What Can We Learn When a Green Snake with a Red Tail Bites a Cat?
Channel: Scenoptica
Date: 2023-08-23

When a person reported that their cat had been bitten by a "green snake with a red tail," we immediately knew it to be the white-lipped viper, Trimeresurus albolabris. How? With the help of herpetologist, Donan Satria, we shed some light on snake bites in Indonesia and look at the biogeography of Java's tree vipers.

CHAPTERS

00:33 - Intro
01:45 - When snakes bite us
06:00 - When snakes bite animals
09:02 - The green tree vipers of Java and beyond
12:00 - Taxonomic nonsense?
20:55 - The Wallace Line
24:06 - End

CREDITS

Presented by Joaquim Baeta
Featuring Donan Satria Yudha
Shot, written, and directed by Lelly Marliana and Joaquim Baeta
Produced by Lelly Marliana
Edited by Joaquim Baeta
Performer in first intertitle is Moh. Farchan Fathoni
Produced with the kind support of ghostwheel

Maps by OpenStreetMap, https://openstreetmap.org/copyright
OpenCycleMap layer by Andy Allen, https://www.thunderforest.com/maps/opencyclemap
Bathymetric map courtesy of the GEBCO Grid, https://www.gebco.net

"Female white-lipped pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris)" by Rushen, https://flic.kr/p/HTuYXT, CC BY-SA
"White-lipped Island Pitviper (Trimeresurus insularis)" by nmoorhatch, https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/176990673, CC BY
"Preserved specimens - Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology" by Daderot, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preserved_specimens_-_Kunming_Natural_History_Museum_of_Zoology_-_DSC02411.JPG, public domain
"The eagle and the snail" by Marcus Gheeraerts I in Eduwaert de Dene's "De Warachtighe Fabulen der Dieren", https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arendt_ende_slecke_(BM_1868,0612.192).jpg, public domain

"We Are Now" by Marco Trovatello, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marco_Trovatello/Not_At_All, CC BY
"Imminence" and "Scenery" by Kai Engel, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Run, CC BY

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