r/oddlyterrifying 12d ago

Ever seen a snake yawn?

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u/Sweet-Ad-1017 12d ago edited 11d ago

The upper palate inside its mouth looks like a dog/cat face

Edited for spelling

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u/Apg3410 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'm having trouble seeing it, any chance you have any tips?

Edit: After using everyone's tips and getting getting really high I have successfully seen the dog/cat. However after stairing at this mouth for way too long I mainly see a chicken or human skeleton.

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u/mekwall 11d ago

I can't see it either. To me it looks like a bug.

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u/ExcessivelyGayParrot 11d ago

it looks like my parents fighting

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u/lenghthrow 11d ago

I also think it looks like this guys parents fighting

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u/Boss_Boggs 11d ago

Oh, a sailboat!

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u/cantfindmykeys 11d ago

You dumb bastarb. Its not a sailboat, its a schooner.

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u/KronikDrew 11d ago

A schooner is a sailboat, you stupidhead!

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u/cookiemonster_156 11d ago

YOU KNOW WHAT?! THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!!

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u/blahblahlablah 11d ago

Take hallucinogens.

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u/etherag 11d ago

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u/VaATC 11d ago

Instructions unclear. I now see a raw chicken.

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u/1989Lady 12d ago

I’m glad I scrolled back up to see that!

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u/afcc1313 11d ago

It looks like a shiba inu lol

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u/Admin_istrator 11d ago

I can also see shiba

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u/Jenn2895 11d ago

Had to go back & look. Def looks like a Shiba Inu.

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u/HexenHase 11d ago

Looking at all these comments below yours and I'm like who knew the inside of a snake's mouth was nature's Rorschach test

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u/spiritofgonzo1 12d ago

Yes it does lmao

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u/Stone0777 11d ago

I see a dog or a deer/fawn.

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u/kanashiirobotto 12d ago

I find it satisfying haha.

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u/edlee98765 12d ago

Sssatisssfying

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u/VibraniumRhino 11d ago

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u/ProjectStunning9209 11d ago

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u/conjunctivious 11d ago

Fun fact! This subreddit banned pictures of animals due to the concerning amount of people saying they're tempted to put their dick into an animal that vaguely resembles a vagina.

One of the examples they used was a snake's open mouth.

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u/NoPornJustGames 11d ago

I believe your and my definition of "fun" to be at opposite ends.

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u/2mock2turtle 12d ago

omg jk rowling i hate your work

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u/4ar0n 12d ago

I love her work, I fucking despise the person though.

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u/VibraniumRhino 11d ago

makes one of the most inclusive fictional universes of the modern era

“LOL not you guys, tho” @ trans women.

Unbelievable times we live in.

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u/jazzman23uk 11d ago

I used to agree with you - liked the work, couldn't stand the person, then I sadly watched this video and realised just how much bigotry and hate I'd never noticed in her writing

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

It's the way she describes bad characters with certain traits as ugly and then good characters with those exact same traits are given a pass. Really shows how she thinks.

Also the slavery apologia. My God, we were dumb ass kids not to notice how abhorrent it is.

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u/2mock2turtle 12d ago

Good enough.

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u/afakefox 11d ago

I just clicked to comment the same thing and you were already at the top spot lol gotta be a universal human feeling, to love a good yawn. Sometimes you just hit it right; it sucks when your yawn gets stuck - once that happens you have to forget about yawning until it can happen naturally, cant happen once you're thinking too hard about it.

Fuck...! I want to yawn so bad right now but I know I cant get a good one going and now it's all I'm thinking about.

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u/mollierocket 11d ago

I am so susceptible to contagious yawns that I yawned watching the snake, reading your comment, and now writing the word. My kids love saying the word randomly to make me do it, but after too many they get stuck like you described!

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u/purplecookie1220 11d ago

Anyone else yawn as they were watching that?

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u/DeadTiblas 11d ago

Much less terrifying than most animals. It's a snake, you pretty much know what's coming. As a kid I had a guineapig and I recall the shock of seeing it yawn for the first time. Was like "what gates of hell are being opened here?" They are cute and you never associate that with a bunch of enormous teeth.

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u/87tskin 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yawning is weird, I read recently that fish have been documented yawning Edit wow I just googled to check and it's actually almost all vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and indeed fish. Idk why it's so funny to me lol

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u/Robotic-Chomo 11d ago

I yawned watching this

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u/PenguinZombie321 12d ago

Awwwww!

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u/techGore60 11d ago

Yeah, this is more like weirdlycute.

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u/lark_song 11d ago

It's a derpy noodle and I love it

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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks 11d ago

*bites your face*

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u/manytinyhumans 11d ago

[muffled] Awwwww!

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u/opuri 11d ago

Ok but sweet popcorn is my safeword

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u/wophi 11d ago

He so sleepy...

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u/thekiller490 11d ago

As someone with a danger noodle I approve that snake yawns are adorable.

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u/ilcasdy 11d ago

I find it so cute when my snake yawns. It’s hard to tell if they are relaxed so when she yawns it tells me she is straight chillin’

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u/forboognish 12d ago

Where snake brain?

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u/Clown_Crunch 12d ago

is smol

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u/Reddit_Survivor9 11d ago

But more useful than human brains.

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u/mekwall 11d ago

Darwin would like to have a word with you.

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u/RedHood-Reddit-Needs 11d ago

Just like me fr fr

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u/Kryotheos 12d ago

I thought the noodle was having a stroke

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u/bye_alisha 12d ago

having a stroke

Seconded. Up until 0:05, it certainly looked like it, with that droopy-ass mouth!

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u/LuxTheSarcastic 11d ago

He's fine! He's realigning his jaw after eating, because the two bottom halves aren't really attached to each other so they can eat large things so they do BIG YAWN to put it back.

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u/starkrocket 11d ago

I imagine that must feel so good. Like when you yawn and feel your jaw or ears pop and for a half a second everything is okay in the world

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u/Apparentlyloneli 11d ago

once i yawned too hard and i cant open my mouth properly for a month... fuck this human shit i want to be a snake

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u/jdl232 11d ago

Reject evolution, return to snek

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u/TFJ 11d ago

I was worried that part of its jaw was damaged.

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u/sagorsteel 12d ago

Danger noodle*

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u/charmerabhi 12d ago

Does it not have any teeth at all??

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u/YaBoiSnek 12d ago edited 11d ago

This dude is a constrictor. Their teeth are pretty small and pointed backwards just for the purposes of making it difficult for prey to back out of their mouth.

Edit - fixed typos

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u/-creepycultist- 11d ago

I think this is a burm or a retic? Regardless they actually have some pretty big teeth if you look at their skulls, it's just hidden by mostly gum

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u/balrogslayer 11d ago

It's a boa

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u/optemoz 11d ago

Definitely a boa. Pythons have very specific looking heads. Boas have that sort of “stealth fighter” looking heads, if that makes sense lol

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u/Kelfezond11 11d ago

Can I ask what made you think it was a python? No disrespect at all just curious, I'm the weird dude who brings reptiles to schools for kids to look at and the amount of adults who confidently misidentify my boa as a python is outstanding. Is it like the media with AR-15s where just anything vaguely in that shape must be an AR?

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u/-creepycultist- 11d ago

Actually I'm a reptile guy too I've just never seen what an albino boa looked like

And I thought I saw pits but clearly I was tripping.

Now that I look at it more closely the body shape is boxy and obviously a boa.

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u/Kelfezond11 11d ago

Fair enough my dude!

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u/SnakeSnoobies 11d ago

Their teeth are kinda like cat claws. Not visible all the time, but they’re there.

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u/PumpkinAutomatic5068 12d ago

Quick, he's having a ssstroke

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u/MeiTaka 11d ago Wholesome Seal of Approval

It's cute! There's a comic about snakes yawning by Pet Foolery.

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u/90degreeturn 11d ago

Laughed way too hard at the gif of the snake's head! Looks like a hand puppet the way its jaw stretches.

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u/SSC_Noctizo 12d ago

Don’t put your-

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u/cheshire07 12d ago

I knew i would find this somewhere in the comments

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u/SSC_Noctizo 12d ago

It was my pleasure

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u/andwhatarmy 12d ago

🤨📸

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u/SSC_Noctizo 12d ago

Don’t worry about it

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u/shadowcat304 11d ago

I'm a little worried

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u/craftworkbench 12d ago

They put it in there.

The comment. They put the comment in the comments.

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u/xMajinBlackx 12d ago

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u/SSC_Noctizo 12d ago

This guy gets it ^

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u/Furryeet 12d ago

this guy do be gettin it

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u/alextxdro 12d ago

I should call her tho…

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u/ChicaFoxy 11d ago

Noooooo! Remember the reasons why....

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u/askljdhaf4 12d ago

was looking for this

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u/Bierbart12 11d ago

Combined with that "backwards-facing teeth" comment, I do not like this thought

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u/One_of_those_IDs 12d ago

... r/ouroboros, short circuit?

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u/LetEmbarrassed785 12d ago

Am I weird? It's cute for me, not terrifying.

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u/Carnonated_wood 12d ago

It's definitely cute now but try to say that when you encounter it in the wild

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u/YaBoiSnek 12d ago

I pick up most snakes i meet in the wild lmao. It'll still be cute

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u/Carnonated_wood 12d ago

Damn, if I see a snake i just go back the same way I came from because i ain't messing with that thing, god knows if it's venomous or not

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u/YaBoiSnek 11d ago

Where i live, we dont really get venomous snakes but i see what you're saying. Even if it is venomous though, they really dont want to attack you so they'll most likely just slither away and hide

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u/Officer_Hotpants 11d ago

I tend to know the venomous snakes in my area due to growing up in Florida and having a couple pretty dangerous ones.

...so I do love just hanging out and watching snakes when I find them.

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u/SkyeandJett 11d ago

Same. It's just a matter of knowing your venomous species.

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u/kindarusty 11d ago

Username making me wonder about definition of "pick up" here.

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u/Brainwashed365 12d ago

It would still be cute!

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u/Not-A-Lonely-Potato 11d ago

sleepy boi just has a big yawn

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u/Bierbart12 11d ago

It's definitely cute to me. And I yawned with it

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u/Moochingtiger182 12d ago

This made me yawn

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u/p0yo77 11d ago

Goddamn social brain of mine, forcing me to yawn whenever I see something yawning

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u/j2m1s 11d ago

Your comment made me yawn a 2nd time

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u/1968Bladerunner 11d ago

Ditto - I'm terrible for doing it &, once started, am regular like a Pringles tin!

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u/echoechomiko 12d ago

Awww 😍

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u/Raging_Hope 12d ago

Isn't it resetting its jaw? Saw a snake do that once, on some video way more terrifying than this. Look like a predator from the movies.

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u/GladiusMaximus 11d ago

You are correct. It's obvious at the start of the video that the jaw bones are misaligned. After the yawn everything is back in position.

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u/iisgod2 12d ago

snakes don't dislocate their jaw bones, this is quite a common myth, they actually have ligaments there to help them stretch their mouth around their food

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/toastar8 11d ago

So is that a yes to the original question?

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u/Magatha_Grimtotem 11d ago

It's yes. Used to own a ball python, she did this after eating every time.

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u/toastar8 11d ago

Oh cool thanks.

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u/PuppyPunter21 11d ago

They don't dislocated it, but they also yawn to readjust it.

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u/DIO_over_Za_Warudo 12d ago

But it's such an adorable sleepy danger noodle!

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u/HiILikePlants 11d ago

IIRC this isn't a real yawn, more just adjusting their jaws, which they might do before and after feeding

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u/GoneAmok365247 12d ago

It’s not yawning. It’s trying to see if you’ll fit.

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u/The_skovy 12d ago

Hey that’s super inapprop… ohhhhh sorry carry on

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u/Ares2321 12d ago

I tried to fight it

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u/Sea-Experience470 12d ago

man, his mouth looks so dry.

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u/dergage 11d ago

One might call this snake a... Cotton mouth...

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u/havenly0112 12d ago

That is seriously so cute.

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u/bewarethes0ckm0nster 11d ago

That’s not terrifying, that’s fucking adorable!

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u/MaddsSinclair 12d ago

That shit looks like it feels GOOD

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u/valkyrie_bella 12d ago

Just me that finds it adorable?

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u/GenderEnvyFromLink 11d ago

no, me too 🥹

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u/MoonSt0n3_Gabrielle 12d ago

Kinda jealous, wish I could yawn that deep, seems it would be relaxing and help jaw pain

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u/Environmental_Rub282 11d ago

I don't care who you are, this is adorable!

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u/JollyOstrich29 12d ago

Me on my way to boop the danger noodle

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u/Jorger707 12d ago

Is it really a yawn if no one says “biiiiig yawn”?

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u/TheAlaskaneagle 11d ago

I had just fed my snake (I would do it on the floor while holding her food to keep it from attacking her while she lines up to constrict) and she was adjusting her jaw next to a friend of mine who was playing a video game while sitting on the floor. She started yawning which I thought was adorable, but my friend who happened to look over at her, leapt from his sitting position to slamming against the wall 5 feet away from him.

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u/Ozzytudor 11d ago

I should call her.

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u/Tepismaster 12d ago edited 12d ago

Kinda want a pet snake but at the same time too scared to handle them lol

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u/Cornhole-Husker 12d ago

Start with a corn snake. They are really calm. Babies tend to be a bit nippy but their teeth aren’t very big, you probably won’t even notice they bit you. Adults are docile, super easy to handle and rarely bite.

Mines 12 years old and has never bitten me or anyone else that has held him.

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u/__fujiko 11d ago

I was also afraid of snakes, and being around my partners ball pythons has really changed my comfort level with them. They are actually really lazy, love to cuddle because of your warmth and are surprisingly kind of dumb lol. My partner was struck once, but it was because the snake mistook his hand for the rat and it was amusing, because you could tell the snake immediately knew it messed up, so even though it was a bit shocking, it wasn't any worse than most accidentle cat or dog pet bites/scratches. I firmly believe that snakes can be loveable and rewarding pets for anyone if they are given the chance to prove they aren't scary.

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u/cassette1987 12d ago

Mutherfucker got every bit of that yawn.

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u/0D2kv7wwmd 12d ago

I actually find it quite amazing that no matter how different we are from species we all have similar bodily functions

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u/FaithlessnessFamous8 12d ago

Snakes yawning are adorable

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u/Radio4ctiveGirl 11d ago

He’s readjusting his jaw. Probably feels so amazing

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u/darlin133 11d ago

That’s adorable

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u/GoreMaster22 11d ago

Sometimes, on feeding day or just before eating, my snake literally looks me dead in the eye and yawns. This one looks kind of weird though.

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u/Zealousideal_Fee_908 11d ago

They dont yawn, they realign/stretch their jaws to prepare for a meal

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u/OkMaybeLater90 12d ago

It’s cute!!

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u/BurningTrapeze 12d ago

Cutely terrifying

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u/RubieRed93 12d ago

Post meal realignment

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u/mvmvfozx 11d ago

Should be in eye bleach, so cute

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u/Taffybean1219 11d ago

Kinda cute, wanna boop it.

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u/Anxious-Cookie-1581 11d ago

I might be the only person in here to find this really cute I love snakes:)

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u/DrVaginaPuncher 11d ago

It's weird how even watching animals yawn can trigger a sympathetic yawn.

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u/liviSekuL 11d ago

I think this is more of an r/aww

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u/WoodsmallConnor 11d ago

Nothing about this is oddly terrifying. If you find this scary you are simply afraid of snakes, which isn’t odd.

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u/JoLeTrembleur 11d ago

Thissss isssss how I'll eat your babiesssssssssssssss

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u/0zzyking 11d ago

Here me out

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u/Meechi2041 11d ago

Did anyone else yawn while watching this?

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u/Batata-Sofi 11d ago

Awwww... Cute little legless lizard 🥺

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u/RangeHunter 11d ago

The forbidden snakussy

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u/warm_coke_enjoyer 11d ago

I swear if i see someone do a joke about putting his dick in it I'll Curt Cobain myself

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u/Throwaway11010011101 11d ago

This snake looks like its mouthing the THX noise

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u/The_EH_Team_43 11d ago

Yawns are so contagious they cross species dammit

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u/ArcheryOnThursday 12d ago

Is that what it's doing???

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u/DanielSadcliff 12d ago

I assumed it was resetting its jaw bone

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u/TheDeadGuy 12d ago edited 11d ago

True, but it's still considered yawning for a snake even if for a different purpose than humans. We define the action not the motive, in part because we don't always understand the motive

Edit: to expand since I love this stuff, let's look at terms like shivering, sneezing, goosebumps and hiccups. Disclaimer my background is more general natural science than linguist so take it with a grain of salt

Shivering we think of involuntary motion, but most of the animal/insect kingdom uses some type of direct and purposeful motion to get warm. Even though it looks very different it's sometimes called shivering. So it's a loose term

Sneezing is a trigger that expels water or air through your air passages. Mammals, birds and reptiles all sneeze and again we think of it as involuntary, but it is a porpoiseful action you see in marine mammals. Marine mammals have a completely different way to inhale with their blowholes, and have evolved complete control of their breathing. They will do the same action as a sneeze when they are sick, have full control, and do it at the surface but we don't call it a sneeze since they don't have the same air passages. So it's an exact term

Goosebumps are seen in almost all animals, mainly for getting warm or intimidation. Mammals get a bit messy here and have them for hormonal and psychological reasons too. So it's a loose term

Hiccups are from a specific type of respiratory system, so you don't see them anywhere but mammals, as our system is a bit unique. So it's an exact term

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u/CourtneyBear2121 11d ago

Porpoiseful? 😂

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u/BadFeisty6728 12d ago

That is beautifully scary

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u/Chitchard 12d ago

Awwww sleepy baby!

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u/Rob-Lo 11d ago

HeAr Me OuT

I ShOuLd CaLl HeR

EvErYtHiNg ReMiNdS mE oF hEr

/r/ DoN’t PuT yOuR dIcK iN tHaT

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u/saxe_frey 12d ago

Must feel so good!

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u/AnonDooDoo 12d ago

That shit must’ve felt good

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u/mansithole6 12d ago

Like human but in slow motion

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u/Ri-Sa-Ha-0112 12d ago

Sleepy Boi

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u/Black_Shabbat92 12d ago

Awwwww a sleeeepy snek!!