I love running into Rattlesnakes here in the mountains of PA. They've really made a comeback here. I see several a year now and always stop if I see them in the road to make sure they move and won't get run over. I've moved several back into the woods that have showed up in my parent's yard over the last few years. They are beautiful highly misunderstood creatures. I always try to help people see the beauty in them and help them understand how important they are. Thank you for this great video!

Well done. I will be using this in class. Keep up the good work!

I wish new hampshire would do more to bring the timber rattlesnake population back thanks for an awesome video

This was very well done

Great video, I'll share it with my scouts in the merit badge classes I teach.

Really well done, bravo Orianne Society!

This is so interesting and the scenery is stunning!

Really great piece, and keep up the good work.

Excellent, educational video!!

This is great! High information content, and really well produced. Thanks for pointing out the need for snake conservation!

Beautiful video - thanks so much.

What a beautiful film! Nicely done 🐍

Nice Dr. Chris, and team...

I love snakes , I'm out in New Mexico where I spied a baby Diamondback Rattler , it was so beautiful, it's colors were so vibrant ! Thanks !

Excellent production! I've had the opportunity to find many, many rattlesnakes throughout my life in places like Arizona, Florida and the Northeast. The timber rattlesnakes of the Northeast seem to be, by far, the least agitated when encountered. Sometimes, they seem almost docile when encountered on a trail.

Great job Orianne! 🐍

Wow! This is a fantastic video and message. I'm going to share it to everyone.

❤ I live in southwest GA. I quit killing diamondbacks years ago

I’ve been looking forward to this day. Very good video

Female rattle snakes are special critters, that's for sure. You go girls!

Great production and direction!

This is awsome!!!!

Y'all do great work.

they are so beautiful

very nice film! thanks for sharing with all!

Great video!! I understand needing certain things in the modern age like Internet maybe. I'm from part of Appalachia in NYS, the country part. The forest has everything you could ever need. Food, clothing supplies, housing etc so I don't understand the reason to sell and cut things down. The only reason really is outside pressures and promise of money which really we don't need. My family switched from living off the land to living more cash but it's really because of being pushed by others. The city I'm from has cut down a lot of trees recently, allowing companies like Walmart to come in and cut down 3-5x more trees then they even need to. It's really saddening. Life was fine, there was really nothing we needed besides more widespread Internet and phone access so I don't understand it. Native Americans live there, Amish live there as well as average country folks. Life is good, simple but good.

So good!!!

Amazing video!

Amazingly done documentary

Fantastic!

Very good I like your channel

Wonderful video!

As an Appalacian-American, I approve of this gorgeous, visually striking documentary. What sort of snakes have offensive venom? I imagine it would be the highly venomous elapids like cobras or just about anything from Australia.

Very interesting. Very well done. I live too far south in Florida, so we have Timber Rattlers. I used to occasionally eat diamondbacks, but I learned not to kill them decades ago. I don't kill any animal anymore unless it's a problem invasive species. Even then, I don't hunt them.

I wish more people understood the importance of wildfire management.

Fantastic video!

Che meraviglia

And everyone actually pronounced “Appalachian” correctly! Made this easier to watch.

I've heard about the death of the American Chestnut tree, so sad. Thank you for this documentary ❤

Excellent and inspirational kind of videos I wanna make for my channel

A couple things I wanted to share based on an encounter with a timber rattlesnake. 1) They're very nonaggressive, almost to a fault. You can accidentally get way too close before they'll even start to rattle. They seem to strongly prefer lying still until the last second. 2) Their rattle is well depicted here (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qcddorKEuqzKcqc.html). It sounds quite different from the western diamondbacks you hear in the movies. It's fast and high-pitched, almost like a cicada. I didn't even realize what it was when I first heard it.

nice

They have been reinstating rattle snakes in southern ohio for yrs now. IF YOU HURT ONE..ITS A $5000 FINE AN JAIL TIME..thats a good thing..

how come the fire is less common now than it would have been in a natural setting? is it a local effect of climate change, or something to do with man-made fragmentation? thanks for the film! cool infos

Disappointed that they used an AI generator, Midjourney, instead of actual historical photos.

So, I knew about amphibian Chytridiomycosis, but had no idea snakes were facing a fungal threat, too. Does it affect all squamates, including lizards?

The biggest threat to timber rattler habitat in my area are these massive wind turbine projects they’re trying to put on the ridges of every mountain in Appalachia. What’s your position on that?

How exactly do people trace their ancestors to an area without records?

The snakes at 4:36 and 5:38 are Copperheads, not Rattlesnakes

I think i saw footage of copperheads four times in this video.

Been all over the Carolina’s my whole life and never seen a rattlesnake

I almost stepped on one in southern Maine in the early nineties. I was amazed at how fat it was in the center of it

Massasauga in PA? Where I live, we have all the poisonous snakes in the US except for the western varieties of rattlers. People 'round these parts murder any snake they come in contact with, but I do not. I leave them alone. Most of the time, the copperheads and cane breaks (timber rattlers) are just moving on. I do not longer have a surplus of squirrels and chipmunks. Just hafta be wary that rattlers, cotton mouth, corals and timbers could be in the yard at any time. I don't keep chickens, so no worries with foxes in the yard, or coyotes, either. These guys also take care of the rodent populations. I do, however, have to keep an eye out for my Chihuahuas who do not get let out on their own. A big red tail hawk could pick one of them up, lol. 'Tis true.

wonderful documentary! but why use an AI program to generate 'historical' images? very disingenuous

I have a healthy respect for snakee, but spiders are a no go

People you need to take a look at the statistics of snake bites in this country. Be kind to yourselves , and don't think to pet the snake's. .

Losing the chestnut tree is sad and devastating. Losing these venomous hell creatures that will financially break you if you have a bad encounter would be a reason to rejoice. We have plenty of non-venomous ones that can eat the 🐁.

The part at the end accusing Appalachian people of having ignorant myths about snakes is condescending and blatant gaslighting. Fearing nonvenomous snakes is unjustified. Fearing venomous snakes is prudent. So, land owners are supposed to tolerate a deadly threat that can maim them or kill their children and pets because you think they’re cool? It’s not even a matter of cruelty because one rattlesnake kills many sentient mammals like squirrels and mice in a painful and terrifying manner. It’s not a matter of species preservation because Crotalus horridus’s conservation status is “Least Concern”. You sit in your city apartments and tell rural people we’re supposed to tolerate rattlesnakes in our yards. Okay, let’s put them in all the city parks that were once part of their habitats and see how you like them. And before you start calling me an ignoramus, I’m a biologist. I’m just a biologist who has lived in rural areas my whole life, not in a city just watching nature on television. I own 117 acres of Appalachia that I bought simply to preserve a natural area. I don’t even have a house on that land. I don’t cut timber on it. I just camp and run trail cameras and enjoy the bears and bobcats who don’t have to worry about being hunted as long as I own the land. So I’ve put more money into conservation than you can dream of. That said, I don’t see the point of a program that’s goal is to increase the population of a venomous snake that isn’t even endangered.

“Snakes don’t hibernate to stay warm, they hibernate so they don’t freeze, and there’s a big difference…” No, no there isn’t. They want to stay warm enough they don’t freeze, it’s not complicated.

Biblical accounts are not fantasies.

I have killed Timber Rattlesnakes in Kentucky that were 6 ft in length!

The only issue is when groups that are educated beyond their intelligence think its a great idea to reintroduce poisonous snakes into a public park that is frequented by children. Everyone loves the snakes until one puts your 5 year old in the hospital.

There good meat and make a nice looking belt.

Timber Rattlers belong on a dinner plate with taters on the side.

Good video, but you lost the plot when you were pretending people's fear of rattlesnakes is somehow inspired by indiana jones and mythology. They fear rattlesnakes because they're realistically the most dangerous animal you'll encounter in the woods for the vast majority of the Appalachian range. Thousands of people get by bit by rattlesnakes each year and they can be fatal without medical treatment. They're a dangerous wild animal and getting bit by one cause you stepped over a log is going to be a super bad day, regardless of folkstories about hoop snakes.

19:40 Did you just compare a bald eagle to a venomous snake? 😂🤣😂 You can’t make this 💩 up.

A lot of people don’t like them cause they SUCK.

You’re weak for canceling opposing views by erasing comments.

I've l8ved snakes since I was a kid. Beautiful creatures. World is more fun with them around.