Thank you very much!!! Check out our video about 3 species of mambas! m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nq1kitmhlbuVaHU.html

Dendro in Greek means Tree and aspis means shield. Dendroaspis is greek origin name.

There is a KZfaq channel where a guy named Jason captures and releases Mambas by himself, in homes.

It really is! We enjoyed our time there a lot!

@@LivingZoology come again on holiday... no work... I'll host you

@@Michaelkaydee We should learn how to relax! :D Haha, but we love animals, so each trip is work, but we love it! :D

@@LivingZoology hahaha... a working holiday then 😁

Thank you very much!!! :) No, he is holding a spare bag, the bag with mamba is inside his backpack :)

I also wanted to comment on this. He is luck not to have been bitten.

@@LivingZoology Whew! Thanks for clearing that up for me....I was sweating bullets just watching him carry that bag so haphazardly.

Thank you very much!!! We really enjoyed filming this mamba! Love to India! We hope to come back there soon!

​​​@@LivingZoology we have a few green snakes in central Kenya called 'Muraru' that young kids chase and play with...some are found in green places near the river or in the tea bushes or coffee bushes...are they poisonous coz I have never heard of any fatalities with these small green snakes? how do we differentiate between poisonous green snakes in Central Kenya and the non poisonous ones in coffee , tea or other bushes in cool areas? please respond

Glad you enjoyed it!!! Thank you! Yes, in Central Kenya there are not so many snakes because of high altitude.

Those green snakes are mamba family too. They are actually green mambas and are also very poisnous. We used to chase them on trees when i was young tryjng to kill them not knowing how poisnous they are. Smh

@@JayW254 Are they really? They're just a couple of foot long and appear quite shy and non aggressive. The local name is 'mūrarū'. People often confuse them with green mamba.

@@JayW254 This is a big myth. Many people think that every green snake in the trees is a Green mamba. Not true. Most of them are bush snakes, the only other deadly venomous snake which is green and lives in the trees is a male Boomslang. In Kenya, Green mambas are only in the coast and Jameson's mambas in Kakamega.

@@LivingZoology I may be wrong calling them green mamba but they are alot of this green snakes living on trees along the river in Nakuru and it is true they are not a long as the black mamba.

Wow, thank you so much!!!

Many many thanks!!! :) Glad to hear that you enjoyed watching.

They are not closely related, but both belong to elapids. They are a nice example of convergent evolution. We hope to find and film taipans in the future, so we can then make a video with Black mamba together and discuss the similarities. Thanks, it was needed to be done so the animal was in good condition! :)

Thanks again! :)

Many many thanks! Great that you love our video!

Thank you so much!!! It means a lot for us :)

Thank you so much!!! That is so good to read :)

Thank you for watching our videos! Very happy that you also enjoyed this one :) We went to different places, but this was on the coast North of Mombasa.

Oh shit, I just walked around the mangroves in that area a few days ago. Had NO idea there could be mambas ....

@@abocas you should pull up the black mamba habited range map:) it covers a lot of East, Central, West and South Africa. For some reason I think people think they are rare but they aren’t endangered or anything, they’re just hard to find because they are stealthy and have good camouflage. They aren’t even sure if it really lives in West Africa it’s so stealthy lol.

Thank you very much for your support! Much appreciated!

Yes, mambas are always smiling :) We also though that it is longer but it wasn't.

@John C. Yes, we originally thought that it is bigger!

And it is coming soon! :)

@@LivingZoology That sounds so good, waiting here dude.

Thank you very much!!! The behavior of the snake is a reaction to the behavior of the film crew. We work very carefully and try not to scare the snake. All mambas we have been working with were calm and we were able to show that their reputation is not deserved. If you start to jump around the snake and scare it, it will sure defend itself.

Living Zoology having travelled to the right place, how easy are they to find?

@@Mark13091961 Mambas are always difficult to find, we walked in a dense forests and bushes for 2 days and found nothing. We were lucky that one mamba went into this property so we could rescue it.

Living Zoology ok thank you. Great footage, these are fascinating

@@LivingZoology South Africa

Thank you!!! Western Green mamba can get yellowish.

Děkujeme!!! :)

Yes we did! We cooperated with them during two Kenya trips :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rK6koJiopsDLfGQ.html

Thank you so much! We are happy that you learned something new :)

Yeah, I have been confused with these snakes black mamba and house snakes, because they have pretty some color, so I found house snake , sometimes I think it's mamba after sometime observing it actually the eyes of house snake is different from that of mamba, mamba usually has black eyes right? so it's really difficult to differentiate immediately 😃😃.

@@alfazoologist9741 The head of mambas has a coffin shape. Also the eyes are different. The scales on mamba's head are very big. It is always good to be careful before you see the head of the snake!

@@LivingZoology Thanks! it's also useful information because sometimes it takes me long time to understand the snake species most likely for some new species in my life.

Sorry? :)

Thank you very much for watching!!! :) Nebo možná spíše díky moc za zhlédnutí :)

Děkujeme moc!!! :)

Yes, after the King cobra :) We would love to return to Agumbe! Hopefully India will open borders soon. Have you seen our videos from India? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p82TiJN00du3oI0.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y62HarloqMjbgqc.html

Wow, you are.so lucky to be able to see a King Cobra for real, don't have those or Black or Green Mambas in Canada.

Many thanks!

Thank you very much!

Thank you for watching! :) Great that you went through the comments to find the answer!

Thank you very much for watching this video! Maybe you will be interested in this one also: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nq1kitmhlbuVaHU.html

Thank you for watching!!! Definitely call Bio-ken snake farm, they do a great job! :)

Thank you for watching!!! Snakes are totally fine in these snake bags. Snake went into snake farm where they will extract venom from it to produce antivenom for saving lives of people who get bitten.

We are very happy that we are reaching broader audience! :)

Thanks 👍 You are right, handling Black mambas is potentially very risky and needs to be done very carefully!

Many many thanks!

Thank you and apologies for too many ads. It is tricky with ads on KZfaq as they appear much less with most people. They appear to each viewer differently according to country and other parameters. On the other hand, we need to keep the ads appear on our videos, otherwise we would need to stop doing this job and do something else.

Ads provide an income for the video providers. It is helping :-)

Thank you very much for watching this video! Maybe we can recommend another one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nq1kitmhlbuVaHU.html

The green ones are of course called green mambas (dendroaspis angusticeps). Unlike the black mamba, there are several species of the green mamba, eastern, western and jameson’s.

You are right, African culture is very interesting! We like those roofs made of dry grass :) Hopefully one day you will be able to see Africa!

It is a beautiful snake, right?

Thank you! :)

Thanks for watching! The team wanted to clean the snake's mouth which is correct. There are different ways how to bag a snake and we wanted to show how guys in Kenya do it.

Nice story! :) We also have 2 Ball pythons at home! And they are the most cute animals you can imagine. We do workshops for children about snakes where they can pet these cool snakes. We see calmness in each snake species, with the venomous ones you need to be more careful, but from our experience even working with Black mambas is a very peaceful situation.

Haha you made me laugh with this comment. Thanks. I have a male aberrant California Kingsnake that's little over 3months now. His name is Ziggy..😃

Landon´s Channel, dude i never done this before, but have you thought ab writing a book or something like that? You are very funny and that in a good solid nice way!

Eeeks

Hi python lunch girl are you still around 😄

Thank you!

Thanks 🤗

Thank you! Cheers!

Black mambas tend to strike more than once.

Yes, he is!

Thank you for watching!

There are many fast snakes. But no viper is a match to some colubrids, sand snakes, Dahl’s whip snakes, etc.

Thanks!!

You are right that puffies are very different in their coloration and many other snakes too. In fact, also Black mambas are different, but not so much. If you compare the mamba we filmed in South Africa (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nq1kitmhlbuVaHU.html) and this one, you will see the difference. Mambas in Kenya are more olive and also sometimes speckled! In general, there are species, which are very variable, some a bit, some very similar across regions. Vine snakes of one species tend to look similar for example.

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Actually, it was not so huge, under 2 meters. When we saw it first we though it is bigger.

Thank you for watching! Thanks for letting us know about the local names of these snakes!

That is an empty bag. He has the bag with the mamba in the backpack 🙂 We did not realize that it would look like he is holding the bag with the mamba when we were editing the video, sorry.

@ZambaKE Yes, we noticed that ordinary Kenyans have usually a big fear of snakes!

Actually, this mamba was very calm! :) It is also a lot about how you work with the snake, we try to be respectful so snakes are not stressed and defensive.

On the coast! :)

@@LivingZoology Cool! I do go to the coast to occasionally, so I may see if I can pay them a visit sometime.

It was important because the sand in the snake's mouth can hurt the animal.

It was just under 2 meters long.

Great job always

@@markrumfola9833 Thank you! :)

Photos of handling never come first. They come at the end when we already know the personality of the snake and we can assure that everything will be safe.

The longest is Ophiophagus hannah.

Yes, Black mambas are fast.

Working with venomous snakes always brings a possible danger. You need to trust people you work with. And most importantly, we do this work because we love these animals. That snake had mouth full of sand and it needed to be cleaned at least a bit.

Thank you for watching!

Yes, you are right.

Many wild snakes have injuries or damaged scales. As you say, it might be from a predator or fight with the prey.

You need to be careful, of course. And don't do anything what might be risky before you see the personality of the snake. We did not come very close before we worked with the snake a bit.

Thanks!

Black mamba is the second longest VENOMOUS snake after King cobra. There are other non-venomous snakes which are longer than these two.

Living Zoology oh sorry that’s what I meant but forgot to put venomous

Yes, Black mamba is very venomous but there are much more dangerous species in terms of fatalities in Africa!

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@@savejhaqeeqat4174 Which informations you would like to know? :)

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Thank you for watching! He was holding an empty bag, the mamba is in his backpack. Here we have a more complete footage where it is shown how the mamba is put in the bakpack: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZueidaUuNDVo4E.html

@@LivingZoology Phew! Glad the catcher got home safely! Thank you for your reply and extra footage.

@@davidhowse884 Some other people asked about this, we should have included the part when they put the bag into the backpack :D Very welcome, thank you very much for your comment!

@@LivingZoology Living Zoology has produced some fascinating video. Regarding snakes, I think I'm glad UK just has the relatively small and relatively less venomous adder, two of which I have come across in a lifetime of hill walks.. I will just watch the video footage of the dangerous species around the rest of the world. I am sad so many people die from snake bite worldwide. I am impressed by those who love and respect the species, seeing its place in the tree of life. I have on another channel seen Jason Arnold catch many mambas in Durban South Africa.

@@davidhowse884 Thank you very much! We also have only one venomous snake in the Czech Republic - the European adder. So we have only one option - to travel around the world and search for snakes there :) But snakes here are also cool! We have worked on this documentary for 6 years: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9CHgaaIsrqmmo0.html

Yes, most villagers are afraid of course and want to kill snakes. We had a great chance to educate locals several times during our rescues! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMqKqqaKtZzXhYk.html

No, this was filmed in Kenya and that series is about Durban in South Africa.

@@LivingZoology oh ok

@@LivingZoology guys you know your doing a very god job

@@LivingZoology just keep doing it

Thank you!!

We needed to google who it is :D So Matej looks like him? :D

@@LivingZoology A bit, but less nerdy

@@victorcarbino8736 Ok :D :D

Of course!

Mambas are special, very fast and most catchers use this technique and they catch the snake by the head. We personally would probably go for putting the snake directly into the bag. But Bio-Ken in Kenya has great experience and does a great job!

Thank you so much, we hope that people learn at least something! :)

It is totally fine to be afraid of venomous snakes. You can try to overcome this fear by watching our videos :) It is safe!

@Christine Coates. I have a horror of Black Mambas , that coffin shaped head and black mouth makes my skin crawl … I don’t feel this way about any other snake🤷‍♀️‼️. I live in the UK myself …

All snake catchers and organizations saving snakes we worked with are really doing this because they want to help snakes and people. Some get paid the fuel, some have a small fee. In this case we paid the fuel and took these guys into our car, mamba was around 90 km from the place where we stayed. They are from Bio-Ken snake farm. They do a great job in education about snakes, snake rescue calls, venom extraction, etc. We are not sure from where they get their funding, but they really operate on the level that they try to solve the human-snake conflict.

@@LivingZoology I have just always wondered about this. These people are really putting their lives at risk in a great many ways with these snakes, yet they are not getting any compensation for it. I get the need to educate. This is vital. The ecosystem of Africa would die if these snakes were wiped out. The entire continent would be waist deep in rodent droppings. I know the companies making the antivenins are making money. I just wonder if that money ever gets to the people supplying the venom. A live healthy, happy black mamba will produce more venom that an unhealthy stressed mamba any day. Speaking as an Ameican, guys like you and your firends in this video are doing more good in the long run for the African ecosystem than a good rain fall, but you are also worth your weights in gold. Animal Planet and NatGeo channels should be paying you for your content here, to follow you around, and actually do good programing educating people like me here in the US. Your channel is fascinating. These snakes are incredible. I do not think I would fear them if I ran across one in the wild because of you. I would, however, give them a huge amount of space and respect. Thank you again for another great video.

@@jazzbariman We really appreciate what you just wrote. We are happy that we have the chance to show our work here on KZfaq and since 2020 one of us can have this as the full-time job. We are working in Living Zoology since 2015 and we always put our time, money and lives into this. Every shot, every photo can theoretically be deadly. But we still did it and will do it. We feel the urgency to educate about these animals, about nature and different ecological topics. It is something you do because you feel that this is what you should do because you are giving your heart into it. We would also not ask money for rescuing a snake. If some big TV would be interested in helping us spreading valuable information, we will be happy. For now we are living our dream with having this channel and reading such amazing comments as yours :)

@@LivingZoology When I was younger, my family had two dogs, sisters. I would find one sleeping, looking all cute. I would go up to pet her. My mother would see me going into pet the dog. She would tell me, "Leave her alone. She's sleeping." I hear her voice to this day in my head when doing the same thing to my cats. I hear my mom's voice over your videos. She is telling me these animals are sleeping, hunting, whatever. Leave them alone. My mother was the kindest woman on the planet. She was loved by all human and animal. She was a protector, a caring woman. I hear her talking when I watch your videos. I am not overly or remotely spiritual. But, weirdly, I hear her loudest in your videos of the black mambas. Keep up the great work. For some reason, I think my mom is in your videos. If you knew me, you would find this as bizarre as I do. Great channel. Thank you for responding to my questions and reading my thoughts. You are doing great work.

We thought so too initially, but when we looked closely it seemed to be just under 2 meters.

He is holding it carefully in the same position as it was before when it was outside the bag.

Im talking about the guy holding the snake when they are taking it away at the end of the video..

@@pesos1274 Oh, he is not holding the bag with the snake. The snake is in the bag in his backpack.

Thank you for watching! Nothing would probably happen, mambas don't eat other snakes.

Thank you for watching!

Mambas are not black, the inside of their mouth is black, hence the name. Hopefully your comment is about the snake.

I don’t think this person is talking about the snake. He/she must be talking about the people. Maybe he/she has never seen black people handling snakes.

Snakes have their place in nature.

Why and what?

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Unfortunately, we cannot pay the narrator for each short video. But we are producing long narrated documentaries, such as kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNdinpeF39uVaWw.html There will be one about venomous snakes of Africa coming next year.

There is no need to kill the snake if it can be professionally rescued.

@@LivingZoology A wild animal that attacked a human developed a pattern. It can pose a danger from developing a habit lacking fear.