Claizen
Oct 18 2005, 11:24 PM
Found this on the web. This really scared me... I had no idea that snakes had teeth...
frogfish
Oct 18 2005, 11:26 PM
you never knew snakes had teeth?
Fangs are teeth... all colubrids have rear fangs.
Boas and Pythons have very thin, recurved teeth tht hurt really bad when they bite...
Claizen
Oct 18 2005, 11:28 PM
I thought the only had two.. But that many..
frogfish
Oct 18 2005, 11:32 PM
yes, colubrids have them at the back of the mouths...Venemous snakes (elapids...vipers..etc) have fangs, and a row of teeth behind them. Boas and pythons have hundreds of needle-like, thin recurved teeth. If you ever get bitten by a python/boa, never try to pull your hand out, cause it will tear...Push your hand down the snake's mouth gently and slightly (remeber, the teeth are curved) and once the teeeth are out, open its mouth and pull your hand out...it should be very bloody though...
fawkes2
Oct 18 2005, 11:44 PM
apparently the picture is true according to the website
snopes.
frogfish
Oct 18 2005, 11:45 PM
yes, its a snake that had a meal, and tied to squeeze under an electronic fence.....when it couldnt fit (cause of the meal), it attacked the fence and died of shock.
fawkes2
Oct 18 2005, 11:52 PM
QUOTE(frogfish @ Oct 18 2005, 06:32 PM) [snapback]892960[/snapback]
yes, colubrids have them at the back of the mouths...Venemous snakes (elapids...vipers..etc) have fangs, and a row of teeth behind them. Boas and pythons have hundreds of needle-like, thin recurved teeth. If you ever get bitten by a python/boa, never try to pull your hand out, cause it will tear...Push your hand down the snake's mouth gently and slightly (remeber, the teeth are curved) and once the teeeth are out, open its mouth and pull your hand out...it should be very bloody though...
ouch, that sure would be nasty to get bit by a snake that size ( or any size)
frogfish
Oct 18 2005, 11:56 PM
When I lived in india...A herpetologist came to relocate a 15 foot indian python that was eating our livestock....by accident, he put his hand too close to its mouth when they were wrestling it, and it lashed on....It took im 5 minutes to free his hand...he had to push i back so he would be free of the teeth, then his partner would open its mouth, and he would pull out his hand. It was all bloody and mauled...the snakes had fun though...it got released back into a forest 50 miles away
Bone_Collector
Oct 19 2005, 04:29 AM
I posted this pic earlier, it's an African Rock Python , here's the link...
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beast_boy
Oct 19 2005, 07:15 AM
QUOTE(frogfish @ Oct 18 2005, 11:45 PM) [snapback]892979[/snapback]
yes, its a snake that had a meal, and tied to squeeze under an electronic fence.....when it couldnt fit (cause of the meal), it attacked the fence and died of shock.
you said electronic

you meant electric.. electronic would mean you would be able to play pac-man on it or something...WHICH WOULD OWN!
draconic chronicler
Oct 19 2005, 09:01 AM
That is a very good picture to show how large and sharp a snake's teeth can be. In life, the teeth normally do not look nearly so large as they are mostly concealed in fleshy gum tissue, that has dried out and receeded in this pic. I brings back memories of a big reticulated python that once swallow my hand in a "feeding accident". Very painful and bloody, but left no scars.
People often think Komodo dragons and other carnivorous lizards have no teeth, because they are not apparent because of the lips and fleshy gum tissue, but they too have very sharp and large teeth. Unlike a snake's, these can slice through flesh like butter (as I have also experienced).
It is very probable that the popular "look" we imagine of theropod dinosaurs with their impressive rows of exposed teeth is completely wrong. They were probably always concealed by lips and fleshy gums just like the komodo dragon. There are even holes in their jaws for the blood vessels for those lips....... but they would not look as "scary", so artists will probably leave them the way they look now.
Sanidia Vortez
Oct 19 2005, 10:35 AM
Well they are scary
But if they have that many teeth i ain't going next to one....
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