A Tweeting Snake ?

[surayu]

Hi all !

This morning i went to find out what was going on in my garden, as i was hearing some sort of distress calls, the ones being emitted by a bird having some sort of problems, to my surprise, no birds were around but i could only see a 2 meter long dark snake, with his head the size of a chicken egg and his larger middle part the size of a can on coke, sorry no pictures as i rushed in to take some tools to chop him off...but he made a quicker escape.

I did ask a local person, which proved in the past to be a very unreliable source in fact of prices......if he knew of a snake that sound like a bird, and his answer was more or less on this line "yes, it's very poisonus and the hospitals around here have no antidote for his venom".

Now, i never seen in my life a snake capable of this, at first i thought he was eating a bird but i could not see any, also the first time i heard a geko sound, i thought it was some sort of bird too, back in old EU lizards don't tweets....

[necronx99]

A number of species of venomous snakes are known to stridulate as part of a threat display. They arrange their body into a series of parallel C-shaped (counterlooped) coils that they rub together to produce a sizzling sound, rather like water on a hot plate. The most well known examples are members of the genus Echis (saw-scales vipers), although those of the genus Cerastes (North African desert vipers) and at least one bush viper species, Atheris desaixi, are known to do this as well.^[8][9] A dedicated stridulation apparatus has also been discovered in males of one (as of April, 2007) bird species, the Club-winged Manakin. One species of mammal, the lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) produces a high pitch noise by rubbing together specialised quills on its back

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridulation#Vertebrate_stridulation

[Crossy]

Of course the 'larger part in the middle' could have been the bird that had been emitting the distress calls.

[p_brownstone]

Of course the 'larger part in the middle' could have been the bird that had been emitting the distress calls.

I think that's the far more likely scenario. The bird would have been swallowed whole and take some time to die.

Patrick

[surayu]

produce a sizzling sound, rather like water on a hot plate.

In this particular case, the sound wasn't that, as it really sounded as a bird having some serious problem, not a sizzling sound

[surayu]

Of course the 'larger part in the middle' could have been the bird that had been emitting the distress calls.

Sorry, maybe i used the wrong wording, i used the coke's can example to give an idea of the size of the snake, but he had no "bumps" on his body as when they swallow their prey, but maybe it was a small bird, i have no ideas...

[p_brownstone]

produce a sizzling sound, rather like water on a hot plate.

In this particular case, the sound wasn't that, as it really sounded as a bird having some serious problem, not a sizzling sound

Yes - a serious problem ......... as for example being slowly asphyxiated and / or digested alive.

Patrick

[surayu]

Ok maybe i got the answer, it looked very similar to the one on this video too ....

[surayu]

I believe the dogs solved this wild mistery, today they were chasing a small frog and the frog started emitting the birdy sound, which probably got some "echo" effect inside of the snake's troath, TIT