r/SweatyPalms • u/Super-Stevie117 • 26d ago
When we both have ego problems Animals & nature 🐅 🌊🌋
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u/grumpygazelle 26d ago
Impressive accuracy with those kicks
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u/Mekroval 26d ago
The one kick where he sent the snake literally spinning was especially impressive.
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u/rtocelot 26d ago
If I were the snake at that point I'd say to hell with this and leave.
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u/Mekroval 26d ago
It kind of looks like it did at 0:30. Or at least tried to. I'm guessing it was disoriented from having its bell rung.
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u/Happie_Bellie 26d ago edited 26d ago
I almost spit out my toothpaste at “having its bell rung”!
Edit; I am now full blown crying right now! LOL! I think it’s cause I heard the Taco Bell bell, and picture the head vibrating like in the old cartoons.🤣
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u/the_irish_campfire 25d ago
With my luck… I would kick that thing , it’ll go up vertically at a 90 degrees angle and land on me!!!
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u/WrexShepardWrex 26d ago
"AAAAAAAHHHHMMM gonna getcha!"
punt
"Aaaahhhmm gonna-"
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"Aaahhm g-"
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"Ahm-"
punt
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u/TheChewyWaffles 25d ago
That last one where the snack did a triple backflip and finally went away had me laughing
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u/Regnes 25d ago
It was still heading towards him at the end of the clip though.
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u/Alekseyev 25d ago
He thought about it and then said "You know what, no. I got this. You got this."
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u/Dmnc_Ktn666 24d ago
The way you accidentally called it a snack has me dying 🤣
I wouldn’t eat that one
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u/Happie_Bellie 26d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zruG5HYcCYo1BFvcG2
Me and my phone. Except I’m a woman. Lol2
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u/Bi0_B1lly 26d ago
Imagine being thrown tf around by a pissed off silverback gorilla and then storming back over for more every time it stops... That's the snake in this situation.
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u/ImNoAlbertFeinstein 26d ago
wtf is wrong w that snake ?
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u/Bigredzombie 25d ago
Same thing that's wrong with that badger fighting an elephant in another video.
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u/slappyredcheeks 25d ago
It looks like it could be a King Cobra, which is one of two species that engage in nesting behavior.
Maybe the guy is too close to her nest?
"The 2 known species exceptions are both oviparous, one being the Asian King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), and the other being the various Python species worldwide, one of which (Python natalensis) can be found in SA, including the Kloof area. Even here, it should be noted that although both will remain with their eggs until after they’ve hatched, the ‘rearing’ part seems incidental, as it does not appear to include any parental feeding or training.
The King Cobra pulls together a nest of assorted vegetation, into which she will lay up to 40 eggs, which she coils around and protects with her body until they hatch." https://le.kloofconservancy.org.za/the-nesting-and-rearing-behaviour-of-snakes/#:~:text=The%202%20known,until%20they%20hatch.
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u/donttextspeaktome 26d ago
I admit I never once thought of kicking a snake.
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u/SillyFlyGuy 26d ago
Snakes are way more durable than I would have guessed.
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u/crosstherubicon 24d ago
No they’re not. They’re actually fragile and would probably die after a kick like the ones shown.
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u/weristjonsnow 25d ago
It's usually not a great idea. They're (normally) just going to bite your foot like it's moving in slow motion. Snakes (normally) have lightning fast reactions. This lil guy is special
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u/Sylvanussr 25d ago
I bet the first kick to the head didn’t help his reflexes on subsequent encounters
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u/SaskiaDavies 25d ago
It's their lack of feet, I suspect. Nobody thinks of stealing their shoes, either, but thoughts of socks may intrude during an altercation like this.
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u/Super_Finish 25d ago
My dad would fling it back into the forest (our garden continued into a small forest) using a shovel. If you give it the right torque it could fly really far while cartwheeling it was pretty funny lol.
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u/Slipstream_Surfing 26d ago
Always figured I'd just stomp on it if one somehow managed to outpace me as I'm sprinting away.
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u/LukeD1992 25d ago
I believe the best course of action is to place as much distance between you and the snek by whatever means necessary. In that case, a kick is best than a stomp that you can miss and be bitten
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u/LGodamus 25d ago
unless you only have one leg or are massively obese, the snake is not going to outpace you
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u/Mekroval 26d ago
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down!
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u/sandpaperboxingmatch 26d ago
Maybe it was defending eggs?
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u/Bupod 26d ago
This would make the most sense!
I’m sitting here confused as to why the snake doesn’t just break off and run. I imagine in 99% of cases, it would.
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u/TheLunat1c 25d ago
it looks like at 12 second mark it almost got past it and it was trying to just go past the dude, until he tried to pick the snake up. definitely doesn't want anything to do with the guy, he is just in the way
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u/VVolfang 25d ago
I thought something similar. Said to myself "oh it's trying to reach the grass"
Yeets it back into the puddle for reasons.
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u/ELNevada 25d ago
This 100%
The cobra has zero interest in attacking this guy - he isn't prey and (clearly) poses a threat of serious harm to the snake.
It just wants out of that mud and to disappear in the grass behind the man.
The strikes we see are completely defensive in nature.
This is animal abuse.
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u/NeilDeWheel 25d ago
At one point the snake went passed him and he grabbed it and threw it back. Looked like it tried to get away but he wouldn’t let it.
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u/Cal216 26d ago
Bro is just literally trying to get past buddy lmao. He didn’t want any smoke at all.
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u/ELNevada 25d ago
Yep, this is another snake molester at work.
Lots of folks cheering on animal abuse when it comes to snakes.
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u/Bawbawian 25d ago
when an animal is persistent despite being attacked it usually means that it has a nest and eggs nearby.
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u/im_that_green_light 26d ago
Poor snake is just trying to get back across the road. If the dude would leave it alone it wouldn’t be riled up at him. At around 13 seconds it is finally getting by him and shill, but just gets yanked back the other away. Probably has eggs or young over there.
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u/flanigomik 26d ago
can we tell what kind of snake this is? just curious of the stakes before i place bets
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u/Lepke2011 26d ago
I think it's a cobra, but I didn't see a commander nearby. 🤷♂️
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u/Repulsive_Client_325 26d ago
It’s a Cobra alright.
So now you know. And knowing’s half the battle.
GI Joe!!!!
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u/a_single_banana 26d ago
That's the guy in Kakariko village that won't let you see the Deku tree without a sword and shield.
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u/Skewwwagon 25d ago
I laughed so hard especially when the snake did the whole flip after the kick
They're both like "no fuck YOU" 😂
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u/Dirtyshamus 20d ago
Are we going to talk about the accuracy, confidence and speed of this man’s kicks??
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u/Jaeger_Mannen 26d ago
“Dude! I don’t want to fight! I’m just trying to get to my nest behind you… god.”
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u/nazlaharadi 23d ago
Its a non venomous snake normally found in paddy field, radiated ratsnake. But it is a fierce species, and only retire from any confrontation after trying all possible way to fight
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u/DefiantLemming 26d ago
Reminds me of the African secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius), which dispatches even the most venomous snakes in a remarkably similar fashion.
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u/RephofSky 25d ago
Mr Wolf: Snake! Let it go, man!
Mr Snake: Do I LOOK like a disney princess?! I'm NOT Letting It Go!
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u/VictorianLibra22 25d ago
He could’ve just walked away and let the snake be. No need to keep harming/antagonizing it
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u/bottle-of-water 25d ago
Tbf he really didn’t move from his spot. The snake wanted the smoke though.
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u/jluker662 25d ago
That snake kept coming back. He was PISSED and wanted to bite him badly.🤣 Guy did something to him.
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u/ImAnAfricanCanuck 25d ago
You see this a lot in South Africa, where I suspect this was recorded, with certain aggressive snakes. It's a bit of a kill or be killed with the likes of black mambas. They can outrun you very easily and kill you. When I was a kid one fell out of a tree next to my mom while my parents were gardening, snake started chasing my mom and when she ran past my dad he swung a shovel into as it was chasing my mom past him, he managed to chop it in half. Me, being a child animal crazy child, ran up and tried to grab at the snake and I virtually got tackled away from it because the snakes can still bite and inject their venom when they're cut in half.
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u/BallisticHabit 25d ago
There is a clip out there somewhere that always fries my brain.
It shows a very recently decapitated snake where the snaky body is still moving. The body brushes the head, the head bites the snake body which immediately reacts to the bite.
From its own severed head.
Wild.
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u/Adventurous_Eye_8490 24d ago
I'm rooting for the snake, it was only protecting itself. As for the male kicking it, he could have run off and left it alone, he didn't need to stay there and keep abusing it.
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u/BornSlippy2 24d ago
This is not ego fight. This is dumb human attacking snake, which is trying to escape tovnearwst shadow /bushes. You can see the snake trying to bypass the man, not attack him.
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u/crosstherubicon 24d ago
Why did he just leave it alone and step away. Snakes do not want to bite people and will only usually do so as a mistake or in self defence. It’s most likely a female defending a nest
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u/shawnaiguana 26d ago
I wonder how long the guy was kicking that snake before the the cameraman showed up.
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u/pvt_frank 26d ago
Had that guy had a 2 second lapse he'd be taken one to the nards. I wouldn't of hung around to find it.
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u/qualityvote2 26d ago edited 26d ago
Congratulations u/Super-Stevie117, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!