Snake bites itself!

Dannmann801 said:

This is trippy - decapitated copperhead, in it's death throes, bites itself.
Crazy.
But what do we learn?

[video=youtube;7C8UqgVK4EI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8UqgVK4EI&feature=player_embedded[/video]

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High emotion equals low intelligence.

Damn!

Ho lee shit !

I saw that in person when I first moved out here to the country. It was a milk snake, and we cut it's head off, although we left several inches of "neck". It kept turning around and biting at itself for several minutes.

I was amazed and learned then that a snake is still dangerous even w/o its head attached!

That is nuts!

When I was a kid our dog saber and I where playing in a creek. I saw a snake by the creek bank but before I made it over to check out old saber had killed it. I was fascinated by how long the snake wiggled around after it was dead. About an hour later the snake was motionless. Reptiles nervous systems are very different than ours. I'm very lucky that it was just an eastern water snake that I tried to touch and not a water moccasin. If I have kids once they can walk i'm getting them a cur dog. The two curs I have had; one as a boy and one as a teenager/adult have kept me safe on more than one occasion.

snakes are so cool.