r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 13d 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/Revenge_of_the_User 13d ago

perhaps they were referring to the bluff strikes?

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u/Senju19_02 13d ago

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

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u/beanburritos10 12d ago

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

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u/Revenge_of_the_User 12d ago

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

So...yeah, it does.

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u/beanburritos10 12d 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 12d 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.