MADAGASCAR GIANT HOGNOSE SNAKES IN THE WILD! (Are we keeping them correctly?)
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- This video is all about the Malagasy Giant Hognose or Madagascar Giant Hognose (Leioheterodon madagascariensis)! These hognose snakes are a harmless species of snake that can be found throughout Madagascar. But how much is known about how they are living in the wild? They are some of the most rewarding snakes reptile keepers can work with, and on our tour of Madagascar, I look into how these amazing snakes are living in the wild so we better know how to care for them in our homes!
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I always provide a UV light for my westerns. I have healthier eggs and better eating males.
Awesome!
nice to know, i assume they are not in tiny shoe racks then like so many breeders now
My girl loves to bask under her UVB more than her heat lamp which she mainly only uses after eating to aid in digestion
How many western hognose do you own that you have uvb light in every enclosure?
@@bryonflaherty5957 18 breeder age
I still can't believe how comfortable those hognoses were just cruising around hunting, right around us... Until you tried to pick them up haha! Great video my friend!
Right? Definitely one of the highlights of the trip!
The chill of those snakes was cool to see! And they are bigger than I realized! Thanks Dav!
That surprised me actually
The first time I saw a Giant Mad Hognose was on Snake Discovery, and I immediately feel in love with them. I mean, what’s better than a Hognose? A giant Hognose!🐍❤️🐍
Right?
As someone who has a bunch of these awesome to see someone make a video on them. 100% agree with your handling tip. No matter how defensive they get as long as you move slowly and pick up from underneath without squeezing and restraining they will not strike. I'm one of those working on breeding them along with the blondes and speckleds.
A recent study brought to my attention by Mike Tytula was conducted where the stomach contents of Eastern Hognose Snakes were examined and found to contain insects. Like most I thought they ate toads, exclusively. This snake species was once abundant in Suffolk County on Eastern Long Island, NY. where there were also huge, sustainable populations of both Fowler’s and American Toads before urban sprawl. I would keep Eastern Hognose Snakes growing up during the summers at our country house on Eastern Long Island and would try feeding them a variety of foods. These included a variety of insects (preying mantis, grasshoppers, Katydids, crickets), night-crawlers, rodents like field mice, smaller snake species like DeKay Snakes and even native fish fry (perch, bluegills) from local ponds. The only thing they ever responded to as food were the toads. I have a theory that whatever insects were found in the hognose’s stomach contents were consumed by the toads just prior to them being eaten by the snakes. Another theory I have is that their rear-fanged venom is due to the poisonous toads they metabolize (like the poison of dart frogs and nematocysts nudibranchs obtain as defense from eating their natural prey; insects and anemones respectively). Has anyone ever studied whether the toxicity of Western Hognose snakes venom decreases after being kept in captivity and are no longer fed any toads? That would be an interesting study as Westerns aren’t such picky eaters and their diet varies with the seasons.
9:20
"Iguana? I think it may be an Agama as Iguanas are New World." 🤠 (Smart ass me)
Nearly said this! I checked Wikipedia narrowly avoiding an embarrassing faux pas!
Their resemblance to a subdued color collared lizard prompted my moment of doubt!
Madagasgascan Iguanas now thought to be of vicariant ( oceanic dispersal origin? ).
Having evacuated for the Kermadec 'tsunami' in NZ during 2021 I wonder if such 'tidal' waves & their strange currents, take herps long distances surfing on vegetation rafts at times?
The Cyclones we had in NZ & Madagascar recently created large amounts of floating debris too.
Hopefully the ecological impact of Cyclone Freddy won't be too terrible. More loss of life than C.Gabrielle tho, which was environmentally devastating for E.Coast of the N.Island in NZ. ( Largely thanks to exotic pine forestry slash clogging the rivers with some floating out initially to stuff up the beaches & sea )
Yay I love when Dav uploads content he does the best videos I love how he travels everywhere to study and show up beautiful reptiles and animals in their natural habitat
Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying!
Please do a video for the horrible florida snake slaughter, this needs to be blown up by all of you with the viewers.
I use uv on my snakes besides ball pythons I have
Awesome vid!
I'd like to think Mad Giant Hogs are the gateway snakes to the False Water Cobra.
Mine is about 2 years old, and he's so hard to tame.
Thanks! That's an interesting thought. I bet you're right
Dave uploads and I watch. It's always great stuff!
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the vids!
Those are some awesome snakes!
#RattleOn
Great job in this Dav. Amazing species that's definitely on my dream list . Very bold species. Unfortunately they don't show up very often in my area. Appreciate you adding the UVB reading into the video as well and talking about the benefits. Look forward to your future work.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the vid!
I love learning about how we should be caring for are snakes. Thanks to you and your hand temp, humidity and UVB readers we can learn more. So glad you go into the wild and show how they live helps us to do better.
Hope you show the other two Hognoses soon never heard of them before. Have a great Easter weekend.
GOD BLESS 🐍💖🐍💖🐍💖🐍💖
Hopefully next time I go
Thanks for covering these hoggers. I have a M and F plains and they are goofs. I'm really curious about southerns these days, ftr! I love their patterns and goofy locomotion. :)
Cool snakes, aren't they?
You are definitely a Saturday afternoon channel I have to watch. Informative, funny , and entertaining! Thanks Dav’! ❤
Thanks Rebecca!
🤘 rattle on...
Great in the wild video! I would have thought that vibrations from the sound of a voice through the ground (as we aren't a species that hovers naturally through the air), particularly if it's a deeper voice might be noticed and reacted to by one of the snakes. It really doesn't seem like that is the case though. So many of them that it seems easy to discover them in the wild there.
Very few of them cared at all that we were right there
These are beautiful snakes. So interesting to watch them in the wild and I am amazed at how chilled out they are and how many there are in one place.
Minnesota accent sounds so much like a northern ontario accent
No, a northern Ontario accent sounds like a Minnesota accent lol
It's like if a garter snake and Eastern hog nose had a baby on vaction 😂
"...but if you handle him nice and gentle... don't grab him don't restrain him, he's gonna calm right down"
"nevermind I'm just gonna restrain his ass"
11:50
Thank you for the awesome videos Dav!! Hope everything is going well!! Have a nice day and Rattle on!!
Um, they're not cousins with the new world hognoses. They're not even colubrids. Just convergent evolution
+1 for keeping hogs with UV light. I recently added UV to a few of my snakes, and my western hog will sit under the UV light for hours on end. Will soon have to switch all my snakes to screen-lidded enclosures and give them all access to UV.
They behave like giant garter snakes.
True
Haven't watched your vids in a while, these are awesome snakes.
Hey Dave, I'm a fan , I really hope that you and as many RUclipsrs that you know speak out against Florida fish and wildlife for that senseless and appalling slaughter of those snakes at Bill Mcadams place in Sunrise Florida, what was done to those pet snakes can't go unforgiven
I understand why these snakes are so often compared to North American hognoses, but they're not closely related - Madagascar hognoses aren't even colubrids! They're actually more related to cobras than they are to the "true" hognoses
RostRal, not "rostal". You didn't enunciate the second 'r'. Nice video!
curious as to how much the temps and humidity fluctuate monthly there, since you know your reading just a few days, no disrespect at all, luv ya Dav, but just wondering if this area stays the same throughout the year....
Dang those snakes are awesome. Think they are used to the Lemurs hopping around so you humans are just another primape wandering about?
Possibly
When u gonna make a video of blood python n short tailed python in the wild...😅
I mean I've always said Minnesota is the Canada of the US so that tracks.
Holy shit! You mean Canadians really talk like that??
They are pretty plump in the wild . Fatter than I would assume them to be in the wild
One of my favorite species! I have CBB 2022 females, and they are definitely NOT the calm adults! The breeder I spoke to about them warned me the babies were quite the handful and it's no joke...but they do calm down as they get older (that can't come fast enough lol). I'm hoping to add a male hatchling this year to raise up and eventually build out a large communal enclosure to breed them in the future, and add more CBB babies to the market.
They grow fast. I have 2.2 CBB from 2 separate breeders. Once they hit 3ft plus they chill out but are still a little squirmy.
3:20 damn it Adam why did you have to do us Canadians like that 🤣
It's crazy how the convergent evolution between the America's and Madagascar both have Hognose snakes , Boa constrictors, and treeboas. What other convergent evolution trypse of species are in Madagascar, I wonder? it's been isolated and has a lot of endemic species but are very similar to animals from other areas of the world! Nature is amazing!
Leaf tails for one
I dont have to even watch the video to know its great content! I tend to like before i even watch, keep it up!
Do you think there will be morphs win mad hogs?
*with?
@@suzieequee6220 there have been albino speckleds hatched. Giants might be possible to line breed with the gold/brown. I know one breeder who's working on that. It might be possible to get a mostly brown one but it will take some time to prove it.
That's one beautiful snake!
Cool Video, thx for sharing.
I only have a Western hognose snake
Beautiful animal.
Informative video, and I like the Family Guy reference 🙂👍🐷🐍
Glad you enjoyed!
Rattle on! 🐢 🦎 🐍
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I work with all three of the Madagascar hoggies, MUCH LOVE!
Nice!
Dream snake!❤
Gorgeous freakin snakes!! Looked on morph market & I saw 3, all imported.
Yeah it's hard to find captive bred but they are out there
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures I want one now 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ I need help 🤣🤣
@@KT-kn9vd rogue reptiles and Zach Buehler breed them. I'm not quite there yet but I'm getting closer.
Madagascar giant hognose snakes are so awesome
Yes they are!
💜💚💜💚great video💚💜💚💜
Thank you!
So pretty, I hope you have an awesome day dāv
Thank you! You too!
I have a male and he’s absolutely awesome! His personality is so comical and inquisitive. I’ve been on Snake Discovery’s wait list for years. I’m hoping one day to get a female. They are definitely amazing snakes! 🥰
Rogue reptiles, Zach Buehler currently breed them as well.
Are they mildly venomous as well?
Yes. Worst documented case was localized swelling and some pain
This was so much fun to watch! It's incredible to see a snake so unbothered by humans that it just carries on hunting. And I love how alert, yet chill they are. Beautiful snakes~
Would have loved to see a blonde hog in the vid, too, to see what kind of plants and vegetation in general are natural to them. I have a pair of wild caught ones (was never able to find them CB so I went for a well established WC pair) and they're incredibly docile, too, albeit a lot shyer than those wild giant hogs in the vid.
Those hollow cork branches make great hides as they're like tunnels where they can feel save inside. Found one with an opening that I placed under their heat lamp so they can bask if they want to while still feeling secure. And of course they love to dig and burrow, which I guess is the same for the giants, too, especially when they're still little.
Good suggestion! I'll have to go back one day for the blondes :)
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures Heh, I'll be sure to watch that vid, too. 😁
Must have been hard leaving Madagascar, with all those fantanstic and unique animals. Your videos really made me want to go there, too.
❤
Anyone know if the co-habing works with the other Madagascar species, like the Golden hognoses?
It can actually
Seems to work fine. I have all 3 species and they are kept in multiple m/f pairs year round with zero problems
@@mtb13311 Awesome. I have a 2.2 pair of the blonde/golden Mad hogs. Though 1 of the females still needs at least another year before she's ready to breed. But might try keeping the other female with 1 of the males. And next year when the other is bigger, put her with the other male.
@@nataliesreptiles they are all very cool. I have one blonde male who is quite the character. I swear he's part western hognose lol. I experimented with larger groups just to see what happened and they behaved quite well together. I'm trying to breed them so I split them apart. Never really saw any problems between males but I know they will wrestle over females in mating season so for a larger group I'd go with one male to several females.
@@mtb13311 Gotcha. Thanks for the advice.
Have you had successful clutches? Would you say babies do better together or apart?
The golden one looked all scrunchy and angry.
Lol
It’s amazing to see them in their environment. They seem so chilled out. We had a one a while ago. We had it from a baby. It absolutely hated us with a passion. It literally would strike at my wife and I whenever we walked past. We rehomed to someone else at it calmed down. We went to see it and as soon as it saw us it hooded up and struck at the glass. Very clever snakes. She had an amazing setup with us but for some reason she hated us. You can’t win them all
That's strange but I've heard of that sort of thing before. Don't take it personally
Yeah, they're also quite a good defensive upgrade for warships according to the Russian 2nd Pacific fleet..
hopefully ppl that keep them give them room to roam. thank you dav for mentioning that, so many colubrids love to roam.
I live in Texas and every hognose I ever came across was extremely dramatic. LOL
I love how chill these Madagascar hognose are. wonderful snakes
I was so unaware of facts about these. They only showed up for sale online. Great video!
Never had any of Madagascar but it's amazing they live so different
I can't get over how cute their little hunting-glances are with the excited barrage of blblblbl
Hi dav
Hi Hannah!
Are they rear fanged like my eastern ones ... beautiful snake
Yes
@@mtb13311 thank you honestly didnt know ...
@@richgh4905no problem. Sorry was trying to answer a bunch of questions and was a little short. Their venom is considered not medically significant. Worst known case is swelling and pain
Damn that hognose took OFF when you let him go lol
i know it's to late to mention but you should have taken his body temp while holding him out in the bright sunshine, to demonstrate how quickly they can heat up and show how it effects their energy.
I take temp reading as in situ as I can to get a better glimpse into their natural preferred temperatures.
Are they drama queens and play dead like the westerns we have here?
They certainly don't seem to
Had them for years and it hasn't happened once so I don't think so.
@@mtb13311 thanks for the information. I was wondering with there size and all.
There has been some research that likens the "play dead" mechanism to be more than a defense mechanism. The research indicates it may result from extreme stress the Hognose feels. One of the indicators is the time it takes for the snake to recover. The play dead action is somewhat akin to an almost trance like situation. After recovering, if the snake adjusts to handling, it should be fairly docile. If it doesn't, that is when it will actually bite. Not a feigned strike. Like other "rear fanged" snakes, it has to chew a bit. The venom is not a serious matter for humans. This pertains to the Hognose snakes endemic to the United States. All said and done, I appreciate Dav and company respecting the snakes' freedom to remain in its natural habitat. Also, Dav is a plethora of information to the uninformed.
Thanks for sharing Dav!! I enjoy your vlogs!!
Glad to hear that!
Those things are huge! What a cool looking snake
Right?
I need some of those in my collection. Always loved the giant hoggies. Any suggestions on a good breeder?
Emily and Ed from Snake Discovery I think had a clutch and Riley Jimison in CA may have some
Zach Buehler, rogue reptiles.
Madagascar giant hog nose snakes huh🤔
Nope.
Why nope?
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures way too much fidgety movement lol no one likes a fast snake 😆
I had a mangrove monitor when I got home to check on her and she was not moving I thought she was sleeping and when I tried to wake her up she was not moving or breathing she was cold and stiff and I knew that something was not right and I knew that she was dead dav
Sorry to hear that :(
Racks are for the greedy or ignorant keeper..