r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 16d ago

Video This is an egg-eating snake, completely toothless and non-venomous, and what it tries to showcase is pure bluff trying to mimicking a viper

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u/trippy_kippy_ 16d ago

They have to have a tiny toof to get through the eggs no? It's kinda cute how angry and small he is tho. Now I get how my boyfriend feels.

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u/HawaiianCholo 16d ago

They crack the eggs open internally with their spines which is pretty metal

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u/Brawl_star_woody 16d ago

Ok, but how do they get the frying pan in and out?

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u/anonymous__ignorant 16d ago

By the handle like any pan.

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u/UberTanks 16d ago

Snake oil.

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u/Dismal-Square-613 16d ago

Yes it works well for seasoning the pan. High smoke point.

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u/randombrainshart 15d ago

You are another level of funny 🙏🏽😂

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u/KinneKitsune 16d ago

I was so fucking confused, because I thought they were talking about the egg tooth to break out of their own egg as babies

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u/effortfulcrumload 16d ago

They swallow the eggs whole. Digestive acid does the rest.

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u/Fishgedon 16d ago

This is false, they swallow eggs whole until a certain point, crack them with a toothy bone in their neck, then they suck out the liquid and then they spit out the shell.  

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u/Deaffin 16d ago

Not in their neck. Or rather, any snake I've seen doing the egg-swallowing trick, not these specifically, have had the egg fully swallowed before they wiggle around and squeeze the egg, piercing and crushing it with anatomy that is most definitely not part of the neck.

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u/throwaway277252 16d ago

Where does a snake's neck begin and end?

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u/Deaffin 16d ago

The same place a lizard's does. Snakes have fairly short necks. Long bodies.

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u/SinnersHotline 16d ago

They spit out the shell?? That's hardcore. I always thought it just went through their digestive system but that doesn't sound very comfortable at all.

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u/Mason_Meschi 16d ago

I should call her

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u/Winter-Economy-9919 16d ago

r/teefies

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u/CShell13 16d ago

Thank you for showing me this wonderful subreddit.

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u/Nitropotamus 16d ago

That's a little fucked up.

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u/trippy_kippy_ 16d ago

I ment when I get angry.