Which would you rather get bit by?

[CeraDigital]

I've been bitten by quite a few large species of boids, Emerald Trees, and GTP's. I've also been nipped/bitten by a few of the eels I used to keep when I had saltwater aquariums, including snowflakes, and Ribbons. Honestly the bite that hurt the most, and did the most damage was my largest female afrock. Multiple stitches, deep lacerations, and quite a bit of blood loss in my thigh. I believe Dave Barker was also hospitalized back in his prime for a similar bite with a Retic.

Although snakes do not have an incredibly high bite force, think of the tissue and nerve damage they can do. Especially the larger boids, such as Burmese Pythons, Retics, Barneck Scrubs, and AfRocks. You could wind up with serious nerve damage, bleed to death, lose a limb do to blood loss and tissue damage, or become disabled if such bite happened with an exceptional animal.

I've seen that episode gooseman, and the snakes bite force was done on the Burmese from what I understand, which wouldn't have that large a bite force. They're on the smaller end of the giant scale, and hunt smaller prey which would make sense for weak bite force. African Rocks catch/hunt prey upwards of 200% their body weight or more, and Retics actively hunt animals such as Primates and other large animals. Even so... Bite force wouldn't play too much into damage unless it was an exceptionally large animal such as a very large boid species, crocodilian, etc. The recurved teeth, and other components along with their body strength will do just as much.

As for the unhinging of their jaws...they don't unhinge them. They have elastic ligaments in their jaws that allow them to stretch their jaws to a very wide size/odd angle. They yawn, stretch to realign, and reposition their jaw after consuming meals.