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Few points. 1. I've not heard of these snakes. 2. I didn't even know we had an _invasive_ species of snake in the UK. 3. Great to hear that they are not like other invasive species, Grey Squirrel, Mink, et al, that are not damaging the UK's native species. 4. Great video. Informative and concise with none of the bullshittery that you find in other _so called_ wildlife videos. 5. And I just subbed to your channel. 8-))...
This claim is that they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? If they are claiming that then I'm going to ask them to prove their claim. I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few areas in Germany where the Aesculapian snake exists. It feels great seeing them in the backyard garden from time to time
Thanks for the video. My snake mad son has found both adders and grass snakes. We are headed to London and will be taking a stroll along the canal. No expectations but you have to be in it to win it.
I saw a snake last year on Hampstead Heath near the big pond and shat myself and so did my dog. I thought it might have been a released pet as it looked like a small cobra snake but now seeing this vid, I didn’t realise there were more than grass snake ps or sadder so the Uk. Fab vid 👍
I saw 3 in the grounds of the zoo a few years ago. They were basking on a low wall in the NW corner and I thought it was a very convincing sculpture and almost touched one of them before I realised they were alive.
An extra non dangerous snake in Britain, thats awesome, now they must be somehow also get in the Netherlands and breed there, so we also have an cool partial tree snake 😃
Very nice to see them living in central London I've got some grass snakes living under my shed at the bottom of the garden in north London and see them most days in the summer.... 👍
In Kent when I lived there, in Sandwich( a real place not a joke), around 7/8 years old the village was a lot smaller, and from the village main area to my house it was about a mile, full of fields and scrub, and one day walking back home from school, I lifted this large stone out of curiosity for bugs, and instead I found a large corn snake underneath. And apparently there were quite a few living wild there, back then about 12 years ago. And in Ipswich, I've seen a wild yellow bellied slider terrapin living happily in the park near my university, basking in the sun on the shallow lake. Not to mention the various other invasive things, there's coypu tunnels left over in Byrons pool near Cambridge, seen tons of giant american crayfish, spotted asian longhorn harlequin beetles as well, plus non native wasp spiders a plenty, fire salamanders under logs in meadows, tons of muntjac and chinese water deer around. Also read about a wild racoon spotted in Scotland on trail cameras, and in St ives had a few chinese mitten crabs spotted in the rivers. And in London seen the wild parrots that live there. The UK is a hotspot for invasive things, who knows what might appear next? I bet if someone dumped a wild european jackal or two, no one would notice.
I live In Gloucestershire and as a young un (early 80s) there was is a large long hedge that went down a steep hill on the side of a road. Near the bottom of the hill the hedge was a diff hedge to the rest (only about 10 ft long ) and under there was soooo many lizards and Slow worms that we found over a few years (some around 8 inches plus long) me and a few mates were down there one day looking for slow worms and I lifted the edge this large stone looking for slow worms and something large went for me and I dropped it. Dunno what it was as under the hedge it was shaded Never found out what it was.
Sounds like it could have been a spotted Hyena....they're native to Africa but have been reportedly found lurking in the hedges across parts of the UK....they're relatively harmless to humans, except when tearing your face off, and they have been welcomed by some experts for keeping down the lion population on the South Coast of England
i grew up in Gloucestershire and found many adders and even took one home as a kid. my dad wasn't happy about that and told me to take it back where i found it which i did. adders are pretty docile but never take chances with them.
Grass snake, despite their name, love the water. We had one visit our fishpond a few years ago. I had a very surreal experience with one a short while after that. I entered via the side-gate onto out back garden driveway, and looked down and there was a grass snake's head poking out from the bottom corner garage door. I think I must have taken it by surprise because it hissed at me then withdrew back into the garage. It was like looking at a bad special effect with a puppet in a TV show or film. I went in there and searched but I couldn't find it.
Wow that amazing. I often wish that we have more reptiles in England as they're beautiful & do such a good job eating vermin. I rescue exotic snakes & find them fascinating every single day & feel privileged to live along side them. 🐍💕🐍
This is amazing, it’s a shame their in such a populated area though. Would be cold for them to be in some nature reserve where they can breed freely and not be disturbed
Its the Camden Canal walk, if you come out of the train station & go along the Regents canal into Regents park its a really lovely few miles of leafy pathway that goes in a big circle.
There's no shortage of snakes in temperate climates, and it's quite surprising to me that there aren't more aliens in the UK... Corn Snakes and King Snakes would be obvious examples of popular pet breeds that people might get bored with and release, once they got "too big," or lived "too long". I'm also surprised to hear that Aesculapian snakes will take rats... My corn snake is about 5', and there's no way she could take anything that big.
Hi. Corn, King & similar snakes wouldn't survive in our climate. Those are quite small snakes. You find people dump the larger ones like Boa Constrictors. Far too cold for them here. Wouldn't it be great if they could though 🐍😊🐍
As a snake owner I wish we did have snakes about the place. They’re actually a lot less scary than people think! Shame we haven’t got the right weather or environment for them though, these will be gone in the next year if you ask me
The weather is not a problem for these snakes they live in Germany and other European counties with similar climates to the uk it’s people that are the threat to these
The population in Wales has been there since the 60's. They are well adapted to our climate. As are many US snakes and some far east reptiles from countries with much harsher winters than ours. I've had pictures sent to me of Korean rat snakes on local commons, hognose snakes in the suburbs and a report of a kid bitten by something in a school grounds in a built up area in north east England. He was OK, but definite fang marks, so something viper like that was venomoid possibly, which is common in the pet trade.
Garter snakes could easily survive. Lots of snakes could survive in the UK. It doesn't get terribly cold. Many places in North America have brutally cold winters and have plenty of snakes. I'm sure they could survive in the UK. Get a copy of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America. Any snake that lives north of the 40th parallel could probably live in the UK.
They go into brumation like other snakes. They are native to mainland Europe and with overall temperatures rising in England and Wales they can thrive. There is another population in Snowdonia. These snakes are more likely to die from overheating.
@@francesmarie73 Very true. The entirety of the Zamenis genus including the Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus) seems to prefer colder temperatures. I live in Bulgaria and the other Zamenis species we have here, Z. situla, is virtually impossible to find during the summer unless you're lucky and hit a particularly cold and humid night.
Winters aren't bad in the UK. I saw plenty of palm trees in and around Liverpool and Manchester. If palms can live in the UK, then plenty of reptiles can survive there too.
I saw one on a walk in that exact spot easily 1.5 metres swimming in the canal then climbimg up the side and out into the sidegrowth. Realised it wasnt native and called the police to let them know and had a couple of clear pictures to send. Completely think the police thought i was mad.
Hey, that's only a harmless grass snake! The females are sometimes nearly black, and grow up to 4 ft long ...they love water. Frogs are their main diet..along with lizards and mice and even fish. Feel honoured to have seen one. They can climb a brick wall...amazing.!
Well, Will Atkins might be an expert on Aesculapians but he's got it wrong in respect of the only snake in the UK to be aboreal - Grass snakes often climb into trees to raid birds nests, to mate and even to lay their eggs into the frass of rotting tree stumps...
You'll find these 'experts' usually talk a load of crap. You'll probably never see an Aesculapian and they'll bite you if you touch them...and won't let go!! They are constrictors, but don't know if they'd wrap around your arm. They are not very pretty snakes.. indistinct markings, and grow about 4ft long. .... and I actually know what I'm talking about! Lol
@@kenthebean6619 So do I. Z. longissimus only lightly tags in self defense and doesn't latch on. The bite itself doesn't even hurt all that much and they definitely don't wrap around you, that's a feeding response and you don't get that from an animal in defense mode. Adult Z. longissimus are actually very chill and laid back snakes and you could get away without even getting bit, it's the juveniles who are biting machines.
@@ukan1527 couldn't disagree more. I've had a painfulbite on my hand. Only small teeth, but wouldn't stop bleeding. Everyone I have handled has been really aggressive...4 ft long..not juveniles..I have footage of this snake rearing up and striking out at me. They are vicious..in self defence obviously...and very quick to whip round at you. They actually hiss too. I have even released a smaller one that actually bit itself.. and wouldn't let go....of itself. Some people know..some just talk rubbish.
@@kenthebean6619 Where are you from? Could be because Z. longissimus might just be the only snake like that in your area so you don't have much to compare it to. Here in Bulgaria Z. longissimus is considered one of the calmest snakes - of course, they still bite and hiss in self defence and their bites do draw blood but it's really nothing special and barely hurts in comparison to something like D. caspius for example - although after years of field work with the latter and I'm already so used to their bites that I don't really pay them much mind they are still noticably more painful than Z. longissimus and while you might get away with straight up picking the Aesculapian up D. caspius is always fired up for dramatic defense.
So they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? Because if you are claiming that then I'm going to ask you to prove your claim. I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
Other then eating a few rats which people wont mind? We’ve already got native wildlife that do that. I dont know why someone would say hopefully they’ll live and breed in this one area if we find invasive species we shouod be doing out utmost to contain them.
You have no idea how they arrived could have been on a truck or in a shipment . You probably blame snake keepers for the Everglades problem when in fact a hurricane destroyed breeding facility.
Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. Hopefully there are a large number birds that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes!
@@dynevor6327 Actually my original post explains why I wanted animals that will kill the Asclepius Snake in Great Britain so your beautiful snake won't do to the birds of Great Britain what the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) did to the birds of Guam. Below I will try to clarify my position: There is a number of species of extremely beautiful snakes. I appreciate their beauty and usefulness in the environment. I am not an extreme environmentalist, I don't want the only animals that we believe were originally from the area to live in that area. I also don't want every plant or animal placed in any area just because someone thinks it's pretty or would be a good pet. I hate the idea that animals should be "allowed" to go extinct, especially if it can be prevented. I don't believe human beings should be confined to cities. I don't believe animals are representatives of spiritual beings, i.e.: snakes for demons; birds for heavenly bodies; mammals for human beings. I believe that GOD created animals for the use of man. I hate extinction because I believe GOD created plants and animals. I am for putting Indigo Snakes on Guam with a number of ophiophagus birds provided they were originally produced through test-tube fertilization and incubated grown in an effort to eliminate introduced diseases and parasites. A number of helpful organisms should be used to reduce harmful or disease producing organisms. This as why I have advocated for a number of organisms to be investigated to eliminate or control the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake on Guam. There is the Tommy two- toes Vampire Spider and Helicopter Damsel Fly to reduce mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical areas. Also close relatives of the Virginia Opposum to reduce numbers of poisonous Cane Toads along with rabies, mice, rats, poisonous spiders and possibly poisonous snakes in Australia and other places.
@Dynevor you want a uninvited possibly infected animal of undetermined environmental impact left alone to thrive in Great Britain but you find it shocking that I suggested "clean" (test-tube concieved, incubator grown) and environmentally tested, beneficial animals introduced to specific habitats to deal with various problems? You are just as bad as those who brought in the cane toads, mongoose, hogs, cats and rabbits or the people who preferred the military develop a new Frankenstein virus to kill the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake rather than developing a process to produce "clean" tested animals to be used to reduce the tree snake numbers on Guam! And how did that work out after they spent millions dollars creating numerous other environmental problems (explosion in spider, mouse and rats populations) and the snake population is not any smaller now than if they left the snakes alone. They can not bring back any of the rescued indigenous birds, saved by putting them in zoos, because the tree snake population would explode again. We still don't know if this mutated virus could still mutate into a dangerous virus that could kill humans, the military had to lie to say the virus could not mutate, because that is how virus survive. Viruses get into a cell and steal parts of DNA or RNA to reproduce. When the military changed the virus it automatically messes with the elements or factors within the virus that limits what a virus can do.
@Dynevor In my original post, I was wondering if Britain had the species to control the Asclepius snake population so the snake won't destroy the bird population, which is what happened to the bird population on Guam. On Guam almost all bird species were eliminated, when the Brown Cateyed Tree Snake invaded Guam some species going extinct.
@@dynevor6327 This is what you original post actually says: "Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. Hopefully there are a large number birds that can that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes!" Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. - means Asclepius snakes because part of their lives are in trees means these snakes also eat birds and bird eggs. Hopefully there are a large number birds that can that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes! - means Due to the Asclepius snakes living sometimes in trees eating birds and bird eggs, I hope that Britain has a number of different kind of birds that can control (limit) the numbers of Asclepius snakes. I don't know how you could read it differently or are you trying to make a English teacher out of me? But seriously speaking if you were serious about helping or improving people's lives, which is why GOD put animals here, there are a number of things with animals that can be done: 1) Omly introduce " "clean" (animals that were concieved in a test tube and raised in an incubater - this was done to the "Frankenstein" viruses produced by the military on Guam.) 2) test the animal by placing that 'clean" animal on a small island in an environment similar to the environment that of the land they are to be used. Though there were only 2 cases of rabies reported one in 1998 and one in 1990 does not mean Australia is "rabies-free." More often it is a report indicating that rabies is part of the ecosystem, just usually undetected. Rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus (ABL) seem to have a relationship. 3 cases of ABL have been reported in Queensland. While Aussie literature state both diseases are preventable with vaccines (within 5 days for ABL) & (with in 7 days for rabies), if found quickly enough. Otherwise rabies is fatal. Symptoms for ABL resembles encephalitis while early symptoms for Rabies can resemble the cold, flu or COVID. Rabies can be transmitted from a scratch or bite. I know of cases of people catching rabies from handling equipment that has been in an infected animal's mouth or passed by touching the blood of an infected animal.. While most often rabies is carried by bats, rats, mice, squirrels, dogs & dog relatives (wolves, jackals, foxes), and in North America often in skunks sometimes raccoons. In all places it is more rarely in cats and cat relatives (bobcats), horses (a farmer caught rabies from a halter from an infected horse) , pigs, cattle and sheep. Among the talents of Virginia opposums and their close relatives are they eat dead animals, offal and spoiled or rotten plants as well as living rats, mice, squirrels and bats. This means Virginia opposum and their close relatives are often infected by the rabies virus but the rabies virus dies after a short time in the Virginia opposum leaving these opposums uninfected. Since the Virginia opposum is very good at cleaning itself of and eating ticks and fleas then it stops diseases carried by those arthropods as well. These opposums also eat toxic Cane toads & venomous snakes in the Americas. The most common predators of opposums are owls and other birds of prey along with motorized vehicles.This makes these animals, if clean and tested, are Ideal for introduction into Asia, Australia. Africa and Europe including Great Britain. There are other animals that would help restore the freshwater environment and native fish instead of just the land environment. Too long? Deal with it.
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Their is plenty of snakes in London especially in parliament
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That’s very funny.
😂😂
Whitehall is infected with Reptillian Snakes too,hIssing Sid's the lot of them!
Lol
Few points.
1. I've not heard of these snakes.
2. I didn't even know we had an _invasive_ species of snake in the UK.
3. Great to hear that they are not like other invasive species, Grey Squirrel, Mink, et al, that are not damaging the UK's native species.
4. Great video. Informative and concise with none of the bullshittery that you find in other _so called_ wildlife videos.
5. And I just subbed to your channel. 8-))...
not only that, they are hunting the UK invasive species like rats and grey squirrels
Most european invasive species are fine anyway. They survive in similar habitats in northern europe
They're not invasive, they're resident.
Japanese knotweed is invasive.
@@mickeythompson9537 True on that knotweed. _Though I've never been bitten by one!_ ;-))...
This claim is that they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? If they are claiming that then I'm going to ask them to prove their claim.
I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few areas in Germany where the Aesculapian snake exists. It feels great seeing them in the backyard garden from time to time
Are there snakes in Germany?
@@rhythm_1612_ Yeah, not that many. The area I live in has like 4 types, grass snakes, aesculapian snakes, adders and smooth snake
And I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few countries with no snakes. Thanks St Patrick. 👍
@@feargal2433 🤣👍🍀
Feargal, you need to come to Australia. We’ve got snakes we haven’t even used yet. Really bad ones.
Thanks for the video. My snake mad son has found both adders and grass snakes. We are headed to London and will be taking a stroll along the canal. No expectations but you have to be in it to win it.
Gl keep looking
I’ve put some hours in at that location trying to spot them, but only caught a couple of glimpses! Lots of toads and spiders though!!
Well I've learnt something today watching this!! Fascinating! 👍
Do they still have them around.? I saw three grass snakes the other day in Essex it was really nice to see. Made my day
I saw a snake last year on Hampstead Heath near the big pond and shat myself and so did my dog. I thought it might have been a released pet as it looked like a small cobra snake but now seeing this vid, I didn’t realise there were more than grass snake ps or sadder so the Uk. Fab vid 👍
This is awesome. Glad I found your channel. Definate sub from Somerset 😎 👍
Thanks! glad you like it
I saw 3 in the grounds of the zoo a few years ago. They were basking on a low wall in the NW corner and I thought it was a very convincing sculpture and almost touched one of them before I realised they were alive.
An extra non dangerous snake in Britain, thats awesome, now they must be somehow also get in the Netherlands and breed there, so we also have an cool partial tree snake 😃
you could buy a few and set them free in your country, just saying
No never do this. Introducing new species to an environment can completely devastate that environment
Surely the Netherlands is much too cold in winter for snakes? They have to survive somehow lol
They're beautiful snakes, and it's great to hear that they are doing well in these two areas.
Lets hope they do not fancy a Red Squirrel meal either!
@geoffhunter7704 they're two far south for that, surely? Red squirrels mainly living in Scotland.
Just found this channel. What a nice video ❤
Very nice to see them living in central London
I've got some grass snakes living under my shed at the bottom of the garden in north London and see them most days in the summer.... 👍
NOT IF YOU ARE A NESTING BIRD ,,,
Nothing compared to the threat presented by pet cats!
They're more into frogs and toads. and as mentioned here,grass snakes are not typically arboreal, which they'd need to be to visit bird's nests.
In Kent when I lived there, in Sandwich( a real place not a joke), around 7/8 years old the village was a lot smaller, and from the village main area to my house it was about a mile, full of fields and scrub, and one day walking back home from school, I lifted this large stone out of curiosity for bugs, and instead I found a large corn snake underneath. And apparently there were quite a few living wild there, back then about 12 years ago.
And in Ipswich, I've seen a wild yellow bellied slider terrapin living happily in the park near my university, basking in the sun on the shallow lake.
Not to mention the various other invasive things, there's coypu tunnels left over in Byrons pool near Cambridge, seen tons of giant american crayfish, spotted asian longhorn harlequin beetles as well, plus non native wasp spiders a plenty, fire salamanders under logs in meadows, tons of muntjac and chinese water deer around. Also read about a wild racoon spotted in Scotland on trail cameras, and in St ives had a few chinese mitten crabs spotted in the rivers. And in London seen the wild parrots that live there.
The UK is a hotspot for invasive things, who knows what might appear next? I bet if someone dumped a wild european jackal or two, no one would notice.
@@cameltoelover4107 Nobody said anything about hating them. But they are an invasive species, and pretty common.
without links, it's all a bit blah blah. some bloke once said he seen a .................
A friend of mine used to have these all over his garden in France. Great snakes, very calm and docile.
I live In Gloucestershire and as a young un (early 80s) there was is a large long hedge that went down a steep hill on the side of a road. Near the bottom of the hill the hedge was a diff hedge to the rest (only about 10 ft long ) and under there was soooo many lizards and Slow worms that we found over a few years (some around 8 inches plus long) me and a few mates were down there one
day looking for slow worms and I lifted the edge this large stone looking for slow worms and something large went for me and I dropped it. Dunno what it was as under the hedge it was shaded Never found out what it was.
Probably a hobo 😂
Sounds like it could have been a spotted Hyena....they're native to Africa but have been reportedly found lurking in the hedges across parts of the UK....they're relatively harmless to humans, except when tearing your face off, and they have been welcomed by some experts for keeping down the lion population on the South Coast of England
Had to be an adder
@@prabshiro a bs imo
i grew up in Gloucestershire and found many adders and even took one home as a kid. my dad wasn't happy about that and told me to take it back where i found it which i did. adders are pretty docile but never take chances with them.
You were lucky not to suffer a painful bite and a trip to hospital.
@@michaelhaywood8262 Yeah I wouldn’t mess with them if you have allergies especially, same with hognosed snakes
Very cool. Wish we had them in suburban NY
Love seeing them swim and in long grass they are quick great to handle
Thats a beautiful looking snake
I've seen snakes swimming up the river Don in Sheffield on two separate occasions.
Grass snake, despite their name, love the water. We had one visit our fishpond a few years ago.
I had a very surreal experience with one a short while after that. I entered via the side-gate onto out back garden driveway, and looked down and there was a grass snake's head poking out from the bottom corner garage door. I think I must have taken it by surprise because it hissed at me then withdrew back into the garage.
It was like looking at a bad special effect with a puppet in a TV show or film.
I went in there and searched but I couldn't find it.
Brilliant vid . thank you. a good thing to have around to help keep down the squirrels and rats--goodness knows, in London, it is needed.
First time I've heard of this snake. Around here we only get grass snake and Adder if you see one. Also that lizard Brown one
Beautiful
Nice vid!
Do one on waterdeer or muntjak.
Stumbled upon this and I can say I have seen one years ago walking through the park towards camden a big brownish thing sun bathing on the path ...
I live directly below London on the coast, i certainly wouldn't mind seeing them here one day 😊
I hope they stay shy 😆
I’ve seen a few red kites or green parrots quite recently around the london area
Wow that amazing. I often wish that we have more reptiles in England as they're beautiful & do such a good job eating vermin. I rescue exotic snakes & find them fascinating every single day & feel privileged to live along side them. 🐍💕🐍
That's got to be a sight "snake running around London!"
Nice video
excellent i wanna do a video how to build a hibernaculum for reptiles/amphibians.Can't atm though the slow worms in my garden are in hibernation
Cool vid, who knew!
a successful introduction.
Had a report of them being on Clee Hill. Something overwintering on the south slope longer than a access road was wide......
Are there any snakes in hackney
These snakes are very similar looking to the corn snakes I own, I do believe they are also colubrids
1:09 'a load of snakes running around London'. Running? :)...
I’m sure I’ve read that there is now wild wallabies in the UK. And if you haven’t already then of course the wild boar.
This is amazing, it’s a shame their in such a populated area though. Would be cold for them to be in some nature reserve where they can breed freely and not be disturbed
theres another population in north wales so they can cope with the cold fine
Wildlife Exposed TV really? Wow I live in South Wales
I saw one I believe, I thought it was adder couple yrs back on a canal in east London
Do they claim expenses like the Westminster snakes
Where abouts in London is this!?
Regents Park .
Its the Camden Canal walk, if you come out of the train station & go along the Regents canal into Regents park its a really lovely few miles of leafy pathway that goes in a big circle.
I found a baby North American cornsnake in the UK...from some thick grass near a river
Do you still have it
This country has too many rat🐀🇬🇧 mice problems so more of these snakes would be great 👍👌
WHAT ABOUT NESTING BIRDS ,,
There's no shortage of snakes in temperate climates, and it's quite surprising to me that there aren't more aliens in the UK... Corn Snakes and King Snakes would be obvious examples of popular pet breeds that people might get bored with and release, once they got "too big," or lived "too long".
I'm also surprised to hear that Aesculapian snakes will take rats... My corn snake is about 5', and there's no way she could take anything that big.
Hi. Corn, King & similar snakes wouldn't survive in our climate. Those are quite small snakes. You find people dump the larger ones like Boa Constrictors. Far too cold for them here. Wouldn't it be great if they could though 🐍😊🐍
royal pythons were all the rage when I was a kid 40 years ago must be a fair few abandoned
They wouldn't survive a British winter sadly
My corn snakes will happily put away large weaner rats. Maybe not full grown adult rats but they'd Def manage juveniles no issue
As a snake owner I wish we did have snakes about the place. They’re actually a lot less scary than people think! Shame we haven’t got the right weather or environment for them though, these will be gone in the next year if you ask me
The weather is not a problem for these snakes they live in Germany and other European counties with similar climates to the uk it’s people that are the threat to these
@@oisin3495 oh fair enough, hopefully people leave them alone then I’d love to see snakes in the streets 😎
The population in Wales has been there since the 60's. They are well adapted to our climate. As are many US snakes and some far east reptiles from countries with much harsher winters than ours. I've had pictures sent to me of Korean rat snakes on local commons, hognose snakes in the suburbs and a report of a kid bitten by something in a school grounds in a built up area in north east England. He was OK, but definite fang marks, so something viper like that was venomoid possibly, which is common in the pet trade.
We saw one today, 11 June 2022, quite a long one, along the tow path near the zoo.
Not the zoo? That’s some coincidence given the Welsh mountain zoo, in Colwyn Bay
How cute
Anyone know what other snakes might survive in the UK?
Garter snakes could easily survive. Lots of snakes could survive in the UK. It doesn't get terribly cold. Many places in North America have brutally cold winters and have plenty of snakes. I'm sure they could survive in the UK. Get a copy of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America. Any snake that lives north of the 40th parallel could probably live in the UK.
Are you encountering any invasive species, particularly with the increases in temperature due to global warming?
what about a écureuil roux ? that would be a problem
There's actually 4 species of snake native to the British isles: Adder, Grass snake, Smooth snake and One-Eyed trouser snake......
OETS can get huuuuuuge .................... ;-)
Let’s hope there in abundance now and clearing up the streets of London
I live on the tow path in North London, and I have never seen one.
Check out the Adder
What about the predation on birds?
Still glad that we have no land snakes in New Zealand..You can keep them.
If you have too many rat or mice problems why don't you import Tiger , Eastern Brown or Inland Taipans ?
You should try grass snakes 😂
Just leave them be, I'd rather a shy snake than a rat
And there I was thinking they'd infested Westminster.
My Wife saw one of these snakes down here in Devon.
A mystery to me how they survive the winter at this northerly longitude, not just them but our few native reptiles.
They go into brumation like other snakes. They are native to mainland Europe and with overall temperatures rising in England and Wales they can thrive. There is another population in Snowdonia. These snakes are more likely to die from overheating.
@@francesmarie73 Very true. The entirety of the Zamenis genus including the Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus) seems to prefer colder temperatures. I live in Bulgaria and the other Zamenis species we have here, Z. situla, is virtually impossible to find during the summer unless you're lucky and hit a particularly cold and humid night.
Winters aren't bad in the UK. I saw plenty of palm trees in and around Liverpool and Manchester. If palms can live in the UK, then plenty of reptiles can survive there too.
I get grass snakes and slow worms in my garden
There are plenty of snake varieties in the Houses of Parliament .
I think the London population has since petered out but the Colwyn Bay population still persists?
also in Derbyshire so no doubt many more colonies
thats so funny, these Snakes are awsome but we cannot any
i saw a grass snakes in my backyard
Look for slow worms - they're pretty rare these days as well.
loads in my back garden. kent uk
Harley Street's just a wriggle away.
I saw one on a walk in that exact spot easily 1.5 metres swimming in the canal then climbimg up the side and out into the sidegrowth. Realised it wasnt native and called the police to let them know and had a couple of clear pictures to send. Completely think the police thought i was mad.
Hey, that's only a harmless grass snake! The females are sometimes nearly black, and grow up to 4 ft long ...they love water. Frogs are their main diet..along with lizards and mice and even fish. Feel honoured to have seen one. They can climb a brick wall...amazing.!
It's weird how we have the eastern world flooding UK, and here we are with all these none native exotic animals. London even has Parakeets.
I never knew that
The Everglades would like to have a word about your definition of the word 'Huge'
Well, Will Atkins might be an expert on Aesculapians but he's got it wrong in respect of the only snake in the UK to be aboreal - Grass snakes often climb into trees to raid birds nests, to mate and even to lay their eggs into the frass of rotting tree stumps...
True, there's a lot of snakes with arboreal tendencies in Europe. Hell, even Horn-nosed vipers do it on occasion!
You'll find these 'experts' usually talk a load of crap. You'll probably never see an Aesculapian and they'll bite you if you touch them...and won't let go!! They are constrictors, but don't know if they'd wrap around your arm. They are not very pretty snakes.. indistinct markings, and grow about 4ft long. .... and I actually know what I'm talking about! Lol
@@kenthebean6619 So do I. Z. longissimus only lightly tags in self defense and doesn't latch on. The bite itself doesn't even hurt all that much and they definitely don't wrap around you, that's a feeding response and you don't get that from an animal in defense mode. Adult Z. longissimus are actually very chill and laid back snakes and you could get away without even getting bit, it's the juveniles who are biting machines.
@@ukan1527 couldn't disagree more. I've had a painfulbite on my hand. Only small teeth, but wouldn't stop bleeding. Everyone I have handled has been really aggressive...4 ft long..not juveniles..I have footage of this snake rearing up and striking out at me. They are vicious..in self defence obviously...and very quick to whip round at you. They actually hiss too. I have even released a smaller one that actually bit itself.. and wouldn't let go....of itself. Some people know..some just talk rubbish.
@@kenthebean6619 Where are you from? Could be because Z. longissimus might just be the only snake like that in your area so you don't have much to compare it to. Here in Bulgaria Z. longissimus is considered one of the calmest snakes - of course, they still bite and hiss in self defence and their bites do draw blood but it's really nothing special and barely hurts in comparison to something like D. caspius for example - although after years of field work with the latter and I'm already so used to their bites that I don't really pay them much mind they are still noticably more painful than Z. longissimus and while you might get away with straight up picking the Aesculapian up D. caspius is always fired up for dramatic defense.
I have photographed a grass snake in a tree 😎
Might they take a domestic cat?
No, the reverse, I should think.
wow
Wow it's called Claus schwab viper parliament is full of them
So they don't prey on bird nests in the trees or waterfowl nests on the ground? Because if you are claiming that then I'm going to ask you to prove your claim.
I bet they eat loads of eggs and baby birds.
I'm in Southern California and would like to see rattlesnakes crawling around London, since it isn't English anymore 🇨🇳
What is it then? As a Norwegian who has lived in London for a couple of years studying, I think I smell a little racist.
I’m a Londoner and we’re considered racist if we say we are English we are supposed to say British so you’re correct
@@Agathanagatha I'm born and bred in Sunderland northeast England I'm English born in England and never will say I'm British.
@@paulAnthony7236 I totally agree 👍
@@Agathanagatha i was born and raised in kent uk and dilligaf ??
Go wild in the country!
_Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free!_
In a way they maybe good as they eat rats 🐀 oh was mentioned in vid after I wrote this . Just as long as they are not dangerously venomous.
Garter snakes can easily survive in the UK.
Well that was a big let down
I hate snakes…I don’t know why I’m watching this!
Find a pikey WITH a job! The rarest of creatures!
These were native to the UK before the ice age, when they were extincted here. The post ice age climate works for them again.
A few cobras would liven things up a bit.
Other then eating a few rats which people wont mind? We’ve already got native wildlife that do that. I dont know why someone would say hopefully they’ll live and breed in this one area if we find invasive species we shouod be doing out utmost to contain them.
“Huge”, he said. The oldest clickbait.
well i never.
You have no idea how they arrived could have been on a truck or in a shipment . You probably blame snake keepers for the Everglades problem when in fact a hurricane destroyed breeding facility.
A little bit of a clickbaity title, as these are not really HUGE SNAKES are they?
Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. Hopefully there are a large number birds that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes!
@@dynevor6327 Actually my original post explains why I wanted animals that will kill the Asclepius Snake in Great Britain so your beautiful snake won't do to the birds of Great Britain what the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) did to the birds of Guam. Below I will try to clarify my position: There is a number of species of extremely beautiful snakes. I appreciate their beauty and usefulness in the environment. I am not an extreme environmentalist, I don't want the only animals that we believe were originally from the area to live in that area. I also don't want every plant or animal placed in any area just because someone thinks it's pretty or would be a good pet. I hate the idea that animals should be "allowed" to go extinct, especially if it can be prevented. I don't believe human beings should be confined to cities. I don't believe animals are representatives of spiritual beings, i.e.: snakes for demons; birds for heavenly bodies; mammals for human beings. I believe that GOD created animals for the use of man. I hate extinction because I believe GOD created plants and animals. I am for putting Indigo Snakes on Guam with a number of ophiophagus birds provided they were originally produced through test-tube fertilization and incubated grown in an effort to eliminate introduced diseases and parasites. A number of helpful organisms should be used to reduce harmful or disease producing organisms. This as why I have advocated for a number of organisms to be investigated to eliminate or control the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake on Guam. There is the Tommy two- toes Vampire Spider and Helicopter Damsel Fly to reduce mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical areas. Also close relatives of the Virginia Opposum to reduce numbers of poisonous Cane Toads along with rabies, mice, rats, poisonous spiders and possibly poisonous snakes in Australia and other places.
@Dynevor you want a uninvited possibly infected animal of undetermined environmental impact left alone to thrive in Great Britain but you find it shocking that I suggested "clean" (test-tube concieved, incubator grown) and environmentally tested, beneficial animals introduced to specific habitats to deal with various problems? You are just as bad as those who brought in the cane toads, mongoose, hogs, cats and rabbits or the people who preferred the military develop a new Frankenstein virus to kill the Brown Cat Eyed Tree Snake rather than developing a process to produce "clean" tested animals to be used to reduce the tree snake numbers on Guam! And how did that work out after they spent millions dollars creating numerous other environmental problems (explosion in spider, mouse and rats populations) and the snake population is not any smaller now than if they left the snakes alone. They can not bring back any of the rescued indigenous birds, saved by putting them in zoos, because the tree snake population would explode again. We still don't know if this mutated virus could still mutate into a dangerous virus that could kill humans, the military had to lie to say the virus could not mutate, because that is how virus survive. Viruses get into a cell and steal parts of DNA or RNA to reproduce. When the military changed the virus it automatically messes with the elements or factors within the virus that limits what a virus can do.
@Dynevor In my original post, I was wondering if Britain had the species to control the Asclepius snake population so the snake won't destroy the bird population, which is what happened to the bird population on Guam. On Guam almost all bird species were eliminated, when the Brown Cateyed Tree Snake invaded Guam some species going extinct.
@@dynevor6327 This is what you original post actually says:
"Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. Hopefully there are a large
number birds that can that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes!"
Those snakes, since they are semi-aboreal means they eat birds and egg eaters. - means Asclepius snakes because part of their lives are in trees means these snakes also eat birds and bird eggs.
Hopefully there are a large number birds that can that can eat or at least kill these Asclepius snakes!
- means Due to the Asclepius snakes living sometimes in trees eating birds and bird eggs, I hope that Britain has a number of different kind of birds that can control (limit) the numbers of Asclepius snakes.
I don't know how you could read it differently or are you trying to make a English teacher out of me?
But seriously speaking if you were serious about helping or improving people's lives, which is why GOD put animals here, there are a number of things with animals that can be done:
1) Omly introduce " "clean" (animals that were concieved in a test tube and raised in an incubater - this was done to the "Frankenstein" viruses produced by the military on Guam.)
2) test the animal by placing that 'clean" animal on a small island in an environment similar to the environment that of the land they are to be used.
Though there were only 2 cases of rabies reported one in 1998 and one in 1990 does not mean Australia is "rabies-free." More often it is a report indicating that rabies is part of the ecosystem, just usually undetected.
Rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus (ABL) seem to have a relationship. 3 cases of ABL have been reported in Queensland. While Aussie literature state both diseases are preventable with vaccines (within 5 days for ABL) & (with in 7 days for rabies), if found quickly enough. Otherwise rabies is fatal. Symptoms for ABL resembles encephalitis while early symptoms for Rabies can resemble the cold, flu or COVID. Rabies can be transmitted from a scratch or bite. I know of cases of people catching rabies from handling equipment that has been in an infected animal's mouth or passed by touching the blood of an infected animal.. While most often rabies is carried by bats, rats, mice, squirrels, dogs & dog relatives (wolves, jackals, foxes), and in North America often in skunks sometimes raccoons. In all places it is more rarely in cats and cat relatives (bobcats), horses (a farmer caught rabies from a halter from an infected horse) , pigs, cattle and sheep.
Among the talents of Virginia opposums and their close relatives are they eat dead animals, offal and spoiled or rotten plants as well as living rats, mice, squirrels and bats. This means Virginia opposum and their close relatives are often infected by the rabies virus but the rabies virus dies after a short time in the Virginia opposum leaving these opposums uninfected. Since the Virginia opposum is very good at cleaning itself of and eating ticks and fleas then it stops diseases carried by those arthropods as well. These opposums also eat toxic Cane toads & venomous snakes in the Americas. The most common predators of opposums are owls and other birds of prey along with motorized vehicles.This makes these animals, if clean and tested, are Ideal for introduction into Asia, Australia. Africa and Europe including Great Britain. There are other animals that would help restore the freshwater environment and native fish instead of just the land environment.
Too long? Deal with it.
@@dynevor6327 the rabbit is also an alien species brought into Britain!... by the Romans apparently!......