💯! That whole lampropeltis group of kings and milks are such curious biters with ravenous appetites. We had a king that tried to swallow himself once!!

Why are Copperheads killed so frequently?

This is King I was a little bit scared when I was holding the snake

“Laugh and learn” is our style 😂 I added about ten different crunches, mostly potato chip crunches, but also apple and toast and some others 😂🤣

LOL we have raised and hand-fed milks and kings for many years, and even hatched out a few. Curious bites are in their nature and are akin to a toddler wanting to touch everything, but snakes don't have hands so they use their mouth. They have other body language that would suggest they're grumpy, but this guy was legit being playful...although I'm sure it didn't look that way to many viewers LOL

I think people who understand milk snakes will understand why I’m so happy in this video. Like you said they really are adorable!

@@coloco-o-nome-que-eu-quiser 💯👍🏻🤣

The best 😍

I used several different effects for that 😂😂

There’s so much personality there if folks would take the time to look 👀

Tyler Mac ooooooooooh man I got bit by ah

Tyler Mac big snake

YW! Thanks for watching.

Thanks 😊 I am extremely cautious depending on who is doing the biting. A bite from a cat or dog or even a chipmunk would be significantly worse than a little milk snake bite. And I know their nature is to bite out of curiosity not from stress or fear, so that’s why I can have so much fun with it 😂

Thanks I’m glad that message gets across.

I actually used several sound effects to make the bites more theatrical 😂😂 most were potato chip eating sound effects, along with apple and toast eating sound effects 😁

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV LOL! Love it! That makes it even more funny. I remember a comedian once strapping a big bowl of chips around his neck and crunching them while he walked around the stage making it sound like he was walking in the woods. :-D What an adorable little bitey milk snake!

One of my absolute favorites to find and interact with.

What sound effects 😜

💯! If people could get past the fear and give reptiles a chance, they’d learn that snakes are one of the most fun and relaxing animals 😁

Milk snakes are like toddlers that hafta touch everything….except they use their mouth 😂😂

The cutest 😁

Thanks 😊

Thanks I sure hope to see him again! I do ride that trail often 😁

Mostly potato chip sound effects and also some apple and toast crunching sound effects 😄

They’re so curious and hungry I love them 😍😂😂

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV congrats on the big views by the way! I was catching up, but this subscriber boost definitely bought you time 😂

@@reptilianwild dude it is so exciting to finally be reaching these new levels!! Sometimes it seems like we do nonstop work creating content without decent views...then it all starts to snowball!

@@reptilianwild what do you think are the best ways to increase views and subs?

@reptilianwild Oh cool. I just started shorts too, but I've only done a few of them. One of my friends was telling me they can really help and he had one hit like 26M or some insane number of views. Is there a way to make them over 15 seconds or is that the max?

Kings and milks are like that! Great story 👍🏻

I barely even felt the bites on my clothes. Their teeth are tiny 😁 thanks for watching and subscribing!

Thanks for watching 😁

Vanita im jealous of all the awesome snakes you have in Texas! In our part of PA we don’t even have ribbons. But if you skip ahead toward the end of our Everglades Adventure video you’ll see a couple: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/er54ZqqexpiZhnU.html Enjoy all your snake neighbors and please feel free to share pics of any of them (from a safe distance) with us anytime!

I’d say more curious than mean. He definitely didn’t chase me or approach me.

That’s awesome that you have a milk snake population close by! I’ve never seen a western milk snake in the wild. But every eastern milk I encounter is a highlight!

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV it really is special. I’ve been herping nearly my whole life in Texas and finally found some milks. For 20 years it was the number 1 snake I wanted to find. Here’s a short vid of its release.

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@@chainbenwa2713 awesome but I don’t see the video yet 🤔 anyway I love that you can appreciate how cool this milk snake is when so many people just fear them.

Good questions. Bites on my clothes felt like nothing or next to nothing. Bites on my face felt like tiny pin pricks but still very minor. Rat snakes compete with copperheads for food and habitat but they do coexist. Racers and milks and kings however will eat copperheads as well as competing with them for food and habitat. Thanks for commenting and subscribing!

And really it’s 50 bites that I captured on camera….there were some bonus bites probably 😂😂

What’s MBK?

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV Mexican black kingsnake

@@Panda_Alobear awesome you totally get it then 🤣🤣

rat snakes are so fun they're always worth the bites!! And kings would eat anything that's not nailed down to the floor if they could LOL

The habitat you’re describing sounds more like a northern water snake. They may swim toward you if they’re heading in your direction already. But they don’t chase people. There’s no incentive for them to chase people and many incentives not to chase people. You’re just like two cars on the same road passing one another.

I appreciate that you care about the snake, which is more than most people. Sadly some bikes on this trail will swerve TO HIT THEM 😢 After finding a lot run over I do stop and handle the ones that are crossing. I’ve also raised and hand-fed and even hatched out several milk and king species (the lampropeltis genus) so I know curious bites like these are in their nature and normal for happy snakes. I know many people who aren’t very experienced with milks and kings may not understand but thanks for watching and adding your $0.02.

Check out the baby in our radical rat snake video 🥰 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qshxqKiZnLqonp8.html

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV, thank you for the link. I watched it. I guess it's fair to say, they don't look like black rat snakes, but gray and red are very similar to this milk snake. Even some fox snakes look similar.

@@amandastakeonit7402 at a glance I think some of them can be easy to confuse. A normal corn wears a similar pattern too. Some eastern milks wear darker saddles, which look closer to the solid black saddles on a young rat. Yesterday we saw a nearly black colored water snake that looked almost like a rat snake at first glance. I have a friend who almost picked up a black phase timber rattlesnake once thinking it was a melanistic (black phase) hognose for a second! It’s wild that some snakes follow “the rules” better than others 😃

Thanks 😊 I get so much joy out of interacting with milk snakes. I handled a similar one a week earlier (that I didn’t film and it didn’t bite me) and it was just as sweet curious as this one 😁 you’ll find a pic of him on our FB and IG from a couple weeks ago.

Hey King 👋

Incorrect, but you're close. Just look up eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum). Corn snakes do look similar so many people make the same mistake. But corn snakes actually don't range into Pennsylvania where this one was filmed. Thanks for watching and commenting!

😂😂🤣🤣 it was actually about 10 different sounds I found, mostly potato chips but also apples and toast 🤣🤣

Thanks! I know the video title is kinda click-bait but I really try to make the content constructive and fun and educational 👋

Milks are ADORABLE 🥰 Also western hognose snakes are super cute!

That’s the only thing I had to be cautious of, you’re right.

😂😂🤣 adds a little doesn’t it? 😁

Just a little

He’s had a taste for human for a very long time. He’s obviously consumed children before.

That would be awesome! Here’s our promo video if you’d like to share it with your school: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hKdhoMenktSspoU.html

I am definitely going to send it to and always give animals a chance and give reptile a chance.

I ment to say that I'm going to send it to my principle.

@@emilymoberly6613 thanks 😊

Your very welcome and God bless you.

Good for you! To be clear, I don’t want people to try handling wild snakes or to replicate my behavior as a professional. I just want people to see bites are usually harmless so you don’t have to fear them. Thanks for watching!

Good question! Corns and milks are pretty similar. But corns don’t range into Pennsylvania where this was filmed. It is 100% an eastern milk snake. Some of the Mexican milks look similar to corals, but the eastern milks look closer to corns.

Their bites are adorable when you know what’s coming. But how big is your bull snake?

Thousands of bites in my life, zero infections 🤷‍♂️

Much more likely to get infected from dog or cat bites. Snake bites feel like nothing, and often don't break skin especially with such small snakes. Main infection you can catch would be salmonella, but just don't eat their poop and you'll be fine

obrigado meu amigo. louco e divertido 😁 🇧🇷 🇺🇸✌️

😂😂

Yeah it’s weird when you’re not used to it, especially because there’s a dangerous connotation around snakebites that we’ve all grown up with. I’m trying to shift that paradigm a little in my own zany way.

If you watch the whole video you’ll see we help him cross the trail in the direction he’s heading so he arrives safely without a negative hiker or biker encounter. But I appreciate your concern for the snake 👍🏻

If you'd just moved on he could've done that all by himself without you harassing him. Let's not imagine you actually did something helpful for the snake here.

@@arjay5824 maybe, maybe not. I’m sure hundreds of reptiles cross that trail on their own every day just fine. But I regularly find them killed on the trail, or missing tails or with kinked spines from being stepped on or hit. I do usually help the ones on the trail and spend a few minutes with them. Often times I let other trail folks pet them and learn about them. I also know many milks are misidentified as copperheads and killed so I thought I’d make a video with this one. I was planning to focus on markings but instead it turned into a fun biting video. But to your point, I don’t handle everything I find. Maybe you’ll appreciate our snapping turtle nesting video, where I filmed her at a distance as she dropped her eggs. Either way thanks for watching! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m51xd5eo3qeogIk.html

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV You're just using a defenseless being for your profit, my man. You're not Mr. Nice Guy, you cause a lot of stress for the snake to do a f****** video, what's wrong with you? And people like this s***, that's depressing.

We must’ve not have watched the same video. You probably didnt even watch it.

If you watch the video again you’ll see I set him down several times, and he could have easily sped away from me. Instead he either moved along slowly or even moved toward me to satisfy his curiosity. The only time he tail-rattled (showing stress) was when I first picked him up. Even when I released him he moved away very casually. If you work with this genus as long as I have you’ll learn to read their body language more effectively, but thanks for caring about him and thanks for watching.

One of her coworkers heard I was bitten 50 times on the news and asked if I was going to be alright. My wife just laughed and said I’m fine 😂😂

Awesome thanks for watching!

Armchair animal expert

They let anyone on here!

Drinking on some haterade

louco e adorável 😂🤣

And at mosquito Lake in Ohio I saw a snake on the campground roads

They are often drawn to trails as basking spots. Thanks for looking out for them!

tudo bem ele não é venenoso

That about sums it up 😂😂

I’ve had thousands of snakebites, none venomous, and 99% of them are not memorable. There have been a few good ones though 😂😂 but milksnakes are so curious and adorable 🥰

@@ForgottenFriendReptileTV my son breeds ball pythons 🐍 … Which I’ve held plenty of times.. I have warm hands so they love me.. he also owns a Carpet Python.. THAT one I won’t hold because he will strike

😂😂😂🤣🤣

50 snake bites has never been so stinkin adorable 😂😂

Our laidback “laugh and learn” style is a bit wacky I admit. But thanks for watching and taking a minute to share your thoughts with us!

I didnt even realize it, youre just fixating on bad things to bring him down

*almost* anything 😜😂😂

That’s 💯 why we share these stories, so people can see the animal’s personality. And you’re right milk snakes are extremely cute and curious.