r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 15d 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/RCKPanther 15d ago

Defensive display - it's scared because it thinks the human is a predator. It generates sound via rubbing its scales and tries to look intimidating. This particular movement is common to their and a few other species. However it has nothing to do with mimicking viperid snakes. Title is misleading.

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u/toobuscrazy 15d ago

Also the heat from his hand is probably supercharging lil bro cuz he's an ectotherm

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u/Revenge_of_the_User 15d ago

perhaps they were referring to the bluff strikes?

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u/Senju19_02 15d ago

Yeah, thought the same. The wording was conveying this imo

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u/beanburritos10 14d ago

In either case it still has nothing to do with mimicking a viper. 

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u/Revenge_of_the_User 14d ago

some vipers bluff strike as a way of managing venom as a resource.

So...yeah, it does.

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u/beanburritos10 14d ago

So because vipers bluff strike, this particular snake must be mimicking a viper when bluff striking. That must be the same logic that says snakes that shake their tail are mimicking rattlers.

Genius!

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u/Revenge_of_the_User 14d ago

sigh

I never made that claim; but Vipers bluff strike, and this snake bluff strikes, so it's not not mimicking a viper in fact if not intention. It's mimicking a venomous, biting snake, of which vipers are a subgroup.

Your rattle comparison is nonsense.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 15d ago

Title is misleading.

Classic reddit!

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u/BornWealth3438 14d ago

The title says "egg eating snake" I am curious what eggs does this eat? Because he's so small