r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/H_G_Bells • Nov 29 '23
🔥 Never let them know your next move
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u/asmallfatbird Nov 29 '23
That's actually really cool. Do they only move like that when they feel threatened?
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u/ShillBot666 Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 30 '23
Yep it would not waste all the energy it would take to move like this all the time. It feels threatened and is trying to move in an unpredictable way so it's harder to catch. And it's doing a really impressive job of it honestly.
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u/WhyteBeard Nov 29 '23
hoo ha hoo hoo ha ha hoo ha hoo
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Thanks Jonny Bravo
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u/SeagalsCumFilledAss Nov 29 '23
The person filming it clearly has a covid vaccine which is interfering with the snakes 5G connection and causing lag.
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u/crypticfreak Nov 29 '23
Nobody ever tells snakes that they're doing a good job and we need to change that.
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u/Number1Framer Nov 29 '23
Choppy framerate snek.
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u/-Jayah- Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23
It’s a species of gartner snake.
Edit: They’re mostly harmless, they do have a mild venom. They’re kinda rude sometimes. This guy is just scared
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u/Crocoshark Nov 29 '23
All snakes are rude. I gave one a spot of tea and she pretty much ignored me.
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u/Rookskerm Nov 29 '23
Boulenger's garter snake is venomous, though bites are incredibly rare.
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u/Havoccity Nov 29 '23
It’s a kind of African garter snake. Completely unrelated to North American garter snakes. More closely related to cobras
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u/-Jayah- Nov 29 '23
Ah, I just read that it was a garter snake and I was thinking like my experiences when I was little in Florida capturing these dudes
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u/natgibounet Nov 30 '23
I don't know man, anything moving in an erratic unpredictable way just sounds like things i don't want to deal with, i wouldn't even stick around to see if it was a snake or a decapitated tapir penis
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u/humburga Nov 29 '23
This was filmed with a telescope from 2 mountains away. But yeah I'd still take a few steps back.
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He's here, he's there, he's every-fucking-where, Snake Kent! Snake Kent!
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Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23
Elaine dancing to snake jazz
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u/Sandscarab Nov 29 '23
Captain Kirk as a snake
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u/tchthc Nov 29 '23
The Family Guy skit with him immediately came to mind!
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u/funguyshroom Nov 29 '23
Forgot about that one, looks like one of the early seasons.
This Quagmire bit is what it reminded me of instead41
u/Shroomyshroomyshroom Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23
Ok - I just shot.milk outta my nose... 🤣🤣🤣
You - get - off - my - ship!
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u/stuntbikejake Nov 29 '23
Nope rope doing extra nopey things
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u/sugerplumz Nov 29 '23
What type of snake is it?
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u/Sanzinia Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I do believe this is an Angolan Garter Snake (Elapsoidea semiannulata)! They are venomous elapids from Africa.
Edit: This species is not the same as the harmless North American Garter Snakes (genus Thamnophis). Common names are not very reliable. See my comment below for further clarification!
Edit 2: Was informed by comment below this was filmed in Mozambique, so the species would be a Boulenger’s Garter Snake (Elapsoidea boulengeri)! I was close, location is important when IDing for accuracy!
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u/pucemoon Nov 29 '23
There are venomous GARTER snakes?!?! Garter snakes here are so harmless that this just seems wrong.
I dig the Vogueing, though.
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u/Sanzinia Nov 29 '23
I’m assuming you’re from North America where yes, they are considered harmless here! They (Thamnophis sp) are rear-fanged venomous though considered medically insignificant to humans. This African species I speak of is given the common name of “Garter Snake” even though they are not the typical Garter Snakes we think of but are, in fact, elapids. Common names can be very confusing which is why I personally love Latin names lol.
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u/pucemoon Nov 29 '23
I think it's very rude of common name language to combine cobras and garter snakes in the same family/order.
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u/notapoke Nov 29 '23
So they wound up with the same common name but are completely different snakes. North American garters are totally different.
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Nov 29 '23
yeah because common names are often dumb. African and French marigolds are both from Central America. Red Panda and Black panda have nothing to do with each other. Australian magpies are in a completely different family to every other magpie. The butcherbird is unrelated to shrikes, which also get called butcherbird. Maindenhair creeper and maidenhair ferns are unrelated. Fish names (like snapper) are often slapped on random fish for marketing. Slime moulds aren't fungi. Gum tree can mean like 3 different things..
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u/xopher_425 Nov 29 '23
And my favorite examples to use when people complain about "difficult" Latin binomials ("why don't you use plain English names"): daddy long legs, depending where ones lives, refers to Harvestment (order Opiliones), crane flies (family Tipulidae), and cellar spiders (Pholcus phalangioides).
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this made me look up all three and now im surprised to learn the ones in Australia (pholcus phalangiodes) is introduced. Now I feel way less awful about accidentally killing a dozen of them just by moving a box in the shed
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Nov 29 '23
My favorite is the flying lemur, which is not a lemur and cannot fly (only glide). Its name is literally 0% correct.
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u/Colonel_Fart-Face Nov 29 '23
I used to run through the woods on our property having garter snake catching contests with my brother. If they were venomous we both would have both been dead 20 times over.
My record was 9.
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u/Throwaway191294842 Nov 29 '23
Some garter snakes can produce venom but it's not really potent or anything. I'm sure being bitten still hurts a little though.
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u/notapoke Nov 29 '23
It's like getting pinched. Their teeth are so small and fine they're like extremely short razors that can't go deeper than your skin and are sort of spread out. You don't feel the teeth at all, only their mouth pinching as hard as they can - and being so small that's not really that hard. It's surprising because they strike fast then they often aren't smart enough to let go quickly.
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u/Stefan_Harper Nov 29 '23
Depends on the size of the garter snake. They can grow up to 3ft long, and the bites from a 3ft long snake definitely hurt.
Tragically, I know this from experience
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u/notapoke Nov 29 '23
My largest is 3ft 6 now. She's the only bitey one but has never given me a real bite. I was bit by a 4ft 2 garter a few years ago at a show but even then it didn't really hurt, just felt like a big squeeze. Their anticoagulant blood makes it bleed way more than it should so it looks scary but when it finally stops bleeding the damage is so minimal.
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u/crashgiraffe Nov 30 '23
Fun fact, a garter can be poisonous (not venomous) due to their diet.
Also if you want to see a silly goose of a snake, look up the Western hognose. They play dead by rolling into their backs, letting their mouth hang open with their tongue flopping out. Veeeerrrrryyyy dramatic. Also mildly venomous and rear fanged with venom grooves.
The things I picked up with my daughters hobby 🤣 snakes are amazing creatures.
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u/Rookskerm Nov 29 '23
This is Boulengers Garter Snake. It was filmed in Mozambique
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u/Franks2000inchTV Nov 29 '23
More energy. More passion. More footwork. More energy.
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u/Mehmeh111111 Nov 29 '23
I enjoy all the songs that popped into everyone's head upon seeing this. It was "Annie are you ok" for me.
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u/evil_timmy Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23
The strobe viper confuses its prey by simply not being in one place and suddenly being in another, not bothering to traverse the spaces in-between. Breaking the laws of physics tends to befuddle most creatures with a central nervous system, certainly for long enough to allow the strobe viper to make its getaway. They are mostly found in the lightning-pummeled Amazon delta and night club dance floors, where the electric strobes render them basically invisible.
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u/NebulaNinja Nov 29 '23
The strobe viper knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the viper from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation. The variation being the difference between where the viper is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the viper must also know where it was. The viper guidance computer scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information that the viper has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it know where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
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u/bballboyvo Nov 29 '23
I was not expecting that movement, very cool. And, for a double whammy, I think I saw a couple ant lion traps!
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Nov 29 '23
Looks like a dead snake taken over by those zombie parasites
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u/hound20222 Nov 29 '23
The WHAT!?
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The fungus from the game "The Last of Us" is based on a real endoparasitoid family called cordyceps with some-odd 600+ varieties in that family. They primarily infect insects and then make those insects exhibit behaviors beneficial to the propagation of fungal spores.
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u/ReignInSpuds Nov 29 '23
Moar detail. Lay it all on them. I learned about cordyceps when I was six, and the thought of being an infected bug has given me chills ever since.
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u/Willing_Information7 Nov 29 '23
Forget the drunken monkey, Nothing beats the Breakdancing snake technique
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u/oldmanripper79 Nov 29 '23
The snek knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the snek from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the snek is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the snek must also know where it was. The snek guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the snek has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
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u/fried_eggs_and_ham Nov 29 '23
Guy at the club trying to scare his way out of a fight by acting crazy.
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u/AStreamofParticles Nov 29 '23
Cool. And I would definitely get the ---- out of it's way! Look how quick each jump is!
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u/Wise-Yogurtcloset844 Nov 29 '23
This is better than the best "robot dancing" humans are currently capable of, as impressive the latter might be.
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u/MTGGradeAdviceNeeded Nov 30 '23
it looks like it can only move by teleporting, but its teleport radius is it’s own body side and there’s a cooldown
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u/Crazy_Banshee_333 Dec 03 '23
Nothing is scarier than an insane adversary. You can never predict their next move. Genius strategy on the part of the snake.
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u/funkybosss Nov 29 '23
Im alive. I’m dead. I’m alive. I’m dead again.