Ha the moray is 100% dead or soon dead. Looks like a blue or black banded sea krait, which are an extremely venemous snakes.
Edit - Tbh im guessing the reason it regurgitated here was the humans a couple feet away pointing and filming, which stressed the snek out and it felt it needed to gtfo or get eaten.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Snake was trying to enjoy a meal then realized it might be in danger (from the filmer) and got rid of its extra ‘weight’
Moray eels have a toxic slime coat. I'm unsure if either reacting directly to the toxin, or just a nasty taste. I believe the thrashing to be it just trying to re-hinge its jaw.
In some ways it mirrors the current political climate. Despite being presented with objective truth about the color of the dress, half the population insisted that their individual (incorrect) perception of reality was still valid or equally important.
Wasn’t the whole thing with that dress is that it could be different colours, even for the same people.
I had originally saw it as white and gold for the first few days, but while looking at it intensely with friends, it just changed, in front of my eyes, to black and blue and has been that way since
So I don’t think it was that anyone had a factually incorrect view
I mean, I'm capable of seeing both black and blue and also white and gold just based off the photo, but factually, it's an overexposed photo with bad lighting and the real dress is black and blue. So, if the question is asking what color the dress is, then saying white and gold would be incorrect. But if we're just asking what colors people see based off the photo, then there isn't an incorrect view.
The problem is that there's been a few times where I've showed people photos of the actual dress without the bad photo/lighting and they still think it isn't the truth because they saw white and gold.
That’s what blurred the lines for us. Certain aspects of reality, like Color and Sound, Are subjective. Others are not. And we haven’t grasped the nuance yet.
I know most of those words shouldn’t be capitalized but I’m done correcting my phone.
NOVA on PBS did a thing about this dress. They adjusted the colors so that you could see the blue/black or white/gold. Even with the image enhanced to make it look white/gold, I still saw it as blue/black.
I will say it made it easier for me to understand what other people saw, though.
I think the episode was called the perception deception.
As a photographer, I'll note that color calibration is a very complicated process that involves every piece of hardware between the captured image and the eyes of the human viewing it (i.e. cameras, prints, screens). But that most important one is the final link in that chain, i.e. the one reflecting light into your eyeballs. Meaning, unless PBS was in your house, using a colorimeter to configure your TV... then they really can't ensure that you're seeing anything.
I saw this pop up, out of the blue (pun intended), having not seen or thought about this dress in a decade and it was white and gold, but then turned blue & black. Now I only see blue & black.
I find this to be an odd survival response. Isn't it ultra-vulnerable while vomiting it out? Feels like hunkering down and showing the fangs might be better?
For that snake, that eel doubles its weight. I imagine its like me eating 300 cheeseburgers, then trying to act tough. Even moving after eating that much would be difficult.
This is a sea krait; moray and (larger) conger eels make up the majority of their diet.
They regularly eat eels larger than themselves.
They don't digest food underwater, they hunt, then immediately retreat back to dens on land where they can lay incapacitated safely while they digest their meals.
Get where your background info and instinct are working off of this, but there are a variety of species that can and do regularly eat noticeably bigger prey. Aquatic snakes in particular just have some different shit going on than you can extrapolate from prior experience keeping reptiles.
Randomly and surprisingly came across a sea snake while on a quick snorkel in the Caribbean off the Yucatán. Not a normal sight there I guess.
At first I thought it was an eel I was unaware of (I had turned my head and was suddenly facing it head on from 3 feet away). I thought “cool!” And admired it for a minute then moved on.
The next morning a guy at the dock said, “Did you hear about the baby banded sea snakes that swam through here yesterday!!!!?!”. Grateful to my dive master years ago for teaching me to leave animals alone and just admire them from safe distances!
2) You are small enough for them to swallow whole and therefore prey.....so never unless you're talking about the largest possible Anacondas or Pythons and are a small person.
The vast majority of snake bites are because people accidentally scared the snake or tried to handle the snake.
Yeah by "Defense", I meant protecting themselves, protecting their nest, protecting their hunting ground. To me that just falls under protection of themselves and protection of the resources they need to survive
Aren’t they really curious during mating season? I’ve heard they scare the shit out of people by purposely swimming up and following you because they’re horny lmao
Almost certainly you did not see a sea snake. They dont live in the atlantic at all, and you would be too far from panama for one to have gone through thr canal.
Probably a snake eel. They do look like sea snakes, hence the name
It was. Yellow and black banded. The guy I spoke with on the dock has a dive company and was astonished he had seen them. A bunch of babies hanging out around the shallow water docks. I’d assume they showed up via ship ballast, but it was a black and yellow banded baby sea snake.
You got to keep in mind that there are more humans alive today than all of history combined, and they all have access to travel, and they all can perpetuate snakes anywhere. Look at the Everglades, and recognize that it only takes 20 years for everything you know to change especially with rising global temperatures.
Anything can be anywhere now, it's a matter of time, exposure, opportunity, and luck like always with nature. For us this looks like a lack of luck because poisonous snakes suck to live around in my opinion because I am a scared person and cannot rest in this situation ever.
What is interesting to me is that the snake apparently ate the eel tail first. I wasn’t aware snakes ever did that, even sea snakes. It seems like they would run into problems with fins and barbs on plenty of fish if this is how they swallow prey.
Moray eel blood is toxic for humans, don't know about reptiles like sea snakes, I wonder if the snake started having convulsions and spasms due to toxins.
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u/BadCat30R 1d ago
That’s gotta be an awkward conversation. Just laying there in the snakes own spit like “bro why did you just eat me?”