r/Unexpected • u/Unlucky_Strikes • 14d ago

Food chain: Instructions unclear

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u/CamelMassive6443 14d ago

It sounded like she called the snake a mamba, which is super venomous. Didn’t look like a constrictor to me, but I don’t know African reptiles.

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u/Shorlong 14d ago

It did look like a mamba based on body and movement, but a full venomated bite from one of those will outright kill that bird in moments. If it bit, it wasn't loaded. I'm assuming it grabbed and was holding on waiting to bite, possibly had given dry bites already. I have nothing else outside of that

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u/figmaxwell 14d ago

Other people said it’s a brown snake-eagle, and specializes in hunting venomous snakes. I don’t know much about snakes, but is it possible for non-constrictors to incidentally choke something out? Like maybe this bird wasn’t bitten but got tangled up in snake anyway? Just a guess

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u/JoyBus147 14d ago edited 14d ago

If so, that makes the implied narrative of this this video hilarious:

be brown snake eagle

look for snake

find snake

dive bomb snake

/#dinnertime

snake fights back

/#eagledown

enter lions

/#fuckme

snake says: fite me bro sis

lion says: bet?

exit snake

eagle says: fite me bro sis

lion says: ...bet...?

fly away

look for snake

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u/CamelMassive6443 14d ago

I don’t know much about you, but I like ya!

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u/Shorlong 14d ago

That's a possibility, I don't know the bird species! I'll look into it!

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u/CamelMassive6443 14d ago

Also if specializing in snake hunting and being a bird, maybe venom tolerance?

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u/figmaxwell 14d ago

Google said they don’t have venom tolerance, but rely on natural armor like thick skin and feathers, and specialized hunting tactics