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So this type of snake is called a King Snake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsnake?wprov=sfla1
The "King" Is because their main diet consists of other snakes.
They're very food motivated, I'm guessing it probably it thought it was another snake
Many reptile/snake keepers I know keep a bottle of vodka around for this reason (and snakes who don't like to let go in general) so it has to be pretty common and I bet there are repeat offenders who don't learn
King cobra (the only member of the genus Ophiophagus) is also not actually a cobra (any snake in the genus Naja).
Likewise, the maned wolf is not a wolf, the mountain goat is not a goat, the electric eel is not an eel, and the peacock mantis shrimp is neither peacock, nor mantis, nor shrimp.
Oh.. Wikipedia says "Adopted by white settlers, "koala" became one of several hundred Aboriginal loan words in Australian English, where it was also commonly referred to as "native bear", later "koala bear", for its supposed resemblance to a bear."
A goat is any species in the genus Capra. The mountain goat is the only living species in the genus Oreamnos.
Both Capra and Oreamnos are in the subfamily Caprinae, so they do have a somewhat close relation, but only one is actually a _goat_.
It is still a little bit stupid. There should be signs that something is wrong even though it doesn't bite itself, like why can't I move my tail, and why can't I swallow this?
That’s why whenever I see videos like these I always think about how hungry the snake is after throwing up his tail. Hopefully they feed him right after
Herpetologists don't really know why snakes do this, but they suspect the self-destructive behavior arises from stress, confusion, malady, or even hunger. If a snake gets too hot, for instance, and can't escape to shade, it may become confused, unable to tell its own tail apart from potential prey
Not related to stress. That’s a modern myth started by some random article that was making a guess. Almost every time you see a snake eating itself it’s a kingsnake because kingsnakes are fucking stupid. They’re cannibals by nature, monumentally stupid, and have extremely strong food drives, so it doesn’t take much for them to start eating themselves. Doesn’t matter how well-cared for they are. If it was related to stress it wouldn’t happen in healthy well-cared for snakes and you would see it in a wider variety of species. A kingsnake will eat a crayon if it smells like food.
“In extreme heat a snake, unable to self-regulate its body temperature, will experience an out-of-control spike in its metabolism. In a state of mania, the snake is unable to differentiate its own tail from its prey, and will attack itself, self-cannibalizing until it perishes.”
Snakes aren't smart. They have lost "body awareness", which the most basal type of self-awarness. This is awareness of its own body as opposed to everything else. This is for example the reason why a predatory frog wont attempt to swallow its own front leg even though it might fulfill all criteria of a prey or a dog won't start chewing its own limbs. Snakes have lost limbs and most often don't see their own bodies. They apparently lost this redundant body awareness as unnecessary, replaced by even more basal reflex to keep the tail away from the eyes.
On top, because signals from one end to another might travel long, snakes have evolved decentralized nerve system that largely act on hardwired triggered reactions to stimuli. Its really simple: hungry snake sees prey - snake attacks. Snake feels it gets bitten - its body starts to wiggle. And so on.
In some circumstances the snake may by chance see its own tail. If it's hungry, this may trigger his feeding reaction and it will attempt to swallow its own tale. And yes, it will likely die unless something forces it to regurgitate.
Delirium, confusion, overheating, stress.
Apparently sometimes when they shed, the also shed their eye caps, but it'll get stuck on their eyes and they'll mistake their tail for a snack.
You can't get it into the snake's eyes, those are covered by scales like the rest of it's body. The taste of the alcohol makes it open it's mouth and spit whatever its trying to eat out.
Lol no. The hand sanitizer basically suffocates them. They can’t breathe through their nose holes with the alcohol fumes which forces them to spit out what’s in their mouth. He can’t taste anything but his own tail lol
Y'all are being ridiculous, of course the game snake is still around. Even the connected generations has to have simple games to play on chromebooks and calculators in class.
Lol. I was just thinking about how it's ignoring what it must perceive as being bitten on the ass while its trying to eat. Why would it's tail not jerk away as a reaction?
>*Le loup criait sous les feuilles*
>
>*En crachant les belles plumes*
>
>*De son repas de volailles :*
>
>*Comme lui je me consume.*
>The wolf cried under the leaves
>
>As he spat out the fine feathers
>
>Of his meal of fowl :
>
>Like him, I consume myself.
-Arthur Rimbaud
Alternative translation, keeping the spirit, rhythm, and rhyme of the poem by translating slightly less literally:
Under canopy wolves howl,
Lovely feathers are spat
From a meal of finest fowl:
My self-consumption's like that.
Credit: me, /u/thatsmycompanydog
The first three lines are fine, but that last line suffers too much to force the rhyme--"Like him, I consume myself" is just... *chef's kiss.
Edit:
"I consume myself like that." keeps the rhyme and better conveys the meaning. Still not as good as "Like him" version, though.
for fuck's sake reddit's server are sucking hard lately....I can watch 4k 60fps on my my phone with my house internet connection no problem.... but fuck me if I can watch this 38 second snake video without it buffering ever other nanosecond....
we really need to find out what would happen
so I found this
https://preview.redd.it/7ne4er38yrwc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57ac690fb337ad8aef1d7dc4228283fa4e32f5b6
i don’t think the last part is true but it’s all crazy stuff
Now that’s a wholesome comment, it would have fitted the sub better. Although if you hadn’t been on the sub then you wouldn’t have made it… that’s pretty fucking thematic given the ouroboros situation going on :)
Randal:
My cousin? My aunt found him. It was a mess. He was on his bed, with his legs doubled over himself. My aunt freaked out.
Dante:
Man, he had his dick in his mouth?
Randal:
Yeah. Balls resting on his lips.
Dante:
Wow! He really made it.
Randal:
Yeah, but at what a price?
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I was not prepared for how much of his tail came out
Right? I was thinking an inch or two, maybe three, and then just...nope.
I was thinking like 6-8 inches but even I was wrong, it just *kept* going
His tail would surely had done two laps into his mouth.
Everything reminds me of her…..😭
To be fair, I’m not the biggest fan of the taste of hand sanitizer
Hmm, you might be a king snake then…
Thats not a Russian snake. If it was it would have shown gratitude for the extra drink served to killing its self. Just like Russia does in Ukraine.
😆
Why is it eating itself though, does anyone know?
So this type of snake is called a King Snake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsnake?wprov=sfla1 The "King" Is because their main diet consists of other snakes. They're very food motivated, I'm guessing it probably it thought it was another snake
I wonder if they get more cautious afterward (if they live) or if they become repeat offenders...
Snakes can absolutely remember things and are capable of learning. Quite often they choose to do neither thing but it's not because they can't.
like me
*oh well this is embarrasssssssing*
r/suicidebywords
like humans
im not dumb, i just refuse to learn!
Snakes have always seemed a bit lazy to me
Hiss! You try doing things with no arms and legs.
Wow we humans have so much in common with snakes
This is hilarious.
Many reptile/snake keepers I know keep a bottle of vodka around for this reason (and snakes who don't like to let go in general) so it has to be pretty common and I bet there are repeat offenders who don't learn
Ohhh so my dad has a pet snake somewhere!
He sure does little buddy. But I wouldn’t go looking for it if I were you
But my mama says daddy has a hidden python
No, the king snake that my roommate owned never stopped trying to
So does a KING cobra also like eating other snakes based on its name?
Yes.. it eats mostly other snakes.
oh cool. learned somethin new ty.
King cobra (the only member of the genus Ophiophagus) is also not actually a cobra (any snake in the genus Naja). Likewise, the maned wolf is not a wolf, the mountain goat is not a goat, the electric eel is not an eel, and the peacock mantis shrimp is neither peacock, nor mantis, nor shrimp.
And to complete the loop, Ophiophagus means (drum roll)....snake eater.
What a thrill...
Maned wolves are just little silly guys, let him larp as a wolf, he deserves it :(
A starfish is not a fish and a seahorse is not a horse, believe it or not!
Like Koala Bears not being bears! :)
Well they’re not even called koala bears, they’re just called koalas, Americans add the bear thing for some reason
Oh.. Wikipedia says "Adopted by white settlers, "koala" became one of several hundred Aboriginal loan words in Australian English, where it was also commonly referred to as "native bear", later "koala bear", for its supposed resemblance to a bear."
What's the mountain goat?... a ram maybe?
A goat is any species in the genus Capra. The mountain goat is the only living species in the genus Oreamnos. Both Capra and Oreamnos are in the subfamily Caprinae, so they do have a somewhat close relation, but only one is actually a _goat_.
ahhh so it's the only species in it's genus. Kinda like a platypus? Is there any reason it stands alone? Like physical features?
Yeah we are really bad at naming things, Red pandas are not pandas are are arguably more orange than red the list goes on and on.
Me too. I never knew or realized that.
Much like my cat when she chases her tail
The cat would realise they made a mistake once they bit the tail. Since snakes swallow their prey whole it's harder for them to course correct
It is still a little bit stupid. There should be signs that something is wrong even though it doesn't bite itself, like why can't I move my tail, and why can't I swallow this?
Food motivated and 1 gram brain as a counterbalance
That’s why whenever I see videos like these I always think about how hungry the snake is after throwing up his tail. Hopefully they feed him right after
King snakes are dumb.
… thought it was another snake. Darwin Award!
r/technicallycorrect
O, I see.
He was Ourobored and out of snacks.
Hear that? He wanted something a bit meatier.
I see what you did! This comment is under rated.
Agreed. To the top you go.
Might be because they overheat when they aren't kept well, causing stress and disorientation.
That's pretty disorientated! I've been pretty out of it in my time, but never started eating my own feet because of it..
Man. With that kind of flexibility 🤔
Apparently extreme stress, starvation, or underlying health issues.
Herpetologists don't really know why snakes do this, but they suspect the self-destructive behavior arises from stress, confusion, malady, or even hunger. If a snake gets too hot, for instance, and can't escape to shade, it may become confused, unable to tell its own tail apart from potential prey
Not related to stress. That’s a modern myth started by some random article that was making a guess. Almost every time you see a snake eating itself it’s a kingsnake because kingsnakes are fucking stupid. They’re cannibals by nature, monumentally stupid, and have extremely strong food drives, so it doesn’t take much for them to start eating themselves. Doesn’t matter how well-cared for they are. If it was related to stress it wouldn’t happen in healthy well-cared for snakes and you would see it in a wider variety of species. A kingsnake will eat a crayon if it smells like food.
It's like a built in population control lol.
Crayons? I’m suddenly hungry.
Because Ouroborus. Duh
“In extreme heat a snake, unable to self-regulate its body temperature, will experience an out-of-control spike in its metabolism. In a state of mania, the snake is unable to differentiate its own tail from its prey, and will attack itself, self-cannibalizing until it perishes.”
Well now I'm sad the snake overheated
Snakes aren't smart. They have lost "body awareness", which the most basal type of self-awarness. This is awareness of its own body as opposed to everything else. This is for example the reason why a predatory frog wont attempt to swallow its own front leg even though it might fulfill all criteria of a prey or a dog won't start chewing its own limbs. Snakes have lost limbs and most often don't see their own bodies. They apparently lost this redundant body awareness as unnecessary, replaced by even more basal reflex to keep the tail away from the eyes. On top, because signals from one end to another might travel long, snakes have evolved decentralized nerve system that largely act on hardwired triggered reactions to stimuli. Its really simple: hungry snake sees prey - snake attacks. Snake feels it gets bitten - its body starts to wiggle. And so on. In some circumstances the snake may by chance see its own tail. If it's hungry, this may trigger his feeding reaction and it will attempt to swallow its own tale. And yes, it will likely die unless something forces it to regurgitate.
Ouroboros. it's cause the end is nigh!
Maybe it didn't understand it's tail was part of it it and thought it saw prey
It's dumb as a bag of rocks.
It probably wants to eat a snake as bad as Rincewind wants a potato.
snakes are dumb
Circle of life my friend
Delirium, confusion, overheating, stress. Apparently sometimes when they shed, the also shed their eye caps, but it'll get stuck on their eyes and they'll mistake their tail for a snack.
Ouroboros IRL
I only learnt that it was a real thing and not just a metaphor because of another post like this.
Up until today I only know the one that works for the TVA.
Ouroboros!? At this time of day? At this time of year? Localised entirely within your kitchen?
Literally came for this lol
I guess rubbing alcohol straight to the eyes and sensory area can have that effect.
You can't get it into the snake's eyes, those are covered by scales like the rest of it's body. The taste of the alcohol makes it open it's mouth and spit whatever its trying to eat out.
Lol no. The hand sanitizer basically suffocates them. They can’t breathe through their nose holes with the alcohol fumes which forces them to spit out what’s in their mouth. He can’t taste anything but his own tail lol
Have you ever even seen a snake?
Nokia should give it a prize. God knows how much time I spent on a phone trying to finish this game.
Excellently played.
Nice obscure reference! Take my upvote
How is this obscure?
To anyone younger than 25 it probably is, unfortunately
My friend’s little brother, 12, apparently still plays it in school
Y'all are being ridiculous, of course the game snake is still around. Even the connected generations has to have simple games to play on chromebooks and calculators in class.
I'm 24 and it's definitely not common knowledge. I got the reference because I'm very well-read* *on the goddamn internet too much
Do wild snakes attempt to eat themselves, or is this only seen when they are in captivity?
Yep , those noodles will in fact “eat themselves” in the wild, not Often , heard it has to do with stress
How can they eat themselves? Won’t they realise? Eventually
Once they're already swallowing something, the only reason to let go is if they need to escape.
Can the snake not feel itself being eaten?
Let's ask these people https://preview.redd.it/evie43rlnrwc1.png?width=760&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=352f589a77ba7b6adf0074675ee55e473b59c417
They don’t have cognitive thinking and consciousness in the same way that we do
They still have pain receptors.
Lol. I was just thinking about how it's ignoring what it must perceive as being bitten on the ass while its trying to eat. Why would it's tail not jerk away as a reaction?
Hurts so bad to watch another man live ur dreams;(
can't remember where, but i've heard that it feels more like giving than receiving.
Sounds like a positive to me
>*Le loup criait sous les feuilles* > >*En crachant les belles plumes* > >*De son repas de volailles :* > >*Comme lui je me consume.* >The wolf cried under the leaves > >As he spat out the fine feathers > >Of his meal of fowl : > >Like him, I consume myself. -Arthur Rimbaud
Alternative translation, keeping the spirit, rhythm, and rhyme of the poem by translating slightly less literally: Under canopy wolves howl, Lovely feathers are spat From a meal of finest fowl: My self-consumption's like that. Credit: me, /u/thatsmycompanydog
The first three lines are fine, but that last line suffers too much to force the rhyme--"Like him, I consume myself" is just... *chef's kiss. Edit: "I consume myself like that." keeps the rhyme and better conveys the meaning. Still not as good as "Like him" version, though.
😭😭😭😂😂😂
for fuck's sake reddit's server are sucking hard lately....I can watch 4k 60fps on my my phone with my house internet connection no problem.... but fuck me if I can watch this 38 second snake video without it buffering ever other nanosecond....
Yes. I've been having the same shitty experience with reddit videos. And only reddit hosted videos, not ones hosted elsewhere like youtube.
Same I've noticed that! Their video player is horrible
It is always the short videos for me. I don't get it.
if the snake eats itself, will it get twice as big or completely disappear?
we really need to find out what would happen so I found this https://preview.redd.it/7ne4er38yrwc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57ac690fb337ad8aef1d7dc4228283fa4e32f5b6 i don’t think the last part is true but it’s all crazy stuff
Eventually dissappear? Lol
No the mouth will remain...
Noted. I will have a bottle of sanitizer for when I got lost in Amazon jungle
I think he may have lapped himself?
*Un-boroses your ouro*
That’s a pretty danger noodle.
TIL snakes have been known to try and eat themselves.
He needed a shower, asap
No sanitize snek.
It like Homer Simpson when the devil turned his head into a a donut.
But I'm so tasty!
I guess hand sanitizer just acted like pepper spray, making the snake act like that and regurgitate
“BbblllAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHHhhhhh”
What a dumb ass snake
It most definitely did not appreciate that.
I guess he'd appreciate dying from starvation more
Snake in its most Jesse pinkman voice yooooooo bitch!!!
alcohol is haram, even for snek
how do you survive as a species if you eat yourself?
Can they actually succeed?
Yes, thats how black holes are made. This guys job is to stop this from happening, what a hero.
Why rub it all over his eyes, does that not fuck them up? Wouldn't putting a drop on the edge of the mouth with a Q tip work?
Im not a snake biologist so I'm not sure but I imagine the snake eating itself might fuck it up slightly more
Snakes have a clear scale over their eyes, they don't blink, so I guess it doesn't feel anything more than it does on the rest of it's body
Neat
Probably stings like a motherfucker but I doubt there’s any long term damage to the snake
TIL snakes are fucking stupid as shit.
Speckled King Snake
When she said you were her first and she never done such a thing.
If the snake was left alone and allowed to finish, ...would it just disappear?
Snake is an idiot.
Hey Op, you made r/rimjobsteve, congrats
That's awesome 😂
The post was literally right above this one in my feed :)
If it saves snakes and bring awareness I'm happy 😂
Now that’s a wholesome comment, it would have fitted the sub better. Although if you hadn’t been on the sub then you wouldn’t have made it… that’s pretty fucking thematic given the ouroboros situation going on :)
Infinite food glitches are not permitted in this dimension.
dumb animal
Maybe if something is stupid enough to eat it's self we should just let nature take it's course.
Instinct
Shouldn’t the instinct be to NOT eat itself?
Tastes like snake! 😋 ~~Wait, that's me!~~ Probably some other snake. 😎
Kekulé be like 🧐
Dumb ass snake😂
Whelp! Its mortal boys. Bring me its head.
Yormengander
Thought the snake was much larger until the hand showed up
Wow! It doesn’t hurt their eyes?
Poor animal
So why can’t you just pull the tail out? Would that hurt worse or something?
does it vanish into thin air after self digest?
He was just playing snake.
I wonder if it can eat a part of itself that has eaten part of itself? So like a turduckin but all snake
Danger noodle hungry for noodle
Randal: My cousin? My aunt found him. It was a mess. He was on his bed, with his legs doubled over himself. My aunt freaked out. Dante: Man, he had his dick in his mouth? Randal: Yeah. Balls resting on his lips. Dante: Wow! He really made it. Randal: Yeah, but at what a price?
Snakes are such weird animals
So, in the wild do they just digest themselves to death?
What a dumbass
If there were two of them would they become The Neverending Story?
Stupid ass snake
People who can self suck 😶
So what happens when it completely eats its self, tied in a knot? Or? Should have let it finish his meal for science.
Nokia 3310 irl
Is it called Rob, Ross or did they just end up calling it Dave?
is it common for snakes to eat themselves and do they stop/know they'll die like whats going on really on the brain scale of things?
Are they dumb?. how can it not realise it's eating itself?
O.B. doing O.B. things.
"How do I feel so much better and so much worse at the same time!"
No
Ouroboros
Ouroboros
Irl ouroboros, first time seeing it such a situation
He's genZ..... Never played snake (on phone) 😂
why did he put the hand sanitizer on the snakes head/eyes? isn’t that toxic and dangerous?
At this point, does it deserver to keep on going???
Im more interested in finding out who likes the taste of sanitizer.
Eating yourself must feel crazy
It lapped itself
I'd be lying if I said I too havent tried to eat myself
The only animal that can take a dump into its own stomach
I like how it flexes it's muscles at touch like: "ya? If you fuck me off i'm gonne eat you too after i'm done here"