This British island is a hotspot for venomous snakes!

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Wildlife in the UK can be seen as fairly docile compared to other countries. We don’t really have any dangerous predators anymore - they’ve all been hunted to extinction - but there is an island off the coast of Scotland that has a surprise lurking in the bracken. The Isle of Arran has a strong population of the UK’s only venomous snake species - the European Adder. Mike and the What Next team head into the glens to search for these incredibly elusive snakes.
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@chrisnewell2107 9 ай бұрын

Coming next. Review of James May's Eagle, Adder and Otter Gin.

@talon262 9 ай бұрын

I hear the Adder Gin makes men more... potent. ///

@battadia 9 ай бұрын

It's really Adding up now

@Okurka. 8 ай бұрын

it'll get 20x more views than this video gets.

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

@@Okurka. But only the thickness will respond ?

@Okurka. 8 ай бұрын

@@sianwarwick633 You did.

@FrankV10 9 ай бұрын

Never thought I’d see a nature doc here, but I’m 100% here for it lol

@tmarklewuk 9 ай бұрын

Mike, Richard, James and the team - What a great production. Top quality video and amazing footage, sound and Mike is getting the hang of this presenter malarky. All aspects covered and very interesting. Very well put together. A pleasure to watch. Nice to see a different angle of diversification covering the amazing Isle of Arran, and its wildlife, and bringing attention to the life cycle and natural species which are indigenous to the Island. Glad to see Red squirrels and the pair of eagles. Thanks

@jujitsujew23 9 ай бұрын

Great to see you advocating for native wildlife! Very surprised to see you take a positive endorsement of lynx and/or wolf reintroduction. Many landowners are against it and I hope you can inspire more support of the return of predators. Deer have decimated Scotland’s forests and lynx especially are forest hunters that would hunt deer who enter or get near forests

@thebolsta 8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't like to be night fishing in a remote area with wolves and lynx around... Unless we are allowed to carry firearms for protection...

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

Hello, Canada here. Lynx are far too small and too light to take down a deer. They're the size of a large house-cat. Probably they eat voles, owls etc. I can look this up. But I won't. Because I'm from Canada ❤

@jujitsujew23 8 ай бұрын

@@thebolsta sigh, wolves and lynx do not attack people…you’ve seen too many movies

@thebolsta 8 ай бұрын

@@jujitsujew23 Wolves would certainly be attracted by the smell of carp baits... And I certainly wouldn't want to be sat with my back to them, in the dark, looking like prey... With no way of defending myself, you can't even carry a hunting knife while fishing in the UK.

@jujitsujew23 8 ай бұрын

@@thebolsta you’re not listening, there has never been a recorded incident of a lynx attacking a human and a wolf attack a human once every 10 years or so. You’re FAR more likely to be stabbed by a family member or romantic partner than be attacked by a wolf, let alone a lynx attack…. Car accidents, slipping in the bathroom, falling down stairs…all much more common deaths than wolf attacks

@BritishAgriPhotography 9 ай бұрын

Let’s just take a minute to appreciate the photographer (s) . Some really impressive shots here.

@NecroMorrius 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely, but to be pedantic this is videography.

@BritishAgriPhotography 9 ай бұрын

@@NecroMorrius yes I’m aware, however in my belief “photography” has become an umbrella term in recent years that encompasses both. Modern cameras have become able to produce both brilliant photos and videos, so the line between a photographer and videographer has become thinner. Maybe you’ll disagree

@voicetest6019 8 ай бұрын

They cut their teeth trying to keep the Hammond, May and Clarkson in frame for all those years.

@NosZodd666 9 ай бұрын

And here I was hoping to see a Black Adder. Thanks, this is a beautiful island!

@colinthompson5881 8 ай бұрын

You should do more of these wildlife films, absolute natural at nature.

@shannondore 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Mike for such a lovely episode. This place is so beautiful and it's so great the work they're doing to protect it and the wildlife that lives there.😊

@harpy5197 7 ай бұрын

He stole the idea from LORD MILES!

@reide96 8 ай бұрын

Been going to Arran regularly since before I was a year old, and I don't think I've ever seen an otter in the wild there. A wee bonus fact on the Scotland In Miniature point: the Highland Boundary fault, the very literal dividing line between the Highlands and the Lowlands, cuts through the middle of Arran with about the same ratio on each side as it does the whole rest of the country.

@pjccwest 8 ай бұрын

Class. As I'm from Inishbofin off Galway, Ireland, and doing nature restoration on my family land, this is inspirational. I look forward to visiting there.

@ryanhoffmann9341 9 ай бұрын

Love the way this channel is going!

@shatazer 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful land and animals. Thanks for showing us! 🙏♥

@terryenby2304 9 ай бұрын

As a kid growing up on the Isle of Wight, I had no idea that there were grey squirrels, I thought they were all little red puffballs! We also have some cool birds of prey including red kites, buzzards and sea eagles. But we don’t have any deer (in the wild, there is a small farm) so we have some pretty impressive woodland too. We do have adders here too, but I’ve never been lucky enough to see one. We see quite a few slow worms though, beautiful legless lizards. And we have viviparous lizards, and Wall Lizards (although the latter is thought to be introduced).

@TheBT 9 ай бұрын

Was literally talking about Adders as this video, arguing why weasels are better at getting rid of rats than adders.

@NickGates100 9 ай бұрын

How lucky are Mike and his team? Get to play with amazing cars, meet talented people and visit amazing, beautiful places. You lucky, lucky....

@martinkirsch5969 9 ай бұрын

In the early 1990s the people who created Arran distillery had to wait before they could build their buildings so that they didn't bother a couple of Golden Eagles (maybe during mating season or something, I don't remember all the details about the story); as the man in the video said, they live near Lochranza, where the distillery is. The distillery's logo has eagles on it in relation to that story. The whisky's great by the way ;)

@01jvb 9 ай бұрын

Excellent quality filming, thank you.

@Thomas-rp9qp 8 ай бұрын

What a great video! I'd love to see more wildlife.

@BarrytheSuperScot 8 ай бұрын

I was walking up Goatfell a couple of weeks ago wearing shorts. The heather has grown a lot since the last time I went up there. Had no idea there were snakes there! I'll be making an Arran episode for my channel soon too!

@huss1205 9 ай бұрын

That was a very nice change of subject, such a beautiful place...

@Arkantos117 9 ай бұрын

We need a red squirrel reconquista of Britain.

@T.S.T2014 9 ай бұрын

Great series Mike keep it up.

@wazeroonie6084 9 ай бұрын

I thought it’d end up being ‘see how many squirrels I can run over in a Peugeot 205GTi’.

@bcrock8655 8 ай бұрын

Excellent. Mike has the best job in the world.

@user-pn7lq6bh7r 9 ай бұрын

Just fantastic, thanks for that.

@badbob1982 8 ай бұрын

The wildlife footage here is definitely a vast improvement on the legendarily bad Top Gear and Grand Tour attempts.

@WalterBurton 8 ай бұрын

The Arran Tourist Board should award y'all unlimited pints for life.

@josephranker5716 9 ай бұрын

Great piece .. keep 'em comin'

@liamd01 9 ай бұрын

Dangerous drinking game, everytime they say "obviously" take a sip! 😂

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

'Incredibly' too

@gnoccialpesto 9 ай бұрын

This is definitely your best video, Mike. More nature and less Rover 200 ;)

@aDaWaN 9 ай бұрын

Nice video of the wild life in Arran. The camera work was great, well done! The title and thumbnail are a bit misleading, I would have clicked earlier if it just said something like "amazing wildlife on Scottish island".

@pendragon6207 9 ай бұрын

Great stuff allround!

@sinnlosernickname 7 ай бұрын

Awesome video, pls do more like this

@jasonshull3106 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great video. JDS in AZ

@banaynayy 8 ай бұрын

I loved this piece. i did not know much about scottish wildlife and was really insightful to have had just a look at them. Mike is right though, the seals really are just cute sea Doges

@dixgun 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful clip.

@jaydorrian2050 8 ай бұрын

Lived on Arran for 5 years. Beautiful place and my second home

8 ай бұрын

In 2011 I did an internship via an EU programm in Glasgow. On one weekend I decided to visit Arran. Without much in the way of mobility or planing. After visiting a castle next to the Ferry town I thought I just walk a bit higher up to have a better look around before going back to the ferry. And then I went up a bit higher, a bit higher and after quite some walking/climbing I even reached the top of Goatfell Mountain :) Which for me as a German from the very flat noth sea coast, was quite an achivement. Which totaly killed me for the rest of the weekend and much of the next week :)

@albertlira7443 9 ай бұрын

Snakes in Scotland is very unexpected!

@Eyeball1975 9 ай бұрын

0-60 of a red squirrel? How much torque has snek got? Nice video. I live in North Wales, we've got a healthy population of red squirrels, we've got a load of adders too. There was talk of releasing a pair of golden eagles in Snowdonia too, don't know if they have though.

@HIBOOSTSUPRA 9 ай бұрын

All adders are puffs

@danettecadzow9837 9 ай бұрын

I loved Aran when I was there many years ago. Sadly I didn't know about any of this while I was there. I guess I'll have to go back!

@EresirThe1st 6 ай бұрын

Wolves, Lynx, Bears etc. should absolutely be reintroduced throughout Britain. The reintroduction of beavers was thankfully a success.

@thefragglejack 8 ай бұрын

Added respect to Mike. As an expat living in Texas, I have great interest in the native snakes we have here.

@jaredknapp8886 8 ай бұрын

If two of your big five are birds and squirrels you guys must be like... hard up for animals. Best of luck.

@jamesonpace726 8 ай бұрын

Excellent! Maybe a v10 ferry or such....

@adsyoffinch 9 ай бұрын

Loads of them where I live in West Cumbria!

@jeeves_uk 7 ай бұрын

Adders are such beautiful snakes.

@rolandgdean 9 ай бұрын

I foresee a day when "Ive Been Mike" is a MAJOR and highly sought after presenter of ALL manner of shows...perhaps the most famous presenter...in the world.

@PenDragonsPig 9 ай бұрын

In Cornwall I would often see adders, me leaving there 30 years ago. Now in the US I've seen garter snakes and the occasional black/rat/ black rat snake- I don't really know how long they 8-10 feet maybe. Those two are essentially non venomous but next door in Connecticut- and we're moving to the center of their holdout some day soon- there are timber rattlesnakes and maybe copperheads. Oh, I forgot to say, I hate snakes.

@willbroccolo8389 9 ай бұрын

I LOVED this! I didn't know Scotland had venomous snakes.

@Okurka. 8 ай бұрын

All snakes are venomous.

@Mac19_72 9 ай бұрын

Love Scotland. Did the NC500 a few months ago, definitely one of my top 3 trips

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

What is NC500 ?

@Mac19_72 8 ай бұрын

@@sianwarwick633 a route around the top of Scotland

@Smithy67 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic whisky, I highly recommend it.

@voicetest6019 8 ай бұрын

Hopefully the reintroduction program for Scotland works as well as the wolf reintroduction program did in Yellowstone.

@AgentSn0wWhite 9 ай бұрын

wow thank u for showing me this beautiful place

@davidarcher7158 9 ай бұрын

what a place arran is

@aceundead4750 9 ай бұрын

I was about to comment about there being a snake island in the Pacific Ocean, but when i looked it up to make sure i was remembering correctly i found out i was and that there are places called snaake island all around the planet. From Brazil to Ukraine to the seas directly around Asia on out into the Pacific Ocean.

@JasonFisk 9 ай бұрын

Love Arran whisky

@pretzelhunt 9 ай бұрын

it is lovely

@billythompson69 9 ай бұрын

Just to let you know, they also have poisonous snakes adders in the island of White I know because when I was a kid I picked one up and got bit by it twice. I was in hospital for a week. I only let it go after the second bite it was on my hand it bit my little finger and my hand is swollen about four times it’s size and it was black underneath and the hospital had to give me injections

@grantlee5737 9 ай бұрын

So that’s where patty sent em

@danfromnorth52 8 ай бұрын

Mike is Scotland’s David Attenborough.

@kiltymacbagpipe 9 ай бұрын

Who knew a squirrel could be so interesting.

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

I will say that Scotland has impressive National Parks and Trusts, and the NTS - National Trust of Scotland ? - and wildlife management. We have same issue with red squirrels territory management, in Eastern Canada. We also re-introduced, into our national Parks, the wolf for the same reasons mentioned here. Contrary to popular opinion, Wolves do not take down ranched cattle in large numbers whatsoever. I would imagine tamed bears which eat human food or waste food are much more of a threat to wildlife management.

@baldcadaver3685 7 ай бұрын

introducing wolves and lynxes might be useful for over population but what about farms and the like? how would it effect them? not trying to spread hate or the like, just curious.

@85priesty 8 ай бұрын

I want James's Gin in Tasmania....there's an enormous amount, because you can use a basic spirit with botanicals and create a Gin (and our air and water is cleanest on the planet) so distilleries buy in the spirit, which is fine, add the botanicals, and legally as long as there's juniper and Coriander seeds, it can be called a Gin....Whiskey is different ....

@johnascroft9206 8 ай бұрын

You'll never get a Turbo in that !!

@jariheimoluoto4959 9 ай бұрын

Im still waiting for James and Jeremy to make "speed of birds" show.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 9 ай бұрын

I do hope independence, if it happens, doesn't impact the important biome maintenance work.

@DavidBromage 9 ай бұрын

Another Scottish idea to do: the world's shortest commercial flight in the Orkney Islands.

@chrisslater1985 9 ай бұрын

Surely there are bigger coos than a deer??

@user-ky4bb9up8g 9 ай бұрын

If you want an island full of snakes just come to austrailia

@Nathan.Guthrie 9 ай бұрын

Ive been going to Arran for years and I have only ever seen dead Adders... No one else go, I quite like it being quiet! :)

@Okurka. 8 ай бұрын

James May's video of him reacting to AI versions of himself got 10x more views than this video. Let that sink in.

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

Aren't we stoopid

@Okurka. 8 ай бұрын

@@sianwarwick633 Looks like you are.

@RIBZ85 8 ай бұрын

Fun fact there are no snakes in the wild on the isle of man

@hoilst265 8 ай бұрын

Lol. Signed, An Aussie.

@WalterBurton 8 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@IamNotU 8 ай бұрын

Nothing against Mike, but I kinda hope that he didn't know the part of him stumbling was gonna be added til after this was uploaded

@simquicky3448 9 ай бұрын

Come do venomous snakes in Australia 🇦🇺 😂

@sianwarwick633 8 ай бұрын

😮😂

@Raven_Nightwind 9 ай бұрын

What is your plan to eradicate the snakes from the snake island?

@ifell3 9 ай бұрын

Dartmoor has loads 😁

@brodie661114 9 ай бұрын

The people want Lucys travel program Season 2

@edu4818 9 ай бұрын

fking talking watches with James May !!!

@debshipard1664 9 ай бұрын

Sorry Joe Blakes in the vid. I can't watch it.

@Kalamoren 9 ай бұрын

Clickbait title for an otherwise very interesting video

@Okurka. 9 ай бұрын

Using Snake Island in the thumbnail is very clickbaity.

@mgt864 9 ай бұрын

I honestly thought it was about Ukraine and the island in the Black Sea... "Go f*** yourself Russian war ship"

@TheRealMrCods 8 ай бұрын

The human race have a lot to answer for, heaven forbid we are judged by a higher power for our past and current crimes against the animal kingdom alone. We would be given life in prison or even the death penalty. 😥

@Vel_Plays_2.0 9 ай бұрын

Build a time machine.

@shishkebab5306 8 ай бұрын

They also need to stop using cars themselves Hypocrite’s!!!

@harpy5197 7 ай бұрын

You stole this idea from OUR LORD! LORD MILES!

@mgt864 9 ай бұрын

This might be quite niche but... Did anyone else see the thumbnail and assume it was about the Snake Island in the Black Sea and maybe it was a deep dive into the "Go f*** yourself Russian war ship" Just me?

@destinodk 9 ай бұрын

as one of the few in Denmark to see a wolf after they got back in the country from Germany, please reintrocude them. they are gorgeous animals to behold (as no they wont eat youre babies) :D