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3 minutes ago, Freee!! said:

No eye protection (they can spit venom) and no real equipment? And only near the end grabbing in the right spot directly behind the head? It doesn't really add up.

putting on a show? ... pet snake? ... typical Asian disregard for safety? ... set up?

As far as spitting goes...

"...king cobras can't spit their venom, they tend to deliver it in a more conventional manner: injection. They raise around a third of their body up to 5 feet off the ground and then quickly strike their prey..."

https://animals.mom.com/can-king-cobras-spit-venom-5616.html

 

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19 minutes ago, lazarus said:

putting on a show? ... pet snake? ... typical Asian disregard for safety? ... set up?

As far as spitting goes...

"...king cobras can't spit their venom, they tend to deliver it in a more conventional manner: injection. They raise around a third of their body up to 5 feet off the ground and then quickly strike their prey..."

https://animals.mom.com/can-king-cobras-spit-venom-5616.html

Didn't notice/know it was a king cobra, know just enough to recognize it as a cobra and to know some cobras spit, so I am on the "not taking chances" side.

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1 hour ago, Freee!! said:

Didn't notice/know it was a king cobra, know just enough to recognize it as a cobra and to know some cobras spit, so I am on the "not taking chances" side.

It's the little ones you really have to watch out for...

 

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5 hours ago, Freee!! said:

Didn't notice/know it was a king cobra, know just enough to recognize it as a cobra and to know some cobras spit, so I am on the "not taking chances" side.

No other cobra gets anywhere near that size, can only be a king……

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At a snake show outside BKK I was at the guy ended it by grabbing 2 of the snakes, one in each hand. To get the last one he dived forward, rolled and stood up with it between his teeth. Then he milked that snake to show it had venom.... Hell of a show! 

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Alligator suspected of killing man after Hurricane Ida found with human remains in stomach
Investigators are working to determine whether the remains belong to 71-year-old Timothy Satterlee, officials said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/alligator-man-hurricane-ida/

... Satterlee had been at his home in Slidell, about 35 miles northeast of New Orleans and close to Lake Pontchartrain, when the hurricane hit, causing devastating floods. He had waded out in knee-deep water to check on his shed, when his wife heard a noise and rushed out to find him being attacked by the reptile.

She fended off the gator, forcing the animal back into the water before returning inside to get first aid supplies. On realizing the severity of her husband’s injuries, however, and with no electricity or cellphone service, she decided to travel to higher ground by boat, about a mile away, to get help.

When she returned home her husband was gone, she told police...

 

 

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Will make a lot of neck ties... 🐍

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/92-rattlesnakes-retrieved-from-under-Santa-Rosa-16531448.php

The leader of a Bay Area reptile rescue retrieved 92 Northern Pacific rattlesnakes from underneath a Santa Rosa home in early October.

Al Wolf, the director of the Sonoma County Reptile Rescue who has been rescuing snakes and other reptiles for the past 32 years through his nonprofit, responded on Oct. 2 to a resident’s call about a rattlesnake den underneath her home, located in the northeast section of Santa Rosa on the Mayacamas Mountains.

After finding an adult rattlesnake and several rattlesnake babies within just a couple minutes of dropping beneath the home — and after getting a whiff of the unmistakable, “special smell” of rattlesnake defecation — Wolf went to his car to retrieve more tools. He returned to the dark underbelly of the residence with two, red five-gallon buckets, a snake-grabber tool and slipped thick Hexarmor safety gloves over his hands.

One bucket was for baby snakes and small snakes, and the other bucket was for adult snakes....

 

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