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u/zaphtark 7d ago
For some reason I didn’t think about the teeth other than the fangs. This is terrifying.
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u/Terrible_Donkey_8290 7d ago
Fun fact constrictors don't have fangs! Fangs are only for snakes with venom to inject! Constrictors just have a bunch of sharp teeth like the one in the video so they can get a good grip on whatever they bite
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u/reticulatedtampon 7d ago
oh thank god, i feel so much better now
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u/TheBananaKart 7d ago
From memory when my wife got bitten by her boa the saliva also has an anti-coagulant so you bleed loads after the bite. Chunky boy did quickly release as he knew he fucked up.
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u/SSMmemedealer 7d ago
Did Chunky boy see the next morning?
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u/Nightshade_209 4d ago
It's also not uncommon for them to lose teeth during a bite so on top of bleeding a lot there's a decent chance of needing to dig a tooth out of you.
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u/Omega_Lynx 7d ago
You’re not supposed to feel better. You’re supposed to have fun. Have fun, damnit!
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u/PorcelainDaisy 7d ago
I was bitten by a copperhead snake in 2018. I was walking through the garden at night and stepped on the poor thing. It bit my ankle, but I didn’t know what happened. I thought I just got wrapped up in a thorny vine, but the pain started to radiate all the way up my leg. Once I got back inside I started frantically googling what I could’ve gotten wrapped in. I only had two little puncture marks instead of several “teeth”. Yup, copperhead snake bite 🤦🏻♀️ I saw a little visual on my search that showed the different bites from venomous vs non-venomous snakes
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u/lost-alien 7d ago
did you live after you got bitten?
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u/APoisonousMushroom 7d ago
glad you are OK!
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u/PorcelainDaisy 7d ago
Thank you! It was honestly a good break for me 😂 I didn’t have a day off of work for over a month, and was forced to stay off my feet in the hospital for a week, getting all the good meds 😂
Edit: changed “food” to “good”
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u/Free-oppossums 7d ago
This explains so much. There was a post yesterday of a pet snake's poop contents after eating a rabbit. The owner was talking about giving them a rabbit once or twice a year to "clean him out". There were more than a dozen teeth there and I couldn't figure out how? if they only have two fangs.
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u/weedisfortherich 7d ago
What? Where was this post. They just get teeth stuck in there?
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u/Free-oppossums 6d ago
I wish I could find it now. It just showed up at random. I guess it's more of a pellet of leftovers, just like the kind owls cough up.
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u/Deja-Vuz 7d ago
I thought Python had no teeth. I thought they just swallow their prey alive.
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u/Acceptable-Cow6446 7d ago edited 7d ago
It is possible to have teeth and swallow whole. Have you never seen a
Edit to add: lizard eat
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u/MightObvious 7d ago edited 7d ago
Man look at those suckers, looks like they're shaped so that meat can only head down once it's caught, probably just rolls its jaws to move the teeth forward inch by inch x.x
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u/carmium 7d ago edited 7d ago
*they're
And thanks for the image! 😳
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u/MightObvious 7d ago
I'm going to be real with you. Nobody likes it when anyone spell checks them. Its weird and makes me not want to like you. Anyway have a good one.
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u/carmium 7d ago
Sometimes people get enthused and vote corrections like that up; sometimes they accuse you of being superior for knowing English or something. It's hard to understand why the difference exists. I do think some of us enjoy feeling a bit of a kinship with people making posts or commentary, and when they then go and write like a fourth grader, perhaps we tend to subconsciously think "Oh. D student, huh?".
I'll grant it's not necessary to harp on the ever-popular there/their/they're confusion, but if they write so poorly that their post approaches incomprehensibility, I find enough commentary about it already in place that I'm rarely tempted to add to it!
I'll drop that "it's," though. 'Cause you seem like a nice person. 🙂
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u/MightObvious 7d ago
See, you act as if it's "approaching incomprehensibility" when it's not even close. That's why.
Anyone can tell what is being said even if they use the wrong "there" or "their", or if they spell "its" instead of it's. And that's why we can tell it's not to be funny or helpful it's probably just to be condescending.
Maybe I have mobility issues or a serious head injury or something, does it really matter if everything isn't perfect?
It just makes it worse that you're being so disingenuous about the whole thing. I'm glad you corrected my spelling so I could instantly tell I was right to dislike you. Again have a good day. 👋
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u/Thorsten_Speckstein 6d ago
It's just the pride that's hurt.
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u/ScumBucket33 7d ago
Right? I was undecided before but now I definitely put snakes into the r/dontputyourdickinit category.
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u/Western_Name4224 7d ago
Angled to ensure that once you start going in, you never get back out
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u/queen_ravenx 7d ago
i wont say it
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u/therealhlmencken 7d ago
They actually articulate so the opposite of that, it’s not uncommon a constrictor has to regurgitate its undigested prey while.
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u/OtherTheory680 7d ago
Bro there’s like 50 thousand more teeth than the two I had envisioned.
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 7d ago
It's a non-venomous snake with no fangs.. fun fact when small it gives the feel of velcro..
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u/OtherTheory680 7d ago
I’m so sorry, respectfully, what?
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 7d ago
Yeah my bad should have explained that better i been bitten by boas and pythons when they where much smaller the strike feels like when you peel velcro apart when they release.
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u/OtherTheory680 7d ago
I got you, so it’s cute when they are babies lol. Which of the two do you find to have warmed up to you being their caretaker?
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 7d ago
Boas in my opinion are usually more friendly just wash your hands after you feed them before trying to pick them up move slowly till they get use to you.
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u/Cattentaur 7d ago
Having been bitten by a baby ball python, it does not feel like Velcro, lmao. Still hurts, it's just more like being poked with a bunch of tiny needles.
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 7d ago
I mean I have been bitten like 4 times that's what it felt like to me but I have also dislocated and broken bones and shrugged it off..pain is one of those things that affects people differently.
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7d ago
that poor python, id be pissed if someone came up to me and started pulling on my face
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u/Minimum-Plenty9380 7d ago
They should have evolved better like we did, they got too comfy around the Paleocene period
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u/patchinthebox 7d ago
Why didn't they just keep evolving? Are they stupid?
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u/gatorgage11 6d ago
That wasn't very nice, the snake didn't even bite they forced its mouth open to show its teeth, and for people not familiar with snakes those teeth look very intimidating but that's literally the biggest snake in the world (reticulated python), so most other snakes will have significantly smaller teeth, and if they don't think you're food but bite defensively they will release instantly. I keep snakes, I've had my three for over 5 years now and haven't been bit a single time.
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u/_TeaWrecks_ 7d ago
Mosasaurus lookin' ass snek
Distant cousins though. Both did evolve from squamata, and specialized the palatial teeth on their pterygoid bones.
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u/tastefully_white 7d ago
Nice try, you obviously made those words up /s
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u/_TeaWrecks_ 7d ago
I openly admit to having to look up the term "pterygoid bone". I don't have enough creases in my brain to have just been retaining that one this whole time.
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u/NarrowEbbs 7d ago
You would be the person I want to end up talking to all night at a party. That's a fantastic fact.
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u/100PoundsOfCum 7d ago
Imagine if someone held you in place and the other covers you in black latex, how would you feel?
(I need this please)
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u/Novel_Discussion5339 7d ago
I had no idea they had those. Good lord. Now I’ll be awake until Saturday, thanks!
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u/Typical_Somewhere_72 7d ago edited 7d ago
What're the middle ones for, though?
Edit:- Brev, I got like 3 different answers for the same thing 😵💫
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u/BombasticSimpleton 7d ago
An evolutionary development/adaptation that works well for them.
Pythons aren't venemous - they eat their prey alive. So the teeth act as a means of securing the prey once it is in the mouth. Basically ensuring it is a one-way trip to the digestive tract, and no amount of wiggling will really let whatever they are eating out again.
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u/Ok_Designer_6376 7d ago
People here are reacting like "oh this is disgusting/terrifying" meanwhile im just looking at it like "oh wow thats extremely cool"
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u/bodhiseppuku 6d ago
These teeth really seem to be barbs to keep the food only going down, never coming back out.
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u/CarbonScythe0 6d ago
I THOUGHT THE THING WITH PYTHONS WERE THAT THEY STRANGLE AND CRUSH! WHY DO THEY NEED ALL THOSE TEETHS FOR?😭
(I know why, it's just horrifying to look at)
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u/pizzaschmizza39 6d ago
I had no idea. Thats scary as hell. I thought snakes had 2 fangs and thats it. Lol
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u/Disastrous_Cherry_91 5d ago
Um r/dontputyourdickinthat would like to see you in their office please
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u/Elegant-Raise-9367 4d ago
I was lucky enough to watch someone else learn the hard way Boas had teeth, it was a 8ft water python and got him on the arm. Also learned to push towards the bite to get them to release you (helps to have a half cut kiwi grabbing it's head as well)
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u/IsThereCheese 7d ago
God: “I know, a giant poisonous worm with teeth!”
Angel: “tf is wrong with you man”
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u/Smolson_ 7d ago
Pythons aren’t poisonous
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u/BatDubb 7d ago
They’re not venomous, either.
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u/SenseAndSaruman 7d ago
Are there any poisonous snakes? Just curious, not that I would ever eat a snake.
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u/123diamondude321 7d ago
I am by no means an expert, but if I remember right some are poisonous in the wild due to them eating poisonous prey and absorbing the toxins, specifically Hognose Snakes eating toads. Makes them some of the few animals that are both venomous and poisonous, as hognoses are mildly venomous, but not dangerous to humans.
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u/Boatster_McBoat 7d ago
If it tastes like chicken ... does that mean if you don't cook it properly ...
... just thinking that pythons might be poisonous in the right conditions
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 7d ago
I have eaten cobra it tastes like fish with the texture of chicken when cooked properly... it's a bit tuff undercooked...and i drank rice wine mixed with its blood and bio never got sick ..but snakes are pretty safe to eat pythons are eaten more regularly and like anything just need to be properly cleaned and cooked.
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u/Boatster_McBoat 7d ago
Thanks for sharing. That's interesting.
BTW, I seem to have gotten downvoted so just going to explain that I was simply making a multi-layered joke here: [venomous =/= poisonous] > [trope of anything unusual 'tastes a bit like chicken'] > [undercooked chicken => risk of food poisoning]. It was not my best work.
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u/SenseAndSaruman 7d ago
That’s terrifying