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May 31, 2021
This is the logo of Living Zoology Studio so we will start from the beginning so we will tell you more about how even you know this idea of ​​taking photographs of life and one of the documentaries came to us so in the logo is the most Horne. Piper is the species of

venomous

snake that lives in Europe, actually one of the most

venomous

snakes

in Europe and it is quite widespread, so we can say that it is one of the few

snakes

that are important on the scale of Europe if we talk about Poisonous topics, but why? we have this, make our logo something different our expedition was an experience for us so we decided to put this snake in our logo yeah and we have this logo since then and we really like it so we are planning to change it soon so You can go to the next slide, aha, as I said before, we start as zoologists.
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We both studied

zoology

here in the Czech Republic, at Masaryk University in Brno, and you can see some images there that indicate what kind of topics we deal with. They were doing it. I was working on topics focused on evolutionary biology, I was actually working on white nose syndrome in beds. I finished working on my master's thesis on the hybridization of black and red kites, but they also live in India, but my dream. It was always to be a herpetologist and work in the field of evolutionary biology of amphibian reptiles, so since 2015 I have been focused on the evolution of reptiles and amphibians in Central Africa, so I worked a lot in the laboratory and also in the field.
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Central Africa and I'm still working on my PhD in my fifth year and as you can see Susanna was working in a little bit different fields yeah she used to work with birds and parasites in birds so it's a little bit different now that they're focusing on snakes poisonous, but I like all animals, all nature, so everything is interesting to me, yes, we basically met during

zoology

studies, but Susanna is a great photographer. I went for a long time. I was interested. in photography and videography and at that time it was around 2014, we started to have this idea of ​​doing more than just studying Georgia because the thing is you know science nowadays, there are so many rules if you want to post some.
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Some research takes a long time to submit to the article. Furthermore, journals simply decide whether they want your study or not, and even if they decide they want your study, then your work must go through a review and is needed. A long time ago, so what were we thinking? We want to let you know a quick and direct impact on nature conservation and we were thinking how we can do it easily without anyone else knowing that it is the one in the preparation stage. of the work we want to show, so we started the film studio and tried to learn by spending time in nature observing and recording what we see and then showing it to people and one of the most important things that happened in I would say my life as a bearer is related to the video that follows.
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If you can play video one, basically this happened in 2016 when I was starting my PhD and this film was the first one we produced in both Czech and English. languages ​​a year before we produced the first Thai

documentary

, which was made with a small amateur camera and was only in Czech, but the reviews were very, very good and people encouraged us to continue, so we thought we also wanted to also do the English versions to get the information out to the world to a wider audience, so I came as a researcher but also as a filmmaker and I was trying to capture the story about what we were doing there.
No and reality. of Central Africa because I believe, and we will talk about this later, when we touch on the subject of Central Africa itself. I think the video is great too, how to show people what is happening around the world in some places, especially in Central Africa. I even say brutal in the sense of how people treat the animals there, so it was an eye-opener for me and also for Susanna, she came later and we were trying to find the Goliath frogs together and it was amazing to have the biggest frog. in the world in our hands and take some samples for DNA analysis, but the main objective for which we came there with my supervisor was to collect some data on small puddle frogs that live in the mountains on the border of Cameroon and Nigeria and we realized that the frogs are not there that basically it seemed that these frogs had disappeared, we did not find any and then it turned out from the studies and knowledge of other researchers who have been there in the area that the puddle frogs and some other groups probably almost disappeared from the mountains in Cameroon, this area is Highlands and it turns out that it is mainly due to habitat destruction and also its radiomitosis, which is a fungal disease and it is spreading a lot because people travel and so I can carry this fungus. in the clouds and so on if it is not cleaned properly and particularly the frogs or the NAM fibian in the tropical mountains are in great danger because the fungus simply likes the slightly colder climate in the tropical regions, so several species of Amphibians are already extinct now, so this was like a sad story and we were working on this since 2016 and it's been almost five years and a few months ago the first paper was published, we described two species from Cameroon, these two little puddle frogs probably are already extinct, so yes, this is one of the main experiences of my life when I see that in science, of course, there can be different types of studies and research that can work quickly, but in terms of biodiversity taxonomy it takes a long time. time and you know, it took five years.
It's been almost five years since the story came to light, but the other question is also who is going to read the scientific article, probably just the scientific community, but we live in a time where we know that natural habitats are disappearing very quickly and every day there are so many species. They are dying out and I felt like I wanted to do something more. I want to help more, faster and better, that's why this movie was ready about a year after the trip in 2016, so it's already been online for several years, so every job or Everything we're going to talk about here, yeah we're talking about past projects, you can watch these documentaries or videos on YouTube, so it's available to everyone and I think this way when you're using the power of media today. and social media and YouTube you can have a big impact on what is happening with nature and you can help conserve various, you know the different groups of animals, even because we have been amphibians, reptiles, we try to film rare mammals, yes See if the We found during our search for poisonous snakes, for example, so we are very happy with the images of frogs colliding, for example, and it is one of the few videos on the Internet that you can find, so if we have the opportunity to educate. through videos and photos is really cool so this is basically the main reason why we started making these documentaries and now after those years I think we can say that it has some results, it has inspired some people and we .
We're very happy about that and we hope that we can continue with this for a long time so that we can move on to another slide, yeah, so this is what we were talking about as well. I think it's cool that we both have to take pictures, yeah. I should really do it like this, no, I think photos and videos, so this way we can basically get a lot more content because I can focus on the videos. It's great to work as a team, even if it's a two-person team, but in the last few years, we usually cooperate and work with some local people, snake keepers, people who are doing a local research project, so we really like it. work with people from the country with more experience with certain species, etc., and as I said, this drags.
At least work there when you work with poisonous snakes because it's obviously a dangerous job and every video or every photo can cost whatever you want if you do something stupid and of course you don't want to do it. something stupid because you don't do it, but the thing is that when someone does something stupid and let's say someone who handles poisonous snakes dies, usually that only worsens the reputation of the animals because people start to fear snakes more and start thinking that these animals are dangerous and try to attack you and me in Nassau, so we really try to work ethically so that the safety of the snake is the priority and the safety of us is the priority.
Yes, these are some photos with snakes that we actually have. The thing is we're not really doing it to advertise ourselves, you know, being with the snakes, so we have a very small number of photos of us with snakes only when someone joins our trips, so we're slowly coming from further. Like

documentary

tours, we like you to basically follow our work, but now we just do completely natural history and you don't see us in the movies, and I especially like this image because it shows the way you can tell. approach the Black Mamba at a very close distance if you know what you are doing if you know how to behave in a calm manner if you are not threatening the snake even the field black mamba can be approached to the fiercest lengths in all of Africa in a way that most people wouldn't even imagine and we're using, as you can see, we're using snake tongs, we're using gaiters to protect ourselves and also to work with the snake gently and basically try to avoid touching it. by hand because it makes the snakes what we want to capture the natural behavior so we can observe very well it's the best way for us so we actually really enjoyed working in India for example at Google where we were just tracking king cobras, so this is the map on our website

living

.com where you can get an idea of ​​where we've been working before, just the very dark green country projects that ended up with some kind of documentary film outcome.
Of course, before, when we were younger, on some of the trips we were not together and we were doing research etc., for example, I used to travel a lot with my father, who is also a biologist, and that's why I love nature because my fire en I am also a researcher in biology, so we try to cover the topic of snakes on a global scale, with different points of view on snakes, because each country is a little different, it is because each continent is different, so we can reproduce the second video, so this is Just a little snippet of footage from different continents just to show you what kind of footage we're trying to film.
It's very different from most shows you watch on online TVs, where you usually have a guy or someone. By simply handing over a snake and trying to give it too much drama from our point of view, what we are trying to achieve are simply completely natural images of the snakes from their behavior in their natural habitat or even, for example, in rural areas, if we are focusing on the issue of human-snake conflict mitigation. We also like to basically follow the snakes where they live and show people how they live, why they live, like you know what their role is in nature and we also try to show people the beauty. about snakes, that's our goal, to make people understand snakes better and start to get an idea of ​​how beautiful they are.
This brings us to the first main topic, let's say of our work, venomous snakes and humans, conflict mitigation is what we basically start with. do just Natural History, but then we go deeper into the topic of human snake conflict mitigation because it's amazing that it becomes a big topic around the world and here we can see the map, so if you look at the numbers you will see that Asia Africa Latin America would probably be the countries where the most people die from snake bites, but there are many differences in how this problem occurs and what kind of snake species live there, etc., so we need to try to each country or each continent differently.
You see, in Asia alone it is estimated that one hundred thousand people died, in India alone fifty thousand people die every year from snakes and those are just numbers we know; recently we were trying to find some interesting statistics about In India, to know how to compare the level of the number of people who died from snakebite, we found out that every year half a million children, no one knows where they are, and then there are 50,000 recorded deaths from so many. of them are recorded, you just know it's a big problem on the scale that we probably just think about, and it was only in 2017, I think, when the World Health Organization finally listed snakebites as a neglected tropical disease, sowhich until then you know it's just Everyone talks about malaria and other diseases, but this is also a big story in Africa and many people die.
There's a big problem with antidotes, they just don't have enough antidotes to treat people, so you know it's very expensive to produce antidotes. So even if people get to the hospital, they don't have them to poison there, etc., these things are just happening, so let's talk about the species that may be contributing to the human snake conflict around the world when people or the public in general. Starting to talk about the conflict between venomous snakes and human snakes, species like Mamba usually come to mind. You know, their iconic species is the most feared snake in Africa, the second longest snake, the second longest venomous snake in the world, but how many deaths are actually caused by things like? llamas, for example, in Africa, so mostly these iconic snake species are very intelligent, now we come back to the king cobra, iconic species of Southeast Asia, India, how many deaths are caused by king cobras, so these Iconic species, such as the king cobra, such as Mamba Bushmaster in America, are generally shy snakes, generally

living

in a pristine natural environment.
Habitats don't cause too many, sometimes too many deaths occur, but if you really want to talk about humans, they conflict with mitigation and where these problems arise. We need to talk about species like the fabulous ones that were there before our Cobra specter, as well as snakes that come very close to humans, it is not common and they are very common, so in India we would say that the spectracoat cobra is a of the most common snakes or here we have the Russell's viper. These things come close to humans because around the houses there are rats there is food there are shelters it is a good place for snakes to live so snakes come close to people here we have Common Krait and other species and then there are problems that arise of human behavior, people walking at night without the torch outside. they don't wear proper shoes, they step on the Russell's viper, they sleep outside and they just change positions when they sleep and lie down in the box for example, and so on, if these situations happen quite frequently if the snake is common and has the tendency to get closer to people and in each of them there are some specialties that you know, for example, here we have the Mozambique spitting cobra.
We are very happy that we were able to capture this behavior in the photo because we can educate through this. So what this snake does is actually try to defend itself, and these cobras don't need to hood themselves, they just spit out the venom without a hood, so it's just a blink of an eye and many domestic animals, like dogs, get SPECTED. . for these cobras, like in the urban area, for example, in the southeast of South Africa, this snake is very common in this case and in some during the rainy season it is surprisingly common, so the conflict becomes a little different.
These spitting cobras defend themselves and spit. the eyes of dogs or other domestic animals and then these animals can go blind if you know they don't go to the vet and so on, here again a very different snake and a feather, then there was the viper snake living in different habitats very good camouflage people often step on them, you know, and here we have a rattlesnake, so in the US they also have a lot of snakes, but they have a good health system in the sense that the hospitals are usually close by, so They usually go to the hospital and get treatment, so there are not so many deaths happening there, but for example the conflict is happening on the roads and in a slightly different way a lot of snakes are dying on the roads because drivers just They don't care about them, they hate snakes, so in every country. where we've been working this human snake conflict is still a little different.
We can know that we can find interesting differences, so let's play this video in India. The lives of people and snakes are closely related. The World Health Organization classified snakebites as a neglected tropical problem. disease, as there are few efforts to reduce snakebite deaths worldwide. I have been watching people killing snakes unnecessarily thanks to people like Murthy Kanta mohanty and some guy Gary, there is a possibility that people can live in harmony with snakes since then we have rescued more. More than 600 king cobras around here are risking their own lives to protect some of India's most dangerous snake species.
Most people don't even know that there are poisonous and non-venomous snakes. Rescue Charcoal is the incredible true story about the dedicated

wildlife

conservationist who worked to cause humans to create conflict in their communities. Snakes are animals of critical importance to the environment. They provide natural pest control for the environment. Humans an ecological service are beautiful and incredible animals and they deserve to live on this planet with us, so here is an example of how I think we can help solve this situation. We can partner with people who work in those countries where humans have conflicts or we can partner with amazing people like people from Safety Snakes who support different projects around the world. we can tell their story through

wildlife

documentaries and then we can reach a much broader audience, so you know, maybe these people who are doing this amazing work like, for example, a Julio who read us in a group and he spent his time in the woods and doing amazing work in local communities around the world, but we can help him and we want to help him get a much wider audience and show the story about him to everyone, so we really like cooperate with different people on this issue and it's really amazing how you know when we connect we share experiences it moves us all somewhere you know it pushes us forward and we are finding new solutions and different ways of how to save snakes and also protect them, so let's play another video.
For a scene from the documentary called Snake Rescue, this area is the domain of one guy, Gary, a snake specialist who has worked with king cobras for over a decade. He works with great delicacy and professionalism. His rescues are held up as an example to other snake resting viewers around the world. world, the large king cobra is quickly and safely placed in the bag and then it is time to collect some scientific data from each snake being rescued, it is shaken and a numbered tag will be placed on it and planted under the skin, which will allow a man and the team to recognize it easily if they need to relocate after the procedure, the snake is placed back in the bag and will be released in the immediate vicinity so that it is not far from their own reach, the release was done without touching the snake.
This guy has done this over 600 times and is a true professional. This was a great example of what's really happening, you know, in places where snakes and humans come into conflict, so these people who are rescuing snakes are very important, so we tried it. working with them

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their work and showing it to other people is a big inspiration to many people who maybe are interested in the snakes you know and want to help save snake lives and also human lives so this is another bonus professional snake. Nick Evans from South Africa, so we saw the king cobra being rescued by a jQuery and this is the man who specializes in black mambas in South African Durban, they have many like mom's, it's really amazing, in one day we attended five calls , so when we rescued three black people. mambas, all three of them were over 2 meters long, so it's just incredible, but thanks to people like this who are doing educational programs, you know, after each rescue, they show the snake to the villagers or the people and the people after to have this experience touching the snake. snake seeing how cute it is, you know, they usually change their mind and these people stop killing snakes and start calling these snake rescuers and wait for them for these people to come relocate the snake and release it to secure the habitat in this way we can really solve the problem and you know people won't be afraid to say as much and the Saints will still be able to live so we can play the next video that was there just to see what it looks like in the garden because sometimes it's just It's amazing, you'll see where you can, you can find Black Mamba, thank you, thank you, oh yeah, I was expecting something much smaller.
I think it no longer exists. Can you believe it? It is a suitable number. Do it once we're under the floor, yeah, well, I haven't pressed hold. For me it is nothing, it is just having it in that right of did you see me? Yes, luckily, there is no what that is, so we can get it to come out. Okay, just open that side. What is really open. I brought my transparent table. If you want to use this, just give it a pause and think it's bloated. You've seen how difficult it can sometimes be to rescue snakes.
This was the footage for our movie we are working on now. These are the most poisonous snakes. Africa, so you've seen Nick Evans catching a black mamba under the bed in the house, which is crazy, it's a quiet children's room and there you have a 2 meter long Mamba that came in through the window and in the second scene was Harry Hines. a big snake catcher from Montague in the western part of South Africa and have you seen the Cape Cobra that got caught in this, I don't even know what it was everyone, it was a box of something, if you know, some electrical box in the garage and the snake just came in and it was very difficult to get it out, so sometimes these people are just risking their lives because they need to.
You know, try to use all the techniques to save the snake. You've already seen that people. From there they really waited there, called it and that's the success these people can achieve. People are polite in their area and they call them and they just protect things, they don't kill them, so let's talk about snakes and their role. ecosystems, so why are there snakes in the port? The answer is actually very easy, it's very easy, it's very interesting that people still don't understand the way that snakes are important predators, so of course they have their role in the food chain and if you take out the snakes , what will happen to the populations of their prey and what will happen to the populations of the predators that hunt them?
So, snakes are very good at controlling rodents. There is a kind of natural pest control, so if the rodents become overpopulated. because we kill all the snakes, they will eat the crops, you know, they will destroy the crops and they will also spread diseases, so of course, yes, the necks are very important and we are trying to show that in our movies, so let's see the scene. Of the desert of railroad snakes, a hungry spotted rattlesnake is one of them. He simply caught the scent of a young kangaroo rat and followed it. The inexperienced rodent does not even realize that the snake is approaching.
The rattlesnake holds its prey firmly and injects it. The poison with its fangs waits until the small mammal is paralyzed and then begins to swallow it starting from the head. Rattlesnakes play a crucial role in the desert ecosystem by maintaining the size of rodent populations and preventing them from eating all the vegetation. just a small part of the scene, but we just wanted to show it, we usually don't have the opportunity to talk to people in person, so all these ideas that we are talking about right now in our documentaries where we show the natural behavior of snakes and treatment to explain why this happens and why it is so important, then there was the Gaboon viper eating rodents, so that's it, which is generally understandable to most people, but here we have the look of the Cobra eating king cobra , so that's It's a little bit more difficult relationship, but I also think that people or villagers say how come they already understand very well that king cobras are the main predators that hunt other snakes and basically you know that they are in the top of the food chain and if you kill all the other snakes so the different levels of how snakes can contribute to natural food chains so I'm here this is another example of why snakes They are very important, so this video had no narration because it is from an upcoming movie about the most venomous snakes in Africa, but you probably understood what it is about.
I was talking about Namaqua, plus feather, the smallest head in the world that lives in the coastal dunes along the coast of South Africa, in thewestern and in the sound part, and this snake is, you know, you know everyone. Everyone will talk about the King Cobra or Bushmaster as an indicator of the quality of the ecosystem, but there are many more species of snakes that actually indicate that the ecosystem is healthy and what we were showing there is that people are actually littering the dunes and destroying the habitat and these things need a pristine and very special habitat, they are specialized to live only in those dunes, so if we destroy their mind by throwing garbage there or driving cars or motorcycles for tools, many people do it for fun , these snakes will simply disappear some snakes can also be a good indicator of the quality of our ecosystems and here we have another example, while snakes can be important, for example on the islands, this is the Malagasy reef, there are no snakes in Madagascar and there are no snakes on the islands with which they often play. the role of animals that are not present on the islands because the island fauna is generally known and then created in some way in Madagascar, it is like 90% of all organisms that do not live anywhere else, so that snakes play a vital role because, apart from the few carnivores there are, snakes are basically to become predators on the ground, so all of this can be very easy to understand for us and perhaps for biologists and scientists. nature conservation people who work in nature conservation, but you know we have to communicate this somehow.
That's why education is extremely important and we try to do that not only through wildlife documentaries but also through an in-person snake workshop for kids here in the Czech Republic of Texas. This is the image on the left. It is actually the forest kindergarten where Susannah works. and the children spend full time in nature and she teaches them many things about the life of animals etc., sometimes we can also bring snakes, yes, and we also try to educate people during our

filming

trips, for example , in Africa people are very afraid of snakes, they kill them. Actually, this photo shows a very rare occasion on a small island in Lake Victoria without cobras and the fishermen who live there think that the cobras are the spiritual zone of the island, so they don't kill them.
It's a very special story for Africa and Basically they sleep there in the cabins and the cobras crawl everywhere and the snakes even change their behavior. They don't behave like cobras on the continent if they behave very calmly, but after we arrive there and we showed them the snake, for them it was the first opportunity to touch the snake and, in fact, you know how to appreciate it much more from a close distance. and even talking to us and asking questions, it was a very powerful moment and these are the moments that I really like when we can educate the local communities and maybe change the perspective of the space for them, you know, in the long term, so Maybe next time we come they will value snakes much more, so yes, education is extremely important.
For five years we have been working on a documentary about snakes here in the Czech Republic because, although we only have five species of snakes, you also know that our nature is part of our country and we hope to finish our documentary soon and it will be the first documentary about history nature of the snakes that live here and, in fact, we are trying to show that we do care a lot. And try to think of snakes as part of nature and our ecosystems. We can live in harmony. So this picture shows the smooth snake on the rock wall.
It is actually not in the vineyard and is a place where four or five species of snakes live. in the Czech Republic they thrive and in fact human activity helped them a lot, so that's what we tried to show, just show where this documentary that here in Europe, you know again, nature is a little bit different, it's influenced by people for a long time, for centuries. So we really need to think a little about our activities and if we do things wrong, snakes and other wild animals can live very close to us in harmony, so the example can be the vineyard or the dam of our city where we live.
We've killed snakes that thrive after people drove the banks of the river coming from the dam and they didn't actually use concrete, but they use big rocks and they provide shelter for the snakes, that's why the snakes stay there and you know they're there. It is a big danger in our country so if we think correctly we can save the snakes and live in harmony with them because yes we don't have any problem of cobras or snakes coming into our houses we are not actually there so that if there is no danger. and so on, they try to kill them, it is not necessary, that was the topic of snakes, so let's move on to another one, we will loop and return to the topic that at the beginning was connected with central Africa and frogs,

crocodiles

and bushmeat in central Africa, so let's play the video now, the trailer of the documentary about the Congo dwarf, the only one, yes, many mysterious animals live in the rainforests of the Congo, one of them is the Congo dwarf crocodile, one of the species smallest among these prehistoric reptiles. although it was described about 100 years ago today it is not recognized as a separate species check many sloth herpetologists Rajdeep and Martin Dahlin traveled to the flooded forests of Central Africa and for two months collected data on this creature endangered by hunting for meat of wild

crocodiles

to investigate and save those who were hunted to kill are part of the daily routine, but this expedition was also full of unexpected moments that the team members needed to cope with the unpredictable weather and the harsh realities of life in the living zoology of the Congo.
The film studio invites you to witness the adventure of scientific work traveling through Africa and discovering the secrets of the mysterious crocodile. This is again one of the oldest films in our studio, but I think it shows some serious problems that are still happening in Central Africa and you know it was filmed in very difficult conditions, maybe that's why it's more like a pure experience where you see what's really happening there, so we can move on to the next slide and I'll start talking. about the whole trip story, we actually went there because my supervisor knew that there is a species of crocodile that is not being treated as a separate species, it was actually described in 1990 a long time ago, but then people just forgot about it and the Researchers did not travel to the Congo for several decades due to the political situation there, so we went there to try to find these crocodiles, we took some tissue samples for DNA analysis, just you know, proof that these crocodiles are separate species from the crocodile dwarf that is treated as a species, so we thought we would go to the forest like this, camp for five days in the forest and walk through the forest and catch some crocodiles from the house, actually see them, you know, and we will be happy, but in actually these crocodiles, not all of them were found in the forest, some of them were brought to the forest so that we could free them, so we start to realize that everything is a little different than we thought there, so we can go to another slide , so even in agile, a national park, for example, where you know that poaching should not be present as it should be, it should be well preserved.
Poaching in the forests happens there and people go to the forest to capture animals and kill them, and it is happening on a scale that is what it is. It was very surprising and it also surprised us and we basically found some crocodiles in the places in the part where there were and we were trying to take pictures of all the individuals to see the differences between the babies that the young people know and the adults and that they have some kind of knowledge about how they grow and how their skull changes the shape of it, etc., because you can tell the difference between the dwarf crocodile and the Congo or canal dwarf if you look at their heads and see the different characteristics of the head, that's how see we had the crocodile we were just taking small tissue samples and then we wanted to release it into the wild but ultimately this was happening only with some of the crocodiles and with most of them we actually found they were like that in the village so it was very surprising for us.
You know, we went to the villages asking people and showing photos. Do you know this crocodile? Have you seen him in the forest? And in many places we ended up in the kitchen and they showed us. we, we have this table in the house like we are very surprised at what is happening and people are just catching these crocodiles in the forest, there are hunters in the forest and they bring crocodiles with legs that tight, you know, these crocodiles are in These conditions were based on weeks, so their eyes were damaged, for example, and everything was very difficult to see and what we were actually doing was buying this group of dogs because they were going to cook them and sell the meat or eat it.
We were buying them, researching them and returning them to the forest and I mean, even by local standards, the price of bushmeat is like it's one of the most highly valued foods you can get. can be found there and even by our European standards we were thinking that we had to pay a pretty high amount of money for the crocodile, for example, to save it, so it just tells the story of how difficult it is sometimes to change people's minds. people. and do nature conservation because here in central Africa it is not a question of poverty in many cases it is a cultural issue, they simply love to eat bushmeat, it is their culture and they eat goliath frogs or crocodiles or other animals in danger of extinction, so these are just examples of what happened when we were camping in the forest, yeah, and people just come out from the hunters and bring a boo speck or an endangered helper monkey or they love to fish for beads, for example, and they are proud to be so. posing with the dead animals and I think a lot of people don't know about this Bush problem with their central Africa and in terms of crocodiles it is estimated that maybe over 3000 of them come to the main market in Brazzaville every year so you can imagine . how quickly they will go extinct if it happens on this scale, so also pangolins are almost going extinct in Africa etc, just filming in Africa is really on a large scale in central Africa.
I mean, I was just trying to film it and put together the story of our trip and yes, some of the footage is very difficult when they bring in the colobus monkey and start cutting off its legs and head in front of you, but maybe this is the only one. way or the best. way to make people start to realize that something bad is happening there because if people don't know about it, they usually don't care too much so if you're interested in this, definitely watch this movie on our YouTube because I think it just if we people are educated and know these problems, we can do something against them because I think things are really strange there, so let's move on to something more positive, so the final main topic is the role of drones and other equipment, the investigation and the filming, so we won.
I won't talk too much about this, it'll be more like you know a way to make people realize that they can explore a lot and they can find different ways to use all the equipment that is now available, as you can see here. a drone, you see your GoPro camera or a microphone, all these things can be used in various ways, you know, how to get interesting information about nature, so you can just put your camera with a microphone somewhere in the forest and record the sounds of the forest, for example, and discover that there is some kind of bird song that no one has heard before.
Kind of like in some places like Central Africa or in the rainforests, there's still a chance to find new and surprising things, you know, and you can even do it. with the camera or the microphone or a drop, so that was the photo of me filming a rattlesnake, it basically shows how we generally try to get close to snakes, film them from their perspective, beings that we shine because what you want to achieve is to give the You're hearing the experience from the animal's eyes, so if you're filming snakes you generally want to get down on the ground and try to give the people you meet the feeling that they're moving with the same snakes through the grass, etc., like that. let's play video without sound here so we will talk during it so this is just a compilation of drone footage that we have so again you have a drone and you can use it in many ways to explore nature as well as this money very little. and it's not very expensive so you can buy one and try it, so basically you can use it to scan the landscape around you and we also like to show the real natural habitat of theanimal because snakes live in very strange or extreme places. environments like for example this place where it is very hot during the day is on the border of Arizona and Mexico and there are things that are white like the white granite rocks there, but how can you see, you know the place better than from a drone, or you can, you can show some interesting behavior, like the Sidewinder snake moving on the sand, you can show it from above in India.
We wanted to show the general landscape of the plantations and rural areas from above to really show where Russell is. The viper can live and you can see it from above and in the field and if you have a completely different perspective of this animal, you can also see a king cobra released here and from above imagine how big you see it compared to a guy from For example, how long the huge snake is and of course you can use it for other amazing things related to other forms of life so in the Kalahari desert you can follow the cape yellow cobras which we also like because it gives us the opportunity to Compare the different habitats.
In Africa we go from deserts to rainforests and that gives your wildlife documentary a different perspective, and many people in Africa, for example, use the boxes to count the number of large animals in some habitats. You really can do it, that's up to us. So you can do reconnaissance flights and see what kind of animal populations you have some kind of freezer for our National Park and you can also see how in the last two videos you can see the changes in the environments if you fill a landscape, say, in January and then you film it in June and you see the difference between, for example, the dry season and the wet season, so those are the ways you can use the battery and it's just inspiration for those who are listening to this.
It talks about how today there are no limits and you can explore and you can try to find your way, how you want to present your footage or some unusual stories and it's a very different perspective, yes, so this is another example. I think it's good, how can you? I can think of a different way to show an animal: the giant reptile is slowly finishing its meal, but we can get some close-up photos, so this was just an example that if you are inventive and want to try, you know how to do something. differently, like you would present this scene of Komodo dragons eating the carcass of a deer, so we were thinking about how to do it differently, so we already come from the Czech Republic with this cart, you know, the sweepers give you this handle longer and I know it's something homemade, it's not like that, you can just go to the store and buy it and we were able to get the camera very close to the dragon and take pictures from a very different perspective, so those are just a few examples, so we will be happy if people who watch this

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check out our videos on YouTube and maybe get more inspiration and we try to respond to every comment on our videos so that people can also ask us below the videos about anything to be interesting for them and as I said the topics we were talking about are also present in our films and short videos and to conclude we are very helpful and we are very happy to have cooperators all over the world.
We had a great time at the India with local snake catchers and we save space, and also in other countries, and we are also very happy to be able to bring the topic of snakes or reptiles to media such as television or some photo exhibitions, so that is our goal. is to promote these animals that are feared and hated by many people and change attitudes in better ways. Yes, that is our goal and we are also very happy to have the opportunity to speak here, so thank you very much, yes, okay before we go. We have some body questions, okay my tree is asking a question: how do snakes produce venom and how much?
Basically, it's very easy, let's say if you already have it or if you see a snake after millions of years of evolution. Venom is basically bad because of saliva, so yes, in nature it takes millions of years, but basically you evolve a venom gland which is usually behind the eyes of the snake in the upper jaw and this gland produces the venom which, like I said, it's Basically, it originally comes from saliva, so the snake produces this venom by itself and through the muscles that are around the venom glands. It can also put the venom into the prey or it can bite someone who is attacking it and it can put out a lot of venom or even a dry bite, so the snake knows how to control the amount of venom that comes out of its body and tell how much venom the snake produces is very difficult because everyone has some different type of venom production and also many types, yes and also different snakes would also treat their venom in a different way, some snakes just tend to save the venom if they feel threatened and they would just take a dry bite, but some snakes just aren't that dry.
Be careful with this on some occasions, for example young people tend to buy more with released venom because they may not be as used to controlling their venom glands, but in general, most snakes produce much more venom than they need. to pray to be killed, so have the storage and there was another question from mr. The suburban garrison growls at us a lot and is a very high-ranking person. His Christmas is fine, first of all, he is very focused on the presentation. What motivates you to be in this session? being in this position or what the passion is not for me one of the biggest motivations was at the beginning to see the snakes in their natural habitat to, in fact, go to the places where I was.
I was reading before in books when I was young and I was just dreaming about this forest in Africa. I knew about snakes in India and I just wanted to go there and see it and very, very soon after, when I was already there, my other motivation was to film it and show it to them. other people and you know, maybe it's just a coincidence, but nowadays, like this conflict between snakes and people is happening and also natural habitats are disappearing, I feel like it also serves a great purpose and is a great motivation just to just to work on these documentaries and present them so they are connected and the profiles of Sundeep's story have a couple of questions.
I will answer them one by one, people are usually very afraid of snakes, so whenever they find them, they kill them immediately. obviously the lack of awareness, how can we increase awareness among people about snakes? I think you covered it very well in your presentation, but it can be adjustable and yes, so you know the basic answer is education, so I would suggest making, for example, an educational material like a small piece of material where you can show people different species of snakes because when people can recognize that species they will know if they see a red snake that is not dangerous or if they see a cobra for example and that is the first step for people to realize what kind of species of snakes there are around, there are also exactly non-venomous snakes and then it would be great if there was a local snake catcher or snake keeper in the area and he would start educating people about the role of things in the environment and show them that if they call it , he will come and professionally relocate the snake and you know that there are many areas in India where this is still necessary. done and hopefully more and more people like the ones shown in our movies will make this program necessary to train people to be rescuers yes it has to be it has to be a trained person it's not just yes so yes, another thing is that these people who already have experience organize training well for the interested people and provide them with the right equipment and the right knowledge to carry out snake rescues in a professional manner and prevention is also necessary to have a clean house, no litter other than rodents and snakes. so these things, yeah, okay, the next question was how can we gently fit between a venomous snake and a non-venomous snake, so you know, sometimes it's a little tricky because there are still a lot of, for example, colubrid snakes that They have real facts. so the things are not on the top of the skull but are somewhere behind the eyes and these names need to chew their prey to get the poison inside their body and in many of these species there are still not many studies about it . its venom, for example, but at least in the case of the most important venomous species, as in India, it is quite easy to recognize the Russell's viper or the Sasuke's viper.
There may be some difficulties with common traits, for example confusing it with some non-venomous snakes. but unfortunately some of the rules that are being taught, such as non-venomous snakes have circular pupils and venomous snakes have vertical persons, does not work because cobras have circular persons for example, so it is really necessary to know the different species. and learn something more about them because you can't just, you can't say it very easily without any knowledge of the snake, because this one is poisonous and this one is non-venomous, that's why it's so complicated because it's not easy. to say this is one or two rules and you just follow this rule and you recognize all the mistakes and you know which one is poisonous and which one isn't, yeah and of course the last one I guess I haven't tried but I think it's a very statement of nice to hear with water what is happening around the world, I would say whatever they show you, hopefully the killing will stop.
I mean, the violent thing on my part will not be like it was before, yes, thank you very much, we hope that then the situation can improve. it can be changed because it's okay, one last question I always have for you: do you know if there is an evil mind for the dumb creators or I would say documentary filmmakers like you what is the income stream because you know a lot of people ask us or send us. messages asking that in case we want to become documentary filmmakers, if we want to become environmental journalists, you know, I know that if you're self-employed, especially when you're self-employed, you don't have a company to sponsor you, what's the flow? of income, how do you need to earn money correctly?
I mean, you need to make money to go to your next project, so some come to take it on very well, basically from our experience, the best way to start doing something is to do it because you love it, yeah, yeah, so mmm, it's difficult, you know, to start working in this field of nature conservation and directly get a lot of projects and money, so you really need to do it because you love it and usually start. as a hobby, but if you still like it and do it for a while, the reward will come slowly and we had different jobs and earned money from work.
Yes, this environment usually works in a way that first you need to produce something and then you can show it to the audience and after that you can get funding for some projects etc., so first you need to invest a certain amount of time, effort and money, but if you do it because you love it, you will enjoy it from time to time. Of course, he likes to find ways to get some of the footage so he can sell some images on the Internet to some people who, for example, are looking for images of natural places.
You can start promoting your content or particular content on YouTube. You can use social networks. means to spread knowledge and get more people interested in your work and little by little everything connects and if you are doing a good job and you are also a little different from others, that I also think is important because today you know that the means They are very powerful and there are so many of them. People are trying to be successful on the Internet, so you should try to do something a little different, so you're focusing on some topic that hasn't been covered too much but you're trying to work on the same topic that's been explored. many times, but you find a different way to do it, so of course it's a little bit complicated, but I think like we said, you just need to explore and find a way to travel, we have a hard time or say things we don't like to come and do. a but still I have a different full time job I'm a full time teacher it's not our job like it's giving us a lot of money or something like a hobby still for me it's like nowadays it's mainly based on filming and working for a travel agency, so I also work for a travel agency focused on Africa.
Sometimes I like a guy, so I date people to have the opportunity to educate them. I also film images for this travel agency and for the promotion of The extensive protection of life and nature in Africa and science is now a very small part of my income, so let's say that after six years I went to ascenario where filming and traveling is the main part of my job and who knows what it will be like in the future, so if everything keeps changing and you need to try to do the best you can and enjoy, enjoy anyway, how you continue with your work.
Thank you so much. Martin was there. I think it was, first of all, a very, very powerful presentation, very powerful, very powerful slide. messages and you like water, so look what we were telling you, you know your passion for doing or achieving what you want in life, you are actually a true example of that, you are both an example of that and a big shout out , so check out Carolyn Warren's view, great exhibit. and we face it, you're always there to keep doing more of this and showing us what you know about water repair and what you don't.
Thank you so much for joining in and staying safe and very soon I'm sure we'll get this thing out of the way. of this situation in the long term and I am sure that we will all travel together in India and please give us a bus next time, welcome to India because we will be in touch and a few words to the participants, we are launching something very, very interesting . with next week, but this is the last in the light exposure

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series where we had the filmmakers and the conservation area, we are launching something very interesting starting next week.
The metaphorical ones are different, so if you want to say one last word and then we can close. It's Matteo Garrone, yes, okay, thank you very much for inviting us and we are very happy to have this opportunity to talk to you and other people and we look forward to India joining, we will be in touch and we will continue to watch our face. But if we are going to come out, something is very very interesting at this point, thank you Adam and may God bless you, thank you very much.

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