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WTF, this is not real, is it?
- Thread starter Joejr14
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Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
I don't know if it's real or fake (though I'm leaning towards real), but those aren't necessarily 'fangs' in a snake that size . . . :shrugs: Think of the size of meals that snake has to hold onto with its teeth.
That new pic that I found in the thread Joe provided shows the tail wrapped around the other wire causing it to pull down on the mid section of the snake. I just don't know how someone could fake that without it looking fake. Also, the disturbed dirt from the tail that I had commented on being missing from the first pic Joe provided makes me think it's real. It could be staged, but the snake wrapped in the wire and hanging by the mouth looks real enough for me.
Looks like the darn thing got zapped and then struck out and got caught on the wires just right.
D80
That new pic that I found in the thread Joe provided shows the tail wrapped around the other wire causing it to pull down on the mid section of the snake. I just don't know how someone could fake that without it looking fake. Also, the disturbed dirt from the tail that I had commented on being missing from the first pic Joe provided makes me think it's real. It could be staged, but the snake wrapped in the wire and hanging by the mouth looks real enough for me.
Looks like the darn thing got zapped and then struck out and got caught on the wires just right.
D80
Joejr14
Grand Bubble Burster
After doing a google search, I'm going to say the picture is in fact legit.
"Pythons are distinguishable from boas in that they have teeth on the premaxilla, a small bone at the very front and center of the upper jaw."
I also found something that said that pythons have 'fangs', but simply do not make venom (duh). If you look at the picture, there are a pair of 'fangs' there.
All I can say is no way in hell would I ever want to experience a bite from that thing. Those damn teeth would go straight to the bone in pretty much any place it bit down.
Btw, ARP's are the 3rd largest snake in the world and can get to 30 feet. That would explain the huge teeth.
"Pythons are distinguishable from boas in that they have teeth on the premaxilla, a small bone at the very front and center of the upper jaw."
I also found something that said that pythons have 'fangs', but simply do not make venom (duh). If you look at the picture, there are a pair of 'fangs' there.
All I can say is no way in hell would I ever want to experience a bite from that thing. Those damn teeth would go straight to the bone in pretty much any place it bit down.
Btw, ARP's are the 3rd largest snake in the world and can get to 30 feet. That would explain the huge teeth.
The part that strikes me as ligit is where the front teeth of the inner arcade are hooked. The gums are blanched in front of the wire and the mucosa has been scraped where the wire is sitting... Good attention to detail if it's photoshopped.
The thing that doesn't look quite right (if it's in fact dead) is that the color looks too healthy. A dead snake's mouth would be white/grey with blue veins, not healthy pink with dark red vessels.
Shrug?
The lower jaw looks really funky on that second picture.
The thing that doesn't look quite right (if it's in fact dead) is that the color looks too healthy. A dead snake's mouth would be white/grey with blue veins, not healthy pink with dark red vessels.
Shrug?
The lower jaw looks really funky on that second picture.
princess
Cornaholic
Follow this link for the full story....
http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm
...amazing what a little 'goggling' can find!
http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm
...amazing what a little 'goggling' can find!
howiet4702
Wanted: Jasper Co Okeetee
Yes, that indeed is a real pic of the snakes teeth.
I brought a Rock Python from the MARS show in Tinicum about 10 years ago. When I brought the little guy, he was about 18 inches long. Within 3-4 years, the "little guy" was close to 7-8 feet in length. It was amazing to see how big this snake got in such a short period of time. They also say it is a very nasty snake to handle. Over the 4 years I had him, he only tagged me once and it was my fault.
I know how big the teeth were on the 8 foot snake. I can only imagine how big they are when he is 20 feet long.....
I brought a Rock Python from the MARS show in Tinicum about 10 years ago. When I brought the little guy, he was about 18 inches long. Within 3-4 years, the "little guy" was close to 7-8 feet in length. It was amazing to see how big this snake got in such a short period of time. They also say it is a very nasty snake to handle. Over the 4 years I had him, he only tagged me once and it was my fault.
I know how big the teeth were on the 8 foot snake. I can only imagine how big they are when he is 20 feet long.....
Alistani
Totally Enamored
Wow, that was one heck of a meal it had before it fried itself! The first pic still looks odd to me. The wires on it are so clean ... Maybe they just cleaned it up in photoshop? Or it could be that's just what electrified fence wires look like, and since I have never seen one (I am quite accident prone and getting close enough to an electric fence to get a really good look at it seems like it would just be asking for trouble) 
I have no point of comparison.
Anyhoo, that is one big snake and those teeth look vicious! I am quite happy to stick with corns-- you don't have to worry about one of them biting your appendages off, or even eating you!
Thanks for sharing those pics! They are quite impressive.
~Lisa
I have no point of comparison. Anyhoo, that is one big snake and those teeth look vicious! I am quite happy to stick with corns-- you don't have to worry about one of them biting your appendages off, or even eating you!
Thanks for sharing those pics! They are quite impressive.
~Lisa
princess
Cornaholic
I leant over the fence to pat my horse one time and just-just-just touched the hot-tape (flat, plastic cord with copper wires rinning through it...really hurts if the electric pulse is switched on!!) with my ribs...It jolted me so hard that it knocked the air out of me with an audible 'huuuh' and left a welt where it touched...and I was wearing a T-shirt!!!! Imaginf what bull fences could do :eek1:
Alistani
Totally Enamored
:Shudder: I'd rather not. I've been shocked once by an ice cream freezer at my first job and that is all the experience that I need with electrical current entering my body. I don't want to think about what anything worse than that would be like.
Eek is all I have to say about it! ~Lisa
