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For what purpose are you asking?

I do not own any and there are those whose experience and knowledge can easily trump mine, but I owned (small) for a short time when I was young and I've always liked snakes.

The thing I've always explained to people is that (non-venomous) snakes generally follow the "don't mess with me and I won't mess with you" rule. They are not instigators. They tend to be mellow and avoid conflict unless provoked. This has at least been my own personal experience with them.

The man had entered their den and by his own admission was jostling about a lot. He was showing no consideration to the snake in question and continued his disruptiveness even once the snake was clearly agitated.

He should have moved slow and gentle coming in, settled in a spot, and handled the snake slower and more gently. As snakes are cold blooded, they tend to enjoy the warmth of our body heat.

The guys a moron and is the reason we cant have cool things.  Snakes that big don't look at you as a warm place to rest they look at you as food. Getting it pissed or not respecting it while its pissed is just plain stupidity! 

Just for the record I have owned 2 ball pythons, 2 different breed of garter snake ,  yellow rat snake, a red tail Boa and a Rattle Snake.

Again that guys a moron..........

Wasn't saying they look at people as a warm place to rest. Smaller snakes are known to do that though, and to any snake of any size, warmth is warmth regardless of source. The man is too large to generally be seen as food and is more likely seen as a potential threat and certainly as a disturbance. Snakes have been known to get overly ambitious in trying to eat something too large and actually get stuck, but such occasions are the exception, not the rule.

KVR, while those snakes are large enough to kill him, there is little (food) motivation to do so unless they were starving. Snakes can go a VERY long time between meals, and the larger the meal, the longer they can go till the next. Those are constrictors so they would need to bind him up. While there were 3 of them, the man was not alone. You can see the camera move.

Snakes have very simple motivations:

1. Eat
2. Don't get killed by a predator
3. Maintain body temperature
4. Rest
5. Be left alone

"Kill annoying guy" just isn't on their list (unless they are venomous and then its number 6 on the list). It's a wasteful expenditure of energy to them. Generally the snake will prefer to leave than to confront (even the venomous ones), but they don't want to risk getting killed while leaving.

earthenstead said
Wasn't saying they look at people as a warm place to rest. Smaller snakes are known to do that though, and to any snake of any size, warmth is warmth regardless of source. The man is too large to generally be seen as food and is more likely seen as a potential threat and certainly as a disturbance. Snakes have been known to get overly ambitious in trying to eat something too large and actually get stuck, but such occasions are the exception, not the rule.

 

KVR, while those snakes are large enough to kill him, there is little (food) motivation to do so unless they were starving. Snakes can go a VERY long time between meals, and the larger the meal, the longer they can go till the next. Those are constrictors so they would need to bind him up. While there were 3 of them, the man was not alone. You can see the camera move.

 

Snakes have very simple motivations:

1. Eat

1. Don't get killed by a predator

1. Maintain body temperature

1. Rest

1. Be left alone

 

"Kill annoying guy" just isn't on their list (unless they are venomous and then its number 6 on the list). It's a wasteful expenditure of energy to them. Generally the snake will prefer to leave than to confront (even the venomous ones), but they don't want to risk getting killed while leaving.

I wasn't really disagreeing with you. Its not the fact its gonna eat you its just gonna latch on ,coil up and kill him. It wont do it on purpose but after striking its the next natural reaction. You can almost see the snake trying to do that as it strikes.  They wrap you up so fast and so strong your dead before you know it.  Not to mention if it DID " the big one laying still" it would take more than 2 people to save the guy. The camera man would have to have a sword or gun. LOL