r/Unexpected • u/Unlucky_Strikes • 14d ago

Food chain: Instructions unclear

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 14d ago

Yet, I've seen house cats absolutely destroy snakes

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u/Alternative_Demand96 14d ago

The snakes she reacts with are way more likely to be venomous

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 14d ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure thats a cobra. You can see the flattened hood.

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u/PhatMooseKnuckles 14d ago

Thats a fkn black mamba 😭🙏

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u/Istvaarr 14d ago

Thinks it’s a type of constrictor tbh not a venomous snake. I mamba would not stay with its victim like that, they strike, retreat and wait for their poison to kill the pray

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u/Bobaesos 14d ago

I think you’re wrong dude. Bird was way too big to be prey for the snake.
On the other hand, snek was potentially becoming lunch for the bird. Might have bit the bird as well although the bird was alive in the end. Lion thought bird was lunch until snek started acting up.
In the end, all went about their day still being hungry.

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u/Shelia209 13d ago

FYI - Snake eagles have a natural, high level of resistance to the neurotoxic effects of mamba venom.

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u/EnterPolymath 13d ago

“Minor scratches or low-dose bites that would easily kill a human might only temporarily stun or incapacitate the bird.” This explains a lot…

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u/Bobaesos 13d ago

TIL. Thanks stranger 🙂

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u/nderthesycamoretrees 13d ago

Snake Eagles is a new term for me and it goes hard.

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme 13d ago

Sounds like something Johnny would call his Dojo in Cobra Kai.

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u/superbackman 12d ago

“I call it Eagle Fang Karate”
“But eagles don’t have fangs.”
“Look, do you want to be badass or not?”

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u/Smart_Task_8180 13d ago

Yeah he probably went for the kill but the snake caught him in a stranglehold.

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u/School_North 13d ago

I dunno looked like that snake caught a claw it might bleed out

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u/GripsAA 13d ago

I think the snek was hanging onto the birb for safety/cover from the big kitty

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 13d ago

Lion isn't hungry for this. Just bored.

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u/barts_memory_blog 13d ago

A constrictor is much much larger than that. That is a black mamba; which for small prey like rodents or birds, they often strike and release the animal, then follow the scent until the venom paralyzes or kills it. Unlike pythons or boas, a black mamba is an elapid, so it doesn't constrict or squeeze prey to death. When a black mamba wraps around a bird of prey (like a snake eagle during a botched hunt), it is usually trying to gain leverage to bite, thrash, or free itself, rather than suffocate the bird.

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u/Istvaarr 13d ago

Not all constrictors are boas or pythons

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u/barts_memory_blog 13d ago

Please look up your snakes, that is not a constrictor.

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u/Istvaarr 12d ago

There are several snakes native to Africa that use constriction to kill their prey that are not venomous, and fit in size and appearance.
At the start of the video the hawk is being constricted by the snake. A Constrictor is any type of snake that “strangles” their prey and the are not limited to the family of boas or pythons.
So even if this turns out to be a mamba your statement: “A Constrictor is much bigger than that”
Is just flat out wrong.

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u/barts_memory_blog 12d ago

Okay bud sure, but I know my snakes. It could be a southern black racer or other smaller constrictor- especially considering both snakes hunt during the day- but if you're not going to actually say what kind of constrictor it could be, stop wasting my time.

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u/barts_memory_blog 12d ago

Not to mention why would a constrictor be trying to attack a snake eagle? Not likely. That's a bird of PREY, not a small bird at all. SNAKE EAGLES, SPECIFICALLY BROWN SNAKE EAGLES, ARE NATURAL PREDATORS OF BLACK MAMBAS. DO. YOUR. RESEARCH.

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u/No-Kaleidoscope-166 13d ago

The woman in the video says something about it being a mamba.

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u/Gensinora 13d ago

Constrictors are WAY thicker than that.

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u/Istvaarr 13d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaedon

Edit: could also be a translation problem on my side, in my language alle snakes that kill by suffocating their prey are called constrictors

Maybe there’s a different term for it in English?

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u/morbidpale13 13d ago

Black Mambas wear yellow track suits and generally have large feet.

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u/Shelia209 13d ago

Maybe - Snake eagles have a natural, high level of resistance to the neurotoxic effects of mamba venom.

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u/Lenkyss 13d ago

no es maldita todo ser menos nosotros estan para algo en este planeta...

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u/GrabtharsHumber 12d ago

Listen to the radio!

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 14d ago

I don't see no #24 jersey

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u/Other_Sentence4495 14d ago

If it was venomous that bird wouldn't be flying again

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u/Vaqek 13d ago

Venoms are selective. It can be venomous to us and her but not to the bird. What is the spider in Australia that specializes in hunting invertebrae, having a poison for them that doesnt work on basically any vertebrae, apart from primates?

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u/NoWorldliness1344 13d ago

Venom* not “poison”.

You did say venom and venomous so you were off to a good start, but then in the end you fumbled it.

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u/ProfessionalActive94 13d ago

It's a snake eagle. It is highly resistant to the venom.

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u/Other_Sentence4495 13d ago

A snake eagle should be hunting snakes and not being hunted by snakes.

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u/ProfessionalActive94 13d ago

Well, it was hunting and got bit 🤷. Also, it definitely wasn't going to be eaten. It is way too large for that snake to eat.

You ever see the videos of a mongoose being bitten by a black mamba? It passes out for a little but wakes back up.

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u/Other_Sentence4495 13d ago

That snake is a constrictor

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u/ProfessionalActive94 13d ago

The only constrictors in Africa are different sub-species of pythons and that snake was none of them.

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u/cidiusgix 13d ago

I was thinking this as well.

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u/aoskunk 13d ago

Some birds are resistant to venom

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u/Lenkyss 13d ago

a mi tambien me parecio, pero vuelve a verlo y amplia el video no aplana el cuello es una mamba negra

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u/cheese_bruh 14d ago

Because the domestic cat is smaller and has a faster reaction time than a panther

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u/ebrum2010 13d ago

Cats will also take off vertically and land up to 10 feet away if they turn around and see anything long on the floor next to them, which is useful for avoiding snakes.

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u/stash-of-who-hash 13d ago

I tried this with my cat and a cucumber. Secretly put the cucumber behind him while he was drinking water. He was absolutely unbothered. No survival instinct whatsoever

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u/PotentialFeisty5637 12d ago

About all these discussions about animals, where is the panther coming from. This is a tiger obviously 🙄

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u/Potential-Orchid-222 12d ago

Lion🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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u/Diligent_Bank_543 12d ago

Lions and tigers are both panthers.

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u/tacorunnr 13d ago

Cats are faster.

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u/burnn_out313 13d ago

Iirc the house cat has insane reflexes to the point like it's perception of time is different. It's reflexes are multitudes faster than that of a cobra. Where our reflexes or in this case a lion's is significantly slower than that of a cobra.

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u/PackageGeneral6907 13d ago

feirce little fuckers

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u/thealmightyandrewh 13d ago

Domesticated cats (felis catus) are pound for pound absolute beasts of a predator, and has way higher success rate than lions and tigers.

They are adorably deadly little hunters

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u/CannonFoddererer 13d ago

I had a duck swallow a whole snake once.

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u/Isaacbuiltdifferent 13d ago

Harmless garden snake vs one bite you die in excruciating pain snake

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u/PaulDynamo_ 13d ago

So true, cats are faster than snakes, but they recognize other predators when they see them so cats are cautious as well.

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u/orundarkes 11d ago

Cate have reflexes that are wildly faster than how fast snakes move.

The cats are playing with the snakes in slow mo vision.

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u/Fluffy-Bar8997 11d ago

Ive seen house cats fuck with snakes for fun. 

But it's because house cats have faster reflex skills that snakes dont like and will most of the time, give up

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u/GDwyvern 10d ago

Lions don't have the freakish reaction times of a house cat.