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Reticulated Pythons have slight serrations on their teeth and are recurved fangs. This enables them to easy cut into and grab food that they are puling into their body. A bite from a large snake can be an extremely dangerous situation. While ball pythons may be a joke and give a little blood, an adult retic is a matter of how YOU handle the bite. When a bite occurs you must remain calm and not pull away. If you jerk back there is a great chance that you will 1) tear the flesh wide open, 2) break teeth off into your bite area potentially getting lodged and causing infection or need for surgery to remove later on (Shane Castello just had a retic tooth removed surgically from a smaller male bite). The image of the 14' bite, while sever, is not worst case scenario. Had he jerked his arm back in the bite, it would've wound up even worse. Everytime I open a giants cage I remind myself mentally, if you get bit, stay calm and grab the head. Do not jerk back!!!
Thank you for all that info, I do have a few more questions now, all that being said does the same go for a Burm, can they do just as much damage? For both snakes at what size does just a tag from them become dangerous, the reason I ask is I got to hold an 8ft burm and was suprised at how small the head actually was, I know that it wasn't full grown, but it just got me thinking. Also what about SD retics, and dwarf burms when they max out in size can they still do quite a bit of damage? Thanks again.