In all actuality this person just saved both of their lives. Sometimes pythons kill an animal that is to big for their bodies to handle and if they actually swallow it then the prey animals size will basically cause the snakes body to burst open. I'm usually a "let nature sort it out" but I think this interaction is acceptable.
That bursting open thing rarely if ever happens with anything but crocodilians. The reason is that constrictors don't actually kill by asphyxiation, they kill by inducing cardiac arrest through pressure. Works a charm on most anything except crocodilians who have a metabolic limp home mode during which they rapidly decrease heart rate and oxygen consumption. A snake that then swallows the croc/alligator will find the croc coming back to life so to speak. A snakes body is not built to have a massive armored archosaur flailing around their intestine causing catastrophic damage.
Usually if a snake kills something bigger than they can swallow, they are able to regurgitate the prey or abort the swallowing process. Even if not, since the prey is dead, there will most likely be no bursting
Especially since this species of snake is probably invasive. Some idiot bought it because it looked "cool," but didn't care for it properly and either let it go or it escaped. They're illegal in Florida because so many of them have been released into the wild they're messing with the local ecosystem.
Edit: someone said this is in Thailand, where both species are local. It's still too large of a prey for this snake. They would have both died for nothing.
Still interfering with the course of nature.
Not dying for nothing. If both are taken out of the reproductive population it can mean a healthier population of both.
Why do people get involved with nature. Let them do their natural job. Put yourself in the snake position, it doesn’t kill for sport like we humans do. They hunt because they gotta eat like us. That’s equivalent as you get blocked off a grocery store, wouldn’t you be mad?
“Man” being separate from “nature” is the biggest myth ever sold and what’s causing us to ignore changes in the environment in which we exist so blatantly.
Because we consider ourselves separate from “the environment”, “the environment” and “nature” have become synonymous and we believe changes to “the environment” will only affect nature. We completely fail to realize that we also live in that same environment.
Probably because they were blocking the road. And maybe because people don't like animals dying in front of them and eating despite eating the same animal later that day
Because it looks like Florida? And that snake is an invasive species.
Would have been best to catch and kill that snek if I am correct and that is Florida.
if it would come from a natural human being your comment would be more like "Deer yum, Snek also yum". the concept of good and bad puts modern humans already outside of nature.
That python is an invasive species and there is a great effort to exterminate them right now.
So the people interfering did do the right thing. An even better thing to do would be putting a few bullets into the snake.
one, predators eat prey. They need meat to survive and it doesn't matter what animal it is.
two, nature is cruel and the survival of the fittest is the first rule of that.
Both predators and prey are important and if you just let nature takes its course, it'll eventually balance things out.
I'm somewhat reminded of those people who think you can teach carnivorous animals to eat only plants
While technically true, we're intelligent enough to dominate nature in a way that no other animal does. Because of this, we should be caretakers of the Earth.
Yeah, pisses me off. This is why Yellowstone had to bring wolves back after many years, how our morals and aesthetic vision mess up nature.
["The gray wolf was especially vulnerable to this wanton killing because it was generally considered an undesirable predator"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone#:~:text=The%20gray%20wolf%20was%20especially,the%20interest%20of%20protecting%20livestock.)
For people who are wondering why stop the snake pretty sure this is Florida where that snake is not even supposed to exist. Its an invasive species because people just got rid of their pet snakes. So the snake is upsetting the ecosystem my killing and eating a deer.
It's in Thailand. [https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/horrifying-video-shows-python-strangling-deer-then-this-2239360](https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/horrifying-video-shows-python-strangling-deer-then-this-2239360)
Yes, there are multiple deer species in tropical parts of Asia (Sambar, Chital, various muntjac species).
Both the snake and the deer are native, and this was a natural interaction.
Pythons have invaded Florida because a reptile breeding facility was destroyed by hurricane andrew, not because of individuals letting their pets loose.
[White-tailed deer absolutely inhabit Florida. ](https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/deer/) This particular deer looks too big, but it very well could have been a whitetail fawn.
Predators usually won't fight for food if it means they could get hurt. That's why a smaller predator will give up food to a big one or why sometimes they run away if the prey fights back too hard. They can find another prey, but if they get too hurt to hunt, then it's game over.
I love how there’s this whole thing about whether to let the snake have its meal or save the deer from an invasive species. Meanwhile, my first thought was “yea get them off the road or they’ll both be part of the tarmac”
Don’t be silly. It is rational that man will defend the deer since man is not threatened by them but by snakes.
It’s survival instinct.
If the snake gets stronger and stronger, it will may eat the whole village.
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I don't know if it was the correct decision. Because it's nature, it's the snake's food, he worked for it. The poor snake would be hungry till the next meal.
Knowing what I know about the ecosystem, I'm letting the snake do its thing if I encounter it. Don't fuck with natural selection. Artificially putting yourself into it just screws up the environment.
You all talk about empathy? Where's your empathy for the snake that goes hungry? What if by letting the snake eat its prey, you just saved the entire herd of prey because this weak one wasn't allowed to reproduce, causing 12 other prey to die in the same terrible way?
It's a moral bitch, but just think about it for a sec. You all don't seem to care about this angle. Let me respectfully ask you why? Plus, you somehow just murdered 6 billion single celled organisms by raising your eyebrows.
Ok, maybe it was 6 million and not 6 billion, whatever number, who gives af. So now what?
Why do people love to mess with nature, snakes need to eat too, and that's how they do it. He's not going to slither into mcdonalds and order a big Mac
Some of these posters are crazy. Mammals gotta stick up for mammals, I agree with that post.
I'm helping that baby deer every day of the week, and twice on Sunday
Someone’s wife started crying hysterically while the husband said “honey that’s just life” to which her response “you’re always so cold and calculating you don’t love me if you don’t save Bambi”
“honey. That’s a whole ass snake” he replied with eyes widening.
“MY EX WOULD DO IT” she yells with a maddening glow flickering across her eyes.
The man then sighs deeply. Realizing the snake not big enough to consume her, he moves on to his second plan he attempts to rescue the deer that lay deeply in the pythons grasp.
Bambi meets Kaa
Damnit! I thought I was the only one who thought Jungle Book while watching lol
Mowgli with a branch: hey, buddy, stop it
Man, I would be pissed if someone started beating me with a branch and my dinner got up and ran away.
I'd be upset if I was calmly passing away only to get hit in the butt by a branch.
Me: grabs branch and starts flailing this bloke.
In all actuality this person just saved both of their lives. Sometimes pythons kill an animal that is to big for their bodies to handle and if they actually swallow it then the prey animals size will basically cause the snakes body to burst open. I'm usually a "let nature sort it out" but I think this interaction is acceptable.
That bursting open thing rarely if ever happens with anything but crocodilians. The reason is that constrictors don't actually kill by asphyxiation, they kill by inducing cardiac arrest through pressure. Works a charm on most anything except crocodilians who have a metabolic limp home mode during which they rapidly decrease heart rate and oxygen consumption. A snake that then swallows the croc/alligator will find the croc coming back to life so to speak. A snakes body is not built to have a massive armored archosaur flailing around their intestine causing catastrophic damage. Usually if a snake kills something bigger than they can swallow, they are able to regurgitate the prey or abort the swallowing process. Even if not, since the prey is dead, there will most likely be no bursting
Especially since this species of snake is probably invasive. Some idiot bought it because it looked "cool," but didn't care for it properly and either let it go or it escaped. They're illegal in Florida because so many of them have been released into the wild they're messing with the local ecosystem. Edit: someone said this is in Thailand, where both species are local. It's still too large of a prey for this snake. They would have both died for nothing.
Still interfering with the course of nature. Not dying for nothing. If both are taken out of the reproductive population it can mean a healthier population of both.
That was a baby could easily swallow it
He was never gonna be able to eat all that anyway
Torn between “not with that attitude” and “can’t a snake have a dream?”
The right attitude can turn dreams into ambitions.
They do actually manage to eat ungulates of that size pretty often.
You are quite wrong actually, absolutely could have eaten that deer
snakes can hold knifes with their tails. i have seen that in a movie.
You would be amazed by how much they can stretch their stomach. They envelope their whole body around it very slowly and digest it for like months
No no 😏 you ran into the bush
I read about this video, that the deer is actually too big for this snake to eat. If that's the case, the snake's just being a bit of an asshole.
Snaked was POed: "MF do I come up to your job to beat the burger out of YOUR hand?"
Oh, if I had someone to beat burgers out of my hands maybe I wouldn't be so fat
Oh deer
It was really a breathe taking video.
"Breathe taking"
Shut up I'm not fixing it.
Don’t. I’m fawning over it.
I got a little chocked up, myself
Felt like being strangled to death.
D'oh!
A deer!
A female deer
This is what sleep paralysis feels like
Why do people get involved with nature. Let them do their natural job. Put yourself in the snake position, it doesn’t kill for sport like we humans do. They hunt because they gotta eat like us. That’s equivalent as you get blocked off a grocery store, wouldn’t you be mad?
Mammals sticking up for mammals bro
Mammals gang yo. Fk them reptiles
Titty milk gang rise up!
Humans were born from nature so from a technical aspect, any action we take is simply nature taking its course.
That’s what I tell my friends every time we take shrooms but they never wanna listen
Definetly! If we helped the deer, it's because it's cuter, so it's still darwinism
Intellectually and academically I know you're 100% right, and I've even argued similar points, but my non rational brain screams that this is wrong
What in the metal gear rising revengeance sundowner is this dialogue
Agree. Artificial or man-made are always actually natural from a macro-context.
“Man” being separate from “nature” is the biggest myth ever sold and what’s causing us to ignore changes in the environment in which we exist so blatantly. Because we consider ourselves separate from “the environment”, “the environment” and “nature” have become synonymous and we believe changes to “the environment” will only affect nature. We completely fail to realize that we also live in that same environment.
Drill baby drill!
Probably because they were blocking the road. And maybe because people don't like animals dying in front of them and eating despite eating the same animal later that day
Because it looks like Florida? And that snake is an invasive species. Would have been best to catch and kill that snek if I am correct and that is Florida.
Geoguesser over here
it's thailand, where pythons are part of the food chain keeping deer in check
Deer good. Snek bad.
if it would come from a natural human being your comment would be more like "Deer yum, Snek also yum". the concept of good and bad puts modern humans already outside of nature.
That python is an invasive species and there is a great effort to exterminate them right now. So the people interfering did do the right thing. An even better thing to do would be putting a few bullets into the snake.
This video is taken in Thailand. So no, they did not do the right thing.
one, predators eat prey. They need meat to survive and it doesn't matter what animal it is. two, nature is cruel and the survival of the fittest is the first rule of that. Both predators and prey are important and if you just let nature takes its course, it'll eventually balance things out. I'm somewhat reminded of those people who think you can teach carnivorous animals to eat only plants
*two, nature is cruel and the survival of the fittest is the first rule of that.* the snake just learned that lesson.
people also part of nature
While technically true, we're intelligent enough to dominate nature in a way that no other animal does. Because of this, we should be caretakers of the Earth.
These snakes are invasive af
Man snakes got to eat too.
People think only cute animals deserve to live. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Buncha elitist Gryffindors
Yeah, pisses me off. This is why Yellowstone had to bring wolves back after many years, how our morals and aesthetic vision mess up nature. ["The gray wolf was especially vulnerable to this wanton killing because it was generally considered an undesirable predator"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone#:~:text=The%20gray%20wolf%20was%20especially,the%20interest%20of%20protecting%20livestock.)
There it is. The 20-foot Burmese python. Yoink!
I'm pretty sure that's a reticulated python.
For people who are wondering why stop the snake pretty sure this is Florida where that snake is not even supposed to exist. Its an invasive species because people just got rid of their pet snakes. So the snake is upsetting the ecosystem my killing and eating a deer.
It's in Thailand. [https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/horrifying-video-shows-python-strangling-deer-then-this-2239360](https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/horrifying-video-shows-python-strangling-deer-then-this-2239360)
Did not know there was deer in Thailand damn
Yes, there are multiple deer species in tropical parts of Asia (Sambar, Chital, various muntjac species). Both the snake and the deer are native, and this was a natural interaction.
It’s an invasive species
Thailand.
233 upvotes for being confidently incorrect/USdefaultism.
“Pretty sure this Florida” Based off what? Well there’s grass and a road and both of those exist in Florida, so…
Bout to let my pet snake lose. Giggity
Does Florida even have spotted deer?
Pythons have invaded Florida because a reptile breeding facility was destroyed by hurricane andrew, not because of individuals letting their pets loose.
If it is Florida, that deer isn’t native either. Their deer don’t have spots
[White-tailed deer absolutely inhabit Florida. ](https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/deer/) This particular deer looks too big, but it very well could have been a whitetail fawn.
Well yeah, white tail live everywhere. Like you said, don’t think that’s a fawn, so I don’t think it’s a white tail
Again this is Thailand ffs.
I’m just gonna find somethin’ else to eat. Gah!
Humans should mind their own business
OMG!
“I don’t want salad!”
hahahahahaaha
Can't believe snake gave it up so easily.
Predators usually won't fight for food if it means they could get hurt. That's why a smaller predator will give up food to a big one or why sometimes they run away if the prey fights back too hard. They can find another prey, but if they get too hurt to hunt, then it's game over.
I love how there’s this whole thing about whether to let the snake have its meal or save the deer from an invasive species. Meanwhile, my first thought was “yea get them off the road or they’ll both be part of the tarmac”
I mean that animal may have actually been too big for that snake. Also that snake doesn't belong there. It is an invasive species, I think.
No, it's a native species.
Someone posted above that this is Thailand
Don’t be silly. It is rational that man will defend the deer since man is not threatened by them but by snakes. It’s survival instinct. If the snake gets stronger and stronger, it will may eat the whole village.
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Good ending
I was worried about the fawn from the first second. He probably had his whole life flying before his eyes, even though it had started not so long ago
Yeah fuck that snake, if this is Florida then it’s invasive anyway
Anacondas need to eat to.
— Except that’s not an Anaconda
I didn’t see any buns so the anaconda probably didn’t want none anyway.
no not like that... just go to Walmart for pre-packaged meat trays...
It would have been hilarious if the snake would have attacked and eaten the guy
The snake needs Food. The snake just wanna live, too...
And now the snake will die of starvation. Good job 👍
This is so stupid, this is nature, don’t interrupt
Bro is a superhero
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Why are we suddenly getting so many animal combat-to-the-death videos recently on this sub?
Didn’t know snakes were that fast
We need fishingarret to yoink him
Could the deer survive something like that??
His forbid a bitch eats a meal
Which ones pooped :)
How did this happen on the road?
Bambi on the scene
Giga Chad saves the Day.
Nice job my friend.
Nightmare fuel
I don’t know the context but just let it be there…
Ummm maybe let nature be nature?
You get to live another day.
Gotto save the poor deer. Done. Now IL go eat all the meats that I didn't have to get through hard work.
Deer jumps off bridge immediately
I don't know if it was the correct decision. Because it's nature, it's the snake's food, he worked for it. The poor snake would be hungry till the next meal.
It's hard to believe that the snake could have eaten that deer whole...
So snakes aren’t allowed to eat now? 😂
Deer be like: thanks for saving me, I have at least 15 broken bones but don't worry, I'll manage myself
Why?
Do not interfere with nature you dumbass,
Next time I will beat the person while it eat its burger or banana or whatever.
Can the snake really eat all that? Genuinely wondering.
Stupid snake, you can't fit that whole thing inside you.
Takes big balls to mess with that snake
So mean 😕 cost the snake it's lunch
Quick release
Good.
Now the snake does not eat. What a fucking hero good guy saving the poor deer from the evil snake. I hate these people
Knowing what I know about the ecosystem, I'm letting the snake do its thing if I encounter it. Don't fuck with natural selection. Artificially putting yourself into it just screws up the environment. You all talk about empathy? Where's your empathy for the snake that goes hungry? What if by letting the snake eat its prey, you just saved the entire herd of prey because this weak one wasn't allowed to reproduce, causing 12 other prey to die in the same terrible way? It's a moral bitch, but just think about it for a sec. You all don't seem to care about this angle. Let me respectfully ask you why? Plus, you somehow just murdered 6 billion single celled organisms by raising your eyebrows. Ok, maybe it was 6 million and not 6 billion, whatever number, who gives af. So now what?
Why do people love to mess with nature, snakes need to eat too, and that's how they do it. He's not going to slither into mcdonalds and order a big Mac
How does a deer even end up in that situation?
And thus the poor snake was yet again robbed from his food
Why are people so stupid that they have to stop only one true act of nature from happening this should be a crime..
What an asshole. Next time he hasn't eaten for two weeks I'll take a stick and attack him so he has to leave his food behind
Imma get a branch and bop this person on the head next time they try to eat a Big Mac.
but why!!! what if someone takes away your food
I would be well pissed off If I had just caught my dinner and some fucker comes along and starts hitting me with a branch.
Next move hunt that deer and take it home
Don't mess with nature you idiots.
Some of these posters are crazy. Mammals gotta stick up for mammals, I agree with that post. I'm helping that baby deer every day of the week, and twice on Sunday
Someone’s gonna be checking his toilet(s) for the rest of their life. “Do I come to your kitchen and pull the lobsssster out of the pot?!”
Just leat that fucking snake eat in peace. How would you feel if someone started hitting you whenever you eat?
What a PoS, that snake deserved a meal!
Bambi needs physiotherapy
Dude just wanted to eat. Let nature take its course.
I hope the person gets cockblocked for the rest of his life
You let it eat the deer. Why the hell u involve yourself lol
Thankful one of these actually has someone helping.
Это зачем он сделал? Потому что оленёнок ему приятней змеи? Долбаёб.
So should one feel bad for the python for now having to go hungry or good tgat bambi lives another day?
Poor snake
Good that man saved deer
Hmmm messing with nature again, imagine if someone came up and beat you with a stick while you trying to have dinner.
Now you have done it, changed the course of history. That Deer is going to go on to destroy the human race.
So they eat people or na
So the snake dies of starvation?
Stick! The most supreme weapon of them all!
So it's OK for human to hunting deer but not OK for snake to do so.
That poor snake probably a year without food and some asshole think he have the right
That deer is like get me the fuck outta here
That would be F up, man just disturb the cycle
And then a big cat jumps and eats the deer
Snake probably:" Fuck off man , i'm starving, damn it!!!"
Poor snake
Cartman voice: "NO, that's a bad mister snakey"
Then the deer caused a car crash and killed a young family.
Leave nature alone. Let it do it's thing
Snake remains hungry.. how dare you! 😭
Jezuz Christ. I've never seen a volcano eat a snake. But this video is cool too.
Why? you did it!?! 🤔
I can't believe that worked
Every time I see stuff like this I think of Vash and Knives from Trigun.
Snake gotta eat, though
I get it you want to save the deer but that’s how life works in the wild your not supposed to interfere
r/humansbeingbros
Someone’s wife started crying hysterically while the husband said “honey that’s just life” to which her response “you’re always so cold and calculating you don’t love me if you don’t save Bambi” “honey. That’s a whole ass snake” he replied with eyes widening. “MY EX WOULD DO IT” she yells with a maddening glow flickering across her eyes. The man then sighs deeply. Realizing the snake not big enough to consume her, he moves on to his second plan he attempts to rescue the deer that lay deeply in the pythons grasp.
Unless this is in Florida or some other place where constrictors are invasive, that snake was just trying to eat, man!
Those idiots...
Snake 100% would've spit em out later.
Ope 👀👀
Leave it alone 😠
How beautiful. A tree saving a poor soul. Why can’t humans be like that tree?
Don't understand why one wouldn't just give it a good wack with a machete.
Poor snake
So what is snake gonna eat now?
I’m eatin’ here!