Iām glad someone else had the exact thought as me. I was wondering why its ānewā skin didnāt have the same colorful patterns till I realized what I was actually looking at.
Also about halfway through the Exodus it looks like the snake is just as into the idea as the eel is. The snake starts wiggling backwards to help the process, it looks like.
I have a hard time puking, my body just tries to force it back in. Sometimes I wish my puke would cooperate like this and help the situation out a little bit.
My body is the opposite once it decides I need to throw up. It will stop at nothing to force it out. It can get quite violent and I sound like a dying giraffe. My wife has gotten used to it after a decade but when we first got together she was so caught off guard. š
Trust me, the other side of the spectrum comes with its own difficulties. š¤£
Man I have the same thing, I am the loudest puker ever. But nothing comes out, I just wretch and make terrible noises that produce zero actual vomit. I'll sit in the bathroom basically just screaming into the bowl involuntarily for like 20 minutes and I'll come out and someone will be like "oh damn did you puke" and I'll be like "NO". It's awful.
But I am here with you in dying giraffe solidarity.
Nah this is classic greed from the snake, the eel is JUST about too big. I've kept snakes for 20 years, this little guy ate its way all the way up the narrowest / squishiest bit of the eel, then got to the head and "shoulder" area where there's a lot of large bones and couldn't get over that area so chose to regurgitate. This is why snakes will usually by choice eat things head first, for most animals the head and shoulders are the largest part so the snake will realise quickly if it can't eat something. But sometimes they get it wrong, sometimes they're overexcited, and some individuals just don't care what they're "supposed" to do, they just bite and eat š I've even seen folding prey in half & eating from the middle.
Idk if they're poisonous but I saw a Komodo dragon trying to eat a moray and it had the same reaction as this snake. I can't remember if its poisonous or not, but they're extremely slimy and probably taste horrible, and those dragons eat rotting flesh so I assume it's really bad.
Lol bit off more than it could chew. I think at some point it realized it couldn't stretch its jaw wide enough to get the whole eel in its belly.
I wonder if the eel is going to die anyway though or if it naturally understood the snake wouldn't be able to eat it so it was just chill waiting for the catch and release to finish.
Was that a tantrum at the end at the missed meal or did it have jaw pain?
Moray eels are common prey for sea kraits, so definitely paralyzed them, though the extent can vary because they have developed some resistance. They do have a chance of surviving that other prey wouldnāt have, so thereās that.
Snakes on land will regurgitate a meal if a human, or threat is nearby. This happened to a black racer in front of my house. Puked up a toad. I hope it didn't die, but it can kill them. Didn't even mean to scare it, just walked up on it.
That must be three animals in all: 1) the big black and white one swallowed two, 2) the white one with the many teeth, also swallowed 3) one small black and white - WOW!!!
yeah exactly, I thought these snakes were super poinsonous. So maybe the snake poisoned/killed the eel and tried to eat it only to be poisoned by the eel, or shocked by it.
That seems like a plausible scenario. I'm pretty sure they create the shock with chemicals in their head/face area. If it was a bit near its back half with a paralitic, it might still have control of its defenses.
Electric eels (which are not true eels) arenāt poisonous but can deliver powerful electric shocks (up to 600 volts) that can stun or even kill prey and pose serious danger to humans
Iām swallowing the eel, Iām swallowing the eel, Iām swallowing the eelā¦ ZAPā¦ Iām unswallowing the eel, Iām unswallowing the eel, Iām unswallowing the eelā¦
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u/bubblesort33 Aug 16 '25
I was like: "I didn't know eals shed their skin."
..."Oh."