“Oh shit food? Attack! What he’s biting me? Better bite harder. AAHHH HE’S BITING HARDER”
The rodent is like “well, not what I had in mind but all right.”
I can’t believe after millions of years of evolution snakes still eat themselves.
Well, if the snake manages to reproduce, then eats itself, the genes for eating yourself after reproduction get passed on.
TLDR: you actions have a must smaller effect on evolution after you have reproduced successfully.
Thanks for the tldr, your first sentance was rather cumbersome.
Can someone knowledgeable please explain to me why snakes don’t realize they’re biting themselves when this happens?
Also, related question: why do dogs sometimes bite their own tails and hind feet as though they’re foreign entities?
I’m not knowledgeable about this, but here’s my uneducated guess:
They might just think it’s the prey biting back. Snakes generally have poor eyesight (of course, there are differences between species). And they’re so focused on the jump to catch their prey and subdue them as quickly as possible that they just bite down and kinda hope for the best for a bit before they realize.
I’m so confused why it’s marked as NSFW.
People feel sorry for mice and such videos are considered shocking content
But that’s not a mouse.
Edit: thats guinea pig, maybe 3 months, possibly younger. It’s not a mouse, it’s a bebby
Oh… well fuck that then. Unlabel it.
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Wait so did it just fucking kill itself then
Nah, these noodles mainly use strangulation to kill their prey, they just strike it first to get it in close- it just needs to detach itself from itself and it will be okay
I read that snakes are not very sensitive to their venom. It will probably just be a painful nuisance for her.
The way it’s twisting I’d assume it’s a constrictor so probably not venomous. I’m no snakologist though.
It’s head tells me it’s not venomous. Venomous snakes look angry
Have you ever seen the hognose??
They still have a bit of an “angry brow” and they are technically venomous… but I’ll be damned if they ain’t cute. One of the few snakes that make me feel compelled to snuggle them
Isn’t the reason they do the bluffing by flaring the hood like cobra and the entire roll up throw tongue out pretend to die if you call out the bluff is because they are not venomous
They’re mildly venomous, but not enough to harm humans. And they really go out of their way to not bite when threatened.
Yeah, it just make me go “aww what a sweetie, just who wouldn’t want you to bite 'em dead, awww”
Snek: “this guy’s good! He is handling my best attacks”!
This is literally what twitch.tv did to their TOS the past few days
Poor cavy is too little to understand that it is in mortal peril. I bet it still thinks the snake is a friend.
Ahhahahahah That sweet, summer child.
