Baby VS snake

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Baby VS snake

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This was posted some time ago in the jokes make my day - not sure why it was there because it wasn't funny, more a worry than anything else. Looking carefully at the cobra it has been defanged but still they can and do inflict a nasty bite.

CB

been defanged

first thing her indoors said ,

I ticked the worrying box also ,

should have known it had been up before , my bad .

This is probably one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in my life!

Even if it had been de-fanged, that's a variety of cobra isn't it?

Wouldn't it still at least open it's maw when it tries to strike, looks more like its mouth is held shut by glue, hence the head butting (or it could be that rare scouse cobra)

Still a bloody stupid thing to do, that poor child will have a lasting memory of 'snakes, no problem' ...... really brainless.

Oh, I thought y'all were talking about me...

baaaabyyyyy snaa-a-akkes......

didn't bother to watch it...this just came in my mind when i saw the topic title....ok.....I bugger off.....

Even if it had been de-fanged, that's a variety of cobra isn't it?

Wouldn't it still at least open it's maw when it tries to strike, looks more like its mouth is held shut by glue, hence the head butting (or it could be that rare scouse cobra)

Still a bloody stupid thing to do, that poor child will have a lasting memory of 'snakes, no problem' ...... really brainless.

The larger varieties of cobra including the Thai King cobra have extremely thick ie strong supraparietal scales on the top of their head. Commonly they will use their head as a battering ram rather than bite. A friend of mine was telling me that he had a rat problem in the roof of his house so he put a king cobra up there. He was watching TV and heard the snake move across the ceiling. Next thing he heard was a quick slither and thump. The snake was using its head to smack the rat. The impact crushes the bones and kills them instantly. We were talking about it and he said that being hit by one of these snakes was incredibly painful. They launch themselves about 2/3 their full length and hit extremely hard. He said that it is almost as dangerous as when they actually open their mouth to bite. The snake will commonly head butt a large victim as a warning a couple of times, if you don't take the hint then the next one will be a full bite attack. Snakes prefer not to waste venom and these snakes have long and quite delicate fangs. Attacking a large animal including a person potentially can cause the fangs to break reducing the snakes ability to survive. They know they can't eat the person so biting them has little use as long as the aggressor just leaves them alone.

This child belongs to a family of snake charmers in India and it is common for the charmer to break off the front fangs making them somewhat less dangerous. However if the snake does bite the venom which is just saliva, squeezes out along the hollow centre of the tooth and if the skin is broken will get into the wound. The venom is highly toxic and can easily kill a human. This snake is constantly handled and used to people, however if it wanted to or felt threatened it could easily punch the child rupturing internal organs and kill it.

For your interest, the fangs when they break off eventually fall out and new ones are formed in their place. It takes several months to replace the fangs so it is something that the charmer has to keep an eye on.

CB