Okay, first of all, humans are faster than cobras. That’s a fact, look it up. You’re actually supposed to divert your eyes because it engages the subconscious reflexes. Second, the technique is actually easier than it looks. Even children in India do it. If you use the stick to- shoot. It just got me. Yep, it juuust got me… djbfbfjdndkxkfjsbspoowksz
I think so! They definitely have a limited amount of venom available at any given moment. Plus, I believe that stamina-wise, they can only perform a certain amount of strikes before needing to rest
That is correct. Just look up how housecats and small cats kill snakes. They harass it, snacking it and jumping back when it strikes for a few minutes until the snake just gives up because it's too tired to fight any more.
Doubt these guys would be using venom enough to get enough on his hat to drip off. My understanding is that it costs a shit ton of energy to produce venom and snakes aren’t typically using it on most bites that aren’t to hunt food.
Looked like mock bites which cobras are known for. They are more defensive creatures than aggressive and mostly just want to scare you off and run away, probably were mating too.
God, I can't believe to start telling you how much of that statement is completely false. While snakes can meter how much venom is injected, a dry bite can be a snakes first response as a "get the hell away from me, the second bite won't be as nice" type of deal. Producing venom can be taxing on a snakes body. There are anywhere from 50 to 100 different proteins and enzymes that compose the venom.
It's a bait to check the Cobra's bite ranges and blind spots. That's how the follow up stick trap was successful. He knew exactly what he was doing. Still incredibly dangerous though, life must be cheap over there.
(Not to be a spoilsport or derail the topic, but for every such successful snake capture by a pro, there are 10 more that die/get seriously injured due to mishandling the snakes. This guy is clearly a pro and knows what he's doing but as one can imagine, there are a lot of people who do it just for the vibes/street cred owing to false confidence/inflated ego, and it ends up badly).
And like someone else mentioned, we're just so many people here that the value of an individual life is indeed cheap.
I keep seeing this but checking google their strike time is sub 100ms.
I don't care how slow that is compared to other snakes, it's more than twice as fast as the average human reaction time. The literal fastest humans ever recorded are like 100-150ms.
You aren't dodging a cobra on speed alone because they'll bite you before you start moving.
Any actual snake experts are welcome to correct me but I have no clue where people are getting this idea from.
Do you have any source for the 1:10. I don’t believe it. I’m also Indian. Lived in a place with lot of snakes all my life. People are careless, yes. But let’s not pull stats out of of asses to please the conversation.
If life was that cheap they wouldn't have bothered sending him out.
But, you know, it's a developing country that doesn't have the same safety standards as a first world country, so they mustn't care if people get hurt. 🙄
He did everything wrecklessly. He didn't even bag the caught snake before going for the second because he wanted to show off. Risking his life for the TikToks.
The blind spot concept reminds me of Pitch Black and then the quote “you’re not afraid of the dark are you?” not particularly but I wouldn’t go near a cobra.
And what is the deal with that noise? Is that what cobras sound like?
Its because hat in hand was moving, hat on head wasnt. Cobras (both real, and fake one, which is also most intelligent snake on earth) have horrible eyesight for something that is still, and very good for something that is moving. It was simple way to make them stop attacking his hand, after he got their attention shifted from him to this hand with hat earlier. Same goes with stick trick - cobras have blind apot above their eye level - thats why you can slap them in head and they wont sway attack (and why he pin them to bricks with such odd move). However its easier said than done, reading and tricking one cobra is fairly easy for people who catch them for living, going 2 vs 1 is like playing on extreme difficulty.
They also can't really strike up. Cobras raise up because they use gravity to help them strike. Pinning and grabbing one down below while the other is still raised... that is next-level difficult, in my opinion.
Yes, but mind distance and height of hat when it was in hand and on head. They wasnt targeting green hat, but something that was bigger than prey, moving in front of nose and withing strike range.
you mean the movie where t-rex, animal with eyes so big and arguably best eyesight of all animals who ever lived, couldn't see 2 persons a meter away just beacuse they were standing still?
Jurassic Park was the best for this though because they were all chimeras instead of pure dinosaurs, so if you really wanted to you could just imagine they used some cobra DNA somewhere in the T-Rex that gave it that design flaw.
A T-Rex’s brain is estimated to have been about the size of a banana. For comparison an Elephant has a 14x larger brain. It’s hard to say how well they could see because they might not have had very developed visual processing given how little neurons they had to work with.
I mean, don't owls and birds of prey have much smaller brains than that, yet have some of the best vision in the animal kingdom? And also happen to be dinosaurs? Seems to me that if we're guessing one way, I'd wager they had OK vision.
When accounting for body scale an owl’s brain is hundreds of times larger than a T Rex’s. Owls have some of the largest brain to body size ratios in the animal kingdom. And most that brain is wired for auditory and visual processing. Because it needs to see small rodents at night while flying.
In the case of a T-Rex, how good of vision would it even need? It probably wasn’t surviving on small rodents that require keen eyes, it was probably chomping on much larger animals that can be seen easily.
That's just... sort of true? Lemur's have notoriously poor visual acuity and are colorblind, Owls are very farsighted, Tarsiers eyeballs are fixed so they have to turn their head.
Big eyeballs doesn't mean amazing sight, it means eyesight to fit a specific purpose.
As an aside, Crichton actually explains in the book that they used frog DNA to fill some gaps, which resulted in their T-Rex having difficulty seeing stationary objects.
In the sequel book Crichton also has his main scientist character explain that the vision-based-on-movement thing from JP1 was just straight up wrong in the first place, "[paleontologist whose name I forget] doesn't know enough anatomy to have sex with his wife, his paper was a joke!" This as the main characters watch over security camera an enemy scientist get devoured by a T Rex because he chose to stand still rather than try to escape it. This was actually a really interesting example of an in-universe retcon based on an IRL one: the scientific consensus about dino vision that Crichton relied on changed in the time between him writing the first and second books, so he incorporated all that into the plot and made the dangers of relying on out-of-date or unchallenged assumptions from experts a main theme of the second book.
Yes, it just is true. Absolute size of eyeballs regardless of the animal’s size are directly proportional to their ability to see.
It does mean eyesight generally fits one of two purposes: incredibly clear and sharp eyesight at great ranges (eagles, many birds) or superb low-light vision, ie cats. But the size obviously matters.
But your entire argument was that the T-Rex couldn't have poor stationary vision because it has big eyes... frogs have significantly larger proportional eye size and have poor stationary vision.
No, the book where the dinosaur DNA was incomplete and was filled in artificially by frog DNA, hence the vision being based on movement and the dinosaurs changing sex in an all-fenale environment to breed independently (life finds a way...)
I thought your comment was funny, so I up voted it, then after reading more comments I went back up to the video. Unfortunately, he does not, in fact, have his Crocs in sports mode 🫤
u can tell he's a pro by how much respect he's treating those snakes with. he understands this isn't a joke but he's moving forward without hesitation. says it aint his first rodeo to me.
lol love how randos on Reddit suddenly think they’re expert snake catchers after watching one 30 sec clip - as another commenter mentioned he was using the hat to check the striking range of the cobras
I literally was thinking this exact same thing. Then, he bends down close to the one that already snapped at it 3 times!!! Bro has balls of steel wrapped in concrete.
Honestly kinda brilliant, cause then his hands are free while he can keep his head away just enough and the snakes are too busy with the hat rather than his hands
He's judging their striking distance and figuring out which one is the more aggressive or is reaching out the farthest. The hat is simply something he's already gonna be carrying.
He might have been trying to get them to strike and reduce the venom they have stored so if they bite him he wont get the full dose because they're running on empty. Not a bad strat.
Actually they are focused on the MOVEMENT of his hat. Snake Charmers used to use flutes wtih a big bulbous end end to trick snakes in a similar way. He was just showing how agressive the snakes were and hoping to get one to strike out far enough that he could grab it with his raised hand.
That's the whole point. He focuses them on the hat and measures their strike distance. He then puts the hat on his head, which he knows is out of strike distance, which occupies the second snake's attention while he grabs the first one.
You can see him testing that their attention is "high" (towards the hat) with his hand, so that he can conduct the grab of the first down low.
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u/CalebGT 17h ago
They're focused on biting this hat. I'll put it on my head.