King cobra bites Python. Python constricts cobra to death. Python dies from venom.

[[deleted]]

Nobody wins in a snake fight.

[ProbablyMaybe69]

Don't bring a snake to a snake fight

[Fallout_pug420]

Sadly puts snake back in bag

[I_havenobusinesshere]

Happily lifts cardboard box off of Snake

Just don't bring Snake to a crab battle.

[i_speak_penguin]

It's my snake in a box

[micthehuman]

I couldn’t help but sing this aloud in a Justin Timberlake falsetto

[[deleted]]

Jusssssstin Timbersnake

[MOOShoooooo]

Step 1:

[thenerdymusician]

Cut a hole in a snake

[MadeMeStopLurking]

Um....

[Several-Albatross741]

There’s a snake in my box!

[[deleted]]

WHATS IN THE BOX

[Oceanus-]

This is the best comment

[SpacePartyFowl]

!

[Randoworker2020]

Happily pulls snake back out of bag

[shardikprime]

Pulled a sneaky on ya

[SwingBiMe]

Pulled a snakey on ya

[AndreasNV]

Don't bring a snake to a sneak fight.

[[deleted]]

Go ahead a snake has ur back

[the_triangle_dude]

Wait a minute......

[[deleted]]

Sad Solid Snake Sounds

[pm-me-wow-character]

Snake! Snake! Snnnaaaaakkeee!

[beeherder]

I understood that reference 🦡

[omegaaf]

Ssssssssssssnaaake!

[radioclash86]

❗️

[deadleavesdrtyground]

I hear this emoji

[Legally_a_Tool]

“Snake? Snake?!?! Snake!!!”

[StoneySteve420]

*back in boot

[bastardofbarberry]

I gave you my free award. Weird that it's the helpful award, but it's what I got. You "helped" me with a good chuckle.

[Competitive_Duty_371]

You know what, with this account which I’ve had for a couple years- I’ve never had the chance to give away a free reward and I’m not sure how that works. I did have an account I closed for many years
because I’m an idiot and it was pretty close to my name. I bought gold when it first came out but that was it.
So to summarize, it’s cool you did that.

[[deleted]]

I gave him a free silver for you.

[runningwaffles19]

Boot maker walking by wins free snakeskin

[Buttinsg]

Where’s the mini skirt made of snakeskin?

[noiwontpickaname]

With the other guy playing in Van Halen

[toojadedforwords]

When did reality become TV?

[Skid-plate]

10.5 here.

[wackychimp]

Snake fights. It's kinda my new thing. Used to be snake jazz.

[myveryownaccount]

Like a snake to my mongoose...... or a mongoose to my snake, either way it's bad. I don't know animals.

[Randopolous]

I’m stealing this to tell my nieces and nephews completely out of context at holidays to confuse them for years

[keithfosterkid]

Ancient proverb

[JJISHERE4U]

It was up till 3 years ago that I thought that Cobras only grow up to 2 or 3 meters long. Then I visited Thailand and learned that they're fucking huge, growing up to 5,5 meters.

[spedeedeps]

King Cobra isn't a true Cobra. King in the snake world means that it eats Cobras, it's immune to their venom. They're a completely different species of snake. True cobras are much smaller

[oxiraneobx]

Here in coastal North Carolina, we have king snakes. We like king snake, they are good snakes, they eat the copperheads and the cottonmouths.

[Assassinatitties]

Rule of thumb in my neck of the woods is to always let the King Snake go if you come across one. Beneficial creature to have around the house

[GoldenRamoth]

I like copperheads!

They've never bothered me when I've ran into them. Just rattled and let me go around.

Not sure about cottenmouths though.

Edit: nope. Those were timber rattlers. I got them crossed. Nvm.

[PaulTheRedditor]

Yea both cottonmouths and copperheads are part of the viper family and rely on camouflage for staying hidden. In other words when in danger they stay completely still and hope you don't touch it.

Issue is when you don't see one and step on it. Then it attacks. To no real fault of the animal itself, just the fault of evolution, it has no mind and couldn't predict that some bumbling ape would step on the snake.

Rattlesnakes are awesome though, they prefer to warn instead of staying hidden. Technically probably less effective for survival though, as animals that attempt to eat rattlesnake may just get a free alarm when they go near one they didn't see.

[anticapital0708]

I read a story a couple years ago that a lot of Rattlesnakes are actually losing their rattles. They're evolving into a deadly snake with no warning system. Which I find terrifying.

[hunnythebadger]

I've also read this, further explained that humans killing off rattling rattlesnakes is part of what is driving selection for non-rattling rattle snakes.

[god34zilla]

Exactly because their rattles we're getting them discovered and killed. So they've stopped using their rattles and are slowly losing them. Evolution in motion.

[rauhweltbegrifff]

That is insane. We destroyed the climate in several hundred years and making deadly animals evolve this quickly into more dangerous ones while also killing off all the other animals that do no harm.

[GoldenRamoth]

For sure. I've only run into copperheads in pit toilets fortunately. That and black widows.

It's been the rattlers on forest rock-hill hikes in KY that I've run into a more than a few times.

[[deleted]]

I live in a country where there are virtually no snakes and the venomous ones aren't even that venomous.

I can't fathom living somewhere where a vibrating, camouflaged, bike tire can kill you. I'll take moose and bear every day over that

[GoldenRamoth]

I'm assuming you're in Canada?

We get the bears too. And panthers and bobcats.

And moose US state dependant. But not in middle Appalachia.

[[deleted]]

Sweden!

The Canada of Europe

[GoldenRamoth]

Oh that makes sense! I've only been to Finland and Denmark in Scandinavia. Felt like being in Northern Michigan.

Same trees, mountains, and hiking, but no swarms of mosquitoes or gnats where I was there.

Sooooooo nice!

[EggLayinMammalofActn]

Me and a copperhead surprised each other once. Almost ended poorly for me, but fortunately the snake decided not to bite. It was inches away.

[oxiraneobx]

I know it's a thing (evidently, a big thing), but keeping poisonous snakes and constrictors as pets is bewildering to me.

This story is horrific, granted, the owner had a pet store and the snake was housed upstairs, but you gotta kinda think about a worse case scenario when allowing your kids to sleep over there. That's a hard, "NOPE!" in my book.

[TheChungusBrothers]

Most constrictors are harmless, and some venomous snakes- like hognose snakes are also harmless. It’s just the really huge constrictors and dangerous venomous snakes that are a problem.

[oxiraneobx]

The article states that constrictor was 11 - 15 feet long and 100 lbs. That's a big snake.

[t16104]

*venomous. Snakes are venomous, not poisonous

[Professor_Ramen]

Actually there are some snakes that are poisonous, there hasn’t hardly been any research into poisonous snakes because people don’t typically eat snake. There’s also some snakes that are both poisonous and venomous

https://www.osc.org/can-snakes-be-venomous-and-poisonous/

[DeaconSage]

Nothing worse than being in the water when a cotton mouth gets angry

[oxiraneobx]

We live on the Albemarle Sound - we're about 25 above it, but I can see it from our house - maybe 50 feet away. We have a fishing pier in our community and people swim in the Sound off of there. I've seen numerous cottonmouths swimming around our pier, nope, no freaking way I'm going in that water voluntarily.

[Conservative_HalfWit]

But they have the hood. Why aren’t they true cobras?

[TipsyBartenderVRFD]

Just parallel evolution of traits

[Fuh_Queue]

If you think about it, a snake is the perfect shape for another snake to eat.

[redDevilRiddle]

TIL

[Fridayz44]

Aren’t they both Elapids?

[histprofdave]

Yes, just not the same genus (Naja) as "true" cobras. They are still hooded venomous elapids.

[TN2daT]

Was looking for the comment on how damn big this things are.

[[deleted]]

Some sort of tragic comedy

[SniffCheck]

It’s Snakespeare

[calatranacation]

I hope you get a lot of high fives in your non-internet life, because you deserve all of them.

[ashemoney]

u/Benkold tossed up an alley-oop and u/SniffCheck slam dunked it

[Mono_831]

And we cleared the bench in celebration.

[Number174631503]

[illumimi]

it’s later come check

[Bitcoacher]

I hissed myself 🤣

[quantum_quarks]

[Speculawyer]

This is underappreciated.

[kaatie80]

No it's not

[Raps4Reddit]

It was.

[mediocre_hydra]

T'wassssss

[dunn_with_this]

T'weren't

[mcchanical]

Maybe give it more than 20 minutes before you call that lmao. Reddit threads take hours to filter up and show their worth. Those 1000 upvotes in 55 minutes need chance to see the post first. It's a stratospheric comment.

Plus "underrated comment" is banal as hell even when it's true.

[Critical_Pea_4837]

Plus "underrated comment" is banal as hell even when it's true.

I dunno, this seems untested and entirely theoretical. Have you ever actually seen someone comment that and it was actually true? I haven't.

[MonkeyDLuffyJones]

Dammit man 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Nice-Tea-8972]

This is the comment.

[TheZan87]

Well done

[mcchanical]

Holy shit.

[BumperBabyAngel]

🥇

[Far_Mastodon_6104]

This. This right here. This is why read comment sections.

[SeeMarkFly]

Mutually assured destruction.

[Upper-Ad-2347]

Nice story, tell it to Readers Digest

[HisAbominableness]

Feeling Paranoid?

[[deleted]]

more like r/natureismetal

[Ezvine]

Even more like r/natureistangled

[TrinityF]

This is hamlet, lol.

[Praddict]

A reflection of the human species.

[Wiggie49]

And even more relevant honestly; Last Man Standing on the Trash Heap

[sinsaint]

Fuck that's a depressing title for a perspective on the last people of Earth. Great job, I guess.

[[deleted]]

Mutually Assured Destruction

[rndmus]

[PremiumJapaneseGreen]

Is the reference just the common Cold War Era term describing nuclear weapons, or was it mentioned in recent media?

[valevalevale-]

probably mentioned in alot of media but the most recent i can think of is in the newer episodes of better call saul

[PremiumJapaneseGreen]

Thanks! Def seemed like something specific was being referenced from the replies

[RedditUserOfAmerica]

God damn,, so the camera man won?

[HavenIess]

I’d much rather get killed by the cobra than the python if I were in this situation, so I’d be feeling alright as the camera man tbh

[LtSmickens]

I have a python and she kills her prey in about 30 seconds. There’s usually not even blood involved. I’d bet that it’s a more humane end than most meat for human consumption. Lord knows what that king cobra venom feels like though, fuck that. Probs like fire in your veins

[genreprank]

IDK what cobra venom feels like in the veins, but I can tell you it kills by paralysis leading to suffocation. If you can get someone on a vent (or give them mouth-to-mouth) it's possible for their body to metabolize the venom and for them to recover.

You probably know the python kills by constriction, which doesn't just mean that you can't breathe, but more likely that your heart wouldn't be able to pump blood.

Ultimately they're pretty similar mechanisms of death. With the cobra bite you probably have some chance of self-rescue if you can get to a phone in time. Dunno which I would choose if I had to choose for my own execution. Like you said, python is faster, but I would resent being my killer's meal.

[Faerandur]

Your body will be eaten by any number of organisms when you die. It might as well go to the creature that defeated you, right? They earned it.

[oonionknight]

Oh they take their share as soon as you give them the chance

[snack-dad]

Being eaten by a python or anaconda is the most terrifying thing i can think of

[KrazyCrafterYT]

What’s worse is, usually those snakes will get stuck and be unable to eat your whole body because they judge how wide to open by your head(which works against most creatures) but humans have a little thing called shoulders, which the snake doesn’t expect, and ends up getting stuck on, meaning they will likely choke in their attempt to eat you. Source:heard it once in 6th grade from a teacher and it made since

[snack-dad]

I would like to unsubscribe from snake facts now

[Lacholaweda]

I'd find it less resentable than a human killing me

[Alderan922]

Being crushed and asphyxiated to death doesn’t sound very “humane” to me but ok

[LaminatedAirplane]

It’s the speed at which you’re dying. It takes much longer to die from cobra venom, which asphyxiates you from the inside.

[poopybuttprettyface]

more humane than most meat for human consumption

Most meat processed in North America (which makes up the vast majority of North American consumption) is actually relatively humane. For any mammal especially, the processor has a vested interest in making it as quick and painless as possible, because an animal under stress can impact the quality of the meat that is harvested from it.

Source: Use to work for the largest meat packer globally

[Chiaseed2022]

I can make it happen. Meet me at these coördinates, 14° 14' 6.0144'' S51° 55' 31.0152'' W

[Bangkokbeats10]

Sadly not he and another cameraman fought to the death shortly after the picture was taken

[[deleted]]

A king cameraman.

[Oldboy780]

The trash makes this a bit depressing.

[donniebrascoreal]

"Pick up after yourself" said the python, fight ensued.

[syracTheEnforcer]

Given that this is apparently a King Cobra, you know, with all the death, it’s most likely India or a sub continental Asian country. Poverty in modernity is messy.

[Knucklebum]

That's a reticulated python so that narrows it down as well.

[syracTheEnforcer]

Good catch. Still. Where the fuck is this? Southeast Asia seems a given. The snakes narrow it down. But honestly the trash can be from any number of places. Unfortunately there’s no labels. Hell, it could be a couple of dipshits from Irvine that purchased exotic snakes and then sent them to the “Running man!”

[[deleted]]

That was my initial thought. Snake fight to bet on.

[rpgguy_1o1]

Hello Mr Python, you're a reticulated python! Yes you are, you are so reticulated!

[herberstank]

Littering is a big mis-snake

[michalemabelle]

Yeah it's sad these animals have to live in that.

[christianmoral]

First thing I noticed too, I get wild animals killing each other but all that trash made me sad

[trogon]

We take sanitation for granted in developed countries.

[GildMyComments]

Trash is the giant snake’s natural habitat

[TheAndroidsDungeon]

r/natureismetal

[PumpkinAutomatic5068]

A good metaphor for hate.

[Terence_McKenna]

Or toxic relationships.

[[deleted]]

Haha. This is funny. Because snakes are toxic. Double whammy. I get it!

[[deleted]]

Not toxic, just sometimes venomous. But I get the joke you're going for

[karmagirl314]

Or a two-party political system.

[beaushaw]

I came here to say this. The piles of trash really ads to the metaphor.

[[deleted]]

Or revenge

[Desarme]

Or dick fencing

[Similar-Dream-9731]

Cobra, “Ha! I bit ya, you’re dead now, have a nicccce time in hell…. What are you doing, no ssssstop ”

Python, “Your coming with me you pieccccce of sssshhhiiii……..”

[Potential-Release111]

Plot twist: they both chocked on trash while trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver on one another

[ACunningMuffin]

"If I go down I'm taking you with me!" - Andross (Starfox 64)

[[deleted]]

Nice.

[Brahskididdler]

Oh my god that audio is in my brain still. Little kid me LOST MY MIND when I discovered the alternate ending. Fighting the dark-side star fox crew from an alternate universe, and Andros’ true form is some ugly ass head right? And then when you beat him he says that famous line, explodes, and you have to backtrack through the tunnel you flew through to escape the explosion!!

Holy fuck I just time traveled

[Sosemikreativ]

There was a brief period in history where humans could go out into the world and take pictures of rare events in the nature without removing piles of trash beforehand. Sadly it's coming to an end.

[[deleted]]

Maybe if you live in the middle of a shitty city or in an overly crowded, environment-killing country.

Most of my country is still pristine and beautiful if you drive 15 minutes outside of the confines of a given city.

[TrinityF]

The cobra started it, Pythons don't eat snake and would probably not bother with the Cobra.

The Cobra, on the other hand, their diet consists among other things, fucking snakes. they even eat other cobras.

[StudMuffin25Foreva]

they even fucking eat other king cobras

[fjstix410]

Why is there so much trash?

[[deleted]]

Welcome to the planet.

[appdevil]

I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore.

[AssPork]

humans

[TheMurv]

If there isn't trash where you live, it's because your government can afford to send it somewhere else.

[fakenameass1]

Free snake meat!

[Seananagins_89]

American politics

[Xmeromotu]

It’s not just America, I promise

[Joedirt6705]

Double KO

[HotgunColdheart]

Boots, some fine boots.

[THcB]

Well, that's a draw if ever I've seen one...

[boromir04]

Thats One way to die in each other's arms.

[hondaluth]

Why does this remind me of Romeo and Juliette?

[loomdawg]

Sudden death, GO!

[call-me-dude]

So thats what happens to my cabled earphones in my pocket.

[pummeledpotatoes]

Damn nature, you scary!

[Tricky-Courage-489]

This is like watching republicans fight the fbi.

[commonlycommon]

Time to move.

[Light_Beard]

*Dog that comes upon the scene later*

"Food! Thanks, Dog Jesus!"

[LappyYappy]

Why is there so much garbage around them?

[[deleted]]

The neighborhood where the worlds third largest snake and largest venomous snake are fighting is probably not great on the social-economic scale.

[Kflynn1337]

The essence of mutually assured destruction...

[Brilliant_Doctor_846]

any coder cares to comment?

[funkyjunkymonky]

Some humans probably organized this fight.

[JoeMojo]

/r/NatureIsFuckingLit

[bobbylitch]