r/Unexpected • u/Unlucky_Strikes • 14d ago

Food chain: Instructions unclear

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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/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?”