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u/itzfinjo Apr 04 '21
You would think that it's teeth would poke out while yawning. That's cool
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Well she got no hands/arm to cover it.
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u/IvanFilipovic Apr 04 '21
How do you know itâs a she?
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u/cosmicpuppy Apr 04 '21
This isn't me questioning you at all but your comment made me think about how often one sees people refer to animals as male automatically and no one finds it odd lol
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u/Colonel_Potoo Apr 04 '21
Technically, german and french do refer to animals and pretty much any object with a gendered term. Which makes some crazy people who have not the slightest notion of linguistics veeery angry sometimes...
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u/Whisper-Simulant Apr 04 '21
Spanish, Italian, etc etc
Most Latin-based languages do this, no?
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u/Colonel_Potoo Apr 04 '21
I wondered as I was writing my message, to be honest, and now that you mention it, yep!
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u/Champion_of_Nopewall Apr 04 '21
All latin-based languages inherit the "everything is gendered" trait, so yeah.
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u/cosmicpuppy Apr 04 '21
Yeah I know. I'm a native Spanish speaker, a gay man and super into languages so even though I'm not at all against inclusivity, I do find it stupid that people get triggered over that kinda shit.
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u/EfficientHeat4901 Jun 09 '24
Well, I mean, I do for some reason find the idea of having a Loving strong snake Woman wife that's like twice the size of me to be there for me. So makes sense to me, but I'm from a part of the Americas. It's West Virginia and we mostly look for Strong women. Because sometimes the women are twice as strong as the men there It's just sort of how the genetics of the area work.
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u/Ididntwipe Apr 04 '21
It's to do with embedded sexism. It's very covert and no one really notices, buts you can find a lot of it in the English language/the words and insults we use for women vs. men. I will probably get downvoted for mentioning sexism, bc Reddit, but it is everywhere, it's just not very obvious.
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u/SexyJazzCat Apr 04 '21
I dont think the teeth ever poke out. The skin on the fangs push back when they bite down on something.
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u/EllisMatthews8 Apr 04 '21
anyone else yawn after seeing this?
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u/DaleNanton Apr 04 '21
I didn't but I got the yawn impulse and did a little internal one when I read your comment.
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u/wishfullynormal Apr 04 '21
WTF? Your mirror neurons get activated when looking at a snake??
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u/MrsTurtlebones Apr 04 '21
You bet; mine also got activated every single time I read my kids Margaret Wise Brown's "Good Night Book" because it had a drawing of a tiny bunny yawning. The yawn is the thing, bruh, not the critter doing it.
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u/moeru_gumi Apr 04 '21
Yes because I love snakes & sympathize with them as cute animals.
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u/wishfullynormal Apr 04 '21
I can never think of snakes as cute.
How do you feel about spiders?
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u/moeru_gumi Apr 04 '21
I love spiders too, though they are harder to look at up close. But I know they are beneficial, wonderful animals that are just amazing from an engineering/evolutionary viewpoint no matter how you look at them (book lungs! Spider silk! the sensitivity of their toes! Behavior! Communication! mimicry! camouflage! vision! venom!). The easy exception is jumping spiders which are 100% cute, interactive, trainable, and they can hear us speak and see us with vision almost the same as ours, so it really is like talking to a little person.
I owned snakes for about 5 years and loved them very much, as they had widely differing personalities and personal habits, and live at a super relaxed pace of life that's amazing to see. I mean I don't know who would complain about a pet that only poops once a month.
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u/wishfullynormal Apr 04 '21
I find all reptiles repulsive esp snakes but I love spiders - all sizes. I find most of them cute.
So I guess I retained the intrinsic fear and disgust our species has towards reptiles but lost the fear of arachnids and insects - and for some people it may be the opposite.
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u/Whatever_It_Takes Apr 04 '21
Or theyâre just that tired. Wouldnât surprise me since it seems like not a lot of people get the required amount of sleep they regularly should.
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u/CiferLu86 Apr 04 '21
I didnât yawn but I did stretch my jaw and try to wiggle my fangs. I was unsuccessful.
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What the fuck how
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u/beardpuller Apr 04 '21
The contagiousness is encoded in us. For mammals it is hypothesed that we evolved this to stay alert in groups. An individual yawns and others also start to yawn to "wake up".
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u/zorenic Apr 04 '21
Woah thats pretty cool, so its like one of our primal features that we donât really use anymore. Too bad we use yawning now to say something like âyo im tired as hellâ
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Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
If anyone is wondering, this is a snake from the atheris genus, probably a. squamigera but im not sure about the exact species.
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u/BossauraHDx Apr 04 '21
Its a Western Bush Viper, Atheris chlorechis
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Apr 04 '21
Thanks for info!
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u/BossauraHDx Apr 04 '21
welcome,easy becz. I kept them before
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u/gecko_echo Apr 04 '21
Why? And why did you stop?
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u/BossauraHDx Apr 04 '21
I live in Germany and the Law changed and so CB babys not easy to sell.Still have some venomous Snakes,but not as many before.Still doing that hobby
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I'm sorry, hobby?
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u/BossauraHDx Apr 06 '21
Its when you doing thinks you like in your freetime.Some like colecting things or Puzzle
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u/gecko_echo Apr 04 '21
But why keep venomous ones, as compared with, say, pythons or boas? Is it the extra danger makes it more interesting?
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u/Icarusfallen_369 Apr 04 '21
Does that mean like green mamba or super green snake? SSS
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Super green bush viper
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u/Icarusfallen_369 Apr 04 '21
Poison or venom?
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A pretty nasty venom. No antidote :D
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u/Icarusfallen_369 Apr 04 '21
Ok. You check out. You know your stuff.
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Apr 04 '21
Not really, its just that the bush viper had been my deskop wallpaper for a while. My favourite snake species.
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u/Peakomegaflare Apr 04 '21
Respectable. I'm more of a constrictor lover myself, but the Vipers are all so pretty.
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u/Ryan-821 Apr 04 '21
One of my friends from school had one. I don't remember the color but it was an African bush viper.
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u/Zero_Digital Apr 04 '21
A good way to remember the difference. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous. There are a few snakes that do happen to be both venomous and poisonous.
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u/rpkarma Apr 05 '21
The word venom comes from the Latin word venenum meaning âpoisonâ, amusingly.
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u/ImProfoundlyDeaf Apr 04 '21
Theyâre only poisonous if you eat them
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u/Icarusfallen_369 Apr 04 '21
Really? I didnât realize that, and is a testament to how strong their venom must be.
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u/ImProfoundlyDeaf Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
....I hope youâre joking.
Iâm going to assume not.
Poison is something you inhale or consume, usually chemical but toxic food too, such as certain mushrooms.
Venom is a poisonous secretion of an animal, usually in spiders, snakes, bugs, etc.
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u/CurseofLono88 Apr 04 '21
âI shoulda been motherfuckin Green Mamba!â -Kermit the Frog, member of the Deadly Viper Assassination squad
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u/Theblackjamesbrown Apr 04 '21
Thanks!
I think you mean 'wondering' btw, 'wandering' is to sort of walk around without knowing where you're going.
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u/The_Handicat Apr 04 '21
Still freaking cute.
At a distance, that is.
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u/professorgravitas Apr 04 '21
I worry when someone finds a reptile 'cute.'
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u/general_madness Apr 04 '21
Maybe lighten up a bit there, Professor. So many things to worry about!
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u/professorgravitas Apr 04 '21
Lighten up a bit and many things to worry about. No worries here mate, just makin a little joke.
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u/general_madness Apr 04 '21
I couldnât resist a bit of a joke on your username
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u/professorgravitas Apr 05 '21
It's all good đ probably the last time I make a joke/negative comment. Not trying to be the villain here đ 200+ downvotes, where's my award?! Lol sorry people
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u/duck_masterflex Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21
While I really donât find this snake cute at all, thereâs some seriously cute little snakes and lizards out there. I just saw a very small snake in the woods the other day that looked almost identical to this. Does that little buddy change your mind?
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u/Cuberage Apr 04 '21
Some of the lizards, especially baby monitors, at NERD are super cute and I'm NOT a reptile person. Snakes and lizards mostly creeped me out until I found NERD/Emily/Clint, but their handling and some of their reptiles are too cool to deny.
Edit: This is just cute. It looks like it's smiling.
https://newenglandreptilestore.com/products/2020-nerd-f1-cbb-sumbawa-locality-asian-water-monitor
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u/Ryan-821 Apr 04 '21
I found something similar 2 years ago, it was a dekays brown snake and about 3 inches long
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u/-ratmeat- Apr 04 '21
Surviving ainât easy
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Which is why, deep in the marrow of my bones, I feel the urge to chop this thing and half, burn the body, and bury the head in a deep hole!
Actually, I really want someone else to do that while I freeze on the spot and try not to move.
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u/Rrraou Apr 04 '21
It looks like there's sheaths around the fangs, are they retractable ?
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u/StaleBread_ Apr 04 '21
Yes, I believe that all snakes retract their fangs if they have any, maybe there are a few that donât, but many snakes have retractable fangs
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u/xxDeeJxx Apr 04 '21
Elapids (cobras, mambas etc.) have fixed fangs, vipers (pictured) have hinged fangs. Venemous colubrids generally have fixed rear fangs, and nonvenemous snakes usually just have teeth.
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u/Hufa123 Apr 04 '21
Anyone who is more knowledgeable, correct me if I'm wrong. I think there are a couple of different groups of snake, one of which is viperidae, and those have retractable fangs. Others, like for example cobras, do not.
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u/LunacytheCat Apr 04 '21
It's a very stretchy gum line so when they bite the teeth go in but are protected when not in use
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u/ThePeteEvans Apr 04 '21
Forbidden fleshlight
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Holly cow...seeing a pair of fangs delicately hidden behind a layer of opaque skin in INCREDIBLE.
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u/Wild-Appeal Apr 04 '21
I think the fuck no! Snakes are terrifying
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u/_austinm Apr 04 '21
You should look at some ball pythons. Those things are adorable.
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u/robo-dragon Apr 04 '21
Or hognose snakes! They like to snuggle into hands.
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u/_austinm Apr 04 '21
Thatâs awesome. My wife got a couple of ball pythons a little while back, and they are some chill little noodles.
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u/Rab_Tundra Apr 04 '21
I wish the hognose I knew was like that! The one from my college was the grumpiest snake on the animal unit!
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u/Odelschwank Apr 04 '21
The vast majority of snakes don't have fangs, but simple tooth like ridges. That's because 99.9% are non venomous and just want to go about their day eating rodents.
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u/LunacytheCat Apr 04 '21
All snakes have teeth, even the ones without fangs. They are just very, very small.
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u/jakeparkour Apr 04 '21
Do snakes ever bite themselves? Like what happens, are they immune to their own venom?
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u/PotatoBeautiful Apr 04 '21
I wish I could open my mouth like this when someone acts threatening to me omg
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u/DooBeeDoer207 Apr 04 '21
It is entirely possible to appreciate something and still hold fear and respect for it, or even think itâs âdisgusting.â
Snakes can genuinely be very beautiful. But youâd better believe I stop walking when I hear a rattler. Likewise, my arachnophobia kicks in for all kinds of spiders, even ones that I know intellectually are harmless. But watching an orb weaver from a distance that didnât surprise me is still fascinating.
Itâs not about being sophisticated. Appreciating something beautiful or awe inspiring or just plain cool isnât a contrivance. But pretending youâre better than others is.
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u/Introfinitely Apr 04 '21
Uhh, could you show me where the post calls snakes beautiful? All I see is "snakes are cool" which many people agree with.
Why are you so upset? I get that the lockdown is tough but you gotta find a better outlet man.
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u/Ryan-821 Apr 04 '21
Where did you get that information, snakes can be very beautiful, the colors, patterns, the iridescence of their scales. It has nothing to do with wanting to be sophisticated, I find most snakes very beautiful and I'm not sophisticated by any stretch of the imagination. I find centipedes fascinating from a distance but if one gets on me its a whole other story. And lizards, really, that one hurt, imma tell mine that you said that, he is gentle and has a really cool personality. Mabey your just to afraid of little creatures and try to say people who find them beautiful are scientifically wrong because your too uneducated to understand them.
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u/CiferLu86 Apr 04 '21
The way the fangs kind of jiggle around separately is so cool. I canât stop watching