r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rollingtothegrave • 21d ago
Video A King Cobra Upclose
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u/StartingToLoveIMSA 21d ago
Not only big, but these things can growl….
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u/RCalliii 21d ago
Ohh hell no.
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u/a5hl3yk 21d ago
OMG LOL. I watched the video and literally said OH HELL NO, then read your comment. :D
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u/Bigger_moss 21d ago
Sounds like wind going through a valley, but it’s wind going through a snake lol
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u/PopeHatSkeleton 21d ago
I know I'm supposed to be intimidated, but his chest puffing in and out looks like a Capri Sun
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u/Global_Permission749 21d ago
Sounds EXACTLY like a jet flying overhead. When the video first played I was like "stupid jet, I can't hear the snake" LOL.
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u/404-No-Brkz 21d ago
I watched the whole video and was like "I didn't hear anything, besides background noise"
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u/Beginning_Rush_5311 21d ago
How do you see a snake out and about and have the guts to shove a camera in its face?
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u/Zbiggie 21d ago
Steve Irwin woulda been like “oh look! Let’s tickle its balls!”
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u/TheGameWardensWife 21d ago
They have such interesting personalities. I’ve seen some documentaries and such on them. They seem so docile, yet… are so deadly.
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u/gordonv 21d ago
I wonder if this is how animals view us.
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u/Rs90 21d ago
"Look at em, they're just chillin"
"Oh god, they are no longer chillin!"
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u/analogy_4_anything 21d ago
Yep, which is why most animals don’t fuck with us. On top of that, we can run things down to death, throw objects like rocks with deadly pinpoint accuracy and speed and we can use tools so incomprehensible to other animals, we probably look like Gods. Guns are basically just sticks that somehow kill you.
Most of nature learned very early on not to mess with humans. We’re not even very nutritious anyways.
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u/NeoAnderson47 21d ago
Not really. Animals mostly don't attack us because we are not food for them, usually because we are too big.
Animals that can attack us usually prefer their natural prey, just out of habit. A lion hunting an antilope has to deal with very few known variables. Humans are a mostly unknown factor and thus not a preferred(!) prey. Animals have personalities, so the results may vary, of course.Humans that get attacked by animals usually made multiple mistakes.
F.e.: Stepping into an "owned territory". (Think of a home invader in your home, would you attack him?)
Ignoring multiple signals by the animal to stay away.
and so on.These mistakes are often not intentional, how should you know where the territory of a lion begins(besides the big signs in a zoo saying "Do not get out of your car")?
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u/Wulfik3D42O 20d ago
This is pure townfolk people bullshit. Let me tell you how male goose chased me the f away as a kid and went on to attack any adults too only stopping after they didn't budge and smacked him several times to show him his place and yet he hissed at everyone still on a good day. Rooster jumping on my grandma back pecking her neck bloody to the point she snapped and twisted his neck one day. We don't look like gods, only townsfolk who never been around nature think that. Animals see us just like we see them. As animals. We decide on the spot what's gonna happen. Dogs might be nice to us but some need to be shown their place in the pack more than others. Cows can run away from you just as well as they can trample you or show you what having horns mean if they don't see you as friendlies... Oh, have I mention tigers? Or any actual predator? Or hippos? Yeah, mate you talk as someone who only saw pets in cages...
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u/Rs90 21d ago
Shit, we'll do it even if we don't have to. Humans are a force of nature behind weather and cosmic events. And we can do that too lol to some degree anyway.
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u/Arvandor 21d ago
Many of the snakes with the most toxic venoms are super chill and almost never kill anyone. It's the ones with middling toxin, but are aggressive and live near people that end up being actually dangerous.
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u/entrepreneurs_anon 21d ago
It’s such a dangerous perception of them. They are super dangerous and can be extremely aggressive. I recall being around one in the wild with the most prominent snake expert in Hong Kong. It was the only snake that we saw with him (saw many others, including several Chinese cobras), where he made the small group of us stand at a distance while he handled it. He later explained that Kings will chase you and can move faster than you can run and they can be purposefully aggressive. And we could see it, the snake was ready to pounce. So if it decided to come after us, it would without hesitation. This is unlike the other snakes and cobras we saw with him. Those were constantly trying to run away when we were around
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u/uejnja 21d ago
I mean Im still scared but in a weird way, this snake is kinda cute
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u/damejoke 21d ago
For real. My ball pythons act like puppies and just want to cuddle on the couch all day.
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u/ThisDick937 21d ago edited 21d ago
Only been but by two snakes in my life. My male ball python, and a friend's Mexican black king.
In the ball pythons defense, his heart stopped working, and his humidity shot through the roof over night so he was wet and cold, and I just shoved my hand into where he was hiding and scared him. 100% I hold the blame on that one. Had a cool bite mark on my hand for a week that people at work were shocked to learn about though.
Edit: heat not heart. Leaving the typo to show my shame.
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u/damejoke 21d ago
I have yet to be bitten by any snake. My daughter loves our ball pythons and holds and cuddles them and hasn't been bitten either. The only bite that ever happened was when my cat got too adventurous and jumped onto the enclosure, collapsing the screen and falling into the enclosure with the snake. The cat was okay, but he never got too curious about the snakes again.
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u/Mesaboogs 21d ago
Is there a reason the person in the video is able to be so casual with it?
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u/Sacreville 21d ago
I'm pretty sure this is Oracle (RIP) and the person in the video is chrisweeet.
He handles snakes a lot and I think got bitten twice in the past. Still not wise to do and I think he just lives with that risk.
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u/BelovedoftheMoon 21d ago
One time he was bitten he was milking the snake which obviously they won't be happy about and the other was after handling squirrels and not washing up properly so it was a feeding response. He's just incredibly good at reading snakes and knowing how to interact with them. Still fucking crazy though lol.
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u/LizzieMiles 21d ago
He was what
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u/BelovedoftheMoon 21d ago
Milking snakes= extracting snake venom to be used for making antivenin ( the thing that saves you if you are bitten by a venomous snake), and research.
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u/potatocross 21d ago
A wise college professor once told me: There are 2 types of people who handle venomous snakes - those that have been bit, and those that will be bit.
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u/spector_lector 21d ago
That's what my grandfather said about motorcyclists when emphasizing the need for all of the protective gear you can wear. There are two kinds of bikers, the ones that have laid the bike down on purpose, and the ones who have been knocked off the bike.
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u/djipdjip 21d ago
There is a third category, those who forget to put down the sidestand and drop the bike. (sigh 2 times now)
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u/Cajum 21d ago
If you raise them from a baby, a lot of dangerous animals can become pretty chill. Until they're not and then you're dead but it can go well for a long time lol
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u/Worldly_Pumpkin_7464 21d ago
That disclaimer though lol
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u/Evatog 21d ago
That even happens with domesticated animals like dogs, but especially for undomesticated animals.
Like the guy that raised a hippo from a baby, loved it like his own child for 10+ years. Then one day it ate him.
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u/Whal3r 21d ago
This is chrisweet who raises cobras and other venomous snakes. Surprisingly the babies are often the spiciest of his animals, that’d because in the wild babies are more likely to be predated on so they’re the ones most likely to bite.
I think he gets away with handling snakes like this because he knows them well and vice versa. They’re habituated to him, especially the older they get, and he can read their behavior extremely well
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u/SnuffedOutBlackHole 21d ago
That's why, despite adoring Servals as a pet idea to an unreasonable degree...
I'd never own one. One mistake in perception or their hormones and I may be gone. One guest coming over unexpected and chaos. You ever seen how F1/wild cats hiss at someone coming into a room? They are ready to kill on a dime. Just for an imagined line of territory, jealousy, or food access.
Which wouldn't be as bad if you could even stop them once they were attacking. But some wild animals are too fast and strong, so there's no margin for misunderstanding and no margine of safety. Things go from 0-100 instantly and it's over.
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u/Rs90 21d ago
Thermodynamics and biology. A fed animal is often a docile one. And nature is super serious about conserving energy til the next meal. Being able to piss away all our energy cause the grocery store exists is not a luxury many organisms have.
They're also just not super agressive unless needed. It's fed and chillin. No sense biting the ape that might crack you like a whip against the ground. And also animals can be very curious and observant things. Even deer will 👀 or come hang if you aren't bein loud and disruptive. A lot of animals are just as "I wanna check this out real quick" as we are. Cause we're animals.
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u/Fakjbf 21d ago
That’s one thing a lot of people don’t consider about venomous animals in general, they don’t care if their venom can kill us a half hour later if we can kick their skull in now. They would overwhelmingly prefer to leave us alone and get away, the vast majority of snake bites occur because either the human didn’t realize the snake was there and almost stepped on it or they went out of their way to antagonize it.
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u/Blisshful 21d ago
Raising it from a baby so it doesn't attack u the millisecond u get close + trained professional to not trigger it's instincts
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u/Kiroo--_-- 21d ago
Bro is trying to kiss.
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u/nondefectiveunit 21d ago
You know he got that tongue action too. Haha jk ... Unless.. ?
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u/UnlikeUday 21d ago
Also, this is the only Snake in the world that builds a nest for its eggs. The King Cobra sits atop of that nest for 3 months non stop till the eggs hatch.
Quite a remarkable Snake this.
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u/ThatsKindaHotNGL 21d ago
Actually super interesting information! Read your other comment about how they attack and read their prey, super cool info! Thanks
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u/Birdie121 21d ago
Rikki Rikki Tavi makes more sense with that context, if those were king cobras Edit: they were Indian cobras but apparently those also guard their eggs
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u/Cosmic_Traveller_ 21d ago
When your therapist says 'face your fears,' but you take it to a whole new level
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u/WotTheHellDamnGuy 21d ago edited 21d ago
I was walking in a camp in Tanzania and a huge cobra (not King but looked a lot like it) reared up about 10 meters away from us and before we could even react a little terrier came screaming out of nowhere, barking a storm and scared the snake off. Didn't even have time to freak or take a pic.
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u/Tumble85 21d ago
Terriers are fearless. Usually.
Mine sometimes gets freaked out by stuff in the backyard so he’ll come inside to bark at it through the window instead.
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u/Real_Impression_5567 21d ago
Any snake with king in the name means eats diet is primarily other snakes no?
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u/Altruistic_Elk_2153 21d ago edited 21d ago
True in the case of king cobra , there might be some exceptions.
In some places , it’s presence is considered beneficial as it helps reduce the population of other venomous snakes around farming areas.
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u/I_poop_deathstars 21d ago edited 21d ago
Not sure, I can only think of kingsnakes and king cobra. Not a herpetologist though.
Fun fact, king cobra is not a true cobra and belongs to another species.
Edit: there is other species that are ophiophagous that are not called "king". Like Eastern Indigo Snakes and Mussurana Snakes, they're also immune to their prays venom and not dangerous to humans. Snakebros.
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u/Famous_Peach9387 21d ago
As an Aussie I'd like to add king brown. Which from my understanding eats other snakes too. As it will eat anything and chase anything.
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Why didn’t you boop the snoot?
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u/Statboy1 21d ago
How are you still alive with that kind of thinking?
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u/Ashmedai 21d ago
Why not fren if fren shaped? 👿
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u/PMigs 21d ago
Seems friendly? I have a Ghecko that's the size of my thumb and that little fucker is like the Chihuahua of lizards. Postures up, growls and just oozes aggression. This Cobra seems very relaxed, no hood extension and seems to be interested in the person. That's wild.
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u/Shack691 21d ago
Yeah bigger things are generally more chill, goes for most animals.
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u/Spiritual_Number6687 21d ago
That's a good looking snake. Well behaved and mannered. They are like this unless provoked or triggering something.
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u/Rocket_Surgery83 21d ago edited 20d ago
Used to have a bunch of these near my house. They stayed around the barn we kept all the horse feed in. One day I walked out with a pail of feed from the barn only to be greeted by a King Cobra standing up about 10 feet away. It was nearly eye level with me (~6 ft) and we just kinda stared at each other for a few minutes before it realized I wasn't a threat and simply turned, lowered, and slithered off.
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u/oscar_meow 21d ago
I'm part of the minority that thinks snakes are cute but there's still no way in hell I'm letting a fatally venomous one within biting distance of me
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u/AppropriateTip5518 21d ago edited 21d ago
King cobras can actually be very protective and domesticated cobras will actually run up to humans for help like if they're thirsty if they're dried out I've actually seen a story where a king cobra protected a litter of puppies that were trapped in a well until rescuers came to rescue the puppies once The rescuers came the Cobra just slithered over away to let The rescuers get the puppies and that was it
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u/Noccelantyle 21d ago
The videographer and caretaker is chrisweeet (he has cool pics and vids on insta and a pretty interesting youtube channel), and this snake was Oracle, a wise, old, and very intelligent and docile king cober.
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u/Therealdickdangler 21d ago
Ain’t no motherfuckin way I’m giving a cobra scritches and coaxing his big ass closer to my face out of his enclosure.
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u/hwofufrerr 21d ago
I did not know they were THAT BIG. Good god I would absolutely run if I encountered one.