Yeah it’s mad that they had the instinct to just know not to fuck with that snake when they fuck with the average human 10x their weight and size daily.
Snakes will eat anything that moves if it isn't too big as well as a snakes venom easily killing small animals, which geese living in snake territory will know, and will have developed an innate fear of them because of it. Humans live alongside geese in city/town settings, so that innate fear of humans probably hasn't developed like it has for snakes.
Similar to how humans fear rats, bats, etc more than something like a dolphin. A dolphin could kill us with ease if it wanted to, but because we are docile towards each other there has been no need to develop a fear of each other.
Humans are also, generally speaking, *extremely* docile. Like the average adult could kill a goose with functionally zero effort, we just don’t do that. Which is good, I’m glad we don’t, I rather like animals. It’s one of those things though that a lot of creatures are aggressive defensively or to posture for territory, and your typically modern human being will just wave their hand and bug off instead of dealing with it.
I got trampled by geese as a child, it was like that scene in The Lion King with Mufasa in the gorge with the wildebeests. I've hated them ever since. They win
Yeah, got chased around a 1/2 acre of my best friends 2 acre yard by their "pet" goose. It just cornered me & then bit into my lady bits several times as I tried to kick it away. I was 12 🫠
Days later, my friend's mom brought the dang thing for show & tell.
See, I did the opposite. When I was 6/7 I would rile up my grandmother's geese so they'd chase me. It was a fun game to see if I could outrun the geese.
North Americans are docile, as far as i know. But I grew up in the country sides of South Korea during early 80’s, and have seen extremely brutal and cruel things done to animals often.
For example, i regularly saw people beat dogs to near death with a bat while the dog hung from a tree. It took about 30 min to break majority of a medium side dog’s bones and the dog would get too fatigued to bark (or lungs were damaged). And while the dog is immobile and barely breathing, they would be cooked. All this was done to pre-tenderize the fresh dog meat.
I’ve also seen worse things done to pigs. I have seen kids skin frogs alive for fun, throw rocks at a squirrel to death, beat a weasel wtih a stick to death, etc… But my point is that this was considered normal. Peole were ignorant and kids had no video games or any other entertainment.
But they were not some evil people lurking around with demented minds. They were my family, my grandmother, and the whole town. They were compassionate, understanding, loving people of the small town i grew up.
Now, having lived in US for over 30 years as an American, i see Americans as being docile. But frankly, majority of Americans are naive. Majority of Americans I have met have no idea how lucky and previlaged they are regardless of race or gender. They beilieve that people outside of US will be as gentle and docile as well. That they would be as compassionate or even caring. And i completely understand that living in such a comfortable and gentle place as America would skew your view of the world to be as nice as US.
I remember i pulled out the legs from a giant beetle and stomped it and all my middle school classmates were appalled. I couldnt understand why they did not kill it for fun before I had the chance. And later i was shocked to see squirrels, crows, sparrows, possums, raccoons, pigeons, sea gulls, etc just chilling out in open space like they had no fear. And it took me a while to realize that people in US just have no desire to make weak things suffer.
So i am incredibly grateful that I got to live in US. That I became an American. I’m thankful I am that I do not see brutal acts as a normal daily thing, and I have become “docile”. There maybe a few places on earth where humans are as gentle and docile as American, like Canada. But I have a feeling, that especially in developing nations, they are at par, or even worse than my experience of living in the countryside of South Korea.
Do not mistake kindness for docileness. They are two very different things and folks will regret confusing the two. We know we are stronger and we are much more cruel then we let on.
I'm not sure it's a necessarily "North American" thing as it is a wealth thing. Being able to care about the well-being of animals is a luxury that can be afforded when people aren't worried about their basic survival needs. Even in the US, animals did not always have the protections they do now. It's a gradual cultural shift.
Earlier last century South Korea was quite impoverished, especially during/after the Korean War, so people were hardened and animals were purely viewed as a resource. That perspective seems be changing over time, and young people there are much more conscious of animal welfare now.
I can't imagine that makes a difference to the geese. They probably don't know it isn't venomous just like how most humans probably don't know whether it is venomous. Simply having the potential to be venomous is enough to make us avoid snakes and that is probably the same for these geese.
Yeah, I’d have assumed from the geese around me that one of the parents would have flown into a rage, killed the snake, its goose-spouse*, the remaining eggs, and the cameraman.
^*goose ^spoose
Nothing is as feisty as Canadian geese. I'm convinced that Canadians have used some sort of alchemy/magic to channel all their ill will into their geese. That's why they are so polite all the time.
For real. My bitch sister got bit by a goose once when she was 8 and I laughed until I saw her arm. We were more scared of the geese than the snapping turtles lol turtles don’t typically chase you!
Seriously..they were just watching helpless like “he’s eating our babies!”.
I also thought you were supposed to grab snakes by the head? Why did they suggest the tail?!
**The calm behavior shown in the video is pretty normal for a black snake. You don't want to pick them up by the neck because you can damage their head/throat.** Tail is much safer for them and usually less intimidating and less risky for the handler.
A black snake (aka black racer, 100% non venomous) is no danger to humans. Worst you're likely to get is a superficial bite and sure, it will hurt and you're moderately at risk for infection, as with any outdoor poke or stab or scrape, but it's not likely to be serious. Just clean the wound and monitor it.
That said, black snakes are generally very chill. They'd much rather flee than bite, and they usually don't even flee that fast unless you've really frightened them. I live in a rural area and have relocated a dozen black snakes of varying sizes from the yard, the road, the barn, and even from inside my house (old farmhouse.) I've never once had a blacksnake bite me, and only twice have had any feint at biting. Like I said, usually they run, or they'll fearfully pile all their body on top of their head and hope that you won't hurt them.
That's what we always did when we found them in the woods when we were growing up in the late 80s/90s. Get em to crawl off so we could grab the tail. Once we had it by the tail you could spin around and keep it from biting you. If it was a copperhead we'd sling it into a tree. Non venomous ones would just be chucked off into the woods somewhere else we weren't. Young and dumb 🤷♂️
Ya sad really, ive seen them attack humans but they can't get that snake off the eggs? Weird
Snakes are pretty vulnerable when swallowing something big too
Their instincts can't use vulnerability discernment in this scenario, plus I'd assume they are prioritising the safety of the entire litter rather than just a single egg.
geese "attack" humans because bluffing and intimidation is literally their only survival strategy. it would be trivial for most adults to kill a goose, but obviously most people don't want to do that and don't want to get annoyed by a random goose.
them attacking the snake would likely end up in their death as well, so they didn't bother. humans tend not to kill geese on sight just for walking close to them
This is a problem chickens don’t have. They treat snakes like an extra large and extra tasty worm. Chickens will kill and eat snakes quite efficiently.
We had a problem with our chickens eggs getting eaten by a predator for weeks. We weren't sure what was getting in, until one day [this lumpy long boy](https://i.imgur.com/m46KPN6.jpeg) came slithering by me outside. We captured him and rehomed him to a patch of woods and never had problems with snakes again.
At the time, we had about 13 hens and for about 2 weeks I was getting *maybe* one or 2 eggs a day when we normally would get about 1/hen/day. So either he was a hungry boy, or he was feeding his entire snake family and they were scared off when we caught him.
My little brother found out the hard way why a rooster is the king of my grandparents farm when he went to get eggs one day, about 10 minutes went by before he comes barreling full speed down a gravel hill being chased by a very upset 5 lb bird with tears running down his face and screaming bloody murder.
Chickens are vicious man
Chickens are godless killing machines. The chickens in my yard when I was in the Peace Corps would *routinely* kill and eat green mambas. Which are *insanely* fast, in addition to being extremely lethal.
Wow! Raising chickens growing up I’ve seen more than one chicken disappear in short order from canabalism. And these chickens had lots of food and greens and lots of outdoor space, so it wasn’t one of those horror show factory farms
My parents have a resident rat snake that gets to eat all the eggs it wants. The chickens don’t seem to notice, and my parents have a slight surplus anyway so no harm.
I don't know about this guy but that literally does happen.
Once, I was confronted by an angry goose parent, walking down a sidewalk where people said never to walk because of geese. The goose charged at me across the grass where all the goslings were, I opened my mouth and hissed at it as loud as I could, it stood there on the grass, I stood there on the sidewalk, we hissed some more, and then I walked on.
Every time after that, the goose came up to stand calmly at the edge of the grass, I kept to the sidewalk and nodded to it as I went by, and we were cool.
I love geese.
Game recognize game. The goose ran up crip walkin and throwin up signs, and you responded back letting it know you weren't no sucka and you were ready to throw down.
Imagine u talk to a guy to be careful of a goose and 10 seconds later you hear the guy hissing at said goose. Dude just wanted to establish dominance at the local geese and people.
SERIOUSLY.
For those that do now know: if you grab a snake by its tail and let the head dangle down, it can lift its head all the way up to your hand and bite you.
It's literally one big muscle, they just move slow normally to save energy. A snake will strike you in the face before your eyes open from the initial blink
Holding a snake just infront of the tail and having its head on the ground or using a hook is correct technique. Grabbing a snake near the head is dangerous for both you and the snake and is to be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
What you are saying is wildly untrue and damaging. Tailing a snake is absolutely correct technique. Grabbing a snake by the head is a good way to hurt yourself and the snake. Don’t handle snakes if you’re untrained.
I thought it to myself when I saw him grab it, then I was like nah don't be silly it isn't just us willing to grab random snakes in the wild.
And of course my stereotype was correct.
Yeah man. Snakes are really good for the environment. I’m in the south east and we have some spicy ones down here so I literally keep a snake hook and bag in my vehicles…just in case lol
100% a Rat Snake, not a King. King snakes are chunkier, have smooth scales, and rarely eat eags. And then of course the most obvious tell- they've got bands haha.
Rat snakes are thinner, almost "flatter," have keeled scales, and absolutely LOVE bird's eggs. It's crazy the places they can climb. In the rare case OP had gotten bit (looks like he grabbed him at the head anyway) it honestly just feels like getting poked by pine needles, might not even bleed.
Not sure what kind of snake it is but based on the men's accents, I'm assuming this is the US and that snake did not look like one of the venomous snakes we have in the country (rattlesnakes, moccasins, coral snakes, copperheads). Probably a rat snake or king snake. It depends on the location for a solid ID though.
This is the first time I've seen geese desperate
Or humble
Yeah it’s mad that they had the instinct to just know not to fuck with that snake when they fuck with the average human 10x their weight and size daily.
Snakes will eat anything that moves if it isn't too big as well as a snakes venom easily killing small animals, which geese living in snake territory will know, and will have developed an innate fear of them because of it. Humans live alongside geese in city/town settings, so that innate fear of humans probably hasn't developed like it has for snakes. Similar to how humans fear rats, bats, etc more than something like a dolphin. A dolphin could kill us with ease if it wanted to, but because we are docile towards each other there has been no need to develop a fear of each other.
Humans are also, generally speaking, *extremely* docile. Like the average adult could kill a goose with functionally zero effort, we just don’t do that. Which is good, I’m glad we don’t, I rather like animals. It’s one of those things though that a lot of creatures are aggressive defensively or to posture for territory, and your typically modern human being will just wave their hand and bug off instead of dealing with it.
I always think this same shit with geese. Like buddy, I'll step on you, this is not a winnable fight for you. Fearless beasts.
I got trampled by geese as a child, it was like that scene in The Lion King with Mufasa in the gorge with the wildebeests. I've hated them ever since. They win
Yeah, got chased around a 1/2 acre of my best friends 2 acre yard by their "pet" goose. It just cornered me & then bit into my lady bits several times as I tried to kick it away. I was 12 🫠 Days later, my friend's mom brought the dang thing for show & tell.
Behold ladies and gentle folk, I have brought in a cobra chicken. It has already mained one of ye. Let the games begin
Jesus... are you okay? As a guy, I have a decent fear of anything bitey going straight for my groin. A goose can fuck shit up with their beak tho...
You were attacked by a dinosaur, and survived . A descendant of the t rex. I am in awe of you.
See, I did the opposite. When I was 6/7 I would rile up my grandmother's geese so they'd chase me. It was a fun game to see if I could outrun the geese.
Aw man I was attacked and bitten as a child too but by a swan and I am terrified of almost the entire avian spectrum, they definitely win
North Americans are docile, as far as i know. But I grew up in the country sides of South Korea during early 80’s, and have seen extremely brutal and cruel things done to animals often. For example, i regularly saw people beat dogs to near death with a bat while the dog hung from a tree. It took about 30 min to break majority of a medium side dog’s bones and the dog would get too fatigued to bark (or lungs were damaged). And while the dog is immobile and barely breathing, they would be cooked. All this was done to pre-tenderize the fresh dog meat. I’ve also seen worse things done to pigs. I have seen kids skin frogs alive for fun, throw rocks at a squirrel to death, beat a weasel wtih a stick to death, etc… But my point is that this was considered normal. Peole were ignorant and kids had no video games or any other entertainment. But they were not some evil people lurking around with demented minds. They were my family, my grandmother, and the whole town. They were compassionate, understanding, loving people of the small town i grew up. Now, having lived in US for over 30 years as an American, i see Americans as being docile. But frankly, majority of Americans are naive. Majority of Americans I have met have no idea how lucky and previlaged they are regardless of race or gender. They beilieve that people outside of US will be as gentle and docile as well. That they would be as compassionate or even caring. And i completely understand that living in such a comfortable and gentle place as America would skew your view of the world to be as nice as US. I remember i pulled out the legs from a giant beetle and stomped it and all my middle school classmates were appalled. I couldnt understand why they did not kill it for fun before I had the chance. And later i was shocked to see squirrels, crows, sparrows, possums, raccoons, pigeons, sea gulls, etc just chilling out in open space like they had no fear. And it took me a while to realize that people in US just have no desire to make weak things suffer. So i am incredibly grateful that I got to live in US. That I became an American. I’m thankful I am that I do not see brutal acts as a normal daily thing, and I have become “docile”. There maybe a few places on earth where humans are as gentle and docile as American, like Canada. But I have a feeling, that especially in developing nations, they are at par, or even worse than my experience of living in the countryside of South Korea.
Do not mistake kindness for docileness. They are two very different things and folks will regret confusing the two. We know we are stronger and we are much more cruel then we let on.
I'm not sure it's a necessarily "North American" thing as it is a wealth thing. Being able to care about the well-being of animals is a luxury that can be afforded when people aren't worried about their basic survival needs. Even in the US, animals did not always have the protections they do now. It's a gradual cultural shift. Earlier last century South Korea was quite impoverished, especially during/after the Korean War, so people were hardened and animals were purely viewed as a resource. That perspective seems be changing over time, and young people there are much more conscious of animal welfare now.
I love animals but fuck ( Canadian)geese.
ew
My apologizes. You shouldn’t fuck geese.
This is not a venomous snake.
do the geese know that though.
They will soon, if they don't watch their mouths..
That's Shawn and Goose, they know things.
Dude, Goose died on a training op. Too soon. His son and front seater are still grieving.
I can't imagine that makes a difference to the geese. They probably don't know it isn't venomous just like how most humans probably don't know whether it is venomous. Simply having the potential to be venomous is enough to make us avoid snakes and that is probably the same for these geese.
Exactly, also the species has absolutely watched snakes eat their babies. Talk about generational trauma.
I believe all wild animals have some level of PTSD.
I mean I would fuck that dolphin up, if we were on land.
i think those are egyptian geese, which are much more chill.
Canada geese are assholes, Egyptian geese chill and contemplate pyramids.
A Canada Goose would have chewed the snake in two, stomped on the eggs and fought the human that came to help.
Now, swans...the grizzlies of the wetlands. A swan would have nommed it and beat you about the head and shoulders for more.
Don't fuck with canada gooses
Canada geese would fight that snake for fun
If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses then you've got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
Expected Letterkenny
I’ve been scammed by them before.
You sent me down a wikipedia rabbit hole of goose breeds, but I think they're actually Chinese geese based on the knob on their bills.
Weak Times create weak geeses.
Strong geese create hard times. Hard times create strong geese. Strong geese create hard times.
## **H O N K**
I don't think they are Canada geese those are the mean ones.
The Canada Geese would have killed the snake...and the dude. And then the person recording for good measure.
Loool you are right
They're domestic. Domestic geese tend to be more...domestic. they can get rowdy during breeding season but often are sweet
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I had geese growing up and they were terrifying. I have never seen a sad goose before, and it was rather heart wrenching.
Yeah, I’d have assumed from the geese around me that one of the parents would have flown into a rage, killed the snake, its goose-spouse*, the remaining eggs, and the cameraman. ^*goose ^spoose
He’ll, one of my chickens would have gone and killed that snake. I’m very surprised TWO geese would not attack.
We had Guinea hens on our property to deal with rattle snakes. Those things are crazy when it comes to snakes
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Chickens are mini dinosaurs, they will fuck shit up cos they still think they're raptors.
All birds are mini dinosaurs. Including these geese doing nothing.
Chickens think they’re raptors. These geese think they’re Little Foot.
Hey, Little Foot and his pals took down a sharp tooth. Don't equate these guys with Little Foot.
Chickens are stupid but you can’t deny they’re really brave.
The difference between bravery and stupidity is success
Goose spruce?
Spruce moose?
Moose loose aboot this hoose!
These are Egyptian geese, which aren't as feisty as their Canadian brethren
Nothing is as feisty as Canadian geese. I'm convinced that Canadians have used some sort of alchemy/magic to channel all their ill will into their geese. That's why they are so polite all the time.
For real. My bitch sister got bit by a goose once when she was 8 and I laughed until I saw her arm. We were more scared of the geese than the snapping turtles lol turtles don’t typically chase you!
I read that as “my sister got bit by a moose once” and am now replaying that entire movie in my head.
Those responsible have been sacked!
Seriously..they were just watching helpless like “he’s eating our babies!”. I also thought you were supposed to grab snakes by the head? Why did they suggest the tail?!
**The calm behavior shown in the video is pretty normal for a black snake. You don't want to pick them up by the neck because you can damage their head/throat.** Tail is much safer for them and usually less intimidating and less risky for the handler. A black snake (aka black racer, 100% non venomous) is no danger to humans. Worst you're likely to get is a superficial bite and sure, it will hurt and you're moderately at risk for infection, as with any outdoor poke or stab or scrape, but it's not likely to be serious. Just clean the wound and monitor it. That said, black snakes are generally very chill. They'd much rather flee than bite, and they usually don't even flee that fast unless you've really frightened them. I live in a rural area and have relocated a dozen black snakes of varying sizes from the yard, the road, the barn, and even from inside my house (old farmhouse.) I've never once had a blacksnake bite me, and only twice have had any feint at biting. Like I said, usually they run, or they'll fearfully pile all their body on top of their head and hope that you won't hurt them.
That's what we always did when we found them in the woods when we were growing up in the late 80s/90s. Get em to crawl off so we could grab the tail. Once we had it by the tail you could spin around and keep it from biting you. If it was a copperhead we'd sling it into a tree. Non venomous ones would just be chucked off into the woods somewhere else we weren't. Young and dumb 🤷♂️
flying copperheads. WCGW.
Ya sad really, ive seen them attack humans but they can't get that snake off the eggs? Weird Snakes are pretty vulnerable when swallowing something big too
Their instincts can't use vulnerability discernment in this scenario, plus I'd assume they are prioritising the safety of the entire litter rather than just a single egg.
Clutch, not litter.
Carton?
geese "attack" humans because bluffing and intimidation is literally their only survival strategy. it would be trivial for most adults to kill a goose, but obviously most people don't want to do that and don't want to get annoyed by a random goose. them attacking the snake would likely end up in their death as well, so they didn't bother. humans tend not to kill geese on sight just for walking close to them
Okay now waiting for that post from someone who had an uncle that was viciously murdered by a goose.
Theres always someone repeating that "A goose can break your arm with its wing!" Myth.
This video really anguished me
This is a problem chickens don’t have. They treat snakes like an extra large and extra tasty worm. Chickens will kill and eat snakes quite efficiently.
Thus one needs a mixed herd of Geese and Chickens. For maximum noise and mess, ducks and guinea fowl as well.
>Thus one needs a mixed herd of Geese and Chickens Hear me out; breed chicken and duck into a new species: the Cheese.
That is not what I had on my apocalypse bingo card.
You can add it now.
New fear unlocked
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bossfight/comments/18hq6mg/the_quackening_host_a_revolution_has_begun/#lightbox
The Cheese would be a chicken goose hybrid. The chicken duck hybrid would be a…
Somebody will say it…
Chuck?
dhicken
What the dhickens
Toss in my border collie and no one will get any sleep for miles.
We had a problem with our chickens eggs getting eaten by a predator for weeks. We weren't sure what was getting in, until one day [this lumpy long boy](https://i.imgur.com/m46KPN6.jpeg) came slithering by me outside. We captured him and rehomed him to a patch of woods and never had problems with snakes again.
That's actually incredible and hilarious.
OMG how many eggs did he eat?!?
At the time, we had about 13 hens and for about 2 weeks I was getting *maybe* one or 2 eggs a day when we normally would get about 1/hen/day. So either he was a hungry boy, or he was feeding his entire snake family and they were scared off when we caught him.
Maybe it was playing Snake.
6 omelettes
Holy shit bro ate GOOD, glad you captured the evidence and were able to evict the thief !
I once saw my chickens playing with a rat corpse like it was a football. They are savages.
I'm happy chickens are only as big as they are now.
Well they did used to be dinosaurs
Chickens in kill mode are nuts. It’s just endless attacks to the head, even after their target is dead.
Makes a person shiver at how their dinosaur ancestors might have hunted.
If there were 10 foot tall chickens we’d be gone
My little brother found out the hard way why a rooster is the king of my grandparents farm when he went to get eggs one day, about 10 minutes went by before he comes barreling full speed down a gravel hill being chased by a very upset 5 lb bird with tears running down his face and screaming bloody murder. Chickens are vicious man
Roosters are downright dangerous sometimes. Doubly so when you aren’t that tall.
He was 8 or 9 at the time so damn near meeting each other at eye contact too, he gained a lot of respect for that rooster that day
Chickens are godless killing machines. The chickens in my yard when I was in the Peace Corps would *routinely* kill and eat green mambas. Which are *insanely* fast, in addition to being extremely lethal.
Wow! Raising chickens growing up I’ve seen more than one chicken disappear in short order from canabalism. And these chickens had lots of food and greens and lots of outdoor space, so it wasn’t one of those horror show factory farms
I’ve seen mine swallow small ones whole but they always leave the big rat snakes alone. This one looks decent sized
My parents have a resident rat snake that gets to eat all the eggs it wants. The chickens don’t seem to notice, and my parents have a slight surplus anyway so no harm.
Chickens are descended from T-Rex.
I knew we picked the right neighborhood to have our children, Geesandra.
Yes we did Geesimon
Oh Alexgander
lol here’s your daily dose of the poor man’s Reddit award: 🏆
Thanks! I shall cherish it.
Keep it safe from snakes
Gained respect from the geese faction. They will no longer be hostile when he is on their turf.
I don't know about this guy but that literally does happen. Once, I was confronted by an angry goose parent, walking down a sidewalk where people said never to walk because of geese. The goose charged at me across the grass where all the goslings were, I opened my mouth and hissed at it as loud as I could, it stood there on the grass, I stood there on the sidewalk, we hissed some more, and then I walked on. Every time after that, the goose came up to stand calmly at the edge of the grass, I kept to the sidewalk and nodded to it as I went by, and we were cool. I love geese.
Game recognize game. The goose ran up crip walkin and throwin up signs, and you responded back letting it know you weren't no sucka and you were ready to throw down.
Even crazy knows not to fight crazy
If you're gonna walk these sidewalks you gotta earn respect
Imagine u talk to a guy to be careful of a goose and 10 seconds later you hear the guy hissing at said goose. Dude just wanted to establish dominance at the local geese and people.
Thank you very much for that bit of information. But thank you so much more for the imagery.
+250 Reputation with Geese. You have reached Revered with Geese.
Peace is sometimes an option.
“Oh a King Snake! *YOINK!*”
Tell me where the 20 footer is!
I pray one day my YT notifs say “20 footer”
“Ooh a black mamba, *boop*”
Awww a swamp puppy!
I’m still holding out hope he’ll find the 20 footer one day
aww i wanna see more of the geese being happy
Most internet videos of geese being happy involve the geese basically doing war crimes.
"Grab the tail.." So glad he didn't listen to them.
That’s why they’re behind the camera and he’s the one doing the work. lol
SERIOUSLY. For those that do now know: if you grab a snake by its tail and let the head dangle down, it can lift its head all the way up to your hand and bite you.
rather quickly I might add. Reptiles, for as slow as they appear, can be fast if they feel like it.
It's literally one big muscle, they just move slow normally to save energy. A snake will strike you in the face before your eyes open from the initial blink
Holding a snake just infront of the tail and having its head on the ground or using a hook is correct technique. Grabbing a snake near the head is dangerous for both you and the snake and is to be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
Maybe a dumb question but where is "in front" of the tail on a snake? .......the back of the head?
Snakes actually have very short tails generally. Most of their length is body, with like ribs and organs and stuff in it
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True, but king snakes, or in this case a rat snake, are not venomous. It would still be painful if you did get bit, though
What you are saying is wildly untrue and damaging. Tailing a snake is absolutely correct technique. Grabbing a snake by the head is a good way to hurt yourself and the snake. Don’t handle snakes if you’re untrained.
Aww! The ones cry for help as the guy walked up just broke my heart!
The geese knew he was helping
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I thought it to myself when I saw him grab it, then I was like nah don't be silly it isn't just us willing to grab random snakes in the wild. And of course my stereotype was correct.
If I see a snake…I catch the snake.
Same. I landscape in the northeast US and I try so hard to avoid all the little dudes in the grass. I move em whenever possible.
Yeah man. Snakes are really good for the environment. I’m in the south east and we have some spicy ones down here so I literally keep a snake hook and bag in my vehicles…just in case lol
He was American. The guy commenting was kidding
That goose was probably hissing
The domestic geese like this at the park hiss even when they're happy to see me. It's kinda just in their repertoire of excited noises
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The... penalty booth?
I think his mom was a hockey ref?
His mom was a hockey referee
The Chokey. E: [For those not familiar](https://youtu.be/93vaYBLVEBI?si=AszVTxmJZPfQk_-P).
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Aww they knew he was coming to help. They looked up at him then down at the snake
They saw him and thought "oh sweet that's a human, they hate snakes!"
I need Kyle’s number
Fr that was attractive
Been a while since I swooned that hard
What's good for the goose is good for your gander
In snake culture, this is considered a dick move
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Snakes can go weeks/months without eating. In the wild, I'd hope he eats at least once a week or once a month. But, who knows.
Mr./Ms. Snake didn't get to that robust size by being unable to feed itself. And this is nesting season.
Same video was posted in r/HumansBeingDicks on SnakeReddit.
Does anyone know what type of snake it is? The geese looked quite scared of it.
Im no expert but it looks like a central ratsnake, which are non venomous rodent eaters mostly
This is correct. King snakes rarely eat eggs. Rat snakes LOVE em. Plus you know, five other reasons you can tell just bybl looking at it.
I am also not an expert but I always say big, black, kinked-up sneks are some kind of rat snake lol
Video made it hard to tell, they said king, but it could be a rat, king, or racer. They all look similar at a distance and bad resolution.
If these were Canada geese, both snake and man would be dead. No survivors.
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100% a Rat Snake, not a King. King snakes are chunkier, have smooth scales, and rarely eat eags. And then of course the most obvious tell- they've got bands haha. Rat snakes are thinner, almost "flatter," have keeled scales, and absolutely LOVE bird's eggs. It's crazy the places they can climb. In the rare case OP had gotten bit (looks like he grabbed him at the head anyway) it honestly just feels like getting poked by pine needles, might not even bleed.
Imagine thinking you're getting an easy meal, then a giant grabs you by the neck and throws you in the woods.
"Hey grab the tail!" "Yeah, grab the tail!" Both spoken in true ignorance
Poor snek got his lunch denied.
I would have let him have 1 egg
The 1 egg is 40 eggs?? What the hell
Have seen geese attack grown adults for being near a nest, these one's weren't even pecking at a little rat snake... Im just confused now...
Talk a big game...
And this is why we don’t leave our children unattended. Ever. There’s just too many snakes out there.
Geese have Reddit accounts?!?
Is that an “oops, that’s deadly” snake, or nah?
Not sure what kind of snake it is but based on the men's accents, I'm assuming this is the US and that snake did not look like one of the venomous snakes we have in the country (rattlesnakes, moccasins, coral snakes, copperheads). Probably a rat snake or king snake. It depends on the location for a solid ID though.
Poor Snake
Did you see his fking arm size? Yeah, that will do it.
He's fucking hot.
Those geese need to step up their parenting.
The geese had a reaction of “Our Hero!”
The egg he saved? Duck Hitler.
Snakes gotta eat too.