Dangerous Killer Bees, Spiky Plants, & Giant Centipedes | A Triple Threat for Coyote!

0:01 Whoa, that's a lot of bees right there.

0:07 And what I'm creating is a little bit of space.

0:09 Be space so I can get into the center frame

0:13 and determine what the health of the colony looks like.

0:16 Ow.

0:17 Ow.

0:18 Stung.

0:18 Stung.

0:18 Stung.

0:18 Stung.

0:19 Ow.

0:22 Killer bees.

0:24 It's a term that swarmed the United States in the early 90s,

0:28 blanketing the nation with a fear that being covered and stung

0:31 to death by Africanized honeybees was a possible and very painful doom.

0:37 And while people do die from bee

0:39 stinks every year due to rare allergic reactions,

0:43 the term killer bee is nothing more than an overly hyped media headline.

0:49 Early morning, the deserts of Arizona.

0:53 Today we are out in a bey yard getting ready to check some hives to determine

0:59 if they have been reprogrammed from angry Africanized

1:02 killer bees and into a more docile stock.

1:05 You would never want to approach a colony of bees in the wild.

1:09 So today I will be working alongside my good friend,

1:12 honeybee farmer and conservationist Chris Brenton.

1:17 This guy knows bees.

1:21 Chris has dedicated his life to honeybee conservation by safely capturing

1:26 aggressive Africanized colonies and genetically

1:29 reprogramming them into calm European colonies.

1:34 The easiest way to explain it is that he removes the angry

1:38 Africanized queen from the hive and replaces her with a friendly European queen.

1:44 Eventually, the friendly queen's genetics are passed on.

1:48 The colony becomes docile and ultimately safer for a honey farmer to work with.

1:54 This process takes time, but it's incredibly effective.

2:00 Today, Chris has tasked me with analyzing the aggression level

2:03 of an Africanized bee colony that was

2:06 recently discovered in a residential neighborhood.

2:09 Instead of exterminating the colony,

2:12 Chris moved it to one of his controlled bee yards

2:14 and swapped the queens so the genetic reprogramming process could begin.

2:20 Has the genetic reprogramming process worked?

2:23 We're about to find out.

2:26 Now, this Box here is unique and that this was

2:29 an Africanized colony that's been brought into the bey yard.

2:32 And what Chris has done is replace the queen.

2:35 Remember, at one point this was considered Africanized killer bees,

2:39 which are incredibly aggressive if provoked.

2:43 All right, here we go.

2:44 So, the first thing is to gently pry open the lid,

2:49 and that is to crack the seal between the wax and the frames.

2:56 Whoa, that's a lot of bees right there.

3:02 So far, so good.

3:03 They seem to be pretty calm.

3:06 I want to create myself a little bit of space

3:10 by separating out this first frame from the others.

3:15 Then, as Chris had instructed me, I want to get down to about the sixth frame.

3:21 That's right in the center of the colony.

3:24 All right, coming straight up.

3:28 There we go.

3:29 Wow, look at that.

3:32 That is a very heavy frame of comb and bees.

3:38 And as you can see, we're starting to get pretty swarmmy here.

3:42 I'm going to set this frame off to the side.

3:45 Before we get any further,

3:47 it's important that we understand what a killer bee is.

3:52 Technically, they are swarms of European bees

3:54 who interbred with invasive East African land bees.

3:59 This breeding created aggressive swarms of what

4:02 are now known as Africanized bees.

4:06 Visually, there's very little difference between these bee types.

4:10 The danger is that Africanized bees are far

4:13 more aggressive and react faster to perceived threats.

4:18 The sting of a killer or Africanized bee

4:21 isn't more potent than that of a European bee.

4:24 But because they attack in greater numbers,

4:27 this equates to more stings and the chance of death.

4:31 Hence the nickname killer bee.

4:35 Really careful here.

4:36 Don't want to squish anybody.

4:39 Middle frame is coming up.

4:42 Ow.

4:42 Whoa.

4:42 Whoa.

4:43 Whoa.

4:43 Whoa.

4:43 Whoa.

4:43 Ow.

4:43 Stung.

4:44 Stung.

4:44 Stung.

4:44 Stung.

4:45 Ow.

4:46 Oh boy.

4:47 I I my glove has gotten peeled back.

4:50 Okay.

4:50 That's one of the dangerous elements of beekeeping is you always got

4:54 to be careful the bees getting up and underneath the gloves and your suit.

4:59 Yowsers.

5:00 Yep.

5:01 Got to love honey bee stings.

5:02 Okay.

5:03 Ah, wow.

5:04 Honey bee stings more potent than you would think.

5:07 Okay.

5:08 Let me uh bring out this frame.

5:12 All right.

5:12 Here we go.

5:13 Middle frame coming up.

5:16 Woo!

5:16 Look at that.

5:18 That is a lot of bees right there.

5:21 Let me check one more frame back.

5:29 All right, next frame coming up.

5:32 That is a lot of healthy looking bees right there.

5:36 At this point, we are pretty much stuck right in a swarm of bees.

5:42 Now, if I were to gauge the level of aggression that is happening right here,

5:47 I'd say it's somewhere right in between.

5:49 Not necessarily as aggressive as you would imagine a swarm of killer bees to be,

5:54 which tells me that this queen is doing her job.

5:57 She is successfully reprogramming a lot of this colony into being more docile.

6:03 Now, I was stung once in the process, but really that was sort of my own fault.

6:08 My be suit came peeled back from my gloves and I was inadvertently stung,

6:12 but I'm not getting attacked to the point where the bees

6:16 are latching on to me and inflicting a bunch of stings.

6:19 So, that is actually a really, really good thing.

6:22 That means that this colony is on its way

6:26 to being genetically reprogrammed and will ultimately be a more friendly,

6:31 docile stock of bees for producing honey.

6:36 All right, I would say the colony looks healthy.

6:40 So, now it's a matter of getting the frames

6:41 back into place and closing up the box.

6:47 It's definitely intimidating to be surrounded by this many bees.

6:51 That's without question.

6:52 But when you think about it,

6:54 beekeepers are doing this every single day to help with the production of honey.

7:00 And you're going to get stung every once in a while.

7:03 It's inevitable.

7:04 Okay, so now that we've got the frames back in place,

7:09 I want to make sure that they are balanced and even,

7:13 I want to gently move the bees away from the edge of the box.

7:19 Make sure they're all kind of tucked back down in there.

7:22 I don't want anybody to get squished.

7:24 And last but not least, we put the lid back on.

7:28 You want to do it at a little bit of an angle so

7:31 that you can kind of push any last bees out of the way.

7:35 Really gently.

7:37 And voila.

7:39 There we go.

7:40 It's important to remember that all bees are going to defend their colony.

7:44 Out in the wild, if there were to be a bear that comes

7:46 into the environment and tries to break into a hive to get honey,

7:51 the bees sting as a natural defense to ward off anything

7:54 that's either after their queen or after their production of honey.

7:58 So, it's not abnormal for the bees to be swarming around me.

8:02 The good sign is that the bees are not aggressively attacking.

8:07 And that's a day in the life of a beekeeper.

8:10 Now, it's time to treat that sting.

8:15 During the summer months,

8:17 stings most commonly occur when humans accidentally step

8:20 on a honeybee that is pollinating a flowering plant.

8:24 Now, before we get to treating the sting, here are a few things you should know.

8:29 First is that only female bees can sting.

8:32 Now, it's obvious the stinger is very sharp,

8:35 but did you know that unlike wasps and hornets, honeybee stingers are barbed?

8:40 And as a result, they become lodged in their victim's skin,

8:43 which can allow for a larger dose of venom.

8:47 The venom itself is made up of mostly water and the following proteins.

8:52 Simply put, it's a chemical cocktail that causes pain, swelling, itching,

8:57 and an extreme level of discomfort that could be thought of as nature's

9:01 way to teach you a lesson that you will never forget.

9:05 The threat of being swarmed and stung to death by killer

9:08 bees is not something you need to worry about this summer.

9:12 And if it makes you feel even better, to date,

9:15 Chris has captured thousands of aggressive killer bee swarms.

9:18 And once introduced to a docile European queen,

9:21 every single colony has been successfully reprogrammed.

9:26 It's important to remember that honeybees are not out to get you.

9:30 They simply want to be left alone to do their job pollinating our planet,

9:34 which ultimately helps in the production of many foods we eat.

9:39 Yet, accidental stings do happen.

9:41 So, if you find yourself facing the uncomfortably potent venom of a honeybee,

9:46 just remember, be brave and stay calm because the first aid is quick and simple.

9:53 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to enter the nettle zone with the Gimpy Gimpy.

10:02 Look at all the bumps forming on my arm.

10:04 Oh my gosh, man.

10:06 That is nasty looking.

10:16 The Cape York Peninsula is considered one of Australia's final frontiers.

10:21 It's a wilderness paradise.

10:22 And while we love filming its unique species,

10:24 today we're actually looking for its most

10:27 notorious plant known as the gimpy gimpy,

10:30 it supposedly has the world's most painful plant sting.

10:33 Today, I'm meeting up with my good friend Ryan.

10:35 He says he's got gimpy gimpies on his land,

10:38 and he knows that because he's been stung by it before.

10:41 My goal is going to be to not only find this plant,

10:43 but clip a leaf and ultimately place it on my forearm

10:46 to determine just how painful this sting really is.

10:58 Kevin is our official gimpy gimpy scouting dog.

11:03 He's got a nose for danger this one.

11:11 This is it.

11:12 That's it.

11:15 Way back there.

11:17 Kevin, what do you think about gimpy gimpy leaves?

11:20 Is this something that a dog would ever want to mess with?

11:23 Not so much.

11:27 Now, Ryan, you've been stung by the Gimpy Gimpy before.

11:32 Tell us a little bit about your experience.

11:34 Indeed, I just had it brush my fingers as I was

11:36 swinging a machete and pain stayed with me for about 3 months.

11:39 Wow.

11:41 Yeah.

11:40 So, I may be in for some serious pain today

11:43 given what the Gimpy Gimpy is going to do to me.

11:45 Now, what I want to do is extract the right size leaf.

11:48 You could see some of these leaves are massive.

11:50 I mean, bigger than a human head.

11:52 So, I could see how if you had an accident out there clearing

11:55 bush trails or if you slipped and fell into one of these plants,

11:58 it's going to be endgame for you.

12:00 But for me, I'm looking to get a leaf

12:01 that's just the right size to fit on my forearm.

12:04 It seems like I'll have no trouble picking the leaf of my choice.

12:07 So, I got a couple things I'm going to use.

12:09 I'm going to be wearing sunglasses and wearing protective gloves.

12:12 I also have with me a couple of plastic bags and we'll be in good shape.

12:18 Are you going to follow in with me just a short ways?

12:20 Are you going to film from here?

12:21 I'm going to film from here.

12:23 Okay.

12:23 Probably smart, right?

12:24 I'm wearing shorts as well.

12:25 Yeah.

12:25 Okay.

12:25 I'm actually going to put bandana over my face,

12:27 too, just so that nothing breathes into my nose.

12:31 The bandana, the glasses, the hat, the gloves.

12:34 Hopefully, this will protect me.

12:35 I don't want to get nettled before the right timing.

12:50 Okay, I'm right underneath the tree now.

12:54 I got a great leaf right there.

13:01 There it is.

13:02 That's the gimpy gimpy leaf right there.

13:04 All right, let's get out of the underbrush here.

13:06 It's time to get this experiment underway.

13:15 Sample number one secured.

13:18 It is a very unassuming looking leaf, I have to admit.

13:23 On the underside, you can see all those veins that run through.

13:26 And what you can't see with the naked eye are these very small nettles,

13:31 much smaller than the nettles of the giant stinging tree leaf.

13:37 You got those jagged edges around the outer rim.

13:40 And if you hold it up like this, it's almost heart-shaped.

13:44 But there's no love that comes from this leaf, only pain.

13:48 Now, I've read many stories about

13:50 the gimpy gimpy in preparation for this episode.

13:53 Honestly, this is the most fabled plant, I think, on the face of the planet.

13:57 There are stories that date back all the way

13:59 to the mid 1800s of early explorers running into this plant,

14:03 the pain being so bad that they wanted to cut

14:06 off their body part that was inflicted by those nettles.

14:09 I read a couple of cases where people's horses ran into the nettles

14:12 and the horses ended up dying within a matter of hours.

14:16 Now, what I want to do next is give you

14:18 guys an up close look at what are called the tricoms.

14:21 That's what's actually harboring that neurotoxic venom.

14:25 When you really break it down,

14:26 those tricoms are little hypodermic needles, almost like snake fangs.

14:31 And the second they touch my skin and the tip breaks off,

14:35 that venom is going to slowly be working its way into my system.

14:38 Now, for context and for safety, we do have a full first aid kit with us.

14:44 We also have an epinephrine pen.

14:46 There have been multiple cases of people being

14:48 nettled by this plant who've gone into cardiac arrest,

14:52 so we want to be extra careful.

14:53 I don't think it's going to be that bad for me, but you never know.

14:57 Certainly in Australia, this is biological landmine number 101.

15:00 And there is an indigenous people's remedy for how to remove

15:05 those nettles if you find yourself in worst case scenario.

15:08 I'm going to show you how to do that.

15:09 But first, we actually have to get the nettles into my skin.

15:13 Oh, I can feel myself really wanting to drag this one out.

15:16 I'm told this is going to be one

15:18 of the most painful experiences I have ever been through.

15:21 Bullet ant, execution wasp, giant hornet,

15:24 hand in a box full of angry yellow jackets.

15:27 If this surpasses the yellow jackets,

15:29 it's about to be the worst pain day I have ever gone through.

15:34 And it's amazing that this is quite possibly going to come from a leaf.

15:38 We think of it being animals on our planet.

15:40 They're the things that are going to be the most dangerous biological landmines.

15:44 You never think about it actually being something like a plant.

15:50 Now, to induce the nettling,

15:53 all I'm going to do is basically brush the leaf up against my skin.

15:57 Think about it.

15:57 If you're out there exploring in the wilderness and you

15:59 brush into one of these, you're going to feel it.

16:02 So, I don't need to go over the top.

16:04 Over the top would be slapping it up against my face,

16:07 rubbing it all over my body.

16:08 But I can tell you this much.

16:09 If this is going to put me in pain for several hours, if not possibly weeks,

16:14 I think I'm just going to take a test drive with the Gimpy Gimpy.

16:18 From what everybody tells me, it's going to be one wild ride.

16:22 I'm going to move this off the table, take off this glove.

16:28 My poor forearm.

16:29 It's taken a lot of beatings on this trip to Australia.

16:33 You may see a red dot in the center of my forearm right now.

16:37 That's actually still a sting left over from the bulldog ant.

16:41 So, we're just going to add uh a little poison on top of the paint as it is.

16:46 Okay, here we go.

16:48 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to enter the nettle zone with the Gimpy Gimpy.

16:55 One, two, three.

17:06 Okay.

17:07 Oh jeez.

17:08 Oh god, that's very bad.

17:09 Very quick.

17:10 Oh my god.

17:11 Very bad.

17:12 Very quick.

17:15 Oh wow.

17:16 Okay, so Oh yeah.

17:19 Oh mackerel.

17:20 So what I did Oh jeez.

17:21 Yeah.

17:22 Wow.

17:22 Okay.

17:22 It's very very bad.

17:24 I rolled the leaf like this because at first I was like,

17:26 I'm really not feeling anything.

17:28 It takes those tricoms just the slightest opportunity of digging into your skin.

17:33 This is like taking the volume in your car stereo and cranking it to 100.

17:38 It only goes to 10 right now.

17:40 It's on its way to 100.

17:41 Holy cow.

17:45 Yep.

17:45 This is worse than the giant sign tree, that's for sure.

17:47 Now, I'm not going to put this on par by any

17:49 means with a hand in a box of yellow jackets.

17:52 Not yet.

17:52 We're not there yet, but I can definitely feel that it is building.

17:56 Holy cow.

17:56 All right.

17:57 You can see where the redness is starting to set in there.

18:03 I just trying to sit here.

18:04 I really want to get up.

18:05 I really want to get up and move around.

18:07 The sweat's getting in my eyes now.

18:09 I got to get these glove off.

18:15 Okay, let me get some composure here.

18:17 Holy cow.

18:18 Holy cow.

18:18 So on fire and being electrocuted at the same

18:21 point is exactly what this feels like.

18:24 I've only been electrocuted once.

18:25 That's when I accidentally got my finger

18:26 in between those two prongs in electrical socket.

18:29 And boy does that send a jolt up your body.

18:31 But if I'm going to compare this to an insect sting,

18:35 I would say that we are definitely at bulletin ant level at this point.

18:38 And it is continuing to build.

18:41 Now when you think about it building and getting worse,

18:44 I'm about a minute and a half in.

18:46 And if it's only going to get worse in the next 20 to 30 minutes,

18:49 I I'm really a little bit nervous as to where that's going to possibly go.

18:52 And I might have overdone it.

18:53 I might have Maybe I should have just touched it to my arm and not rolled it.

18:56 Oh man, this is a bad idea.

18:58 Oh my.

19:01 Ah, look at all the bumps forming on my arm.

19:03 Can you see that with that camera?

19:05 All through there.

19:07 Look at that.

19:07 Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.

19:09 I'm going to just I'm just going to go ahead

19:10 and count this because those are the tricoms that penetrated the surface.

19:15 I'm seeing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

19:20 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Probably close to 50.

19:30 Hot seat right here, ladies and gentlemen.

19:33 Jesus, it's really getting bad.

19:37 Yeah.

19:40 Oh my gosh.

19:44 Holy cow.

19:44 Can you see that on your on your camera, Mario?

19:47 Yeah.

19:47 If you keep it like that, dude, that is ridiculous.

19:51 Oh god.

19:52 Don't puke on us.

19:53 Don't puke on us.

19:54 Oh, my stomach's getting a little queasy.

19:58 I can understand just from a few minutes in with the pain

20:02 why some people have called this the suicide plant.

20:06 I imagine this being on my face, my neck, my mouth.

20:10 If you had fallen face first into one of these plants

20:13 and you were going through this kind of agony everywhere.

20:17 This is this is this is bad.

20:19 This is bad.

20:20 This is another one of those oh play stupid games win stupid prizes.

20:23 I know you guys are all right in the comments section below.

20:25 Coyote, what did you think you were getting yourself into?

20:27 Well, I knew what I was getting myself into.

20:29 Had to determine exactly how bad it was going to be without question.

20:32 This is way worse than the giant stinging tree leaf.

20:40 Shimies.

20:41 Wow.

20:42 Holy heat zone, man.

20:44 This is like This is like serious searing fire right now.

20:49 Holy cow.

20:49 No, this is serious.

20:50 Something's going on here.

20:52 I can actually feel it feels like it's crawling into my skin.

20:57 So, similar to a jellyfish, the nataphors on a jellyfish.

21:01 And the way once they penetrate your upper

21:03 epidermis layer and start to get in there,

21:06 they're working their way in.

21:07 And those tricoms are slowly releasing small bursts of neurotoxic venom.

21:12 So every time they set off almost like a landmine,

21:15 I'm feeling that jolt of burning electricity going

21:19 up and down like Got that shot yet?

21:21 That's a good angle right there.

21:22 Yeah, I bet it is.

21:24 Hold steady to start pouring down rain.

21:26 It's going to rain.

21:29 Yeah.

21:29 We're trying to get this scene all roped in before the storm comes in.

21:32 Now, it's important to note that we're going to have to gauge out

21:35 the pacing of this over the course of the next 20 to 30 minutes.

21:39 So, we've got rain coming in.

21:40 The next piece is the the next piece of the scene may be up under an overhang.

21:45 But the good news is we've got the tricoms in the venom's taking effect.

21:52 And I'm going to try to use the local remedy for removing some of those nettles.

21:57 But I'm going to let it set in so I can

21:59 feel the full effect of the venom before we do that.

22:01 All right.

22:01 I'm getting up.

22:02 I got to move.

22:02 Holy crap.

22:03 Ah.

22:05 Woo.

22:11 He was right about play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

22:14 So, he wanted to take on this journey and we would been here to capture it.

22:22 Ah, torrential downpour.

22:25 Nothing like filming ah a nettled episode in the middle of an oncoming storm.

22:30 Oh.

22:32 My remedy.

22:32 My remedy.

22:35 Ah.

22:36 Oh, the water definitely makes it worse.

22:40 Jeez, man.

22:43 That is nasty looking.

22:46 My whole left side is like oh so uncomfortable.

22:50 All the way up my arm into my shoulder and into my chest and my lymph nodes.

22:58 Ah, that is the face of a man who is exemplifying true regret.

23:08 My arm is on fire right now.

23:11 And it's not just my arm.

23:12 It's my lymph nodes underneath my armpit and in my groin.

23:16 It's so uncomfortable.

23:18 That's my body's lymphatic system basically saying,

23:20 "We've got invaders in the body.

23:23 We got to get rid of them." Now, there is a remedy that indigenous people,

23:28 the Aboriginal people will use to help remove

23:32 the nettles from any stinging plant in Australia.

23:37 I'm going to try this remedy.

23:39 I'm looking for anything right now that could possibly provide me relief.

23:43 I am 30 minutes in.

23:46 Mentally, I am zapped.

23:47 My lymph nodes are screaming in pain.

23:49 My arm is on fire.

23:51 it might as well have gotten burnt in a furnace.

23:55 So, let's let's try to let's try to do this.

23:57 Um, if you are out in the wild and you find that you

24:02 have run into a gimpy gimpy or you've run into a giant stinging tree,

24:07 all you need is a small container.

24:09 You can use a water bottle.

24:10 You could use anything.

24:11 And a little bit of dirt.

24:13 You want some dirt that's going to be thick and that's ultimately going

24:16 to turn into a thick mud that you can cake onto the skin.

24:21 You want it to be the consistency of a very hearty milkshake.

24:26 Now, as that dirt begins to dry, as the mud dries,

24:30 it is going to suck moisture and grip on to the nettles.

24:35 And then you should be able to peel or rub

24:38 that off and hopefully take the majority of the nettles with you.

24:41 So, if you're out there in the wild finding anything with a flat,

24:45 straight edge, I found the shell earlier.

24:48 This will work perfectly to scrape the mud at an angle.

24:51 You don't want to dig in.

24:52 You want to go at an angle against the mud, the skin,

24:56 and hopefully that will help to push out some of the nettles.

24:59 So, here we go.

25:02 Look at that.

25:03 Just bulldozing it away.

25:07 It's still very, very sensitive.

25:10 Oh, it does feel like it may be getting some of those nettles out, though.

25:14 Oh, man.

25:15 My arm hurts so bad.

25:17 The whole arm is almost numb at this point.

25:20 And as the mud was drying,

25:22 I could actually feel that it was tightening down on the skin,

25:26 which did provide, strangely enough, a little bit of relief.

25:31 And the good thing about the mud is that it's also going to suck

25:35 out a little bit of that toxin from the upper level of the skin.

25:41 All right.

25:43 Now, everything that I've read has said

25:45 that water immediately turns to searing pain.

25:49 That's because the nerve endings that are being affected by the neurotoxin

25:53 are still screaming and cold or heat will just increase that intensity.

25:58 But I'm going to go for it.

25:59 Here we go.

26:03 YEP.

26:04 OH, WOW.

26:04 JEEZ.

26:05 YEAH.

26:05 YEAH.

26:05 YEAH.

26:05 OKAY.

26:06 I want to get that off.

26:06 Want to get that off.

26:08 Yeah.

26:10 The water burns like crazy.

26:18 Okay, there are definitely probably still tricoms

26:20 in there if it's hurting that bad.

26:26 Okay, get off of there water.

26:28 Woo, man.

26:32 Immediate water contact equals searing pain.

26:36 But now that I've squeegeeed off some of that water,

26:41 I am feeling a bit of relief.

26:46 Now, as a secondary effort,

26:48 if you find yourself out in the wild and this is your immediate solution,

26:52 getting to a store to use something like wax strips

26:55 is going to be your best remedy in a nettling.

26:59 Whether that is from the giant stinging leaf or from Gimpy Gimpy,

27:03 we know because I use wax strips with the giant stinging leaf.

27:07 And I do have some wax strips with me that I

27:09 will eventually try if the paint here doesn't begin to subside.

27:14 Oh jeez.

27:17 Oh, that's so painful.

27:19 It is insane how many of those were still in my skin.

27:23 And I can tell the difference between hairs and tricoms

27:26 because my hair is dark colored and the tricoms are clear.

27:30 And under a macro lens,

27:32 they look like little tiny snake fangs that inject a lot of neurotoxic venom.

27:41 It has now been 24 hours since I took on the sting of the gimpy gimpy.

27:46 It's fair to say last night I had the second worst sleep experience in my life.

27:52 Next to sticking my hand into a box of Angry Ella jackets,

27:55 the gimpy gimpy put me in some serious pain.

27:58 Today, I'm doing all right.

28:00 I used another wax strip this morning,

28:02 still feeling electrical shock impulses running up and down my forearm.

28:06 And I would say that I can officially rank the Gimpy Gimpy

28:09 as being the number one most painful plant sting in the world.

28:14 Is there a plant sting that's ever going to outdo it?

28:16 I guess we'll have to wait and find out.

28:18 I'm Coyote Peterson.

28:20 Be brave.

28:21 Stay wild.

28:23 We'll see you on the next adventure.

28:27 It has been nearly 4 months since

28:29 my wild ride with Australia's notorious suicide plant.

28:33 And when it comes to long-term effects, all of the warnings are legit.

28:38 My forearm experiences random, unprovoked flare-ups of itchiness.

28:43 And if I put anything refrigerator level cold to my skin in the nettled area,

28:48 it feels like I'm being shocked with icy lightning bolts.

28:52 Fun times.

28:54 But this is why I do what I do.

28:56 So that we can all see how powerful nature is and why

28:58 you want to do your best to respect it from a safe distance.

29:02 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to enter

29:05 the bite zone with the giant Asian centipede.

29:10 Here we go.

29:13 Ah, the

29:17 Hi, I'm Coyote Peterson and today I'm going to be

29:20 bitten by one of the world's most venomous centipede species.

29:24 Now, there are four good reasons as to why

29:26 I'm going to perform this extreme experiment.

29:29 First is to measure how my body will react to this bite using medical equipment.

29:34 Second is to determine if this bite will

29:36 rank as my most painful experience to date.

29:39 Third is to show you what a doctor would do to treat this type of bite.

29:43 And last, but certainly not least,

29:45 is to raise awareness and financial support for Save the Horns,

29:48 our black rhino conservation initiative.

29:51 Now, before we get into paying for conservation gain,

29:54 first I want to introduce today's special guest, Dr.

29:57 Jordan Wagner.

29:58 He's a certified trained physician,

29:59 but to his millions of followers, he's known as Dr.

30:03 ER.

30:04 What's up, Doc?

30:05 Hey, what's happening, Coyote?

30:06 Much, man.

30:06 How are you?

30:07 I'm good.

30:08 Uh, ready for a centipede bite?

30:09 Uh, I hope you're ready.

30:10 I'm getting ready for making sure that you

30:13 don't have an emergency that we need to handle.

30:15 In order to fully understand what my body will be

30:17 going through during the bite and its immediate after effect, Dr.

30:21 Jordan first needs to create what's called a baseline,

30:24 which includes my resting heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.

30:28 My numbers were a bit on the high side,

30:31 but the doc noted that to be normal given

30:33 the mental wherewithal of the bite I'm about to take.

30:36 With my biometrics recorded,

30:38 the next step is to fit me with 11 sticky electrodes,

30:41 which will be attached to the life pack 12,

30:44 a device that will provide a visual representation for my baseline

30:47 stats and how they fluctuate during my interaction with the centipede.

30:52 Now, feeling like a bionic man,

30:54 it's time to introduce the good doctor to the world's largest centipede species.

31:01 Here we go.

31:03 That wow is the giant jungle centipede.

31:09 That is big.

31:10 That is huge.

31:11 But is that the head?

31:13 What am I looking at?

31:14 Well, that's a great question.

31:16 So, this centipede species and almost all

31:19 centipede species have something called defensive mimicry.

31:23 The back end looks like the front end.

31:26 Or is it the back end looks like the front end?

31:30 Wow.

31:30 Okay.

31:31 Okay.

31:31 So, it's a it's a mechanism to trick its pre predators.

31:34 Predators.

31:35 Right.

31:35 So, if I was a coyote that was looking

31:38 for a meal and I came in to bite this side thinking

31:40 I was getting the head because crushing the head or getting

31:43 the neck is what's going to kill a potential prey item.

31:48 Unfortunately, you've bitten its butt and then it

31:50 has the opportunity to swing around and bite

31:53 you with those forciples which are what

31:56 the biting mechanism on a centipede is called.

31:58 Now, those are Look at that.

31:59 It's turning up in the air though.

32:01 There those forciples are modified appendages.

32:04 So over time and these creatures have

32:06 been evolving for millions of years over time.

32:10 They evolved to have these appendages that have turned into a biting mechanism.

32:17 It's a little close to my finger there.

32:19 So what we're going to attempt to do now is freehandle this centipede.

32:25 Now, as I was starting to say,

32:26 the venom from the species is very similar to the giant desert centipede,

32:31 which I had been bitten by before.

32:33 I got to actually pin down its head to do this.

32:37 Oh jeez.

32:37 Look how fast.

32:38 See how fast it is?

32:43 There's the commitment.

32:45 Look at those fangs.

32:47 My goodness.

32:48 Okay, here we go.

33:06 Cut the C cut the cameras.

33:07 Cut the cameras.

33:08 So, I made the choice to not be bitten by this species.

33:12 Instead, we're going to be bitten by a species that is much more potent,

33:17 an oldworld centipede.

33:20 But this one specifically, we consider a centipede ambassador.

33:24 Okay?

33:24 Do you notice how calm it is?

33:27 This is not something you could normally do with a centipede.

33:31 It is chill.

33:32 It is relaxed.

33:33 And at the moment, it is just enjoying crawling on my arm.

33:37 Look how sluggish it is.

33:39 Just curiously looking around, looking for its next spot to walk.

33:43 Now, I got to ask you this question,

33:46 and I would only ask you this if I felt comfortable.

33:49 Do you think you would be able to freehandle this centipede?

33:52 I know you didn't expect this coming in here today,

33:55 but I am confident that your odds of being bitten are like only one out of five.

34:01 Got it.

34:01 Which is not bad.

34:02 One out of five.

34:03 That's like 20%.

34:04 I mean, maybe it's like two out of four.

34:06 You know, the numbers going the wrong direction.

34:08 I think you're going to be okay.

34:10 I know I'm putting you on the spot,

34:11 but I figured that would make this episode so much better.

34:14 I mean, if you can let it crawl on me, sure.

34:18 Just trust me.

34:18 So, put your arm straight out.

34:20 Let me ask cameras.

34:21 Is camera looking okay there?

34:22 Oh my god.

34:23 All right.

34:23 So, this is Dr.

34:25 Eer about to freehandle the world's largest centipede species.

34:31 Let me get her to walk.

34:32 Oh, she likes me.

34:33 She likes you better than me.

34:34 We're going to try this.

34:35 Just like this.

34:37 There we go.

34:38 There.

34:38 Oh my gosh.

34:38 There we go.

34:39 Oh, she doesn't want to come off my hand.

34:42 Okay.

34:42 I don't know.

34:42 Maybe she just senses your nerves.

34:45 Maybe.

34:45 There we go.

34:45 There we go.

34:46 There we go.

34:46 Just stay still.

34:47 There you go.

34:47 Turn your arm a little bit.

34:48 Don't worry, I'll get her if she moves or decides to drop.

34:51 Whatever you do, don't move.

34:52 They can definitely sense fear.

34:54 And if it goes up your sleeve,

34:55 just let it happen cuz it'll be super entertaining.

34:58 I'm just Oh, she's going right towards your face.

35:01 Okay, you could do whatever you need to do.

35:03 Look at the way that the bodies move.

35:05 Now, centipedes have segmented bodies and they're armed with this exoskeleton.

35:09 Exoskeleton.

35:10 No, Jordan.

35:11 What's so cool about this is that the exoskeleton is almost indestructible.

35:15 Are you kidding me?

35:16 Oh, it's going up the side of your head.

35:18 This could not be any better.

35:20 Okay, great.

35:21 I'm going to bring her back.

35:23 Yeah, you can take control of your head.

35:25 Get out of here.

35:26 No, I'll bring her this way.

35:27 Oh my gosh.

35:29 I got my watch on to see what my heart rate's doing.

35:31 Do you think your heart rate went up there?

35:32 I don't know.

35:33 We're going to see.

35:34 So, for context, had this centipede decided to bite you,

35:36 which I was confident that it would, you would be in a world of pain.

35:39 And that venom is very similar to the venom of the giant desert centipede.

35:43 Got it.

35:44 Centipede venom is not well researched.

35:48 Okay.

35:48 Yes.

35:49 What are we doing on this?

35:50 I apologize.

35:50 I'm going right back into my centipede facts.

35:52 Let me let you breathe for a second.

35:54 You doing okay?

35:55 I'm all right.

35:56 I'm okay.

35:57 See, what you guys didn't realize is that he

35:59 had no idea that this was going to be happening.

36:02 That was fantastic.

36:03 Most people would have been like, "There's no way.

36:05 You could have walked right off of this set

36:07 and back to California and I would have just been

36:09 left here by myself and then who would save me

36:11 if the other centipede bite goes bad?" That is true.

36:13 You know, it wasn't so bad.

36:14 It was getting used to the legs moving

36:17 and that unique intensity, but it was light.

36:20 I just started going to my neck.

36:21 I was worried about my jugular.

36:23 Yeah, that's not the spy you'd want to get bitten.

36:25 But what I was starting to say about the venom

36:27 specifically is that not a lot is known about centipede venom.

36:31 But we do know that there are two specific properties that are incredibly bad.

36:37 Yes.

36:36 And what aspects are those?

36:37 So we have a neurotoxin and a cardio/myiotoxin.

36:42 The neurotoxin basically interferes with the ion

36:46 channels leading to the information on your nerves.

36:49 So you can experience horrible pain paralysis.

36:54 You can get numbness.

36:55 Okay, that is the neurotoxin working.

36:58 On top of that, you have this cardioype

37:01 toxin that will increase your heart rate, which could cause cardiac arhythmias,

37:06 meaning your heart starts going high beats,

37:10 abnormal beats coming from the wrong areas of the heart.

37:13 And that's when we might need to shock somebody out of an abnormal rhythm.

37:16 And that's why we have this machine,

37:18 right?

37:18 All right.

37:19 So, I'm going to hand this big,

37:22 beautiful creeper back off over here to Mario off camera.

37:31 pretty successful.

37:32 Yeah, we managed to handle the world's largest centipede species.

37:36 Crawled up your neck and nobody was bitten.

37:39 But that's not why you guys showed up.

37:42 You showed up, you clicked on that thumbnail because you

37:45 want to see me bitten by a very creepy looking creature.

37:50 And that's where we are headed next.

37:52 So, let's go ahead and bring in the container here.

37:55 Now, I want to explain to everybody that the next few

37:58 minutes that you are going to see here may be pretty intense.

38:02 Mario, go ahead and uh let's hand this guy in here.

38:06 Oh, it doesn't look so bad.

38:07 Uh, this is, trust me, it's going to be bad.

38:11 Let me turn it like this for the cameras.

38:13 So, this is the giant Asian cherry centipede.

38:18 Now, this is what will be considered an oldworld species.

38:22 So, because it's oldworld,

38:24 the venom component is quite a bit different than the venom from New World.

38:29 Now, I have been told that without question,

38:32 this bite is going to put me in the most painful situation I have ever been in.

38:37 Top three most painful are putting my hand into a box with 200 yellow jackets,

38:41 the bite from a giant desert centipede, and the gimpy gimpy leaf.

38:46 Wow.

38:46 So, this may take the new top tier level

38:51 of pain when it comes to Coyote Peterson and discomfort.

38:54 We're going to get it out of the clear plastic capsule.

38:58 It's going to go into this container.

39:01 You should be good.

39:02 We are not going to let this one walk on your neck.

39:05 And I'm going to gently Wow.

39:09 get it under control.

39:11 I was just looking over here at the monitor

39:13 to see if there's much change in my heart rate.

39:15 And uh a little bit a little bit a little bit little bit.

39:20 Okay.

39:20 Centipede is coming out of the container.

39:24 All right.

39:24 Now to do this, I'm going to place it in like this.

39:27 Gently take off the bottom.

39:32 That's a nice way.

39:33 Okay, there it is.

39:35 Please, please, please don't be able to climb out of there.

39:37 We did not test this earlier, just so you guys know.

39:39 Okay,

39:40 look at the activity.

39:41 And you can see how it's using its antenna and all

39:44 these little sensory organs up front to figure out where am I going.

39:47 And one thing that I notice about centipedes is that they're rather intelligent.

39:51 They're always investigating their environment and they notice light.

39:54 They notice notice shadows.

39:56 They notice movement.

39:56 You can tell that my speech pattern is beginning

39:58 to change because I'm getting a little bit nervous.

40:00 Look at my look at my heart rate.

40:01 It is it is definitely going up.

40:03 Like this is the moment of no turning back.

40:07 Don't you don't you climb out of here.

40:09 This centipede gets out of here during the making of this episode.

40:11 It's going.

40:11 It's going to be running.

40:12 So, all right.

40:13 Here's what I need to do.

40:14 I need to very gently I'm going to kind of have to stand up a little bit.

40:18 What I need to do is gently pin the centipede's head

40:22 down so that I can get it right behind its head.

40:25 And then the foripules are where the bite is going to come from.

40:28 So, once I get the centipede under control, then we'll be in good shape.

40:32 So, I'm not going to talk for a minute.

40:33 I'm going to just try to get this done without

40:35 talking so that we can have the animal under control.

40:38 And then we are are getting into things.

40:42 You see how fast it is?

40:45 Wow.

40:44 In case anybody's wondering, is this possibly hurting the myriod?

40:47 It's not.

40:48 Their exoskeletons are like armor plating.

40:50 So, it's really about getting it pinned with this hand.

40:53 And then I've got to I need to be able to pick it up with this one.

40:56 So, that's where this just gets a little bit difficult.

41:00 Where's my heart rate?

41:01 Wow.

41:01 You're actually doing really good.

41:02 You're 126.

41:04 You've actually calmed down.

41:05 That is probably the most difficult part about this entire situation.

41:10 So, keep that there because we may need to pull the top off of that.

41:17 I probably squinched it down.

41:18 Here we go.

41:19 Just in case we need to get the centipede contained.

41:22 Okay, so I'm going to hold Wow, they are so incredibly strong.

41:27 So if I turn it like this and hold really still,

41:30 Mario can zoom in on those forceules

41:32 and that is what is going to inflict the bite.

41:35 Venom filled.

41:37 This is going to be bad.

41:39 So because I don't want to hold the centipede in this position for too long,

41:42 we're going to get right into it.

41:44 Heart rate rising.

41:46 Yep.

41:46 So forearm's going to be here.

41:47 Now Doc, I don't want to get bit in an area with a vein.

41:50 Correct.

41:50 You do not want direct inoculation into your vein.

41:53 So there are two areas right in the middle above and below that main vein.

41:56 Give me a target spot.

41:57 So, we have this spot right here or right here.

42:02 Guys, please hit that donate button.

42:04 This is for all of those rhinos out there.

42:07 Heart rate rising.

42:09 Every single dollar counts.

42:11 I am literally willing to push it

42:13 this far to bring awareness for rhino conservation.

42:17 If we do not protect these animals,

42:18 they are going to go effectively extinct in the next decade.

42:22 This is completely worth it.

42:24 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to enter

42:26 the bite zone with the giant Asian centipede.

42:33 One, two, three.

42:38 Here we go.

42:43 He's got me with one thing.

42:48 Ah, he's got both.

42:51 Okay, you got that shot.

42:52 I don't think I can let him stay much longer than that.

42:57 How we doing on a chop?

42:58 You good?

42:58 Good.

42:58 Good.

42:58 Good.

43:01 Oh, okay.

43:03 Let me in there.

43:03 Yep.

43:04 Oh, look at that.

43:05 Okay, you got that bite.

43:07 Breathe.

43:09 Breathe.

43:10 Breathe.

43:10 Breathe.

43:13 Tell me what you're feeling.

43:17 It's searing pain.

43:19 Oh my gosh.

43:21 That is instantaneous.

43:24 Oh, sharp stabbing, pressure burning.

43:28 Tell everybody what you what you feel.

43:29 Okay, so Oh, wow.

43:31 Hold on one second.

43:32 Okay, so yes, the pain is is bad.

43:35 It is getting worse, but I'm feeling an incredible numbness in my arm right now.

43:40 It is pain, but it almost feels like a state of paralysis.

43:43 Right.

43:44 Which is that neurotoxin starting to take effect.

43:46 And you can already see the redness around the area.

43:49 Yeah.

43:49 And some swelling.

43:50 Oh, holy mackerel.

43:53 Wow.

43:53 Wow.

43:54 So, it's a paralysis but pain.

43:58 Hold on.

43:58 Just give me a second.

43:59 Give me a second.

44:00 Give me a second.

44:02 So, we always ask patients when they come

44:03 to the emergency department on a pain scale 1 to 10.

44:06 10 being the worst, one being not so bad.

44:10 You have your own you have your own pain scale

44:13 cuz you're you're an individual that understands his own pain.

44:16 Where does that rank for you right now knowing

44:19 that it may get worse or it might get better?

44:21 This is I would call it a five out of 10 at the moment.

44:25 But here's the thing.

44:25 We are hot.

44:26 What are we a minute and a half in?

44:29 A minute and a half in.

44:30 And one of the things that I learned with the giant desert sun.

44:33 Sorry guys, I Wow.

44:34 Holy cow.

44:34 I'm like super lightheaded.

44:35 Yeah, that seems like a bigger bigger response and wheel than you had

44:40 on your first one in the sense of I already see some black and blues.

44:44 I see some blood there.

44:45 We're letting it be because this is what Look at my arm is twitching.

44:48 You're doing for science.

44:48 Exactly.

44:49 You got muscle spasm, dude.

44:51 I am not doing that.

44:52 That is my arm is spazzing out right now.

44:54 And one of the things that I have seen

44:56 uh and let me know if I start getting flushed.

44:58 Like I feel like I'm talking in a in tunnel vision right now.

45:01 Um um is when they attack rodents like mice,

45:06 they need to subdue something very very very quickly.

45:09 And I've seen mice like look at my arm.

45:11 It's convulsing.

45:12 Yeah, you can even see the back here is convulsing as well.

45:14 So that is just your all the ion channels

45:17 are just getting kind of played with by this neurotoxin.

45:20 Holy mug.

45:21 Oh yeah.

45:22 Okay.

45:22 We're at about a six.

45:24 We're at about a six with the pain.

45:26 Hon man.

45:27 It's tough to tell where this is going.

45:28 And that's where I'm like I don't want to get too confident

45:30 to feel like this isn't as bad as the giant desert centipede.

45:35 I don't think initially it it is.

45:38 But it's hard to tell because it's only been a few

45:41 seconds and my arm is like doing something crazy weird right now, right?

45:44 And not all the not all the toxins

45:46 have probably actually started to take effect yet.

45:48 Oh, look at the wealth that's Oh, yeah.

45:50 There's a good wealth around there.

45:51 That's crazy.

45:52 So, we worry also about anaphilaxis.

45:54 And that's why I have the epipen here.

45:56 How how long before we know if like

45:57 something really bad is happening in my body?

45:59 It could happen like right right now or it could be delayed.

46:03 Okay.

46:04 So,

46:05 that's pretty wild.

46:06 There's muscles.

46:08 Um, and we're also looking at like

46:11 can somebody give me a drink real quick?

46:12 He's getting dry mouth, which is normal in this experience.

46:16 Could be related to heart rate, blood pressure,

46:19 as well as his sympathetic nervous system going into overdrive.

46:22 Thank you.

46:22 Thank you.

46:23 Thank you.

46:24 So, if as coyote's drinking and focusing,

46:26 if this were to actually happen to somebody outside and like what do you do?

46:30 You want to clean the wound, get to an area of safety, get to the hospital,

46:34 and then what could I do as an ER doctor treatment wise for you,

46:37 which we're holding off at the moment

46:38 in the name of science until you tell me otherwise.

46:41 Yeah.

46:42 My goal is to ride this out as long as as possible.

46:45 And right now, right now, I'm doing okay.

46:47 Do we want the centipede off the table?

46:49 Okay, go ahead.

46:49 You can you can take it.

46:50 I mean, that's getting close to me, so I'm I'm happy to let that go.

46:54 And so besides pain management, okay,

46:56 anti-inflammatories, some strong pain medicine, IV fluids, man.

47:01 We're going to put you on a cardiac monitor,

47:02 which we have here to monitor your blood pressure,

47:05 your heart rate, and to see how you're doing.

47:08 All right.

47:08 So, the next thing that we wanted to do Oh, you want to take my blood pressure?

47:11 I want to see how you're doing.

47:12 Okay, why not?

47:15 Oh, man.

47:15 My like calf muscles are feeling awkward, too.

47:17 Like that's is that is that just like my body's

47:20 reaction?

47:21 Oh.

47:22 Oh wow.

47:24 H no no no no big like don't feel anything

47:26 in your throat no tongue swelling those are the big things we

47:29 worry about for anaphilaxis right and then the other things we

47:32 worry about from a neurotoxin also is your nausea your vomiting

47:37 you know no diarrhea thank goodness

47:40 dude this is wow I got to say one of the strangest

47:42 things that I've experienced is my calf muscles are are cramping up

47:47 like I've been playing basketball for hours like I'm

47:49 like like feel like locked in place right now.

47:51 Yeah, those are your muscle spasming.

47:53 Multiple different reasons.

47:54 Holy cow.

47:55 Like, dude, it is getting it is definitely getting worse.

47:58 It is unquestionably getting worse.

48:01 You could see his agitation and the fact that he wants

48:03 to get up and move around like he would normally do,

48:06 but he's doing his best to sit in the chair here.

48:08 Um, let's do this real quick cuz I just touched my arm.

48:11 Uh, poke around here like feel how taut that is getting.

48:15 Yeah.

48:16 So, this is what we call induration.

48:17 And it's a medical term basically saying that

48:21 God your your cold fingertips doc that hurts.

48:25 The cold hurts.

48:26 I apologize.

48:27 Wow.

48:27 Do Do it again though.

48:28 Do it again.

48:28 The lemon.

48:29 Oh wow.

48:30 Yeah.

48:30 Yeah.

48:30 Yeah.

48:31 Your arms nice and warm and my hands are

48:32 Yeah.

48:32 cold definitely affects it.

48:34 Wow.

48:35 Holy cow.

48:36 This I feel like I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning

48:38 or not sleep at all tonight and this is all going

48:40 to have felt like a complete hallucination between the lights and everything

48:44 that we like I am so out of it right now.

48:46 I'm like, I don't even know what I'm going through.

48:48 Right.

48:48 So, his pupils are a little bit dilated.

48:49 That's just related to the sympathetic overdrive of your system,

48:52 your fight orflight response, which is normal.

48:54 So, while centipede venom is not well known,

48:59 centipede venom is very unlikely to kill you

49:03 unless your body has a negative allergic reaction.

49:07 And all of a sudden,

49:08 as I said that, it felt like a volume cranker just went up one more notch.

49:13 And that's what I've experienced with a number of different venoms is like

49:16 there's the initial hit and then there are these waves that start to build.

49:20 And with centipede venom specifically, that neurotoxic element,

49:24 that's what begins to wear you down mentally.

49:28 Man, look at the ooze that's coming out of my arm.

49:30 Yeah.

49:30 So, you're getting different inflammatory markers that are just going in.

49:33 You know, your your cytoines are popping, your interlucans,

49:36 and everything's just like trying to help and attack it.

49:38 Yeah.

49:38 Yeah, but you're also having a localized histamine

49:41 reaction that's making you swell up more.

49:44 And that is my body essentially sending its

49:46 defenders to the sight of the venom to say, "Uh-oh, foreign invader.

49:51 Stop them where they are." Correct.

49:53 Okay.

49:53 Well, we learned a lot.

49:55 Yep.

49:55 A whole lot when it comes to centipedes.

49:58 Why this is an animal you want to admire from a safe distance.

50:01 And in answering the questions that we set up earlier,

50:04 what we ultimately learned is that we can hook

50:05 my body up to a machine to see how it reacts,

50:08 we can take a look at what happens when

50:11 a venomous bite happens and how you would treat it.

50:14 And when it comes to ranking it as being

50:15 the most painful experience I've ever been through,

50:18 if I'm completely honest, we're not there yet.

50:21 But I have many hours to still go.

50:23 However, I will say that as an individual bite,

50:26 this is one of the most extreme things I have ever done.

50:29 And in this situation where we got to film

50:31 it together for that I feel incredibly lucky.

50:34 Great.

50:34 That was awesome.

50:35 Sorry you're going through all this pain.

50:37 Well, you know, all a part of entertainment

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51:22 Post bite.

51:23 Once the venom had really set in, Dr.

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52:21 These snakes scare me.

52:24 These guys are renowned for just going crazy.

52:36 Today, we're going to be milking

52:38 five of Australia's most dangerous snake species.

52:41 And in doing so, we're going to calculate how many humans that venom yield

52:44 could kill and in the end explain to you exactly how antivenenom is created.

52:57 I will be working alongside Billy Colette.

53:00 He's a Jedi master in the universe of reptiles and to date has

53:04 milked the venom from all of Australia's

53:06 most dangerous snakes hundreds of times.

53:11 Billy, before we get into the intensity of milking snakes today,

53:14 and I have to note to the audience,

53:17 it is palpable how dangerous this room feels.

53:20 Every one of these containers filled with a snake that can kill you.

53:23 But I want to talk real quickly about the difference

53:25 between dangerous and deadly and how with Australian snakes,

53:28 it all combines together.

53:30 Yeah, there's a there's a big argument there, I think.

53:32 But when it comes to deadly and dangerous,

53:34 we look at dangerous are the ones that kill

53:36 the most people and then deadly being the most toxic.

53:39 So up here we've got Australia's most toxic snakes, right?

53:43 A lot of times the dangerous versus deadly breaks down

53:46 to where a snake is located in its proximity to humans.

53:49 How often you will come across a snake

53:51 versus how infrequent you could come across it.

53:54 Correct.

53:54 Yeah.

53:54 Yeah.

53:55 So at the moment, Australia's most dangerous snake is the eastern brown.

53:59 It's not the most toxic.

54:00 It's number two in the world, but it bites the most people.

54:04 Wow.

54:04 Okay.

54:05 So that's because of its proximity to humans.

54:07 when it comes to the actual most deadly snake in Australia.

54:11 Which species would that be?

54:12 That's the inland Taipan and that's the most toxic snake on planet Earth.

54:16 Okay, the first one we're going to be taking a look at is the king brown.

54:19 This thing is a giant, the mulga as it's commonly known.

54:23 What do we need to know about the snake?

54:25 They've got the biggest venom of any venomous snake on the planet.

54:27 What they lack in toxidity,

54:28 they make up for in volume and it's just an overwhelming effect on your system.

54:31 And you imagine one of our really big king grounds

54:34 can pump out in excess of 800 mg in a bite.

54:41 You can see straight away massive venom glands on this fella.

54:50 That is such a big snake.

54:52 Okay.

54:55 Yep.

55:00 Here we go.

55:00 King Brown, the mulga.

55:02 Let's milk it.

55:08 Oh, wow.

55:10 Dang, that's a lot of venom.

55:13 So, it's still going.

55:16 His glands are still They're probably still 80% full.

55:19 So, he's able to control in a sense

55:21 the amount of venom that he's choosing to give.

55:24 And look at that.

55:25 Just locked in place.

55:26 He won't he will not let go of that.

55:27 There we have it.

55:27 The King Brown officially milked.

55:29 That's one out of five.

55:31 And that is an intimidating snake right there.

55:44 Okay, Billy.

55:44 King Brown is down.

55:46 And next up on our list of venomous danger noodles is the death adder.

55:52 The thing I find interesting about death adders is they've

55:54 got the fastest strike of any snake on the planet.

55:57 Really?

55:57 I did not know that.

55:58 Yeah, it's it you can't even see it.

56:01 Wow.

56:01 Out of all the snakes I restrain,

56:03 these guys make me the most nervous because

56:06 a their strike and their bottom jaw is extremely flexible

56:10 like the vipers and they get their fangs out

56:12 the side of them and work them towards your fingers.

56:14 So, I use a three-point grip like I do with all my snakes and I just

56:18 keep that the front of that head as far away from my fingers as I possibly can.

56:23 You guys ready?

56:24 milking the death at her.

56:28 Oh jeez.

56:30 I jump every time.

56:31 It made me jump.

56:32 You didn't warn me about that.

56:34 You can see just with that leap to grab onto the vial,

56:38 the speed, even with your hand controlling it was fast.

56:42 So, what sort of prey species are these snakes

56:44 specializing in using codual luring like that with the tail?

56:47 I imagine they're drawing in little mammals, maybe birds,

56:50 in particular, small birds.

56:52 Um yeah, they they love to eat skinks and geckos.

56:54 It's the only elapid, short, thick bodied elapid

56:58 that sits still on the ground and relies

57:00 on camouflage and that ambush attack, you know.

57:03 Pretty cool.

57:04 So, I wouldn't mind letting go of the head of this fell.

57:07 Yeah, let's let's put back.

57:10 So, yeah, with these guys, the strike is is faster than the eye.

57:14 So, I've actually got to wait for him to pull away from me before I can

57:18 let go because I literally wouldn't be able

57:21 to get my hand out of there fast enough.

57:23 Right.

57:23 So, you want his body.

57:25 I I need I need him to reverse like he's doing before I can actually let go.

57:31 All right.

57:32 Billy's faster than the death adder.

57:34 I like that.

57:35 Two snakes down.

57:36 Successfully milked.

57:38 Next up is the tiger snake.

57:40 This is my favorite snake in Australia.

57:42 Wait until you guys get a look at this reptile.

57:47 Wild thing with tiger snakes, they turn your blood into jelly.

57:51 I did not know this.

57:52 Your blood turns to jelly.

57:53 So it coagulates it together.

57:55 It coagulates and then it it can't actually move around your body anymore.

57:57 So that's what can kill you if you don't

57:59 use first a with this with any of our species.

58:02 But yeah.

58:02 Okay.

58:02 So don't want to get bit by this one.

58:04 Same deal when we get him onto the pin pad.

58:06 I'll grab the head.

58:07 You come in body and then block that cloer.

58:09 Okay.

58:10 Oh wow.

58:10 Oh, that snake is beautiful.

58:13 Yep.

58:13 You're good.

58:16 Wow.

58:16 Pretty strongbodied snake.

58:18 Yeah, they are very thick.

58:20 Wa.

58:22 All right.

58:23 The tiger snake.

58:24 Let's do it.

58:27 Oh, yeah.

58:28 Look at that.

58:29 There we go.

58:29 So, you can see it funneling out of that left hand fang there.

58:33 Also a clear venom.

58:35 Yep.

58:35 Now, like the king brown, is this a snake that's going to bite and hold on?

58:39 Unlikely.

58:40 unlikely.

58:41 More of a a bite and let go and then try and get away

58:44 unless it's grabbed a prey, you know,

58:46 a lizard or a frog or a little bird or something.

58:48 And where are these snakes typically found?

58:50 I mean, is this a species that humans are likely to run into?

58:54 Not as much as they used to.

58:55 They used to be very common along the east coast,

58:57 but with with urban development and so on and their habitat cleared,

59:00 they're not as common, but some areas they are, especially the colder,

59:03 more alpine sort of areas and even islands off

59:06 South Australia and Victoria and Tasmania and so on.

59:08 And he should let go pretty easy.

59:10 Whoa.

59:12 And that's actually a pretty good yield.

59:14 Um, what I'll do is I'll swap you.

59:17 Okay.

59:17 That got it.

59:18 Don't drink it.

59:19 Yeah.

59:19 I will do my best not to.

59:20 Very tempting.

59:21 And I'll take this and tiger snake.

59:25 I'll take him back to the So far successfully accomplished.

59:37 Okay, that is three venom vials successfully accomplished.

59:42 See what we're going to milk next.

59:45 So,

59:44 yeah, Billy, what are you thinking?

59:46 I'm just warming up here and picking I think I'm going to go with Keith.

59:50 Like all the taipans here are pretty jumpy

59:53 and it's name is Keith.

59:54 Keith.

59:55 Yeah.

59:57 Okay.

59:56 So, he's not as reactive usually.

1:00:00 Okay.

59:59 Um he's a little bit more behaved so I wouldn't mind using him.

1:00:02 Now, anything we need to know cuz these are very fast snakes.

1:00:04 Correct.

1:00:05 So, before antivenenom was available,

1:00:07 this species had 100% kill rate when they bit someone in Australia.

1:00:11 Okay.

1:00:11 So, now that antivenenom is created, that's not necessarily the case.

1:00:15 So, what you're saying is that if you

1:00:16 were ever to be bitten by a coastal taipan,

1:00:19 it is a 100% death sentence unless you receive antivenenom treatment.

1:00:24 Yep.

1:00:24 Yep.

1:00:24 So, you know, normally as our snakes get more toxic,

1:00:28 the venom yields get smaller.

1:00:30 Not with these guys.

1:00:31 Okay.

1:00:31 and their fangs.

1:00:32 They've got the biggest fang of any of our Australian

1:00:34 venomous snakes and one of the largest venom yields.

1:00:37 Okay, so we are lining up now with a fast snake,

1:00:40 a smart snake, large fangs, large venom yield, and very flighty.

1:00:45 Very flighty.

1:00:46 I'm going to step over here out of the way and let you do what it is you do.

1:00:49 Uh, all right.

1:00:50 Here we go.

1:00:50 The coastal taipan is coming out of its enclosure.

1:00:55 This is one of the the most dangerous

1:00:58 situations we're going to possibly face here today.

1:01:02 Look at that snake.

1:01:06 Just get him into that right position.

1:01:11 All right.

1:01:11 You ready to jump on that tail?

1:01:12 Yeah.

1:01:12 Yeah.

1:01:12 You good?

1:01:15 Yep.

1:01:16 Okay.

1:01:17 That is a very intimidating snake.

1:01:19 That's for certain.

1:01:20 Look at the size of its head.

1:01:22 Long head.

1:01:24 Goodness.

1:01:23 Big eyes.

1:01:24 They're very focused.

1:01:25 They're very in tune.

1:01:26 They're very smart.

1:01:27 These snakes scare me.

1:01:29 Okay, out of any of our Australian snakes, these guys scare me the most.

1:01:32 And I imagine he'll be pretty willing to bite this.

1:01:37 And you can see that initial huge yield.

1:01:41 That is massive.

1:01:43 And look at the fangs.

1:01:45 Jeez.

1:01:46 Right.

1:01:46 and with the venom itself.

1:01:49 So, you know how the tiger snake causes your blood to clot?

1:01:52 This guy does the complete opposite and your blood thins out

1:01:55 to the point where you bleed out of every orifice out of your gums,

1:01:58 your eyes, and you know, downstairs just bleeding.

1:02:01 Yeah.

1:02:02 So, you're like internally hemorrhaging if you get bitten by this.

1:02:04 Internally hemorrhaging and then it paralyzes your diaphragm.

1:02:07 So, your heart and lungs can't work

1:02:09 and essentially you'll choke to death on your own blood.

1:02:11 Literally, you just die.

1:02:12 Yeah.

1:02:13 Wow.

1:02:13 Okay.

1:02:13 That sounds like a horrible way to go.

1:02:15 But thankfully the antivenenom is fantastic and the first aid is just as good.

1:02:19 So okay, how how fast does something like that set

1:02:22 in when it comes to your blood thinning out?

1:02:24 I mean, how much time would you estimate you

1:02:25 have if you're bitten by one of these snakes?

1:02:27 If you were to get bitten by one and do first aid straight away,

1:02:31 it'd be hours usually before you had any

1:02:33 symptoms cuz that's how effective those bandages are.

1:02:35 But without a bandage, I reckon based off studies that I know,

1:02:39 you're looking at about half an hour.

1:02:40 You'd be vomiting, blood, you'd be you'd be passing out.

1:02:44 You you'd be in a very bad way.

1:02:46 So, a bite from the snake and within 30 minutes you were going downhill quickly.

1:02:51 Yep.

1:02:53 Wow.

1:02:51 Breaking out in sweats and just in a very bad place.

1:02:56 Yeah.

1:02:56 Not a snake you ever want to tangle with.

1:02:58 Okay.

1:02:58 I imagine you probably want to get this guy back.

1:03:01 Wa!

1:03:02 Look at the inside of the mouth.

1:03:05 Yep.

1:03:04 He's looking at us.

1:03:05 I mean business.

1:03:06 Hundreds of teeth in there across that bottom

1:03:08 jaw and the top jaw for securing rodents.

1:03:10 You know, that's what they feed on.

1:03:12 and those massive fangs.

1:03:15 So, I'll grab that tail.

1:03:16 Grab that.

1:03:27 Well done.

1:03:31 That That was intense.

1:03:32 And it's not even the most intense snake

1:03:35 that we're going to milk today, but wow.

1:03:36 I mean, I'm I'm sweating bullets.

1:03:38 I can't even imagine how you're feeling right now, Billy.

1:03:40 I know this is a part of everyday life, but for us getting to milk these snakes

1:03:44 and see them up close like that, it's intense.

1:03:48 So, Billy, we have now successfully milked four snakes.

1:03:52 And it's hard to describe how intense this scenario is.

1:03:56 Getting through four of them, my heart rate is like through the roof.

1:03:59 And there will be days where you're milking several hundred snakes at a time.

1:04:02 Correct.

1:04:03 Yeah.

1:04:03 It's it's heart pumping stuff,

1:04:05 but like the thing I find is I just can't lose focus.

1:04:09 M

1:04:09 and if I'm having an off day,

1:04:11 I have to call it cuz there's no point taking the risk with these things,

1:04:15 especially those tipans.

1:04:16 And as you'll see very soon, the eastern browns are just so jumpy.

1:04:20 We're about to milk the eastern brown,

1:04:22 which is the most dangerous snake species

1:04:24 that we're going to interact with today,

1:04:26 arguably the most dangerous snake species in Australia.

1:04:30 If the worst case scenario were to happen, if you were to be bitten,

1:04:33 what is the protocol that you would go through to save your life?

1:04:36 We have a drill and we can go through that drill if you want.

1:04:39 You can be our victim.

1:04:40 Yeah, I I'll play the not bitten by, but the what if bitten by victim.

1:04:44 Um, yeah, let's let's do it.

1:04:46 Let's test out a snake drill.

1:04:47 Where do we start?

1:04:48 Go out here with a snake bandage.

1:04:50 Okay, Billy, let's set up the scenario.

1:04:52 A bite is most likely going to happen right

1:04:54 in this vicinity if the snake's head wasn't pinned correctly.

1:04:58 So, assuming I was trying to make my move.

1:05:01 Bitten.

1:05:02 Got bit.

1:05:03 Okay, mate.

1:05:03 Just move away from the snake.

1:05:04 Come up this way.

1:05:05 Very quietly and calm.

1:05:07 Straight on.

1:05:08 Oh, that was bad.

1:05:09 Take that jewelry off for me in that sweatb band.

1:05:12 Going to get a bandage for you.

1:05:15 We're going to go three times over your bite side.

1:05:18 It's important to try and get those rectangles into squares on these type

1:05:22 of bandages because this is actually slowing

1:05:24 down your lymphatic system movement in this limb,

1:05:28 which is what the venom's actually traveling through.

1:05:29 So, it's not in your blood system yet.

1:05:31 Okay.

1:05:31 Really important you keep that limb straight.

1:05:34 Okay, I'm going to deal with this snake.

1:05:37 So, we've got the snake.

1:05:38 He's back in the cage.

1:05:40 I'm going to grab the wheelchair and at the same time,

1:05:42 I'm going to contact reception.

1:05:44 Billy to reception.

1:05:46 Coyote has been bitten by a tiger snake.

1:05:51 He's got his bandage on and I'm just transferring to wheelchair now.

1:05:56 The time is 11:09.

1:05:58 Can you please advise Gossip Ed that we are on our way?

1:06:02 I'm grabbing the antivenenom.

1:06:04 How you feeling, mate?

1:06:05 Oh, Billy, I'm scared and it hurts.

1:06:08 Let me know if you start to feel nauseous or blurry vision,

1:06:11 if you get a funny taste in your mouth, any of that.

1:06:14 We got to document any of those symptoms.

1:06:17 Oh man, I cannot believe that just happened.

1:06:19 That got us out here in 2 minutes and we'll be at Gossford in under 10.

1:06:22 Okay, well that was pretty efficient between bite, wrap,

1:06:27 wheelchair out to the vehicle that would take me to the medical facility.

1:06:30 Less than two minutes and I'd be having help in under 15 minutes.

1:06:34 Now we need to head back inside and get ready

1:06:36 to milk the most dangerous snake in all of Australia,

1:06:39 the one and only eastern brown.

1:06:42 All right, now this is a pretty goodized snake.

1:06:45 Correct.

1:06:46 Big.

1:06:46 Yeah.

1:06:46 One of the one of the biggest, one of the fastest,

1:06:48 one of the most ornery here in Australia and the one

1:06:50 that's responsible for biting pretty much more people than any other species.

1:06:55 Yeah.

1:06:55 Yeah.

1:06:55 Absolutely.

1:06:56 So, the eastern brown is now responsible

1:06:58 for 65% of snake bite deaths in Australia.

1:07:02 Wow.

1:07:01 This snake is jumpy.

1:07:03 So, I am going to need a bit of space

1:07:04 and please don't come in until I've I've got him proper secure

1:07:09 and then I'll I'll call you in obviously.

1:07:11 But yeah, I just need space.

1:07:13 He's big.

1:07:13 He's over six foot, very jumpy.

1:07:15 Okay.

1:07:16 And um he's he's a wild boy.

1:07:18 Okay.

1:07:18 He's your brown snake coming out of its enclosure.

1:07:28 Oo, that is a big snake.

1:07:30 Oh boy.

1:07:31 Yeah, I know.

1:07:31 He does not look real happy, does he?

1:07:35 Okay, we'll get him over here.

1:07:37 See him flatten out there.

1:07:39 Uhhuh.

1:07:41 Strike.

1:07:41 Whoa.

1:07:41 Oh yeah, he is really quick.

1:07:44 These guys are renowned for just going crazy.

1:07:50 Not calculated though, like a taan.

1:07:52 They're just consistent with it.

1:07:54 Um and it's what they use to bluff um predators away.

1:07:58 And obviously he would look at me as a predator.

1:08:00 Um which is why he's acting like that.

1:08:02 Also, it's interesting the way he curls his body into Oo, that was close.

1:08:07 See what I mean?

1:08:07 That sort of stuff.

1:08:09 Straight up at your face.

1:08:13 You okay?

1:08:13 You good?

1:08:15 Yeah.

1:08:14 That was intense.

1:08:15 Okay, I think we got to get him under control at this point.

1:08:19 And he isn't even one of our jumpiest snakes.

1:08:37 All right.

1:08:37 Okay.

1:08:38 You good?

1:08:39 Oh, good.

1:08:40 Okay.

1:08:44 This is without question the strongest snake that we have held on to today.

1:08:47 Unbelievably strong.

1:08:50 Okay.

1:08:50 You good?

1:08:51 Yeah, man.

1:08:51 All right.

1:08:53 Get him on here.

1:08:56 All right.

1:08:56 So, you can see tiny yields.

1:09:00 Yeah.

1:09:01 But unbelievably toxic.

1:09:03 And how's how they act?

1:09:05 Like __] They just go nuts.

1:09:08 And for the handler, you got to be confident in yourself,

1:09:12 like reaction speed, not to let go, what you're doing, your next movement.

1:09:17 And and like I said, he's not even the craziest.

1:09:19 He's one of the quietest easterns we've got.

1:09:21 I mean, that was probably the most intense,

1:09:23 fastest move I've ever seen a human make, which I'm sure we caught on camera.

1:09:27 I mean, he was all the way up by your face when he swung his body up.

1:09:31 That was insanity.

1:09:32 He came mouth open at my face like these things do not muck around.

1:09:38 Okay.

1:09:38 All right, guys.

1:09:38 We're going to get the snake back in.

1:09:40 That was a very, very, very intense moment.

1:09:43 You got him?

1:09:46 Yep.

1:09:46 Okay, nice.

1:09:55 Man, that that was so close.

1:10:01 I bet your heart's racing right now, isn't it?

1:10:03 I don't really get the adrenaline dump from that anymore.

1:10:06 My heart's racing for you.

1:10:07 How about that?

1:10:08 It I know that sounds stupid, but cuz I'm so used to it.

1:10:11 I'm so programmed.

1:10:12 It's not that I'm not scared or anything.

1:10:13 It's not that.

1:10:14 It's just Yeah.

1:10:15 It's just part of the job with with these guys.

1:10:17 Now that we've got our venom lined up,

1:10:19 the next thing I want to do is sit back and take a look

1:10:22 and try to calculate how many people this venom yield added up would kill.

1:10:35 Billy, I would say that this lineup of shots here before

1:10:38 us is arguably the most deadly five shot lineup in history.

1:10:43 100% right.

1:10:44 So, what we want to do now is go through each one of these venom

1:10:48 yields and I'm going to write down

1:10:49 your estimate of how many people this would kill.

1:10:52 So, this part of the episode is us

1:10:54 figuring out just how deadly this concoction really is.

1:10:58 So, we're going to start with the King Brown.

1:11:01 How many people would you guess that that venom

1:11:03 is capable of killing this yield right here?

1:11:06 I would confidently say that would kill about 40 grown men.

1:11:10 Moving to our second vial here.

1:11:11 That is the death adder.

1:11:13 What is your guess, Billy?

1:11:14 How many dead people?

1:11:17 50.

1:11:17 Our third vial belongs to my favorite Australian snake, the tiger snake.

1:11:21 I'd comfortably say 65 with that.

1:11:25 65 tombstones.

1:11:26 Our fourth vial is the ever so frisky coastal Thai pan.

1:11:31 Good size yield.

1:11:33 This is a very dangerous glass in front of us and I'd say in excess of 150,

1:11:39 probably more closer to 200 people.

1:11:42 Wow.

1:11:42 All right, I'm rounding up.

1:11:43 We're going 200 corpses coming off of that shot glass.

1:11:48 And last but not least, one of the craziest snake experiences I've ever seen.

1:11:52 Your interaction with the eastern brown.

1:11:55 A pretty small yield, but pretty toxic.

1:11:58 That's a big yield for a brown snake.

1:12:00 Oh, that's big.

1:12:01 Yeah.

1:12:02 Okay.

1:12:01 That's a really big yield for a brown snake.

1:12:03 And And that'll be 100 people.

1:12:05 100 people.

1:12:06 Okay.

1:12:07 40+ 50+ 65+ 200+ 100.

1:12:17 That is bonkers.

1:12:19 So, how much antivenenom could be created

1:12:22 from this venom yield that we have here?

1:12:24 Not much.

1:12:25 So you need about 30 of each to create one boil.

1:12:29 Okay.

1:12:29 Yeah.

1:12:30 Now the work that's being done here at Australian Reptile Park,

1:12:33 this is the only place on the continent where

1:12:35 people are milking snakes and creating this life-saving antivenenom.

1:12:39 Without that antivenenom,

1:12:40 people that are bitten by these snakes every year would not be able to survive.

1:12:43 They say not all heroes wear capes.

1:12:45 This guy doesn't wear a cape, but honestly, he should have one.

1:12:48 It's impressive the work you guys are doing here.

1:12:50 And one last thing that I want to answer for everybody out there watching,

1:12:54 how is antivenenom made?

1:12:56 It's a crazy process, but in a in a quick sum, we milk these five species.

1:13:01 We then freeze dry the venom.

1:13:02 We send it to a lab in Victoria.

1:13:04 They rehydrate it, small amounts, inject it into horses.

1:13:07 So there's ta horses, blacknake horses, death horses, so on.

1:13:11 Different horses designated for different types of venom.

1:13:13 Yep.

1:13:14 Okay.

1:13:14 And they get a tiny injection once a week for about 6 months.

1:13:17 Their immune systems are so strong they don't

1:13:19 even pick up on the effects of that venom.

1:13:20 I've been down there.

1:13:21 They're walking around eating grass on horse stuff.

1:13:24 Yeah.

1:13:23 At the end of the invenimation period, that six months mark,

1:13:26 they bring the horses in individually into a lab.

1:13:28 They hook them up to the blood machine and they

1:13:31 draw a liter of blood out of them at a time.

1:13:33 They run it in a centriuge.

1:13:35 During the invenimation process,

1:13:37 their immune system start to produce venom resistant plasma.

1:13:42 So they remove that out of the blood system.

1:13:44 Everything else goes back to the horse.

1:13:45 horse is fine.

1:13:47 That venom resistant plasma is antivenenom.

1:13:49 They add some proteins to it so the human body is more likely to accept it.

1:13:52 And uh yeah, essentially we take on a horse's

1:13:55 immune system and our antivenenom in Australia,

1:13:58 it's the best quality in the world and it's free.

1:14:01 So we're one of the very few countries worldwide that does that.

1:14:03 And here at the Australian Rep Park,

1:14:05 we are the sole supplier for terrestrial snake venom for that program.

1:14:09 Very cool.

1:14:10 Well, Billy, this has been unbelievably educational.

1:14:13 It was amazing to watch you work.

1:14:15 Thank you for having us as a part of your day.

1:14:18 Check out australian reptilepark.com if you want to ever come here

1:14:21 and visit or just learn more about the work that they do.

1:14:24 I'm Coyote Peterson.

1:14:25 Be brave.

1:14:26 Stay wild.

1:14:27 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:14:32 It doesn't take a genius to recognize how staggering

1:14:36 the mathematical death toll is behind today's venom experiment.

1:14:40 And now knowing this, I hope you can appreciate why it's so

1:14:43 important to avoid interactions of any

1:14:45 type with Australia's venomous snake species.

1:14:49 Every year, thousands of people are bitten.

1:14:51 And every year, thousands of people are

1:14:54 saved due to the creation of antivenenom.

1:14:57 And while milking these reptiles has its inherent dangers,

1:15:00 Billy is a seasoned professional who knows the risk,

1:15:03 yet remains dedicated to his mission.

1:15:06 But seriously, I saw Billy's life flash before my own eyes.

1:15:09 So, one more time, let's take a look at that shot.

1:15:12 Oh, it's crazy.

1:15:14 I mean, look how close that snake was to biting his face.

1:15:17 Standing ovation.

1:15:19 Billy is faster than the brown snake.

1:15:23 And so, I was on oxygen just as they got to the hospital.

1:15:26 They ran out of oxygen.

1:15:27 I died.

1:15:28 Hold on.

1:15:28 You died?

1:15:29 I died.

1:15:31 Is this your first time encountering a venomous snake since the bite incident?

1:15:35 Yes.

1:15:35 Just don't point it this way.

1:15:37 Oh, look at that.

1:15:38 He's yawned right at me.

1:15:46 I'm on Australia's Sunshine Coast and I'll be interviewing Leela,

1:15:50 a woman who knows firsthand the dangers of interacting with a venomous snake.

1:15:54 She's a bite victim survivor who nearly lost her life.

1:15:57 And today she's going to be sharing her incredible story.

1:16:01 Now, what Leela doesn't know is that we're also going to be

1:16:03 getting her face to face with a deadly snake whose venom,

1:16:06 believe it or not, ultimately saved her life.

1:16:11 For you, this all began in 1974,

1:16:14 the day it all happened when you were bitten by a venomous snake.

1:16:18 Can you take us back to that morning when you were heading out to the barn,

1:16:22 you had farm animals,

1:16:23 and you were you were barefoot like a lot of people in Australia,

1:16:26 walk around barefoot, and you found yourself in the worst case scenario.

1:16:29 take us to that morning and tell us the story.

1:16:32 Well, it happened in the afternoon, late afternoon,

1:16:35 almost on dark and I had a goat and I was putting the goat under the house.

1:16:40 I mean, what goat wouldn't want to live underneath a house?

1:16:43 So, yeah, I was happily putting her under the house.

1:16:46 I had a baby and a 2-year-old inside

1:16:49 and I felt this like a pins and needles feeling,

1:16:52 like pins and needles in my foot.

1:16:55 And so I went inside and I thought straight away

1:16:58 that I definitely had been bitten by a snake or a spider.

1:17:02 I wasn't sure what.

1:17:04 Um the poison immediately went straight up to my head really.

1:17:09 So I got a migraine headache.

1:17:11 I've never had a migraine headache in my life.

1:17:14 So I had this migraine headache and straight away it started to vomit.

1:17:17 So I got the bucket and I'm leaning over the bucket vomiting and thinking,

1:17:21 "Oh god, I need help.

1:17:22 I need help." So, I put my baby and my 2-year-old and myself in the car

1:17:27 with the bucket so I could keep vomiting in the bucket and go to the neighbors.

1:17:31 And then the neighbor takes me straight to the Southport Hospital.

1:17:35 And at the Southport Hospital,

1:17:37 the doctor thought I was reckon I was a hippie and I

1:17:41 was on drugs and I didn't know what I was talking about.

1:17:43 That's an unfair judgment.

1:17:45 Very unfair.

1:17:46 And um gave me a blood test and left me all night with no antibbody, no nothing.

1:17:51 And um I was yelling out for help because I was getting feverish and I

1:17:58 knew they weren't doing anything for me and I was screaming out for help.

1:18:00 I want my acupuncturist to come to the hospital.

1:18:03 An acupuncturist in the 70s.

1:18:06 Yeah.

1:18:06 And the acupuncturist actually made it up to the hospital.

1:18:09 He heard somehow on the grapevine.

1:18:12 Certainly no text messages back then.

1:18:14 No.

1:18:14 No mobile phones back then.

1:18:16 He came up to the hospital and he felt cuz acupuncturists they go on your pulse.

1:18:21 Everything's on your pulse.

1:18:22 He felt my pulse and he felt every muscle fighting the venom.

1:18:30 Wow.

1:18:28 And the next morning I had fallen into a coma

1:18:33 and every muscle had collapsed and I couldn't breathe.

1:18:37 And so they found the venom in my blood test and then they gave

1:18:41 me the antivenenine but it wasn't I I I couldn't breathe at this stage.

1:18:45 So they had to put me into an ambulance and race me in Brisbane

1:18:50 which ky just as they got to the hospital they ran out of oxygen.

1:18:59 I died.

1:19:00 They raced me up.

1:19:02 Hold on.

1:19:02 You died.

1:19:03 I died.

1:19:03 My heart stopped beating.

1:19:04 They raced me up to intensive care and they got me going.

1:19:08 They got me breathing.

1:19:10 How did they get you breathing?

1:19:11 Did they have to put a tube down into They had to put tubes all over me

1:19:16 and in my mouth and they leave the tubes in your mouth

1:19:18 for 5 days and after 5 days they have

1:19:22 to do tracheotomy because uh it can get infected.

1:19:26 Yeah.

1:19:27 So they had to do a tracheotomy where they open

1:19:29 up your throat and they put a machine into your throat,

1:19:34 a tube and the machine is actually breathing

1:19:36 for you cuz you cannot breathe on your own.

1:19:39 So, a lot of the snakes in Australia have a a neurotoxic venom which

1:19:43 ultimately can cause your internal system to go

1:19:46 into a state of paralysis and collapse.

1:19:48 And it sounds like that's exactly Yeah.

1:19:49 And I had I had big hematomas in my groins which are big black bruises

1:19:56 which are hematas are internal bleeding.

1:19:59 So I had internal bleeding and um I was in the coma for 6 days.

1:20:07 Wow.

1:20:07 And uh then after that I regained my consciousness.

1:20:11 So the moment that you came back, let's call this day seven into your ordeal.

1:20:16 Do you remember waking up out of this coma?

1:20:19 I do.

1:20:20 I do.

1:20:21 And I remember thinking to myself, I'm this is a dream.

1:20:26 Really?

1:20:26 I'm I'm having a dream.

1:20:27 This can't be real.

1:20:28 This can't be real.

1:20:30 So once you'd woken up out of the coma,

1:20:32 like were you just kind of like a cucumber there in your bed?

1:20:34 Like at that point had your muscles had gained no control.

1:20:37 I had no strength.

1:20:38 I had no strength.

1:20:38 They they sat me up and I just fell back down again.

1:20:42 I had no strength at all.

1:20:44 I must have been so scary.

1:20:45 It was a slow a slow um process of my muscles building back up.

1:20:52 So you're in the coma.

1:20:54 Um you come out of it and I imagine your first question to the doctors would be,

1:20:58 "Do we know what kind of snake bit me?"

1:21:00 Do you know at this point which species it was?

1:21:03 I don't know if I knew at that point but David Fle

1:21:08 from Forna and Flora Reserve in Burley Heads who

1:21:12 had it for many many years on the Gold Coast he was an expert on snakes and he

1:21:18 diagnosed the snake as a rough scale snake.

1:21:21 Oo yeah.

1:21:21 No rough scaled snake.

1:21:22 I mean that aligns with the symptoms that you had from the venom.

1:21:26 Here's the thing about a rough scaled snake.

1:21:28 Very unassuming looking snake.

1:21:31 Small head, small mouth.

1:21:32 So, I could see if you got a bite from that snake.

1:21:34 Fast striking and very, very small things, but very potent venom.

1:21:41 So, Leela, after you get out of the hospital and you're back home,

1:21:45 between 1974 and now, do you have any longlasting symptoms?

1:21:49 You do?

1:21:50 Yes.

1:21:50 I don't have any reserves.

1:21:52 So, if I go downhill, I can't pull on any reserves.

1:21:55 I've just got to go to bed and go to sleep.

1:21:57 In fact, I've got to lay down at lunchtime every single day.

1:22:02 And I've got to recuperate because um

1:22:05 my nervous system is damaged from the snake venom.

1:22:09 Wow.

1:22:10 The snake venom affects your central nervous system and that's one

1:22:14 thing that's permanently damaged from the snake bite is my nervous system.

1:22:18 Gotcha.

1:22:18 Okay.

1:22:19 So a lot of people out there have a fear of snakes.

1:22:22 It's called a fedophobia.

1:22:24 So, I have to ask you, previously or now or after this experience,

1:22:30 were you afraid of snakes or are you now

1:22:32 afraid of snakes given that one nearly took you?

1:22:34 I'm not afraid of snakes.

1:22:35 No, because I love animals.

1:22:38 Mhm.

1:22:37 I love animals and I just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

1:22:43 Yeah.

1:22:42 And I respect snakes.

1:22:43 I respect all animals.

1:22:45 Mhm.

1:22:45 That's I mean, that's a fantastic message.

1:22:47 I think a lot of people would assume if somebody was

1:22:50 bitten by a snake and it nearly killed them that like snakes,

1:22:53 this is why I don't like them.

1:22:54 But you're right.

1:22:54 I mean, snakes are doing an amazing thing for the planet.

1:22:57 They are the control for all of the species that we

1:23:00 as humans usually try to have not get into our house.

1:23:03 All of the vermin species, the mice and different rodents.

1:23:07 I I believe that snakes will just want to really just get out of your road,

1:23:11 you know?

1:23:11 They just want to get on with their life.

1:23:13 They're not out there to kill you.

1:23:14 They're not out there to bite you.

1:23:16 Mhm.

1:23:16 Now, we have a little something extra lined up today.

1:23:20 I don't know if you were aware of this or not, but would you be comfortable?

1:23:26 We have We have We are in the vicinity of a snake.

1:23:30 Not a rough scaled snake, the tiger snake.

1:23:32 The snake that is actually responsible for providing

1:23:36 the venom that created antivenenom to save your life.

1:23:39 Would you be up for meeting a tiger snake?

1:23:42 I would I'd like to meet it.

1:23:43 I don't hold it.

1:23:44 It will be totally controlled.

1:23:46 And if you want, you'll even be able to pet its tail.

1:23:49 It's not a dog, I think.

1:23:50 You don't think you'll pet its tail?

1:23:51 You might when you see how pretty the snake is.

1:23:54 We'll cross that bridge before we get to it.

1:23:56 But you at least seeing the snake.

1:23:58 That's a huge step.

1:24:00 And saying that you're not afraid of snakes.

1:24:02 Most people had they been bitten by a snake would have immediately said,

1:24:05 "Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.

1:24:06 You're you've have you've got a snake here in the same vicinity as me." So,

1:24:10 I love that you immediately I saw your eyes light up.

1:24:13 You're like, "No, no, no.

1:24:14 I love snakes.

1:24:14 I would love to see what this snake is." So,

1:24:16 that is going to be the next piece of this episode,

1:24:19 getting Leela up close and personal with the very

1:24:22 snake species whose venom ultimately saved her life.

1:24:34 I'm a fighter, you know.

1:24:37 Yeah.

1:24:36 I I fought my way back, I reckon.

1:24:39 I'm here today cuz I'm a fighter.

1:24:48 Okay, Leela, we've got you in the room of snakes.

1:24:51 Now, I know you're not afraid of snakes.

1:24:53 We've already accomplished that.

1:24:55 But the tiger snake is going to be coming out here.

1:24:57 Lock is going to get it onto the floor.

1:25:00 We're back with plenty of distance.

1:25:01 We're going to get it inside of the tube.

1:25:03 And you'll see how that completely controls the snake's

1:25:05 head so it keeps us and the animal completely safe.

1:25:10 It's always a little nerve-wracking though anytime one

1:25:12 of these venomous snakes comes out of its enclosure.

1:25:16 See that?

1:25:17 So, now that the snake is in the tube, work it up just a little bit further.

1:25:22 Okay, cool.

1:25:23 Snake is under control.

1:25:27 And now we're going to move a little stool in for you to sit on.

1:25:32 Right.

1:25:32 Are you comfortable?

1:25:33 Yep.

1:25:34 Okay, cool.

1:25:34 Locky, we're good.

1:25:37 Okay, Leela.

1:25:39 Feeling okay?

1:25:41 Yeah.

1:25:41 Okay, there it is.

1:25:41 The tiger snake.

1:25:43 You can see why it's called the tiger snake.

1:25:45 That beautiful tiger pattern.

1:25:47 Now, they come in a variety of different colors.

1:25:50 This one specifically, I would say, is extra beautiful.

1:25:52 Kind of looks like the white Siberian tiger version.

1:25:55 Beautiful.

1:25:56 Um, Leela, is this your first time

1:25:58 encountering a venomous snake since the bite incident?

1:26:00 It is.

1:26:01 Wow.

1:26:01 That's a big step.

1:26:02 Here we are 50 years later and you're in the room with the very

1:26:06 animal whose toxic venom ultimately became the thing that saved your life.

1:26:12 Wow.

1:26:13 How are you feeling right now?

1:26:14 A little more nerve-wracking to be in a room

1:26:15 with snakes than it is on the forge.

1:26:17 Totally relaxed.

1:26:18 Okay.

1:26:19 Now, what are the odds?

1:26:21 Do you think that you are able to just gently pet the snake's back?

1:26:26 Do you think you could do that?

1:26:27 The back.

1:26:28 The back of it.

1:26:28 What about the tail?

1:26:29 You can touch the tail.

1:26:30 Yeah.

1:26:30 You want to pet the tail?

1:26:31 There you go.

1:26:32 Yep.

1:26:35 Pretty cool, huh?

1:26:37 Yeah.

1:26:37 Oh, yeah.

1:26:37 But nothing can hurt you.

1:26:39 See how the the snake's head obviously

1:26:41 completely contained with inside of that tube.

1:26:44 This is a rather secretive snake species.

1:26:47 So, unless you're in the right place at the right time to see this snake,

1:26:50 which as a team we are often looking to do,

1:26:53 but for anybody out there wanting to avoid snakes,

1:26:55 there's a good chance you'd be able to avoid this one.

1:26:59 Okay.

1:26:59 Yeah.

1:26:59 And when applicable,

1:27:00 milking the venom from this species is what is saving people that are bitten.

1:27:05 So, it's pretty cool that this snake and the the science

1:27:08 that's being done to save lives comes from such a cool animal.

1:27:13 Do you want to touch it on the back there?

1:27:15 Beyond the tail.

1:27:16 Oh, we're working beyond the tail at this point.

1:27:18 Pretty smooth, huh?

1:27:21 Yeah.

1:27:20 A lot of people think that snakes are slimy.

1:27:22 They certainly are not.

1:27:24 The scales are very dry, very sleek, and very powerful.

1:27:27 You can see how it's just slowly inching itself forward in the tube.

1:27:31 And I'm going to let it come up just a little bit more like this.

1:27:34 And I'm going to let the head just peek out

1:27:35 a tiny bit so the Mario can get that shot.

1:27:37 But don't worry, you're still going to be completely safe.

1:27:40 There we go.

1:27:41 Look at that.

1:27:42 Pretty cool to see.

1:27:44 See that?

1:27:45 Look at that.

1:27:46 He's like, I want to just keep going.

1:27:50 So, just don't put it point it this way.

1:27:52 Oh, look at that.

1:27:53 Yawned right at you.

1:27:55 That was basically him saying, "Hey, I know.

1:27:56 I'm starting to feel a bit nervous now.

1:27:59 Nice to meet you.

1:28:00 Nice to meet you." Starting to feel a little bit nervous now.

1:28:02 A little bit nervous now.

1:28:04 Yeah.

1:28:03 Okay.

1:28:04 Well, I think at this point what I would love

1:28:06 to do is show you the proper treatment for a snake bite.

1:28:10 Yes, this is like a good idea.

1:28:11 Probably a good idea to get it back into its enclosure at this point.

1:28:13 I think so.

1:28:14 All right, I'm going to hand the tiger.

1:28:15 Everybody back up just a little bit there.

1:28:17 Tiger's coming back over to Locky.

1:28:19 Let me know when you're comfortable.

1:28:22 Good.

1:28:22 Okay, got it.

1:28:23 And there we have it.

1:28:25 I petted it.

1:28:26 You did it.

1:28:27 You did.

1:28:27 That's a That's I petted it back.

1:28:29 I petted it back.

1:28:30 You ped.

1:28:30 Yeah.

1:28:31 You You see?

1:28:32 And up there you were like, "No, I'm not going to be able to pet it."

1:28:34 But then you saw You realize it's not that scary.

1:28:37 Can I give you a hug?

1:28:39 I'm so proud of you.

1:28:41 That was amazing.

1:28:42 Leela, we did it.

1:28:44 You told your story to the world.

1:28:46 You got face to face with a venomous snake and even touched it.

1:28:49 Not just the tail, but also the back.

1:28:51 I'm Coyote Peterson.

1:28:52 Be brave.

1:28:53 Stay wild.

1:28:54 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:28:57 Look at how this is sitting up.

1:28:59 Yeah, I can see it moving.

1:29:00 You see it moving?

1:29:01 Oh, you think it's it is moving.

1:29:02 It's under the carpet.

1:29:03 There's something under there, man.

1:29:05 This is I'm sweating.

1:29:06 This is really tight quarters.

1:29:09 It's a brown snake.

1:29:10 Oh, it's a brown snake.

1:29:11 It's a brown snake.

1:29:12 Here we come.

1:29:13 Look at Yeah.

1:29:13 Yeah.

1:29:13 Yeah.

1:29:14 Yeah.

1:29:20 It's been a rainy morning, but we've got a call.

1:29:23 Locky, where are we headed?

1:29:25 We're headed out to the back of the Sunshine Coast

1:29:27 Hinterland to a house where we've just got a call.

1:29:30 They've seen a fairly large snake inside the house.

1:29:33 It's generally a pretty good area for brown snakes this one.

1:29:36 So, very, very likely could be a big brown snake.

1:29:39 Okay.

1:29:40 If we're finding the eastern brown snake,

1:29:42 we're talking about the second most venomous snake in the world.

1:29:45 Exactly.

1:29:45 Right.

1:29:45 So this is by far the most dangerous snake.

1:29:48 The reason for that they live around people.

1:29:50 They are responsible for the vast majority of deaths in this country each year.

1:29:54 What is it that you instructed the people at the house to do in this situation?

1:29:57 So generally the best thing that we ask people to do is to contain the snake.

1:30:02 If they close the doors, uh they put a towel underneath the door so

1:30:06 the the snake can't get from one room to the next,

1:30:08 we have an idea of where the snake's going to be.

1:30:10 We know it's still there and we can stay there until we find it.

1:30:14 This is it.

1:30:15 All right.

1:30:15 All right.

1:30:15 So, what's the typical protocol?

1:30:17 Um, grab the gear, get in there, find out where they saw it last,

1:30:20 and let's go for it.

1:30:21 Before it moves.

1:30:23 Okay.

1:30:27 Got your tubes.

1:30:28 I'll take this as well as backup.

1:30:30 All right.

1:30:31 Let's do it.

1:30:34 Knock knock.

1:30:38 Where'd you see it?

1:30:39 Down the hall.

1:30:40 Put a tail in front of the Perfect.

1:30:42 All right.

1:30:43 Pretty tight in here.

1:30:44 Yeah.

1:30:44 We'll go in.

1:30:44 We'll try and find it.

1:30:46 And then let's try and restrain it once we

1:30:47 get out here in a little more open space.

1:30:49 The great thing is that we know which room supposedly it's in.

1:30:53 Just check this before we go back past it.

1:30:57 Okay.

1:30:57 We don't want to go past the room and then have it pop out behind us.

1:31:00 Yeah, that's a good call.

1:31:03 So, this is the perfect thing that we want people to do.

1:31:06 Now, at least we've got a good idea that it's probably in this room.

1:31:10 Good.

1:31:11 Yep.

1:31:11 All right.

1:31:11 Go for it.

1:31:14 You can already see a few things have been knocked down by the looks of it.

1:31:18 Look at how this is sitting up.

1:31:20 Yeah, I can see it moving.

1:31:21 You see it moving?

1:31:22 Oh, you think it's It's moving.

1:31:23 It's under the car.

1:31:25 There's something under there.

1:31:26 All right.

1:31:26 What do you reckon?

1:31:27 Should we go for it?

1:31:27 Yeah.

1:31:28 Yeah.

1:31:28 Yeah.

1:31:28 Man, this is I'm sweating.

1:31:30 This is really tight quarters.

1:31:31 Oh, what's it going to be?

1:31:32 What's under the rug?

1:31:38 It's a brown snake.

1:31:39 Oh, it's a brown snake.

1:31:40 It's a brown snake.

1:31:41 Here we come.

1:31:41 Holy cow.

1:31:42 Oh, yeah.

1:31:42 Yeah.

1:31:42 Yeah.

1:31:42 Yeah.

1:31:43 Let's go for it, shall we?

1:31:44 Yeah.

1:31:44 Yeah.

1:31:44 All right.

1:31:44 I'm going to pull this back quickly.

1:31:47 Okay.

1:31:46 And then we'll see what we got.

1:31:49 There it is.

1:31:50 You can see he's already very much onto us.

1:31:53 He's pretty wired.

1:31:54 He's going.

1:31:54 I'm going to go for him.

1:31:58 He's hooked around this.

1:31:59 I'm going to All right.

1:32:02 I'm just going to back my way out.

1:32:04 You out of the way.

1:32:08 He's pretty good.

1:32:10 You got some tubes?

1:32:10 Yeah.

1:32:11 Yeah.

1:32:11 Yeah.

1:32:11 Yeah.

1:32:11 I'd say get it up against the wall there.

1:32:13 I'll try and walk him along the wall straight into the tube.

1:32:15 I think that'll suit well.

1:32:28 Yeah.

1:32:28 He goes right into that corner.

1:32:30 Other way.

1:32:34 All right, Ky.

1:32:34 Grab.

1:32:34 Grab.

1:32:35 Yep.

1:32:35 Well done.

1:32:36 Well done.

1:32:36 You got him.

1:32:37 Yep.

1:32:37 I got him.

1:32:38 Beautiful.

1:32:38 Okay.

1:32:39 All right.

1:32:40 Oh, great job.

1:32:44 Woo!

1:32:44 Tight spaces of brown.

1:32:46 Nicely done.

1:32:47 Holy mackerel.

1:32:48 Okay, let's uh let's move to this back porch here.

1:32:50 Got a little bit better lighting and uh

1:32:52 we'll take a better look at this eastern brown.

1:32:56 What a catch.

1:33:01 Anytime you hold on to a snake that is this venomous,

1:33:04 you just have to stop and remind yourself

1:33:06 that you're essentially holding on to a loaded gun.

1:33:09 Ladies and gentlemen, that is the eastern brown,

1:33:11 the second most venomous snake species in the world.

1:33:14 Now, this is a true brown snake, and they do get bigger than this.

1:33:18 And you can see the beautiful brown coloration on that snake's head right there.

1:33:21 It is very in tune with this situation.

1:33:23 Recognizes the cameras, recognizes me,

1:33:25 recognizes the fact that it's inside of a tube.

1:33:27 The reason for the tube is it keeps me safe,

1:33:30 keeps the snake safe, and of course, keeps the entire camera team safe.

1:33:33 is the best way for us to interact with the snake

1:33:35 and take a close look at some of its cool features.

1:33:38 You see flicking its tongue out there.

1:33:40 It's just sensing the environment.

1:33:42 We're in a residential area.

1:33:44 You may be saying to yourselves, coyote,

1:33:46 don't animals usually try to avoid human habitation.

1:33:50 Not the case with this snake.

1:33:51 In fact, the brown snake population has increased

1:33:55 since humans have moved into environments like this.

1:33:57 And the reason for that is that more humans mean more potential prey species.

1:34:02 This snake specializes in eating rodents.

1:34:04 Where you have humans, you're going to have food scraps.

1:34:07 Food scraps means more vermin.

1:34:09 So, this snake looks at a house like this that's low to the ground,

1:34:12 has stone floors, and it does not see a house.

1:34:15 It just sees a maze of potential prey opportunities.

1:34:19 Another reason people often encounter this snake is that it's a dial species.

1:34:23 Look at those big eyes.

1:34:24 These snakes have incredible eyesight.

1:34:27 And if the snake's moving around during the day hunting, at the same time,

1:34:30 humans are moving around doing their day-to-day activities,

1:34:33 you understand why encounters are much more frequent.

1:34:36 And these things are fast.

1:34:37 One of the fastest snake species here in Australia.

1:34:40 And the strike speed is uncanny.

1:34:42 You take one bite from the snake and you're dealing with a neurotoxic

1:34:45 venom that is almost certain to kill you if you do not receive antivenenom.

1:34:49 Just because the snake can be considered deadly,

1:34:52 it's more so considered dangerous, right?

1:34:54 because of the antivenenom production that is being done here in Australia,

1:34:57 very few people die from snake bites, specifically snake bites from the species.

1:35:01 But it's dangerous because of its close proximity to human habitation.

1:35:06 The more times you have humans around an area where there's going to be snakes,

1:35:09 the more chances you will have of bites occurring.

1:35:12 Whether it's on the feet, on the hands, or any part of your body,

1:35:15 if you are unfortunate enough to run into this snake and you receive a bite,

1:35:19 trust me, it's going to be a really bad day.

1:35:21 Now, in an instance where you were to come into your bathroom

1:35:23 and see a snake and you say to yourself, "Oh, no way, buddy.

1:35:26 This is my bathroom.

1:35:26 I'm going to have to eliminate you.

1:35:28 You try to kill a snake like this, it's

1:35:29 only going to increase your chances of being bitten.

1:35:32 So, the right thing to do is always call a local authority, somebody like Locky,

1:35:36 who can come in and safely remove the snake

1:35:38 and put it back out into the wild." Oh, buddy.

1:35:41 It's a good thing that we came across you first because we

1:35:43 are going to actually save you and move you to a much

1:35:46 more remote location where hopefully there'll be plenty of food sources

1:35:50 and uh you will not find yourself in any sort of danger.

1:35:53 But there you have it, the work that Australian Wildlife Encounters is doing

1:35:56 on a daily and weekly basis put to the test.

1:35:59 Quick, efficient, and the snake and the humans are walking away completely safe.

1:36:04 Last step is to get it into a bag

1:36:06 so we can transport it to a more wild location.

1:36:09 I'm Coyote Peterson.

1:36:10 Be brave.

1:36:12 Stay wild.

1:36:14 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:36:15 All right, Lock, you want to come in with the bag?

1:36:17 Get him in here.

1:36:18 Bring this down low.

1:36:19 Get him in slowly.

1:36:20 Yep.

1:36:21 And then let him feed in.

1:36:22 Keep this bag high.

1:36:25 Go.

1:36:25 Woo.

1:36:25 Snake in the pan.

1:36:26 All right, let's get this tied up.

1:36:29 Yep.

1:36:32 Let's move him around.

1:36:34 That is like the ultimate snake that we could have possibly come across.

1:36:37 All right, we're going to get this snake into a wild

1:36:39 location and uh this little danger noodle is ready to go.

1:36:43 Snakes belong outside, not inside the house.

1:36:46 But if you find yourself in this terrifying situation,

1:36:49 make sure to contact Australian Wildlife Encounters

1:36:52 so they can safely relocate your resident serpent.

1:36:57 If you love animals,

1:36:58 make sure to search for the Brave Wilderness channel on YouTube so

1:37:01 you can join me and the crew on our next wild adventure.