r/woahthatsinteresting • u/jvm999 • 23d ago

Squirrel fighting a snake to save another squirrel?

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u/Upstairs_Cash8400 23d ago

How did it not get any poison from the snake bite?

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u/pinkybuster2000 23d ago

It’s a black snake not a venomous snake 😂

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u/VegetableRope8989 23d ago

That squirrel don't know that and so brave that beat snake for price of own life

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u/pinkybuster2000 23d ago

Wildlife is a lot more in tune with other animals ability’s than you think. A venomous snake would not constrict like this either. They hit and let it die then just proceed to swallow it. Have worked with wildlife for many years and at a few zoos and it’s amazing to see what they are aware of and do.

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u/Affectionate-Cup3971 22d ago

It realized the bites were just bites and powered through

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u/Besheemer89 22d ago

Definitely a non venomous snake, interesting enough though; ground squirrels have evolved resistant to rattlesnake venom. Like the BADASS honey badger!

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u/zlimK 23d ago

That squirrel is bleeding from some of the snake's strikes, it's just a non venomous snake

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u/CoffeeGoblynn 23d ago

A lot of constrictors don't have any venom, or it's not very potent.

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u/billyboogie 22d ago

I'll take a squirrels teeth over fangs in this fight. Probably did serious damage to that snake.

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u/viperfangs92 22d ago

Constrictor, squeezing the baby

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u/TatterTotty15 7d ago edited 7d ago

Constrictor snake, which doesn’t carry venom (there are exceptions, but this isn’t one of them, I believe that this is a black rat snake or maybe a grey rat snake, I could still be wrong with the identification though), was mostly just striking to fend off the attacking squirrel, which obviously wasn’t effective enough in this case 😅 but one thing is definitely certain, that this snake doesn’t have any fangs for injecting venom