>> ^ant:

A new meme?


Possibly ... this one sure covers a lot of bases =oD

Is that a two or a four bladed rotor I'm seeing? Looks like a two bladed one, which would make it a Cobra or a SuperCobra, since the Viper has a four-bladed rotor.

I'm pretty wigged out by spiders, but I like snakes. So for me, I tried to mentally convert this video into a snake expert "handling" a cobra or something. The way I see it, sure, you can have an expertise level and skill level that would allow you to handle either sort of animal relatively safely. But even in that case, there aren't a whole lot of particularly practical reasons to put that into practice.

My hometown in Kansas has lots of bullsnakes. In my experience, large older bullsnakes are often pretty docile but the young juvenile ones are usually very defensive and will rear up, strike, and mimic rattlesnake sounds and actions. However, they are non-venomous and don't have "fangs", although they do have short teeth that can provide small, shallow puncture wounds if they get a good nip on you.

I like catching bullsnakes when I see them and handling them a bit before releasing them back into the wild. The docile ones are particularly fun, but even the juveniles that show some aggression can be fun to handle with some caution. I have never been bit myself, but I have seen people that have been. No lasting harm comes from that, and in most instances it wouldn't even draw blood -- the surprise of it is probably worse than the damage.

In spite of that, I have no interest whatsoever in handling something like a rattlesnake or other venomous snake. Looking at them, sure. But I don't see much practicality in handling them. In all likelihood, I could safely handle rattlers in the same way that I handle bullsnakes and avoid being bit. But the cost of failure would be higher (lots of pain and small possibility of death).

So at least for me personally, I don't think I'd be interested in handling black widows even if I was a spider person instead of a snake person. I'm not against the author of this video handling them, but I would stop short of the "you should try this at home" tag!

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Isn't that @Issykitty?>> ^Crosswords:

Of course he's standing up, how else a kitty gonna flex his guns?

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^Confucius:
Lol...kinda was but still cool.
Im no poison/snake/giant gecko expert here but ifn that is a long-oh-so-long POISONOUS viper arent both geckos dead? Unless geckos have some kind of immunity, or its some variety on non-poisonous.....In which case shouldnt this be under some sort of romantic gesture channel?
>> ^sillma:
that was really, really, REALLY slow-paced. I slept for an hour after starting the clip and still woke up in time for the first gecko attack.


I agree, but i was confused by the snake because it looked like it was trying to constrict. In which case, it wouldn't be poisonous? I'm no expert, someone help, i want to know if this was epic success or not!


The fact that the snake is holding the gecko in it's coils does not mean it's a constrictor. Most snakes, both venomous and nonvenomous, that consume large prey do this. It keeps the prey from escaping and is necessary so that the snake can position the prey in order to ingest it. Ingesting a prey item bigger than your head is a tricky process, especially if you don't have any hands, and once the process has begun, the snake would become extremely vulnerable.

Many lizards show some resistance to snake venoms. Several skink species, for instance, are highly resistant to elapid (cobras, kraits, adders) venom. Some geckos too show a degree of resistance.

I could be wrong about the following, but the snake in the video does not look like a pit viper to me. The neck is thin, the head shape isn't quite right, and it doesn't appear to strike like a viper. I think it is more likely to be a colubrid, perhaps a golden tree snake (Chrysopelea ornata). If so, that would mean that the snake is rear fanged, the snake would really have to bite down to inject it's relatively weak venom, and the attacking gecko is far less likely to be envenomed during a strike.

It is also probably relevant to point out that the gecko is most likely not trying to 'save his friend', but is instead reacting aggressively to the presence of a predator because of the direct benefits the gecko will receive from his actions (the harassed snake, an ambush predator who has lost the element of surprise, will leave and forage elsewhere).

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^EMPIRE:
the guy filming said at the end, she vomited a ferret. I don't know if it is or isn't, but it's certainly not a dog.
edit: not to mention it's a relatively small snake (compared to an anaconda at least) you can see the size of the broom they pin the snake with at the end of the video.

Yeah, 'cause Anacondas are born that big...
It's a young Anaconda.


yep. anacondas are magically spawned into existence already 10 feet in length. I'm sticking with that!

>> ^EMPIRE:

the guy filming said at the end, she vomited a ferret. I don't know if it is or isn't, but it's certainly not a dog.
edit: not to mention it's a relatively small snake (compared to an anaconda at least) you can see the size of the broom they pin the snake with at the end of the video.


Yeah, 'cause Anacondas are born that big...

It's a young Anaconda.

>> ^lsue:
Does anyone else feel bad for the snake?... It looks pretty uncomfortable to barf up a small mammal. Poor thing.


Almost as uncomfortable as being swallowed whole by a snake?

>> ^radx:

Cobra is portuguese for snake. Looks like a small anaconda.


Doh, I wasn't even thinking when I was posted! My head totally mixed cobra and boa somehow, lol Thanks for the info. I will just call it a 'snake'

>> ^radx:

Cobra is portuguese for snake. Looks like a small anaconda.


I was thinking that myself, it looks more like a constrictor class of snake rather than the poisonous type (not that I'm any expert, just saying what I'm seeing)

Cobra is portuguese for snake. Looks like a small anaconda.