Looking for Snakes at Mount Fuji! Stunning Tiger Keelback, Giant Toad, and More!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • A few days well spent herping and exploring the mountains surrounding Mount Fuji, Japan's highest and most infamous mountain! We find several new species for me, along with a few familiar faces!
    Side note: we finally reached enough species for the year I can no longer fit the list in the video description! Attached below is a Google Doc that I will keep updated going forwards.
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    2023 Species List: 147 (+7)
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Комментарии • 134

  • @DodderingOldMan
    @DodderingOldMan 11 месяцев назад +4

    I swear Japan is the most naturally aesthetically pleasing country on the planet. The US has more rugged grandeur, there are plenty of places with more drastic, dramatic landscapes, but there's just a certain refined elegance in the Japanese landscape. And it's fascinating to consider the ways in which the inhabitants have adapted their architecture, and entire culture, really, to fit in with that landscape.

  • @zambimaru
    @zambimaru 11 месяцев назад +3

    The Countryside in Japan is so beautiful.

  • @stvbrsn
    @stvbrsn 11 месяцев назад +2

    Damn, what a beautiful place.

  • @scottuzarowski3629
    @scottuzarowski3629 11 месяцев назад +10

    Really great stuff Noah!! Looks like your having a once in a lifetime experience, thanks for sharing it with us!!

  • @kizmo2317
    @kizmo2317 11 месяцев назад +3

    I spent a month in Japan years ago. Lived in Tokyo, visited Nikko. Beautiful country. Woke up with a Japanese katydid in my room one morning at the Nikko-Kanaya hotel. My wife freaked out, but I just caught it and let it loose. I also played golf at Fuji Country Club. A memory I'll never forget.

  • @AdventureswithLandon
    @AdventureswithLandon 11 месяцев назад +1

    Japan is way more stunning than I imagined.

  • @wingsandbeaksbirder2312
    @wingsandbeaksbirder2312 11 месяцев назад +8

    Keel back snake is beautiful. “Centipede, not huge.” Big enough! 😮 OMGosh! So was the toad! As big as your hand 😂. Beautiful white lily. Fascinating mammals. Great views and overall content in that ancient, amazing place. 😊

  • @theAntwon24
    @theAntwon24 11 месяцев назад +2

    That civet was pretty cool. They're related to cats kind of like a prototype of a cat.

  • @casualobserver77
    @casualobserver77 11 месяцев назад +3

    Dang I just saw Noah in closed toe shoes for the first time haha
    Awesome video man

  • @ggoannas
    @ggoannas 11 месяцев назад +1

    That toad was gorgeous and the Japanese do beautiful drawings of them.

  • @alld6005
    @alld6005 11 месяцев назад +8

    Whoa, that Tiger keelback is a nice looking snake! It reminds me of a Garter snake, with the big eyes of a Boomslang. Will you be able to look for Japanese giant salamanders?

  • @fly_speck_cafe
    @fly_speck_cafe 11 месяцев назад +2

    Beautiful scenery, reminiscent of the PNW. Very neat herps! Intro music was sublime.

  • @brandonzayres
    @brandonzayres 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nice tiger keelback. Where I am at in southern Thailand there are red necked keelbacks, which look similar.

  • @akiriith
    @akiriith 11 месяцев назад +3

    Okay so Japan doesn't have ringnecks but that poisonous snake has a yellow ring around its neck so I'm counting it as a win
    Seriously though what a STUNNING snake, that was almost highlighter yellow and the reds + mossy greens with the bands... Truly one of the prettiest snakes I've seen on your channel. LOVE the pattern on those metamorph frogs and on the giant toad!!
    And I know there isnt a lot of snakes in these videos but 1. I really love the variety in wildlife, the strange critters of Japan are awesome and seeing that civet and the squirrel was SO cool and 2. I really like just seeing what "normal", non-Tokyo japan looks like. very nice
    Kinda hope you drop down here to Brazil one day! Visited the zoo the other day and they had a stunning rainbow boa on display

  • @centipedeslair403
    @centipedeslair403 10 месяцев назад

    Very happy to see a Scolopendra species and a house centipede in this series. Love it.

  • @user-jy4rn6vq6p
    @user-jy4rn6vq6p 11 месяцев назад +2

    Your deer sounded similar to the vocalization an axis deer makes. We have plenty all over the state of Texas

  • @chariskouelis3649
    @chariskouelis3649 11 месяцев назад +22

    Are you going to visit Europe at some point?

    • @murder13love
      @murder13love 11 месяцев назад +4

      I have tried to find snakes in Greece both on the mainland and Rhodes, only found a juvenile balkan whip snake, plenty of lizards, scorpions, mantis and ocean critters but I go there once a year and have been for 35 years and only seen an adder once before.... I'd love more pointers to be honest 😅
      Here in the uk I have found 2 grass snakes and 2 adders, plenty of slow worms and lizards but snakes seem extremely tricky to find in my experience so far!

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад +27

      I’d love to, European Vipera, Slow Worms, and Ratsnakes are all very high on my list of animals I’d love to see in the wild!

    • @murder13love
      @murder13love 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@NKFherping I could 100% guarantee slow worms in Plymouth, Devon UK 😅

    • @chariskouelis3649
      @chariskouelis3649 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@murder13love hmm....I think it entirely depends on the region you've visited and the time of the year. It is also mostly completely different to herp in islands compared to the mainland. I live in Greece and there are plenty of places with very high population densities, so maybe you should try something different and you'll be probably more lucky.

    • @jaketaylor-bruce8969
      @jaketaylor-bruce8969 11 месяцев назад +2

      The peleponese peninsula in southern Greece is great. I regularly find horned vipers, a couple of whipsnake species, tortoise, four lined snakes and just tripping over wall lizards and geckos.

  • @63jbravo51
    @63jbravo51 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for posting guys, much appreciated!!

  • @Stephen-gp8yi
    @Stephen-gp8yi 11 месяцев назад +2

    The keelback reminded me of a garter snake!

  • @hobiegunn
    @hobiegunn 11 месяцев назад +1

    I found a tiger keelback last year fishing in a stream. Been wondering was it was ever since. Thanks!

  • @lapurta22
    @lapurta22 11 месяцев назад +2

    Keep your eyes peeled for a kappa, Noah-kun.

  • @jamieszabo9725
    @jamieszabo9725 11 месяцев назад +1

    Loving this series so much already

  • @stvbrsn
    @stvbrsn 11 месяцев назад

    Ha! That little crab flipping upside down and disappearing under a rock was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while!

  • @jenn1234
    @jenn1234 11 месяцев назад

    Another great video from Japan Noah! I am so happy that you are getting to see some stuff……..that squirrel was awesome! I hope you get to see even more cool stuff! Thank you for taking us along. 😄💙🐬🐍🐊🫶🏼

  • @maconmemories3085
    @maconmemories3085 11 месяцев назад +2

    I can't believe how much that keel back looked like a garter snake.

  • @annaupdegraft5443
    @annaupdegraft5443 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love seeing the new herps and beautiful landscapes! Japan is number one on the list of places my husband wants to visit. We are currently in SC. Awesome video!

  • @thekernal0318
    @thekernal0318 11 месяцев назад +1

    Man this trip looks incredible! Japan is much more wooded than portrayed in movies

  • @ggoannas
    @ggoannas 11 месяцев назад

    Ooooh! I envy you that dinner.

  • @richardhincemon
    @richardhincemon 11 месяцев назад

    Wow Mt Fuji beautiful and the Tiger Keelback snake great video.

  • @javistrangepets7882
    @javistrangepets7882 11 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome

  • @rasbowsreptiles7310
    @rasbowsreptiles7310 11 месяцев назад

    That brown frog had incredible camouflage

  • @daveco1270
    @daveco1270 11 месяцев назад +1

    Cool title graphics.

  • @Justfollowthecrumbs
    @Justfollowthecrumbs 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the wonderful scenery, it is lovely to see the more remote areas plus the wildlife. Here’s to the next views and of course more herps.

  • @seanalexander5878
    @seanalexander5878 10 месяцев назад

    Love Japan. I fished lake Kawaguchi. Also love the 7-11 sandwhiches

  • @yzettasmith4194
    @yzettasmith4194 11 месяцев назад

    I'm glad you found some snakes, it was looking iffy there for a bit. I loved the yuuuuuge toad and the beautiful begonia by him.

  • @openlybookish
    @openlybookish 11 месяцев назад

    Awesome vlog Noah.

  • @hw5035
    @hw5035 11 месяцев назад

    Wow that was a cool looking snake 😍
    - like a gorgeous garter mixed with ringneck snake

  • @markusruttgers2044
    @markusruttgers2044 11 месяцев назад

    Lovely Trip and best wishes from Düsseldorf Germany. We only have some snakes litle poisen snake the Kreuzotter and all other are not poisen Ringelnatter Äskulapnatter and now they want replace the Hornotter (litle poisen snake) and some angry watersnakes mostly Black. For you Guys no place for a Trip but it is a wonderfull Country. Take care....

  • @brickosaurus2276
    @brickosaurus2276 11 месяцев назад

    Awesome finds!

  • @brunobarks6544
    @brunobarks6544 11 месяцев назад

    Very, very cool 👍 thanks again.

  • @conradreyes6508
    @conradreyes6508 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the video Noah loved it

  • @ThePollaton
    @ThePollaton 11 месяцев назад

    Japan is definitely on my bucket list of places to visit. We were going to go before Covid. then the world went slightly mad. Hopefully I’ll get there one day soon. Looks beautiful.

  • @joelmoore8280
    @joelmoore8280 11 месяцев назад +1

    Really enjoying the Japan videos. We watch it with our 10yo grandson, who is something of a budding herper himself. Question: Our son (grandson's dad) was in Japan in August, from the 6th thru the 16th, working at the Pokemon World Championships (video production). By chance were you in Japan around that same time period? We thought is was funny when you mentioned the Pokemon Center. Thanks again for the great videos!

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад

      I arrived on the 16th! That’s a cool gig since I’m a huge Pokemon nerd at heart, it’s a big part of where my obsession with creatures of all kinds began!

  • @thetokyobill
    @thetokyobill 11 месяцев назад

    I sometimes run across palm civets in my neighborhood in Setagaya, Tokyo--usually it's like, "that's a weird-looking cat WTF" oh, wait!

  • @pangyre
    @pangyre 11 месяцев назад

    Wowie with the new intro.

  • @jrakeswildlife6022
    @jrakeswildlife6022 11 месяцев назад

    Man looks awesome!

  • @Rando31able
    @Rando31able 11 месяцев назад

    I love visiting Japan it is beautiful

  • @darrenwilson157
    @darrenwilson157 11 месяцев назад

    That adult Japanese toad was truly awesome!

  • @TWHerping
    @TWHerping 11 месяцев назад

    Nice! Can’t wait to see the rest of this trip!! 26:00 when you are 2 ft taller then everyone on camera lol😂.

  • @lakhan9852
    @lakhan9852 11 месяцев назад

    I was born in Thailand• But currently I live in Germany• Thailand is a country with many types of snakes• I really like them.❤

  • @typicalshenaniganz
    @typicalshenaniganz 11 месяцев назад +2

    LETTTTSS GOOOOO The trip continues!!!!!
    2nd coment...

  • @davidsorensen7438
    @davidsorensen7438 11 месяцев назад

    I’m so used to you being able to identify anything here - lol - spent a lot of time at Fugi in the Marines - when we were on Okinawa one of our guys got bit by a Habu - oddly enough the most popular drink Habusaki

  • @reptilequest
    @reptilequest 11 месяцев назад

    Sweet Keelback!

  • @Michael_McMaster
    @Michael_McMaster 11 месяцев назад

    Funny notification, just climbed Fuji the other day and was at the Pokémon store too. I did see one snake during the trip in Osaka (Japanese rat snake)

  • @grumpygamer235
    @grumpygamer235 11 месяцев назад

    Yes! You mentioned the main thing I was hoping you would find, the Japanese Forest Rat Snake. I wish you all the luck given I rarely see it's very close relative in it's own terrarium. Too bad the Japanese cave gecko isn't on the mainland.

  • @davejones7202
    @davejones7202 11 месяцев назад

    Really enjoy your videos. Could you talk about the main prey for the species you discover.

  • @johngeddes7894
    @johngeddes7894 11 месяцев назад

    If you thought the Tiger Keelback was pretty, maybe you’d like the San Francisco garter snake. I found a total of 2 juveniles many years ago, and I remember going to a friend of a friend’s house where they had 2 or more really big ones in an aquarium. Reportedly very rare these days, with urban sprawl, not to mention pollution.

  • @tomwinters4576
    @tomwinters4576 10 месяцев назад

    Cool video! While fiming the lizard in the ditch, (3'40") is it possible you guys overlooked a snake?

  • @pickledfur
    @pickledfur 11 месяцев назад

    Those were indeed sika deer calls.

  • @willow2950
    @willow2950 11 месяцев назад

    Really curious as to is a deer was making that creepy sound or not lol I love your vids, not many snakes in my area, the only supposed venomous snake in my area is the timber rattle, but many people I know have seen copperheads although any snakes are rare and they are all super small except for a few water on3s

  • @joshuahull9982
    @joshuahull9982 11 месяцев назад

    That tiger keelback looks similar to our garter snakes.

  • @stefanostokatlidis4861
    @stefanostokatlidis4861 11 месяцев назад

    Nice tiger keelback. It looks like a typical grass snake with coral snake features. Other herpers catch it too, so probably unless you squeeze one too much or try to put your finger in its mouth, it won’t bite. Also nice toad, which is almost identical to the European common toad, and the brown frog was probably a Rana species, which ecologically is like the wood frog. Also nice Japanese gecko. The density of animals isn’t that high, and it looks more like Greece rather than the US in this aspect.

  • @HondaRidea
    @HondaRidea 11 месяцев назад +1

    That weasel like animal that is a type of Civet is the creature that eats coffee cherries and poops expensive coffee ☕️

  • @aubreyfranklin7714
    @aubreyfranklin7714 11 месяцев назад

    3:36 is that a snake in the ditch?! I swear I see shiny scales!

  • @michaelnewell9662
    @michaelnewell9662 11 месяцев назад

    looks like a red sided Garter wearing a yellow scarf

  • @chingli-xg4ns
    @chingli-xg4ns 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to go to Japan. Even live there. Does anyone know how it is? has anyone ever moved from United States to Japan!

  • @jayhayes5924
    @jayhayes5924 11 месяцев назад

    venomous snakes with a round pupil mess with me. I've always expected them to have the viper like slit in their eyes.

  • @dartmart9263
    @dartmart9263 11 месяцев назад +1

    Isn’t Mr Fuji (and everything on it) sacred?

  • @garjack94
    @garjack94 11 месяцев назад

    16:28 I think those are Sika Deer.

  • @murder13love
    @murder13love 11 месяцев назад +1

    Not sure what was making those noises on the road or what the foxes sound like in the USA but here in the UK in mating season, foxes sound genuinely like a young woman screaming... the police often get called. When walking through the woods at night, it is THE freakiest sound to hear that makes your hair stand on end! 100% sounds like a woman getting assulted, its horrible 😂

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад +4

      Oh yeah, hearing foxes and bobcats scream in the woods here at home still makes the hair on my neck stand up. Even though I know what it is, the sound is just straight up creepy!

    • @murder13love
      @murder13love 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@NKFherping Oh it's the worst! I remember the first time I heard it was walking an hour through the woods to get home as a teenager, we were alittle drunk and it scared us senseless 🤣🤣 It still freaks me right out to this day!
      Happy herping man, your videos inspired me to always look for things everywhere I go, my wife is sick of me flipping rocks, my two boys however love it 🤣👌
      Pity there isn't much variety here in the uk, only ever found one invasive species of frog, otherwise all common critters that are few and far between!

  • @b42angels30
    @b42angels30 11 месяцев назад +1

    I live in Arkansas I was pouring some water from a leak and there r lots of vines by this window. I thought it was a bright green vine. I almost reached for it till it moved. It was this and a bright green in a bunch of vines. Not that I would pick it up. Just want to know if it is poisonous ? Thanks in advance

    • @Isaac-The-Colubrid
      @Isaac-The-Colubrid 11 месяцев назад +2

      If you saw a bright green snake in Arkansas, it was almost certainly a rough green snake. They are completely harmless.

  • @LCEVIDS
    @LCEVIDS 11 месяцев назад

    What town were you in? Looks beautiful!

  • @RustybeltRC
    @RustybeltRC 2 месяца назад

    Judging by random people saying that venomous snakes are poisonous, it’s the Keelback Snake. I hate it when they say poisonous snakes.

  • @jorgem.viasalazar7368
    @jorgem.viasalazar7368 11 месяцев назад

    💚

  • @taurbaby
    @taurbaby 11 месяцев назад

    Frog... what frog!?!...wait, theres a frog!?!

  • @DroGhost1
    @DroGhost1 11 месяцев назад

    9:49 looks like a garter snake lol

  • @ggoannas
    @ggoannas 11 месяцев назад

    You really are a credit to your country and your State.
    Polite, open minded, respectful with what seem to be wonderful relationships with the other members of your family, nature loving.
    It’s unfortunately not the general idea we get in Europe of people from the Southern states.
    American can be very proud of you.

    • @allen480
      @allen480 11 месяцев назад

      Have you really ever visited the “southern “ states? Why did you insist on inserting a diss in an otherwise positive comment? I have lived in the South (Central Arkansas) since 2016 and I find the region both hospitable and beautiful. If you ever decide to visit you will find it so as well. - Kindest regards and best wishes from a former lifelong resident of Seattle, Washington.

    • @ggoannas
      @ggoannas 11 месяцев назад

      @@allen480 Absolutely. Lived in the USA for more than ten years and went everywhere.
      Very kind and hospitable people in the south.
      However, I do not think that you can deny that right now the reputation of the USA has been seriously tanked in the eyes if the world particularly concerning certain parts of the country and my point is to not to “diss” the south but say that people like Noah can do a lot to change that.
      And you should be celebrating that.

  • @FireoftheGreeks
    @FireoftheGreeks 11 месяцев назад

    They actually have a 13th Floor!

  • @juamu1132
    @juamu1132 Месяц назад

    those noises are from a serow,japan's national animal.

  • @deucemoose7852
    @deucemoose7852 11 месяцев назад

    What makes you confident enough to nab a Tiger Killback? Like just trusting or is there some consideration you make when choosing to do that?

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад +3

      Notice how I grab it at the very tip of the tail initially, that’s to gauge the snake’s response to contact. Typically I avoid grabbing snakes that close to the end of the tail, but once I realized the snake was unlikely to turn around and try to bite I was able to carefully handle it without issue. But once again, I wouldn’t recommend anyone without extensive experience handling snakes do the same.

    • @deucemoose7852
      @deucemoose7852 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@NKFherping oh yeah, no way. Was just curious how you were approaching that. Thanks for the insight

  • @gloydiusaxatilis
    @gloydiusaxatilis 11 месяцев назад

    Korea

  • @tacocin
    @tacocin 11 месяцев назад

    Japan also has vending machines for 2 liter sized beer!

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад +2

      We had a beer vending machine in the laundry room at the hotel 😂

  • @jamesmancuso3666
    @jamesmancuso3666 3 дня назад

    You can definitely tell this wasn't an American hotel. 13th floors don't exist here lol

  • @sacredbleuu
    @sacredbleuu 11 месяцев назад

    16:25 sir that is a wendigo

    • @allen480
      @allen480 11 месяцев назад

      A Japanese Bigfoot?👣👣

    • @sacredbleuu
      @sacredbleuu 11 месяцев назад

      @@allen480 no but similar, it's a myth like bigfoot but it's a different creature. kinda like a creepypasta

  • @mikeeickhoff4855
    @mikeeickhoff4855 11 месяцев назад

    Don't venomous snakes usually have cat eyes not round eyes?

    • @NoTengoDinero69
      @NoTengoDinero69 11 месяцев назад +1

      For the most part yes. Pit vipers do. Some venomous snakes like coral snakes and king cobras do not though. A perfect example of why it’s best not to interact with wild snakes unless you’re very certain of what it is!

  • @fkbuki
    @fkbuki 11 месяцев назад

    ...wait...there are 7Elevens in Japan?

  • @DroGhost1
    @DroGhost1 11 месяцев назад

    19:54 DAMN BOI HE THICK

  • @Plan-B-Project
    @Plan-B-Project 11 месяцев назад

    Shame no salamanders....I was hoping you would find/video a Giant Japanese Salamander

  • @mine_showtime
    @mine_showtime 11 месяцев назад +1

    4th comment

  • @denniscompton556
    @denniscompton556 11 месяцев назад

    What type of venom does the keel back have?

  • @pattymcmillon3779
    @pattymcmillon3779 11 месяцев назад

    Come back to arkansas

  • @jonzaremba
    @jonzaremba 11 месяцев назад

    Are those narrow mountain roads made for cars?

  • @jamesshawcross3656
    @jamesshawcross3656 11 месяцев назад

    Is the keelback particularly venomous? You never touch venomous snakes in the states lol.

    • @NKFherping
      @NKFherping  11 месяцев назад +3

      It’s hard to compare these guys to anything we have in the states. They have killed people, but it would take serious complacency or someone inexperienced with snake behavior to get bit by one of these. Hence why I recommend in the video that no one else does it without prior experience handling venomous snakes.

  • @steveburlingame1935
    @steveburlingame1935 11 месяцев назад

    Taco bell frog

  • @stvbrsn
    @stvbrsn 11 месяцев назад

    Ah yes, the screaming deer of Japan.

  • @brianmanners8910
    @brianmanners8910 11 месяцев назад +1

    How come I expect Godzilla to show up ? 🤔🤪🤡

    • @lapurta22
      @lapurta22 11 месяцев назад +2

      Kaiju herpimg! Add Gamera and Ghidrah to the list,

  • @Sushi2735
    @Sushi2735 11 месяцев назад

    I don’t know why I’m so surprised. I just didn’t think Japan would have SO many snakes, being an island. Wrong again.

  • @stevetuckey
    @stevetuckey 5 месяцев назад

    Great stuff! You've just earned a sub. Hit me up if you ever go herping in Australia

  • @namekjawa6848
    @namekjawa6848 11 месяцев назад

    ?

  • @jimc6687
    @jimc6687 11 месяцев назад

    It's a shame Japan ruins the natural beauty of their landscape with all those ugly high-tension lines and towers instead of just going underground..........