Retic video...

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Originally Posted by alexrls

wow that fight was cool.

although i was thinking that maybe it was filmed more recently and made to look older to validify the whole "real thing"

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I doubt it.. what's the point? It sounds aged.. it looks completely aged.. the tiger and snake look completely real 100% of the time.

not that i actually believe that its so but its possible


and as for a reason...to validify the realness.
if you saw a tiger fighting a snake in a movie today u would assume its fake

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Originally Posted by OhKnows

I can't find it but I once saw a video of this kid trying to feed his ball python a p/k rat by placing the rat on his stomach and holding the snake over it... not the brightest idea... the bp ended up missing the intended food and going for a second strike at his stomach, while unsuccessfully trying to constrict his "prey".

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I found it guys. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/snakestomach.html

It astonishes me what kids will do without thinking. And even when things go wrong, they just laugh. How did any of us survive to adulthood??? LOL


Seriously, you gotta feel bad for the poor snake...to be owned by someone who seems to have so little care. Dangling the poor thing like that and then dropping it on the floor and laughing at it. I'm actually pretty easy-going about different husbandry techniques that people argue about (live feeding vs frozen...glass vs plastic...etc)......but stuff like what is in that video just makes my blood boil!

lol im sure even the most radical of snake owners dont suggest feeding on the stomach

Whoa! that wouls suck for the snake!

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Male and female retics may actually spend considerable amounts of time together in the wild during breeding season.

Does anyone know if the two snakes in the video were actually housed together year round or if they were just introduced for breeding? I know that the Australian zoo does do a lot of captive breeding projects with reptiles.

-adam

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Steve was try to breed them.

I was lucky enough that I got to meet steve when he was doing some shows in Arizona on the Rattlesnakes. I saw that video and had to ask about it ... being a nosey kid :) Steve is cool and very helpful.

I don't like steve at all..its sounds dramatic, but I think he exploits the animals' safety for the sake of having an exciting show...


As for the older video...that was nuts...

The tiger sounded like some guy going "roarr, roarr, roarr", I can't imagine that was the legit audio. I would also be surprised if it was the same snake through the whole video, tigers teeth are a good couple inches long and their jaws are strong enough that I would imagine he would have bitten right through the snake at the beginning of this video. He did look a little too mangy though, maybe he was sick and not very strong.

you know for all the stress that big snake was put through it took being handled and worked on very well. I know they druged it but still even befor the drugs it didn't even look like it struck at them.