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my testicles are slowly receding into my
stomach which I believe is an
instinctive reaction to go into an
island full of poisonous snakes
besides being home to the highest
concentration of animals that can kill
you there's no Beach which means the
only place to quote-unquote safely dock
is an old signpost on a slippery algae
covered bed of rocks Villa de
palindromic it seems you're gong to
solve saga vibranium
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so the mother proud Sir Tom cotton SOTA
the Freud professor Amos prefere
a little faster than I thought with
snakes lurking in every nook and cranny
imagine these snakes as moving landmines
that instead of blowing you up will
cause your organs to liquefy in a slow
tedious death that's pretty much what we
were walking into
bringing in this industrial weed whacker
I'm gonna clear the way
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snake Islands terrain is also
inhospitable and at points downright
deadly on our hour and a half long
journey up the base of one of the
islands numerous mountains we spotted a
security camera hanging from a tree
there's no vacation
is it the Navy's we don't know give me
both
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you don't have to sneak right there
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we got like you
this is the problem because you can't
see this makes here the last time I came
it was worse than this
that's a Kia caliper okay take the
material per bus will be it's hard to
drop up this goddamn hill as it is on
these poor guys to carry batteries and
light bulbs and all sorts of for
the lighthouse to fix it apparently most
of the snakes from this island are in
the trees cuz that's where the birds
land it's one of the main sources for
food say this they are very I really
don't want to go on this hole it's where
the snakes are I know it I just know it
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you've seen three snakes so far which
isn't a lot but it is early in the
morning it's hot
I'm sure there's hundreds around us
right now
but if you request a photo collage the
photo on a 40-inch a Talisa maegyr here
we are at the fabled lighthouse the
doors busted off 24 equals to what
happened to the lighthouse man why did
he leave in 1920s and know his history
for emoji to kick off this evening
fr Toki oh you think that Shiva Jamila's
constant Evie Donaghy Leah my very feet
are the key Adam Miller so somewhere out
too much as El Faro de trabajo traveler
with a professor door salah/prayer Volta
sorry saga told us to do this so the
Karnataka is a village people died eh
vegetable issues you know they shall
have you got my support for the offer a
secure
Ocasio super Ocasio to pursue nitrified
lafitte la rocca DC travel to give my
al-azhar water which Montez the Pacific
criteria a party period for all yeah of
course one of the first dozen snakes we
spotted was inside the lighthouse hiding
under the old batteries that moments
earlier I had been sitting
I can either it's gonna fall I'm backed
off everyone knew this thing one bite is
gonna ruin your day big time after the
crew got the lighthouse up and running
again
they didn't waste a second hightailing
it off the island and back onto the boat
now we're here with the researchers the
Butantan Institute we're gonna go to the
other side of the island we're gonna
camp out overnight and see what fate the
snakes
deal us
as we explored the overgrown portions of
the island the researchers we spotted a
snake at least once every five minutes
and these were just the ones that we saw
for each snake that made itself visible
there were undoubtedly dozens more
around us camouflaged by the brush and
hanging from the trees for those who
work with snakes it's very hard to go to
the field and find many snakes and then
here you don't have to walk that much
and you can see many snakes so it's
these are special conditions you can
never find anywhere else and here is the
biggest abundance of venomous snakes in
the world the researchers from Boone
Taunton catch the snakes weigh them and
then inject them with microchips thank
you very tough once we find an animal we
just capture them so we can measure and
wait we check about the reproductive
stages of the animal since you do it
some of course it is now we're going to
Maya to insert the microchip pony 148
grams
this gives them vital information about
inherently endangered species it's
really unnerving here because your eyes
start playing tricks on you and
everything looks like a snake trees and
the grass and the bushes and then you
confuses you see a real snake you get a
little relaxed trick that's not a snake
and that bites you given how often we
spotted snakes slithering around in the
grass it was hard to believe Carina when
she told us that the islands golden
lancehead population has been dwindling
for years how many snakes do you think
there are on this island like can you
estimate people used to think that there
were around 4,000 snakes and probably
now it's around one and a half thousand
mm apparently it's decreasing Smuggler's
also known as bio pirates have decreased
the total population of what is already
an inherently endangered species so it's
very common actually that's when we get
to the continent if we have animals with
us like a friend of ours already went to
the continent carrying snakes which were
supposed to go to our lab and then a guy
just came to her and asked her if she
wanted to sell it and they offer like
ten to thirty thousand dollars for one
snake so the snake for the snake yeah
following up on rumors of snake
smugglers going to the island we were
able to find one to talk to us provided
we didn't show his face gram Vinson
presented amia handed yogurt Irina
Brenda Chicago L vendo asked our girls
from Brazil air con Tesla for and what
haven't you got caught so sinful people
Nativity was I think he pretty much
answered my zakappa key no contest he is
a specialist on second say you have the
point of home that is is the one second
super Niles she's guys this is prophecy
sky sign for Vietnamese he told us that
even though steely exotic animals is his
main source of income he would never
risk actually going to snake island but
later he made comments that were
inconsistent with his claim so let's say
I approached you for golden lancehead
you've agreed to go to snake island and
agreed to the fee do you have any on the
inside I can kind of tip you off concert
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game branch Cigala
I think the prince made you see our
Contessa stove is the desert reaching
Brazilian I am tied you down Janeiro
plates Priscilla's my zoom his Kyoko his
Sonoco he see his good totem on Jalopnik
I was corporal of ten on genie era
- Sasha gala anymore No Mas American
secretary para - the concept is attend
means number as you to disassociate
even in terms of illegally smuggled
animals thirty thousand dollars is a lot
so why does a snake cost so much money
is it only wealthy snake collectors
buying these things on the black market
is there something special about their
venom
no one knows or at the very least they
weren't giving it up this is the very
important to understand the evolution of
inside this genus bothrops which is a
very special genus here because many of
the accidents with snakes in Brazil are
caused by this genus oh it is very
important to us to have knowledge about
it in general
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it's time for washing cause otherwise
the closes will be over everything
tomorrow over the table over everything
so there's no way out
come here yeah now we're kids we quickly
discovered that poisonous snakes weren't
the only thing crawling around in the
dirt oh look at that they love the food
that we've dropped the morsels and
crumbs of deliciousness these
cockroaches want to eat it five snakes
awesome yes
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wait what there is one yeah look this is
like the worst place I've ever
been
it's like literally it's like humans
don't come here there's no Beach shitty
waves like it looks beautiful but
there's cockroaches and blue
locusts look who's that mean it's like
it's like literally biblical and
snakes I'll kill grass and one bite here
come to snake island it business is
boomin beautiful mine on snake island I
think there are cross roaches under my
ass right now
thankfully our journey concluded without
anyone's skin being pierced by fangs are
being injected with life-saving serum
our two days on snake island are over
I kissed before the boat my cut on hair
we defied hundreds if not thousands of
snakes biting us and we're gonna go to
the safety of reel land and of course
they feel like a million bucks right now
as we motored away I couldn't help but
think that the only reason we survived
was because snake island led us it
almost seemed like we had exited some
strange dimension one ruled by nature
and beasts and with a type of savage
Beauty that is rare in this day and age
and I had no intention of ever returning
again
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