Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven
Over four action-packed episodes, snake fanatic Nigel Marven journeys to Costa Rica, the USA, South Africa, and China, dodging snapping jaws and vicious fangs to count down his list of each country’s ten deadliest snakes.
Philippines
Nigel comes face-to-face with the Philippine cobra, the most lethally venomous cobra on the planet. In deep, dark caves on Palawan Island, Nigel searches for giant reticulated pythons sheltering from the heat of the day.
Brazil
With an infra-red camera in the dead of night, we watch a forest pit-viper sense and strike a target just fractionally warmer than its surroundings. We film a hunting mussurana, a snake that is immune to their venom.
Mexico
Extending a fiber-optic camera into the intricate tunnels of a leafcutter ant nest, we uncover a Central American coral snake sharing the burrow of the ant colony. Nigel then meets a rattlesnake without a rattle.
The Middle East
Nigel discovers the burrowing asp, a snake that can bite you without even opening its mouth, the saw-scaled viper, hidden in the sand until you hear its eerie threat display.
