology]

Hello Gentil, thank you so much!!! We are happy that you like our channel! Brazil is certainly very interesting for us and we hope to visit it in the future! Finding the Atlantic bushmaster would be awesome! We would also love to film on Ilha de Queimada Grande.

[@chiefg3023]

I love the intro. It sets the mood! 🔥 🔥

[@LivingZoology]

Thanks 🔥

[@johnschlesinger2009]

Absolutely wonderful - thanks so much!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! :) Which species did you like the most?

[@Sherkhan-wn4sm]

Absolutely loved it! You guys should consider making a dedicated documentary on Pit Vipers of India. There are about 30 different species.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much!!! That is a good idea, we would love to return to India, we are waiting for covid restrictions to easy for already 2 years!

[@hamselljhocksan7809]

Amazing...

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!

[@markrumfola9833]

None of these Beautiful Snakes belong in a box in a living room.

[@MsBerco]

This is absolutely true and one of the reasons why I love the footage of living zoology as they show us how these great creatures live in their natural habitat. There is this huge inflation of snake keepers fueled by social media that probably adds even more pressure on these wonderful species. As if they weren’t pressured enough by habitat destruction. Imagine every Chinese teenager wanting to have an Atheris at home. Snake keeping has to be linked to habitat conservation by law.

[@LivingZoology]

We love to see these snakes in their natural habitat!

[@LivingZoology]

We always wanted to educate people about snakes and nature conservation. Thanks to our channel we have a great chance :) Thank you for following our work!

[@nomerc3608]

I do agree however I have rescued several snakes in my teens. I saved a green snake in the dead of winter and several black snakes. The green snake I had for three months in my living room till spring when I released it. The one black snake I released in a neighbor’s barn. One I released inside the attic of my home. It returned every winter and spent the summer in our barn. I grew up in an old farm house that was over 175 years old. Now it would had been over 225 years old but it was torn down after we moved out. The edit was to close the ad.

[@mukimefail38]

@@LivingZoology ?ÄÄäää

[@pavelboro]

Hello friend. Very nice video. 🦊

[@LivingZoology]

Hello 😊 Thank you very much!!!

[@4-mylrdjesus417]

good! you got one thing right! "they do indeed, currently live far apart" --that does not mean that it has always been so!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for watching.

[@pramodk2536]

Beautiful piece of work.Nice frames asusual.And the true sounds of nature & serenity makes it even better...

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!

[@petrnovak3445]

Zdravím bez urážky věřím ve vás že příští výprava Bothrops 2023 bude na Queimada Grande a budete filmovat v přirozeném prostředí B. insularis s pozdravem Petr.

[@LivingZoology]

Chtěli jsme se tam dostat - skoro to nejde. Pouští tam jen vojáky a vědce s konkrétním projektem zaměřeným na tento ostrov. Vyplňovali jsme i pár papírů. Třeba se nám někdy podaří napojit se na výzkumníky a natočit je.

[@shaunoliverii8961]

Wiil there be another visit to Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia)?🤔

[@LivingZoology]

We would love to go to Asia for our next trip, hopefully some country will open borders!

[@alvaropanizza8522]

I've recently found out the channel, amazing job guys. Greetings from Uruguay.

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you and hopefully you will enjoy watching videos on our channel!

[@Lucian_King]

Snakes being and living on the ground was somewhat bearable until i found out that many venomous ones are arboreal too 😱😭 If ever I'd get the chance to go visit and stay, spending days, in forests like in this vid, I'd be scared as hell when walking around. It'll take me mins before i could make my next steps, watching every corner and angle very closely and be very terrified if I'd have walk into a very thic forest while knowing that there are tons of these venomous arboreal snakes all around. I wouldn't even want to reach for branches if ever I'd fall, that's how scared i am knowing that many of these creatures live above the ground too 😭😭

[@LivingZoology]

It is important to know that snakes don’t want to come into conflict with humans. These small arboreal vipers usually don’t move at all when we find them. They just stay motionless and if you don’t really touch them or squeeze them, you will be fine. We specifically look for snakes and it is not easy, you don’t really step on snakes or touch them when you walk in the rainforest.

[@nnikiforou]

As always, a great video with beautiful footage. Just one note about the terminology: "elevation" is used to describe the height of the GROUND above mean sea level, while "altitude" is only used to describe the height of AIRBORNE objects such as airplanes. In this video only the term "elevation" is correct. Keep up the good work!

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much for watching and also for recommendation about elevation and altitude usage!

[@MsBerco]

High end footage as always. Absolutely fascinating. Is it correct to presume that Atheris is the oldest species and Bothrops and Trimeresururs evolved later and developed the Pit organ?

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much!!! The lineage containing also genus Atheris together with all true vipers from Asia, Europe and Africa is older than the pit viper lineage according to molecular data. Pit vipers evolved probably somewhere in Asia, then they started to diversify and rapidly colonized Americas.

[@limoucheu8522]

Fantastic footage as always and the idea to show evolutive convergence in pattern is great. ps: do you have see my article about dragonflies?

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you so much!!! Sorry, not yet, one of us has covid for a week already so we did not have enough energy and time.

[@limoucheu8522]

@@LivingZoology Ho, I understand. I wish him a quick recovery. Cheers

[@Chips635]

My fav species of snake is Defiently the western green mamba or Jamesons mamba

[@LivingZoology]

Those two species of mambas are stunning!

[@ldh-te3zy]

snake of thumbnail looks like Bothriechis nigroviridis is it right? and i really excited about watch this video soon~!!

[@LivingZoology]

Yes, you are right :) In this video you will see much more than that! See you on Saturday ;)

[@Spacey7]

Beautiful snakes & video. I wish someone would do some like this but on the more common snakes such as Boa Constrictors, Royal Pythons, Corn Snakes, Kings of all types & Checkered Garter Snakes all in their natural habitats. With facts on temperatures & humidities. That would be wonderful as there doesn't seem to be many like that about & would be so helpful for those wanting to keep their snakes in a more natural & appropriate way. 🐍💕🐍

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you very much! We filmed Boa in Costa Rica, so there will be a video containing this species in the future :)

[@Spacey7]

@@LivingZoology oh wow can't wait for that. Thank you 😊

[@hdd528]

They also lives in Honduras they call green mamba or Tamagas verde also call green viper

[@LivingZoology]

Somebody calls them green mamba???

[@hdd528]

@@LivingZoology yes 👍

[@hdd528]

@@LivingZoology look at google for tamagas verde you’ll see 🐍

[@LivingZoology]

@@hdd528 Interesting, we know a name Lora for Side-striped palm pit viper.

[@jameslanning8405]

While distances between species today, may seem vast, at one point in the ancient past the two respective land masses, were actually together, at the time we call, "Pangea." The continents separated, diving the species, but at some point they might have shared the same environment. I tend to be more skeptical, about the "supposed," timelines and the evolutionary continuum. But that aside, it's pretty cool how two snakes on two continents appear similar in markings and coloration, by virtue of living in such similar habitats. And the two habitats are similar as well, and very close to eachother in terms of latitude. Separation of the continents to where they are now, is the only feature that, while factual in that they were once a single landmass, becomes more of a 'grey area,' in terms of man's theories and limited understanding of continental movements, tectonic plate shifts etc. And the supposed timelines for all this to have happened.

[@LivingZoology]

The existence of Pangea and movement of the continents are just a few things which are known thanks to geology and paleontology. The dating, if something happened 100 million years ago or 90 million years ago, that is just estimation, yes and nobody can tell you exactly the year :) We see many examples of convergence in nature, similar to what we see in arboreal vipers.

[@amarendramadiga2785]

All hail greens🐍🐍

[@LivingZoology]

Green snakes are very nice :)

[@nilelopes6602]

I think that this is a eyelash viper if i am not wrong Reminder set ready My question to u guys is How many lancehead species are there is south africa

[@LivingZoology]

It is not Eyelash pit viper :) On Saturday you will learn more about montane pit vipers. There are 0 lancehead vipers in South Africa ;)

[@nilelopes6602]

@@LivingZoology sorry sorry sorry sir I meant to say south America

[@LivingZoology]

@@nilelopes6602 More than 40 species.

[@nilelopes6602]

@@LivingZoology omg wow I love lancehead Vipers My fav us bothrops ilsaluris

[@limoucheu8522]

@@nilelopes6602 Do you means Bothrops insularis? My preferred is Bothrops alternatus see his incredible pattern or Bothrops jararacussu what shows fantastic patches.

[@4-mylrdjesus417]

it is interesting how evolutionists will say that "things" are related based on some minor similarity[ cows and whales, mosquitoes and horses ], yet while comparing two almost identical "things"[ two green-speckled tree vipers living on different continents ] they claim that they are not related! The reason for this is that if every creature started from relatively few creatures originating from one location, their evolutionary-religious world view would hold no water! What is the evolutionist's religion? they worship themselves believing that they will evolve into "gods" one day, despite the fact that everything is decaying around them including their own bodies and minds! They place all of their faith in two deities, Time and Dumb-luck --the later of which they emulate the best!

[@LivingZoology]

It is genetics, simple.

[@marckradolfer6007]

Similar to the bothrops bilineatus.

[@LivingZoology]

Yes, a bit similar.

[@markrumfola9833]

I pray to God the Poachers leave them out there for Yinz.

[@LivingZoology]

Poaching exists in Costa Rica, but not so much focused on herpetofauna and export as for hunting birds and mammals.

[@imavileone7360]

8:38 "Hello"

[@LivingZoology]

Thank you for watching!

[@daveconerly1450]

Oh mommy look at this pretty green Snake . Look mommy he's crawling around the tree. Mommy saud, oh he's so pretty and told me to go pick him up and keep him as a pet. I said , oh mommy he's so pretty. I went and got the viper snake , he bit me a couple of times and next thing i remember my mommy was smiling and laughing. That's the last I ever remember of my mommy. In fact it's the last time I ever remember anything. I've been dead for a while .

[@LivingZoology]

Nice story, you created that by yourself? :D