- I can not be more excited today.
And the reason is this!
Take a look at this.
Woo, doggie!
Oh my goodness!
Take a look.
This of course is a mangrove snake!
Absolutely wonderful rear-fanged venomous snake.
You don't wanna get bit by these guys,
but they're not that bad.
They're mildly venomous, not too bad.
Look at the face on that animal there!
And those cat eyes!
That's why sometimes they call these cat-eye snakes.
That's a weird looking (toy squeaks) cat!
And that jet black and that brilliant yellow.
This is one of the most incredible snakes out there.
And up until a handful of years ago really,
captive breeding of these guys didn't happen very often.
We've been lucky enough to have a pretty good
group and produce 'em for the last like five years a row.
But look at this guys!
This is what's exciting to start my day.
Eggs from this girl!
Unbelievable!
Now this is the second clutch that we've gotten this year
but the first clutch was only two eggs!
We're hoping we have several more females go.
This is just absolutely incredible!
Look at this two!
We've got four!
We've got six beautiful, white, pearly eggs!
Now I'm gonna put these
in something that's called HatchRite.
Which this is basically a water isomer perlite.
Right?
And I'm gonna just take these, right like this.
You can see, one has just a little dimple.
But I'm not worried about that whatsoever.
Then we got one little lone egg over here.
We might even candle that.
Because you want the embryo
of a snake to be at the very top of the egg, right?
So we might candle that one.
Other than that, I think that we're in good shape.
Now, mangrove snakes take a long time to hatch.
Most snakes take 60 days.
These guys take about 90, sometimes even
over a hundred days to hatch, but hoo doggie!
We have some mangrove eggs!
And rear-fanged venomous snakes
are actually really incredible.
Let's talk more about 'em!
But before we start talking about rear-fangs
let's go ahead and talk about front-fanged venomous snakes!
Typically, when you think of a venomous snake
you're really thinking of an elapid or a pit viper.
These front-fanged venomous snakes that are obviously like
black mambas, cobras, so on like that.
And they actually have a pressurized delivery system.
Basically, their fangs are like hypodermic needles.
And with this pressurized delivery system
they actually pump the venom right into you.
So when they bite you those front fangs are right up front.
They're sinking into you.
And they're actually pumping venom in.
That's how a front-fanged venomous snake actually
delivers its venom!
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So these guys still have venom glands,
but they don't have the hypodermic needles.
They actually have grooved teeth in the back of their mouth.
- So how do they envenomate?
- They actually have to chew on you pretty good
and get a good bite into you-
(kissing noise)
- And whoa what the heck was that?
That venom will drip down the groove
in those rear fangs and actually into your wound!
So they're not actually injecting the venom.
The venom is actually dripping into you!
- What heck does that mean?
- Take for instance the boiga cyanea.
An absolutely beautiful green snake.
This is of course, is related
to the mangrove snake that laid eggs today.
It's a boiga or what they would call a cat-eye snake.
But this absolutely beautiful green snake
is a rear-fanged venomous snake.
Now, interestingly enough,
there's another green rear-fanged venomous snake
that is much more dangerous.
So just because you have a rear-fanged,
doesn't necessarily mean that it's really mildly venomous.
Every single rear-fanged snake is a little bit different!
That's right!
Well, there happens to be the boomslang over in Africa!
Again, a green snake.
That's a tree snake.
It's rear-fanged but extremely dangerous.
If you get bit and actually envenomated
by a boomslang, it's actually could be deadly.
It is a very, very potent venom, but thankfully
there's not many envenomations from the boomslang
because they are a rear-fanged venomous snake.
- So how many of these things are there?
- Including this pied mussurana rat snake.
There's about 700 rear-fanged venomous snakes
in the world!
There's only less than 600 front-fanged venomous snakes
in the world!
Rear-fanged venomous snakes actually
make up the majority of the venomous snakes
in the world.
Now keeping in mind
that venom varies, tremendously different,
from each type of mildly venomous snake.
Very mildly venomous all the way to the boomslang,
very deadly type of an animal.
Thankfully, the majority
of rear-fanged venomous snakes are mildly venomous
but everyone does react differently to the venom.
Make sure to stick around to the end of the vlog
where we're gonna recap everything that we learned
about rear-fanged venomous snakes!
With rear-fanged venomous snakes.
Not every time you get bit by them, they envenomate you.
Obviously they have to chew on you,
that venom has to leak into your body basically.
Whereas with front-fanged venomous snakes
and that pressurized system,
they're actually pumping venom into you.
Weirdly enough, not every front-fanged venomous snake
is actually a hot bite.
There's actually what they call a dry bite!
And some elapids actually have
up to 50% of their bites being dry bites.
Basically just meaning they're biting you
but not injecting any venom into you.
Whereas something like a king cobra
actually juices you tremendously, probably 99.9%
of king cobra bites are wet bites or a hot bite!
And they absolutely have an absolutely enormous venom meal
and pumping a tremendous amount
of venom in each and every bite.
- What would happen if I got bit?
- The truth is everyone reacts differently
to venomous snake bites,
whether it be front-fang or rear-fang.
- Kind of like a bee sting?
- Yeah, exactly like a be sting.
So even a mildly venomous snake
to someone like me could actually be very dangerous.
My friend Dingo,
over in South Africa
actually almost died from a rear-fanged venomous,
mildly venomous snake bite.
So everyone reacts differently.
But my advice to you is even with a mildly venomous snake
you shouldn't really be playing around with it.
- Dang this is a big 'un.
Whoa!
- Whoa, Nellie.
Oh my goodness.
Whoa!
I don't think she's very happy!
- No!
- Look at this, Noah.
- No, you can really see all the details up close like this.
- Woo, woo!
- Whoa!
Touch it.
- No dude.
I'm not touching that thing.
- Touch it, Noah.
You got this.
You're a Barczyk it's in your blood.
- Watch out, Mike, watch out.
Watch out.
- You want your index finger by the anal vent.
Just like that.
Mike, you write you writing this stuff down buddy?
- Yeah, I got, I got it.
- Look at that.
- Rear-fanged venomous snake right there.
- Woo!
- Woo hoo hoo!
- Oh, oh Nelly.
- Those guys are absolutely crazy!
Make sure to smash that like button for their efforts!
Believe it or not,
people have been bitten on their toilets before!
Albeit it's extremely rare.
Now, honestly snakes aren't
crawling through their pipe
and ending up in the toilet nearly as often
as the fact that there's just a bowl of water.
So the snake is in the room and they're like,
Hey I can go get a drink of water!
And they end up in the toilet bowl.
Believe it or not, hog-nosed snakes,
one of the most popular pet snakes,
are actually considered rear-fanged venomous.
Now it's an extremely mildly venomous animal
but they're so cute and so adorable.
This happens to be a pastel pink hog-nosed snake.
And just look at that absolutely cute,
adorable face right there.
And that's what makes them such incredible pets.
But they are considered rear-fanged venomous.
Now I've been bitten hundreds and hundreds of times
by hog-nosed snakes!
Just by actions while I'm feeding and stuff like that.
And that's one of the things,
that they're really not an aggressive or defensive snake.
So they typically don't bite.
Only time you really get bit is when you're feeding 'em
and there's such voracious feeders.
Sometimes they'll bite you instead of the food.
So I've been chewed on.
I've never had any reaction.
Now, I've seen some people, very rarely, have some reaction
which caused some swelling.
And even in very, very rare cases, the swelling
can be pretty extreme, but thankfully there's no danger
with hog-nosed snakes, to be honest with you
but they are considered rear-fanged venomous.
- So we got some rose petals here.
We're gonna see if Drogo likes rose petals.
He normally likes to eat flowers a lot in the summer though.
He's not really a big flower eater in the winter.
I get it.
It's out of season.
Maybe he wants a pink one?
Amazing, amazing.
He normally likes hibiscus and daisies.
This is actually his first time having roses.
So he is a little bit like,
Mm I don't really know what this is.
But as you can tell, he's definitely trying it.
He doesn't even know if he likes it or not yet.
What do you think Drogo?
Scale of one to 10?
Two, one.
Yeah. Solid, solid one.
Oh, maybe a four.
Okay.
Well that's what they eat in the wild, man, flowers.
They love flowers.
That's not good.
It's not good at all.
He doesn't want to eat this.
All right.
So that's it for this week for Drogo Tries.
That's it.
You know the photo?
- [Man] that's a painting.
- Oh yeah.
Or probably in enough tea.
- [Man] Well it's in enough photos.
- Yeah.
At this point, at this point, there you go.
Were you happier with that?
There you have it.
Drogo's happy.
- And these are actually my divergents, probably the pride
and joy of all my mildly venomous rear-fanged snakes.
Absolutely beautiful.
So what did we learn today?
We learned that mildly venomous snakes have venom glands
in the back that actually have a groove to 'em.
They have to actually chew
on you in order to deliver that venom.
We learned that there's over 700 species
of rear venomous snakes
and only about 600 species of front venomous snakes
that have hypodermic needles
with pressurized delivery systems to inject you
with that venom.
And we also learned that rear-fanged venomous snakes
can go from mild all the way
to extremely deadly like the boomslang!
Rear-fanged venomous snakes are absolutely amazing!
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