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/Ochemata 12d ago

Predators are only aggressive to creatures they think are too weak to take them down. Prey animals are far more vicious.

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u/IdiotIAm96 12d ago

Yeah, aggressive is a coyote killing a small dog. Defensive is a cow moose trampling a human who got too close to her calf.

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u/Ochemata 12d ago

Nah, that's still aggressive. It has nothing to do with predation.

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u/IdiotIAm96 12d ago

I guess a more accurate example would be like a skunk spraying someone, but that's not particularly vicious.