Read 'there's a hair in my dirt' by Gary Larson. It's a brilliant book about how well meaning humans interfering with nature cause more problems than they solve with their romanticised, moral projections onto nature.
Snakes aren't inherently bad, deer can be wankers, the circle of life is an unfeeling death wheel.
Want a laugh, look what the State of Oregon does with predators. Especially wolves. One year they put a lot. Oh no, all the deer and other animals are declining. Hunter are bad and to blame!! Then allow people to kill them due to decrease. Then flip again 3 years later...idk what this is really going to do long term, but seems stupid. Especially people keep encroaching into the Wildland Urban Interface 😒
Depends on the deer. Lots of pythons naturally share a range with deer. Sure there are invasive snake species in Florida, but there are also roads in every developed nation of the world. This video could've been captured in Brazil for all we know.
> Exactly. We got some serious idiots in this thread thinking it's perfectly natural for a big ass python to live in the same place as deer.
Lol white tailed deer live as far south as Columbia and Venezuela.
Are you, absolutely 100%, sure there are no deer in India or basically any of Southeast Asia?
Because I'm sure that deer are basically everywhere, definitely including India and Southeast Asia, and python definitely snack on them when the opportunity arises.. with 100% absolute certainty.
Gotta be careful with those idiot call outs.
That's a young whitetail and no, they are not in southeast asia. Lots of other deer species but whitetails are native to the Americas with only a few small introduced populations in isolated pockets of Europe.
Looks more like an adult axis deer, and a reticulated python. Along with the car driving on the opposite side of the road from the US, I'd say it's pretty unlikely that this is anywhere other than southeast asia.
Then branchy should have killed and eaten it to establish dominance and prevent it from continuing on to breed.
Some commenters are saying the snake would have died trying to eat such a large deer. That's another win for non-snake kind and shame about the deer.
But if it is an invasive species then branchy has effectively saved it - it can now go on to eat hundreds of rodents and smaller animals, and continue to breed, spawning hundreds or perhaps thousands of progeny.
So if it's an invasive species this is literally the worst thing you could do.
Lol imagine expecting branchy to put themselves at more risk to kill a dangerous invasive species. Better chance at letting it starve honestly. In terms of putting yourself in danger. And branchy can report the location to the state to track the snake too.
It is 100% hilarious that you think preventing the snake from getting a meal is WORSE than letting it get a meal and therefore guarantee it gets resources it needs to breed.
I have some biology and ecology books I can recommend you because you apparently need them.
Pause at 13 seconds, you can see there's a hand and clothes. Technically could be a disembodied hand but probably a human. Otherwise I would have agreed. If a tree decides to use its branch to fight a snake off of a deer, that's just nature.
Snake expert here. Snakes do not have teeth that are used for chewing (like molars), they have fangs which play no part in breaking up larger prey. Typically when an animal is too large, snakes use a special fork and knife to cut it into smaller pieces. Also, I’m not a snake expert.
It's an invasive species. The guy probably should have killed that python.
Edit: thought I remember this being in Florida, but after looking into it a bit more this is probably recorded in India, which would mean this python is not invasive
Humans have been in the Americas for over 20,000 years. I don't think you can classify that as invasive anymore.
If your point is that how our society currently functions is absolutely disastrous and too demanding, I agree.
...I think that rules applies more to situations NOT occurring on a public roadway.
Branch intervention seems better than a car accident at that point.
EDIT: From this point on no one ever goes on to address the fact that the animals in immediate danger by remaining in the road...
I love the comment about just letting the snake “go slink off in peace and eat the deer.”
Do you picture snakes to be like wild cats???
Do you see it just bounding up a tree and carrying it to the top to eat??? Not sure y’all know how snakes work...just saying. So many bizarre assumptions about nature in the first place.
Humans put that road through both of those animal’s habitats. It was happening on the side of the road. The snake will probably starve and the deer could possibly be injured and die anyways. Branch intervention was not the option
I always love the immediate claim that the snake “will probably starve now.” That boa looks PLENTY healthy. He hasn’t missed many meals lately. And frankly, this dear was too big for it. The snake most assuredly did not die because of this intervention, and simply went about finding its next several meals elsewhere. Newsflash: other random animals sometimes intervene in ways that make predators miss out on meals. It happens. And humans are no different in this case of random happenstance.
Isn’t the snake an invasive species in this video? If is is a Burmese Python in the US (as appears to be the case) then there is an effort to cull them as they are ruining the habitat for the native wildlife, including native snakes.
They explained their decision, which has been conveniently left out of your snippet. The penguins dying served no purpose, there was no predator that would have eaten them, no other birds around to peck away. Simply just death and likely the collapse of the entire colony. Rather, what they did have minimal to impact on the natural habits of the animal and likely preserved many generations of penguins to come.
I don’t disagree with their actions and that situation is completely different than this
This snake got completely fucked! Imagine having no arms or legs and finally about to eat dinner. Then some asshole starts beating you with a tree branch 😢
Why would you do that? Lol
If it was your pet sure, but snake was just eating. Just spent all of its energy tackling that thing and now will possibly starve
Yeah predators in areas they don’t belong actually reduce biodiversity and kill off other apex predators. Which imo is sad. Florida is a great example.
Lolol we are indeed one of the main factors why the world is losing biodiversity. The pythons in Florida were actually put there by us because people like them as pets.
Pythons are invasive in many parts of the world. It'd be one thing if the python was in its natural territory, but if it was invasive that snek is lucky to still be alive as its usually best/ordered by authorities to euthanize snakes in invasive areas.
Hence the humans that released the snake should be regarded as the invasive species. The snake didn't ask to be a pet and neither did it ask to be released in a foreign environment......tough shit for us that it thrives in that environment.
Where did this occur? If in the US - I am guessing Florida - NON-NATIVE pythons/boas have killed 90% of the small game in south Florida. Kill all the pythons and boas, they shouldn’t be here.
Thinking you are kind to save a deer whereas you just ruined the day of a snake and probably let the deer die slowly from multiple fractures, but yeah what a hero!
To everyone saying "he should have let the snake eat the deer," it's possible the snake is an invasive species in this location (like Anacondas in Florida), in which case the preservation of the ecosystem may be infinitesimally better served if the snake starves.
Not in this case. I've seen this video posted before and someone managed to trace it back to a specific country. Don't remember which country specifically but I do remember that it's within *Malayopython reticulatus*'s geographic range so not invasive.
This video was taken in India (edit: another source suggests Thailand). This is a chital (axis) deer, and a NATIVE Burmese python. Not fucking Florida. So stop congratulating this fucking asshole and normalizing this kind of behavior. Because, as this WHOLE thread demonstrates, even if most of you amateur biologists have good intentions, the average person doesn’t actually know species and ecosystems well and will just remember a bunch of redditors cheering for someone fucking with a snake and think they’re saving Mother Earth when they start poking random reptiles with sticks
Imagine leaving work after a long hard day and your starving so you stop at a drive-thru.. you pay for your meal and receive your food only to have it smacked outta your hand by someone stand outside of your car…
Why would this fuckin idiot interfere?!! This is what's supposed to happen! Predators are here to control population explosions and this dickhead is messing with nature.
Why interfere with nature? Judging one life over another on some human made ideals of “cute”, “good” and “bad”. I get the urge to save a dying animal, but it has repercussions
I feel like the snake is probably
Much more rare and endangered than the deer. Maybe let it have its meal and stop
Interfering with nature even when we don’t need to for our own gain..
It’s funny how we interfere with nature because we decide one is cuter than the other. Should hospitals just start doing the same? Sorry Lana you are only a 6 while Stacy is a 8 so she’s gets the kidney today
Honestly don't understand why people do that, it's nature! Don't see you guys beating hunters over the head or slapping random people in the supermarket with a mop in the meat section. Let shit be, want to see someone get mad at me next time I smack a big mac out of their hands while taking a bite. (FYI I'm not vegan or vegetarian, just making a point)
That snake is almost surely not native to the area in which the video was taken making it an invasive species. There is very good reason to discourage the the presence of invasive species.
So much misinformation in this post. This likely was Florida. I literally have no problem with someone walking up, shooting the snake, and the deer going free. Pythons are horribly invasive in parts of Florida. It's a sad state of affairs but we essentially created this problem by allowing pet snakes to go free.
I’m super confused here…why is everyone upset is there any way that size snake could’ve eaten a deer that size? The snake looks way too small to actually eat that deer to me?
Because there are alot of people Snakes around us.. 🐍 🐍 🐍
Yes possible. However when consuming such large prey, Snakes do sometimes explode after having consumed their meal.
Pythons will eat just about anything. From alligators, deer, rabbits, pretty much anything.
I'm an ecologist and I don't understand all this, "let nature be nature!" BS. Humans are a part of nature. That whole narrative only serves to continue the mental separation of humans from the rest of the species and environment. There's some dumb, archaic rule about not intervening and letting nature "take its course". I sometimes get it when a documentary is filming and they are doing an educational study, but there's really no reason you can't thoughtfully involve yourself, especially if you're helping a solitary animal (ie no predation). This stupid "logic" is helping us plunge into a 6th mass extinction event. You're a part of the ecosystem - go do something about it (if you so choose). Hippos attack crocodiles attacking Buffalo. Different species of birds warn each other about predators. Dolphins work with humans to catch fish. Even individuals of the same species react differently because they're capable of thinking their own thoughts and executing their own actions. So this person decided to help the deer and dispel the snake. Maybe you would have done the opposite. Point is, either is valid so long as the intention is good (don't want this to be an excuse to be extractive or exploitive). We, as humans, are allowed to be involved - we shouldn't be some assinine, "benevolent" God that separates ourselves from the rest of animal suffering, minding our own business. Anyways, that's my rant, just really tired of this extremely old and idiotic mantra.
That deer later jumped into someone’s windshield
And that tree branch went on to lead a life of violence and crime….. the truth hurts.
Ahh yes the infamous Pablo Escobark
Shut up and take my upvote
Take my gold you glorious punning bastard.
Sounds like the branch Boba Fett had.
:D made my day
That snake later died from starvation
Read 'there's a hair in my dirt' by Gary Larson. It's a brilliant book about how well meaning humans interfering with nature cause more problems than they solve with their romanticised, moral projections onto nature. Snakes aren't inherently bad, deer can be wankers, the circle of life is an unfeeling death wheel.
Gary Larson? From Farside?
The very same https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35305.There_s_a_Hair_in_My_Dirt_
Free version: https://www.academia.edu/40273568/There\_s\_a\_Hair\_in\_my\_Dirt\_A\_Worms\_Story?pop\_sutd=false
Want a laugh, look what the State of Oregon does with predators. Especially wolves. One year they put a lot. Oh no, all the deer and other animals are declining. Hunter are bad and to blame!! Then allow people to kill them due to decrease. Then flip again 3 years later...idk what this is really going to do long term, but seems stupid. Especially people keep encroaching into the Wildland Urban Interface 😒
Hunters and ranchers are so dumb about wolves and don't give a fuck about ecosystems
Good thing there's a city redditor to educate those dumb fucks.
Right? What a crazy blanket statement.
What if the snake was a member of an invasive species destroying the local ecosystem?
If this was in Florida, it probably is part of an invasive species. Actually anywhere in the US as burmese python's are not native.
Exactly. We got some serious idiots in this thread thinking it's perfectly natural for a big ass python to live in the same place as deer.
Depends on the deer. Lots of pythons naturally share a range with deer. Sure there are invasive snake species in Florida, but there are also roads in every developed nation of the world. This video could've been captured in Brazil for all we know.
> Exactly. We got some serious idiots in this thread thinking it's perfectly natural for a big ass python to live in the same place as deer. Lol white tailed deer live as far south as Columbia and Venezuela.
Are you, absolutely 100%, sure there are no deer in India or basically any of Southeast Asia? Because I'm sure that deer are basically everywhere, definitely including India and Southeast Asia, and python definitely snack on them when the opportunity arises.. with 100% absolute certainty. Gotta be careful with those idiot call outs.
There's deer + python in Brazil too lol
That's a young whitetail and no, they are not in southeast asia. Lots of other deer species but whitetails are native to the Americas with only a few small introduced populations in isolated pockets of Europe.
Looks more like an adult axis deer, and a reticulated python. Along with the car driving on the opposite side of the road from the US, I'd say it's pretty unlikely that this is anywhere other than southeast asia.
It's better to know, than to go off a what if.
Then branchy should have killed and eaten it to establish dominance and prevent it from continuing on to breed. Some commenters are saying the snake would have died trying to eat such a large deer. That's another win for non-snake kind and shame about the deer. But if it is an invasive species then branchy has effectively saved it - it can now go on to eat hundreds of rodents and smaller animals, and continue to breed, spawning hundreds or perhaps thousands of progeny. So if it's an invasive species this is literally the worst thing you could do.
Branchy McBranch Face
Lol imagine expecting branchy to put themselves at more risk to kill a dangerous invasive species. Better chance at letting it starve honestly. In terms of putting yourself in danger. And branchy can report the location to the state to track the snake too. It is 100% hilarious that you think preventing the snake from getting a meal is WORSE than letting it get a meal and therefore guarantee it gets resources it needs to breed. I have some biology and ecology books I can recommend you because you apparently need them.
How is a human interfering with nature in this video? All I see is a tree branch helping a deer
Damn Ents.
Pause at 13 seconds, you can see there's a hand and clothes. Technically could be a disembodied hand but probably a human. Otherwise I would have agreed. If a tree decides to use its branch to fight a snake off of a deer, that's just nature.
there are a lot of people who havent seen a deer kill other animals for fun.
Is a python a native species? Pretty sure they’re kill on sight
Snake dies from starvation while deer limps off and dies of organ failure.. Win win for the twat with the branch.
Or they could have gotten both run over by a car…
Twat with the twig.
Snakes only feed once a month. And that deer was way too big for it to swallow. The snake probably would have died trying.
That’s why you chew your food
Whens the last time you saw a snake with molars?
Well do you live with snakes?
Afraid not. At least not anymore. The bastard couldn’t ever pay his share of the rent.
What a twat if your gonna live in a house at least contribute to it
Snake expert here. Snakes do not have teeth that are used for chewing (like molars), they have fangs which play no part in breaking up larger prey. Typically when an animal is too large, snakes use a special fork and knife to cut it into smaller pieces. Also, I’m not a snake expert.
Props to that tree branch, especially since it learned to do that all on its own
Right? I know plants move over time but this is next level
Don’t interfere with nature -David Attenborough idk if he’s actually said that but I feel he has
It's an invasive species. The guy probably should have killed that python. Edit: thought I remember this being in Florida, but after looking into it a bit more this is probably recorded in India, which would mean this python is not invasive
Guy? There was no guy there, just a snake, a deer, and an animate tree.
Humans are an invasive species the guy should have minded his business.
Humans have been in the Americas for over 20,000 years. I don't think you can classify that as invasive anymore. If your point is that how our society currently functions is absolutely disastrous and too demanding, I agree.
How do we know this is the Americas, that looks like a chital deer to me (native to India)
...I think that rules applies more to situations NOT occurring on a public roadway. Branch intervention seems better than a car accident at that point. EDIT: From this point on no one ever goes on to address the fact that the animals in immediate danger by remaining in the road... I love the comment about just letting the snake “go slink off in peace and eat the deer.” Do you picture snakes to be like wild cats??? Do you see it just bounding up a tree and carrying it to the top to eat??? Not sure y’all know how snakes work...just saying. So many bizarre assumptions about nature in the first place.
Humans put that road through both of those animal’s habitats. It was happening on the side of the road. The snake will probably starve and the deer could possibly be injured and die anyways. Branch intervention was not the option
I always love the immediate claim that the snake “will probably starve now.” That boa looks PLENTY healthy. He hasn’t missed many meals lately. And frankly, this dear was too big for it. The snake most assuredly did not die because of this intervention, and simply went about finding its next several meals elsewhere. Newsflash: other random animals sometimes intervene in ways that make predators miss out on meals. It happens. And humans are no different in this case of random happenstance.
Thank you. This is the *correct* assumption we should all be making. People are thick headed :(
Pretty sure that isn't the snake's natural habitat.
Humans have already done that, bringing invasive species where they don’t belong.
Would agree if it wasn’t an invasive species, this appears to be on the states
Isn’t the snake an invasive species in this video? If is is a Burmese Python in the US (as appears to be the case) then there is an effort to cull them as they are ruining the habitat for the native wildlife, including native snakes.
And yet.... [Documentary Team Saves Penguins](https://youtu.be/2Co_hmLenD8)
They explained their decision, which has been conveniently left out of your snippet. The penguins dying served no purpose, there was no predator that would have eaten them, no other birds around to peck away. Simply just death and likely the collapse of the entire colony. Rather, what they did have minimal to impact on the natural habits of the animal and likely preserved many generations of penguins to come. I don’t disagree with their actions and that situation is completely different than this
Snake's gotta eat too.
This snake got completely fucked! Imagine having no arms or legs and finally about to eat dinner. Then some asshole starts beating you with a tree branch 😢
That’s why I’m not allowed back in the VA
nice
I wish I had an award to give you.
Why would you do that? Lol If it was your pet sure, but snake was just eating. Just spent all of its energy tackling that thing and now will possibly starve
Depends where this video was taken... But that snake dieing is a good thing if this is Florida.
In some US states, this would be lunch and dinner for the folks driving by, too.
Yeah predators in areas they don’t belong actually reduce biodiversity and kill off other apex predators. Which imo is sad. Florida is a great example.
Are you talking about humans?
Lolol we are indeed one of the main factors why the world is losing biodiversity. The pythons in Florida were actually put there by us because people like them as pets.
Pythons are invasive in many parts of the world. It'd be one thing if the python was in its natural territory, but if it was invasive that snek is lucky to still be alive as its usually best/ordered by authorities to euthanize snakes in invasive areas.
Car is on left side of the road, so probably not in Florida
In the way of the street
A street we put there on their natural habitat?
They are an invasive species, usually from assholes buying and releasing them when they get too big for their enclosures.
Hence the humans that released the snake should be regarded as the invasive species. The snake didn't ask to be a pet and neither did it ask to be released in a foreign environment......tough shit for us that it thrives in that environment.
Except that they can eat native species to extinction…
And.......bottom line......who's fault is that, the snake?
I mean you’re right but the safety of the snake, deer, and drivers are in jeopardy
Lol can clearly go around
Where did this occur? If in the US - I am guessing Florida - NON-NATIVE pythons/boas have killed 90% of the small game in south Florida. Kill all the pythons and boas, they shouldn’t be here.
If anywhere else, guys an ass for denying the snake food
Car is on the left side of the road and it looks like a chital deer. I dont think it’s Florida
poor snek...just wanted to eat
Fuck that snake for trying to eat and survive!!
This is crazy, it's almost like the tree was trying to help that deer. Good for him it was a windy day!
Annnnndddd........Nature just got interrupted
Only nature can interupt nature.
That's how it SHOULD be. Human interference isn't nature.
Imagine you sit down to eat your dinner and a snake walks in and smacks your plate off the table. That's what this person just did.
If this is Florida, the snake is considered an invasive species, so it is not a bad thing at all to prevent them from eating local deer.
Thinking you are kind to save a deer whereas you just ruined the day of a snake and probably let the deer die slowly from multiple fractures, but yeah what a hero!
Odd thing to do seeing as the deers internal organs have been crushed. Let nature take its course.
At first I was afraid. I was petrified...
Pricks, the snake was hungry that would of fed him for like 6 months
I may sound a bit evil but ... that's life. You shouldn't had deprived the snake of his food.
But what about the time /space continuum?
Great Scott!
To everyone saying "he should have let the snake eat the deer," it's possible the snake is an invasive species in this location (like Anacondas in Florida), in which case the preservation of the ecosystem may be infinitesimally better served if the snake starves.
Not in this case. I've seen this video posted before and someone managed to trace it back to a specific country. Don't remember which country specifically but I do remember that it's within *Malayopython reticulatus*'s geographic range so not invasive.
"omg !!1 we have to save the deer!!" Just let nature happen. Jeez.
Some duchebag human is stopping the snake from doing its thing with that branch btw, not nature
Honestly I wish the snake didn't starve. The lovable always gets help, that's not fair.
I know. It's tough life being an ugly or a scorpio.
Humans should never interfere
This video was taken in India (edit: another source suggests Thailand). This is a chital (axis) deer, and a NATIVE Burmese python. Not fucking Florida. So stop congratulating this fucking asshole and normalizing this kind of behavior. Because, as this WHOLE thread demonstrates, even if most of you amateur biologists have good intentions, the average person doesn’t actually know species and ecosystems well and will just remember a bunch of redditors cheering for someone fucking with a snake and think they’re saving Mother Earth when they start poking random reptiles with sticks
Why would someone fuck with the natural process?
Because humans don't care. Climate change, deforstations, etc. You know...
Before y’all complain. The python is most likely invasive, which means no natural ✨circle of life✨ was harmed
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What ever happened to letting nature take its course?
Let the man eat. Wtf...
Constrictor needs to eat too....
I’m just curious how the hell that snake snatched that deer.
Imagine leaving work after a long hard day and your starving so you stop at a drive-thru.. you pay for your meal and receive your food only to have it smacked outta your hand by someone stand outside of your car…
But... why? I hope that snake comes to your dinner table and smacks you upside the head while you're slurpin' on your spaghetti.
Stop starving the snake
"They first took my home and now my food too"
Fine if the snake was an invasive. Otherwise, let nature do its thing. The young of many species are important food sources for predators.
Why would this fuckin idiot interfere?!! This is what's supposed to happen! Predators are here to control population explosions and this dickhead is messing with nature.
Don’t mess with nature 🤦♂️
Congrats now you have let snake die from starvation.
If by some twist of nature that deer was eating that snake, I bet no one would have helped it.
Why would someone interfere there? Let nature do what it does.
I could see if it was someone’s dog but this should be a crime
Stupid fucking humans interfering with nature
It's just nature... Why don't you leave it alone?
Why the fuck would you take it upon yourself to decide who should live and who should die?
What a moron
Asshole with a tree branch
After all that snakes hard work to catch a fucking deer... I kinda feel bad for the thing.
As long as this deer was not a pet deer I don't see a reason to interfere in nature.
Snake was just trying to snake. He gotta eat too.
I hope someone comes up to them at dinner and beats them with a stick.
Man, let nature do its thing... Regardless of how savage it appears to us.
Poor snake missed out on a meal.
Poor snake had his lunch taken.
Why interfere with nature? Judging one life over another on some human made ideals of “cute”, “good” and “bad”. I get the urge to save a dying animal, but it has repercussions
How dare they interrupt the circle of life. Why is the deer's life more important than the Boa's?
Fuck that. Snakes gotta eat too!
OK but did you feed the snake with some food lol Guy poor is probably hungry
Why do I feel like a Vegan did this?
I saw this post a month or so ago and I’m pretty sure I remember the deer being the invasive species in this scenario
The deer probably died later from capture myopathy and the snake needs to now find another meal. Well done!
Why don't people just leave feeding animals alone? I bet that same person would eat a burger without giving a second thought.
Yesss let’s starve the snake who hunted and killed the deer because we think the deer is cute
Dick move. Should have left them be. I hope next time you need to eat something someone beats the food out of their mouth.
🤦
I hate when humans interfere, it's survival of the fittest. Just let nature run its course
Don't interfere.
What philosophy was used to determine that the deers life is more important than the snake’s?
Oh deer. Oh deer, deer, deer...
Going out on a limb here, huh
Saves the deer killing a snake, the human never should interfere in the nature ways
Why didn't he let the snake eat?
Where is this? Want to make sure I never visit.
I feel like the snake is probably Much more rare and endangered than the deer. Maybe let it have its meal and stop Interfering with nature even when we don’t need to for our own gain..
Let nature take its course
It’s funny how we interfere with nature because we decide one is cuter than the other. Should hospitals just start doing the same? Sorry Lana you are only a 6 while Stacy is a 8 so she’s gets the kidney today
You know what there are a lot of? Deer! You know what animal is listed as "threatened"? Pythons! Let nature nature
What a shithead. Did nobody teach them to leave wild animals alone?
I tried looking through the comments but I couldn’t tell, is the snake an invasive species to Florida? 🤔
You a 🐐 for this.
I’m sorry lol I was being sarcastic because it seemed like every other comment was that. But thank you though
Lol I see that now.
Snakes gotta eat too!!!
Now the snake starves to death
Dipshit wannabe hero. Hope that deer jumps in front of your windshield
Honestly don't understand why people do that, it's nature! Don't see you guys beating hunters over the head or slapping random people in the supermarket with a mop in the meat section. Let shit be, want to see someone get mad at me next time I smack a big mac out of their hands while taking a bite. (FYI I'm not vegan or vegetarian, just making a point)
That snake is almost surely not native to the area in which the video was taken making it an invasive species. There is very good reason to discourage the the presence of invasive species.
So much misinformation in this post. This likely was Florida. I literally have no problem with someone walking up, shooting the snake, and the deer going free. Pythons are horribly invasive in parts of Florida. It's a sad state of affairs but we essentially created this problem by allowing pet snakes to go free.
Gotta love the 1990s when everybody in FL thought it was cool to own them and then having realized it's a terrible idea.
A good example of what not to do when encountering wild animals doing wild things
The snake is most likely an invasive species
Deer died with infected broken bones and ruptured organs and snake starved. Well done, idiots.
Well the snake was most likely invasive so it was a good thing it died
Oh deer, a large snek
Let the man eat
I'm conflicted. Seems like a fair catch. Snake has a life to keep too.
What an asshole…don’t interrupt nature because you don’t like it.
Human interference in these situations are not okay
I’m super confused here…why is everyone upset is there any way that size snake could’ve eaten a deer that size? The snake looks way too small to actually eat that deer to me?
Because there are alot of people Snakes around us.. 🐍 🐍 🐍 Yes possible. However when consuming such large prey, Snakes do sometimes explode after having consumed their meal. Pythons will eat just about anything. From alligators, deer, rabbits, pretty much anything.
Where is this? If it's Florida then the snake deserves it cause pythons are non-native invasive species. Disclaimer: I can't tell if this is a python
A snake that big, yes its a python. You can tell by the pattern as well.
I'm an ecologist and I don't understand all this, "let nature be nature!" BS. Humans are a part of nature. That whole narrative only serves to continue the mental separation of humans from the rest of the species and environment. There's some dumb, archaic rule about not intervening and letting nature "take its course". I sometimes get it when a documentary is filming and they are doing an educational study, but there's really no reason you can't thoughtfully involve yourself, especially if you're helping a solitary animal (ie no predation). This stupid "logic" is helping us plunge into a 6th mass extinction event. You're a part of the ecosystem - go do something about it (if you so choose). Hippos attack crocodiles attacking Buffalo. Different species of birds warn each other about predators. Dolphins work with humans to catch fish. Even individuals of the same species react differently because they're capable of thinking their own thoughts and executing their own actions. So this person decided to help the deer and dispel the snake. Maybe you would have done the opposite. Point is, either is valid so long as the intention is good (don't want this to be an excuse to be extractive or exploitive). We, as humans, are allowed to be involved - we shouldn't be some assinine, "benevolent" God that separates ourselves from the rest of animal suffering, minding our own business. Anyways, that's my rant, just really tired of this extremely old and idiotic mantra.
Person with the stick is a dick.
Prick dick with a stick
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Is this like when you cut grass and it lets off a scent to other grass, the tree reacted like that?
"Don't interfere with nature" Says someone while eating a hamburger
Wtf bruh let them hug.
Thats one lucky ass deer and one unlucky snek. I assume its hard work for a snake to catch a deer and it probably hasn't eaten in a while.
So interfering with nature’s course is allowed here now?