The Ten Deadliest Snakes In The World - With Steve Irwin | Real Wild Documentary

then I call me the crocodile me laughing you think this guy's dangerous you should see what I've got in me [ __ ] one of the things I do is get venomous snakes out of tight corners in people's houses or like here in someone's car snakes in weird places like this can be scared and cranky and since this is the only time people usually see them they get the wrong idea about them but a snakes real character is completely different out where they belong snakes are gentle and beautiful creatures I'll show you I'm gonna take you on a journey across Australia to see ten snakes the ten most venomous snakes in the world every one a potential killer I'm steve-o and I know a thing or two about snakes I was raised with them my father founded the Queensland reptile and fauna Park near Brisbane now I run the park for today I'm off on an adventure it's the trip of a lifetime to track down the world's 10 most venomous snakes fortunately they all live here in Australia why this country has such lethal snakes nobody's sure it could even be an evolutionary accident but by crikey that sure makes my life interesting this trips gonna be great I've always wanted a chance to show people what amazing snakes we have in this country and not in a zoo or in someone's house but out where the snakes live in the bush they're not biting anyone or scaring anyone they're just living peacefully with all this power stored in their venom we've still got a long way to go before we find our first venomous snake but I've got to show you this quite common to fight whoa it's quite common to find snakes sunning themselves or absorbing the heat out of the tarmac here in southeastern Queensland now this isn't one of the venomous snakes we're after this is actually a carpet python now although it doesn't possess any venom it still got quite Oh still got quite a hefty bite now when I try and touch it it's retaliating by trying to bite I think it's very important but I just shipped him off the road because snakes get clobbered all the time he's a beauty this python doesn't know how lucky it is to meet a snake lover like myself a lot of drivers out here will swerve to run over a snake back on the road I'm leaving Central Queensland behind and heading north to the Great Dividing range and that's just for starters I've got thousands of miles of hard travelling ahead of me [Music] the first stops Darwin in the Northern Territory this tropical City is home to number 10 on my list the 10th most venomous snake in the world it's the Western Brown right in the city center there's very little habitat for snakes but just out of town in the suburbs where city meets country snakes are a part of everyday life Western Browns have been living in this area for a lot longer than humans they're not about to move just because someone built a suburb here I'm told a brown snake has made itself at home under this house let's see if it's the one I'm looking for it's amazing to think the children playing so close that we have the chance of finding a Western brown snake tenth most venomous snake in the world up here in the hot tropical north the Sun is very intense and of course these buildings create the perfect shaded areas nice and cool for a myriad of dangerous animals mice and rats often dwell in amongst the rubbish and of course your venomous snakes come searching for them and this tarp is a great place for snakes well this is the first snake on our list and I never expected to have such a close encounter very important I don't breathe on it will move suddenly because this is a Western Brown real healthy-looking one - they're quite a volatile dangerous snake and in this confined area underneath a house let alone in close proximity is best left alone sometimes the best thing to do with a deadly snake in the house is to starve it out I'll have a look around and then I'll tell the family just how to do that here's the culprit it's not that the Western Brown would hang around on the off chance of eating a pet bird but the problem is that parrot is such a messy eater the seed that the parrot kicks out of its cage attracts Mice and mice are what the snakes here for try a different kind of cage and hey no mice and no snakes with me out of the way the snake comes out to look for breakfast mice find their food by sniffing the air snakes use scent too but they don't use their nostrils they taste the air with their tongue to locate their prey no feet means no footsteps mice can hear very well that they still won't know about the snake until it's too late the tongue flicks tracking the mouse long distance and the mouse is as good as dead already next snake number nine the Death Adder to find this one its back into Queensland we've got to get out into the real bush this piece of wilderness is now on as robinsons gorge it's made up of forests and steep cliffs over millions of years wind and water have carved the sandstone into caves and overhangs perfect for animals such as rock wallabies out here it's a very long way from a hospital I've got my radio in case I get bitten and I need to call in the flying doctor I'm also carrying pressure bandages the best first aid for snakebite this place is so remote the rock wallabies haven't learned to be afraid of humans even me creeping around these cliffs takes a fair amount of skill it's not quite as easy as crawling under houses death adders usually live on the most inaccessible ledges this is the perfect location really good so the next trick now is to search through these platforms of rock looking for tracks another obvious sign good thing to do is to look for other rich Pahl's as you go this sounds pretty hot right now and there's probably some around here cooling off in the shade you can see he leaves a very distinct get that attracts pushing the sand down this is brilliant now we're gonna have to be a bit careful because we're quartz these snakes won't move out of you right go right between the spray Roma just come along here and he's one I'm fed up I mean no danger at all they're a very shy timid blessed snake and this is what cruises through most of their problems in that they won't retreat and run out of people's right they'll sit rely on their camouflage thinking they're safe people stand on them they brought rolling hard this looks dangerous I know but the secret is being as slow and smooth as the snaky this is a potentially dangerous situation we've got here nothing worse than the death out of three shoelace have a look at this little beauty aren't they glorious this is the Death Adder very short stout body quite a large goofy head triangular shaped head now get outta by name not by nature as you can see the Death Adder is very Placid very quiet and timid and very unemployed to bite or strike just gotta keep my fingers out of the way now the debt that has also got a very good set of fangs a lot larger than any of the others that we're going to take a look at he's settled down nicely straight back under his leaf whether it's important for me to remember that I'm a visitor in his territory and this is his environment so I better get out of here because I've got a heck of a climb before sundown cold-blooded animals tend to slow down at night unless they're like the Death Adder and hunt other cold-blooded animals in that case dusk can be the start of the working day but the Death Adder doesn't exert itself too much it's an ambush predator it uses the end of its tail as a lure the rest of the snake stays completely still while the tail sticks up and wriggles like a worm along comes a skink seize the worm sneaks up on it it's a deadly injection of venom it's a huge overdose a lot more than is needed to kill one skink but the death adder doesn't strike very often it won't need another meal for three or four weeks [Music] snake number eight goes without eating for months the giant black tiger is found on mount Chapel Island just off the coast of Tasmania aboriginals used to call this the moving island because it heaves with six foot long snakes [Music] of course the snakes don't realize how much they frighten humans they're too busy being frightened of us when I turn up they hide in their holes I'm gonna have to root him out this island is absolutely riddled with burrows now here's a relatively fresh one the holes are actually dug by birds mutton birds they were named by local people for the way they taste masses of them breed here every summer and their chicks provide enough food for the snakes the chicks take a couple of months to grow their feathers and fly away after that the snakes don't eat for ten months until the next muttonbird season now this is a juvenile and he's still got these bands very typical of the tiger snake which you'll lose as he reaches out old hood and you can see our nippy is a little bit naughty whoa yeah check this out here's the difference this place cross for the snakes have a look at this one this is an adult three large probably got a mutton bird in his belly there and he's lute lost all those bands and he's solid black color and he's a beauty now unlike that smaller one he'd have no natural predators and he's very quiet when I'm handling snakes I try to be as gentle as possible I don't grab them behind the head the way that everybody thinks you should that can hurt the snake and it'll make it wanna bite snakes have very delicate back bones easily damaged I always try to support the body with my hands and make sure a part of its resting on the ground at all times just letting go back down as my pole then I'd better be off no time to hang around on this trip [Music] as I catch my lift back to the mainland mutton Birds return to the island after several days feeding out at sea they're bringing back fish for their chicks when the chicks are big enough all the birds will fly north but the burros won't be left empty they'll be used as nurseries by female tiger snakes unlike most snakes these ones are born without an egg [Music] the babies come out fully formed they're completely independent and armed with the world's eighth strongest venom by number seven is another kind of tiger snake this one's back on the mainland in Western Australia it's a swamp dweller have a look at this stuff for I'm evil ooh doesn't smell real crash hot but it's absolutely chock-a-block with nutrients and of course the insect life that lives in it and on it is prolific and as far as the snakes are concerned insects are good for one thing keeping the frogs fed fat and ready for eating as a general rule if you use good solid footsteps snakes are quick to get out of your way now I've been very stealthy very tender with my feet and the reason being there's a snake in here they have no ears they sense vibration footsteps pounding away snake will scatter so if I get over the top of this snake and shout at it hey snake it won't react it can't hear me here he comes be careful what I need to do is get him over here on the flat ground we can deal with you just don't move away there right now it's very important that I'm very gentle with him because you can see how flattened out he is when they flatten out like that that's like a cobra and he's saying look how big I am I'm a venomous snake it's great be careful try and get in and get his tail lucky night hey keeps covering his tile up nicely very hard to get him when they're like that oh you're a grumpy snake he's a little bit cranky now white Wow too close that was too close nearly picked me up on the nose getting bitten on the face is really hard because you can't get a pressure bandage on it this snake is particularly aggressive the reason being is I've got in cornered he feels confronted he thinks I'm going to hurt him perhaps even eating his only his only form of defense is aggression to retaliate it's very important that I get him by the tail otherwise I'm not able to manipulate him and what happens is every time I try get him other tail he swings at me that's it right I'm getting is tired of him as he is of me I may have given this Western tiger a bit of a fright but he soon recovers and starts looking for frogs again to catch frogs a snake has to do what frogs do swim a little and climb a little frogs climb using sticky pads on their toes snakes have to do without toes they climb by rippling their belly scales rather like steps on an escalator snakes ancestors were lizards burrowing lizards they lost their limbs in the process of becoming better borrowers so snakes were originally designed for narrow holes but in fact they can go almost anywhere other animals can go but that doesn't mean they always get what they're after for snake number six I'm at the Great Barrier Reef [Music] the beaked sea snake is the most venomous sea snake of them all sea snakes need to be highly venomous in order to immobilize their prey quickly venom is also a great defense system and so is hiding in the coral which is where all the snakes must be at the moment [Music] well he's won at last but it's not a beat it's an olive sea snake its tail is sensitive to light it senses potential predators like me by detecting their shadow [Music] he's another olive and it seems a bit more friendly either that or it's just admiring its reflection in my goggles it flicks its tongue to suss out what this strange object might be [Music] but it soon loses interest when it realizes I'm not another sea snake sea snakes breathe air like other snakes but one lungful can last several hours longer than my scuba tanks can anyway on my way back to the boat to dump the empties I've spotted what looks like our target snake no time to change tanks I'll just go for it with me snorkel gear now it's not a beat it's a near relative a Stokes's sea snake it's a real big one too especially this close up glorious seesnake absolutely glorious they've got some incredible body structure you can see how their belly scales and come down and divided to make a keel to aid in swimming suit head and they feel just like a snake not slimy like an eel or a fish and if we have a look down at the tail you can see it's very flattened almost paddle like and this propels them through the water quite quickly and they can even go in reverse you can see like all sea snakes they aren't aggressive they breathe air just like we do so bring it to the surface is no harm she's quite Placid and take a look at those nostrils see how she opens and closes them they're totally watertight let's just let it go and see what she does well no big sea snake but no worries we saw plenty of others time to move on number five and I'm back out to sea again for this one near Ruiz B island off South Australia I'm after another kind of tiger snake but even more lethal than the ones we've seen so far [Music] when I set foot on trees be I'll be its entire human population [Music] there's plenty of wildlife here though including lots and lots of deadly snakes the weather changes on this island are quite rapid one minutes sunny next minute it's cloudy but I actually think this cloud cover is going to work for me perhaps there'll be a few Tigers out the term cold blooded can be a bit misleading what it means is you don't have your own internal heating system you're more or less the same temperature as everything around you if you're cold you go out in the Sun to warm up if you get too hot you go to somewhere cool a cloudy day here is about right for snakes to be out and about without boiling over whoa what a little Ripper gorgeous now I can tell this is a female help and she's in really good condition now she's also gravid which is a pregnant state in a snake you can see she's got a lump that starts about here and goes all the way up her tummy and she's gorgeous very Placid have a look on her body underneath the scales those little jig is there they're ticks they're an external parasite and they feed on blood in the snake a lot of Australian animals carry ticks and they don't present too much of a problem she's so gorgeous and given that she's pregnant I'll just let her go when I leave to catch my boat the snakes are left with just their everyday irritations the ticks for instance normally snakes just have to put up with these tiny bloodsuckers but several times a year they offload them along with their own skin first they loosen the bill around the head and the rest follows [Music] one totally tech-free snake for a while at least [Music] to find snake number four we move from desert island to a completely different environment but the snake we're after isn't so different from the last it's yet another kind of tiger snake the Eastern tiger the deadliest tiger of all the reeds be Island tiger snake had difficulties getting out of the Sun but here in the forest the Eastern tiger has the opposite problem a lot of shade it homes in on openings in the forest canopy where sunlight can get through these are easiest to find along the edge of streams and rivers what a great example of how a snake if unmolested and left alone is quick to get out of your way not stand and strike the rainforest is a great place to see other wildlife too you just got to keep your eyes peeled one creature you might see is this rainforest dragon it doesn't bother to run because it feels well camouflaged amongst the leaves snakes aren't so confident though when they sense the vibrations of my footsteps they take cover I'll have to check out some of their hiding places he's won here unreal that's the most amount of tiger snakes I've ever seen in one place at one time in my life no one really knows why Eastern tiger snakes huddled together like this maybe they just like the company well went down to snake number three we're leaving the wilderness and heading for eastern Queensland sugar cane fields this is Taipan country this cane field is littered with rapper OHS just like this one and given how prevalent the rats are I would assume there'd be loads of type ants cruising around but I'd say they're either down inside the rat burrows or somewhere where it's cool despite the fact that Suns gone down it's still stinking hot so I'll come back a little bit later on night isn't necessarily the best time to find Taipans but when it's so hot during the day it's probably a better bet it's certainly when the rats are most active it's gonna be more risky for me though simply because it's harder to see what's going on around my feet well Taipan theme with the Taipan is there one of the stealthiest snakes in the Australian bush and would be the most dangerous snake that I'm going to be dealing with on this entire journey beautiful specimen they got a habit of coming straight back up over their own body and whistling past your ear so let's have a look at him and then I'll just release him on his way no mate good hunting I work with snakes every day but Taipans really rattle me this gaping mouth must look pretty intimidating to a rat but that's not the point the snakes just realigning its jaw the rats cover is soon blown wide open snakes have a unique way of eating they've got no hands to shovel it in and they don't chew their food they swallow it whole however large the meal is they do this by unhinging their jaw from the rest of their skull the preys gulped down head first then digestive juices finish what the venom started [Music] to see the second most venomous snake in the world I'm going home to Brisbane stopping off at the reptile park to say g'day to my animals a common brown snake number two in my top ten has been seen behind my own house welcome into my shed every boy's got to have a [ __ ] now I grew up in here this sheds been here since the 1970s now Terry my wife tells me somewhere in here there's a common brown snake and a large one at that she estimates it to be 2 meters 6 feet ideally what they'll do is they'll stay low there are terrestrial snake not venturing very high and they're no good at climbing now this is the perfect scenario for a brown snake because where you've got rats and mice of course that's where you'll find your Brown snakes they come in and around through here searching looking for food oh there's no mouse near European House Mouse and there's the little beauty snakes quite often find their way up into a car's engine box now comes the tough part of trying to get this highly venomous snake out of quite a tight area the common Brown likes places where people are common to it gets into houses a lot and when Australians are bitten it's usually by this snake I'm quite used to rescuing these snakes from frightened humans well what an epic common Brown in that kind of environment is certainly very dangerous I've had to use a catch bag I don't muck with him it's tail into a catch bag and they'll get him back out into the bush where he can never run into a confrontation with people again this is one of the greatest rewards for me being on the release a potentially dangerous animal back out in the wilderness where he belongs have to be a little careful cuz they normally come out of this bag very cranky and now it's time to meet number one the snake at the top and way list the most venomous snake on the face of the earth and for this I'm heading into the outback to the back of the outback from Brisbane it's a tough 3-day drive some of the livestock stations out here are the size of small country there's a lot of sheep and cattle around but plenty of wildlife too [Music] this last encounter I brought along my best mate with we're taking motorbikes because where we're going even four-wheel drives are up the proverbial creek if you are gonna get bitten by a venomous snake you couldn't choose a worse place we're miles from any kind of medical help that's why I've bought a long wears as backup [Applause] [Music] [Music] this has got to be one of the most desolate landscapes in the world there's hardly anything out here except rats flies and fierce snakes the most lethal snake on the planet this is my country and I've grown up out here and the fierce snake is an old mate of mine but I'll tell you what if you take a hit in a remote area like this even where's won't be able to help the fierce snake possesses enough toxins that in one bite he'd be capable of killing over a hundred adult humans pretty awesome I've been handling snakes since I was a kid and I've never been bitten but that doesn't mean I'm not nervous you've got to have respect for these deadly snakes and when you're handling them you can't let your mind wander out on the plane the grounds riddled with deep cracks and rat burrows the perfect spot for a fierce night to lay her eggs this clutch is just about to hatch at this early stage the young look completely harmless but appearances can be deceptive [Music] each baby fierce snake already carries enough venom to kill several ground men certainly enough to knock us around the fierce name it looks pretty drab Brown sort of a snake they vary in color some of them are quite strikingly beautiful this is a big one up around six foot two meters and what it's doing is it's just searching probing the rat holes underneath the soil is like a subterranean labyrinth now fees by name certainly not by nature as long as you give him plenty of distance they aren't all that aggressive here she comes she's coming back out as long as I'm not threatening to her we'll create too much vibration she's not bothered about me oh well that hasn't happened to me before or anybody else anybody alive that is just think the deadliest snake on earth came up and gave me a lick good thing she didn't like the taste much we've just seen that 10 most venomous snakes in Australia in the world yes that was a wild adventure for me I hope you've enjoyed it too snakes really are special and there's a lot more to learn about them yet but we'll need a little less fear and a lot more respect [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Real Wild

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Rating: 4.8748293 out of 5

Keywords: nature documentary, full documentary, documentary movie, big cats, wildlife documentary, discovery channel, national geographic, natgeo wild, Nature documentaries - topic, Animals - topic, planet earth, david attenborough, Full Animal Documentary, wild animals, wild animal, steve irwin, snakes, crocodile hunter, snake skin, snake documentary, poison, hunting, hunter, snake - topic

Id: GA0L9Wio-IY

Length: 49min 16sec (2956 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 18 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/moustached_pistachio]

This was one of only a few celebrity deaths that genuinely made me sad and resonated with me. He seemed to be such a good dude and he was entertaining as hell to watch.

[u/spambot_3000]

God damn, I wana live in the alternate timeline where Steve is still alive and just picking up the most deadly snakes in the world while wearing short shorts

[u/1stWorldFun]

God dammit I was so happy throughout watching this, thinking about how great this guy is and how awesome every second of this video was, and then I got to the end and remembered he’s gone. Fuckin criokey mate, I can’t wait to have kids just so I have someone to introduce him to

[u/TheFatMistake]

Death adders are cool as fuck.

[u/dundoubt]

Holy shit... I know he's dead but I'm still worried for him in these clips. Miss ya Steve.

[u/brookesrook]

Here's a list of fatal snake bites in Australia. Those brown snakes ain't no joke... but personally, I agree with Steve - taipans are by far the scariest - if you get bit you have minutes left to live. Crazy he let one get up in his face like that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in_Australia

[u/TroubledMang]

It's shame that he died. Good show, but some Australians didn't care for his act. They claim he sometimes used "tame snakes" (captive/fed snakes that were used to being handled), and set up shots.

[u/bulatb]

Rip, Steve. You were my number one