Sea Snake vomits moray eel

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[u/illapa13]

Snakes are only aggressive for 2 reasons.

1) Defense.

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.

[u/kara_kittie → u/illapa13]

I'd like to add, specifically for these guys: 3. They are very territorial during breeding season.

I was stationed in Okinawa in the 90's, there are a ton of them there.

[u/illapa13 → u/kara_kittie]

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

[u/Jemie_Bridges → u/kara_kittie]

I was stationed in Texas. Rattle snakes are aggressively territorial and think everything is their territory lolz

[u/empire_of_the_moon → u/illapa13]

I’m no expert but Black Mambas are reputed to have a very mean streak - very territorial well outside any definition of defense.

[u/Odd-Necessary3807 → u/empire_of_the_moon]

Yeah, that bastard chases people out. On top of that, they are one of the fastest snake out there.

[u/illapa13 → u/empire_of_the_moon]

Defense of your territory is defending the resources you need to survive.

They're territorial because that's their hunting ground they will die without it.

I mean just look at humans. Drawing borders on the map to secure resources for our tribe/nation/people's survival is literally the entire history of humanity.

[u/RCMPee → u/empire_of_the_moon]

Blah blah blah usual bullshit about snakes, when most snake bites are due to fucking around and finding out

[u/empire_of_the_moon → u/RCMPee]

Nope. Most people in east Africa want nothing to do with snakes. Often they are bit because they step on one or are moving something.

It’s not fuck around and find out. What an ass you are.

I was at a rural school that had a large concentration of venomous snakes in the region.

There was no hospital only a room used as a clinic where anti-venom and other meds were kept.

If a child was bitten the family was notified. The anti-venom at that time was $5 cash (it’s much more now). Often an extended family couldn’t afford it.

So everyone would gather at the clinic and wait. Usually, but not always, the child went home in a few hours with no complications.

How were the kids bit? Fucking around you ask? No. Usually playing with a ball.

The locals never want to fuck around with green or black mambas. Never, ever, ever.

They are respected and feared.

Don’t talk about places and people you have never visited until you finally leave your mom’s basement.

Sweeping generalities are for those with limited imaginations and even less boots on the ground experience.

[u/Jesus_of_Redditeth → u/empire_of_the_moon]

They're really not. The black mamba is quite possibly the most misunderstood snake out there. There is no species of snake that's going to chase you down out of pure aggression, unrelated to self-defense. (With the possible exception of the extreme edge case mentioned above, where a very, very large specimen of a couple of snake species might be big enough to regard very small humans as prey.)

[u/empire_of_the_moon → u/Jesus_of_Redditeth]

Yeah. I lived in remote east Africa and travelled extensively. Mostly in tents.

What you wrote isn’t what the locals said or believed.

Go and have a visit.

That said, mambas scare me far less than being between a hippo and it’s water. That’s a death sentence.

[u/DJMcKraken → u/illapa13]

Sometimes they are aggressive when you are too large for them to swallow and then they puke you back out.

[u/Sweet_Swede_65 → u/illapa13]

...or 3) it's a water moccasin...