This green snake wrapped itself around the Great White Herons beak to prevent the bird from eating it
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  • 610 points XSainth

    Okay, now what? - snek and heron, probably.

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    153 points Lanaria

    "It seems we are at an impasse"

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    31 points SquashMarks

    And now we play the waiting game

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    29 points Pain_Monster

    Heron proceeds to dunk its beak into water and wait….

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    5 points SvenTropics

    He just has to wait till the bird passes out from exhaustion, and he can escape.

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  • 213 points ResolutionMassive175

    It's already screwed

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    122 points Euklidis

    As per the original reddit post, the snake actually survived

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  • 129 points mikemunyi

    Erm

    Photo Credit: Jose Garcia, 2017 Bird Photographer Of The Year

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    99 points Tayvyer

    Sweet, the original text said the bird gave up and let it go after 20 min, snake won!

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    33 points wdn

    Well, the bird lost. The snake could still be fatally wounded.

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    13 points Tayvyer

    True, but as long as the jaw of the snake isn’t broken, it can still survive quite a lot

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    4 points ojdhaze

    Well that depends if the heron snapped or dislocated the snakes spine. If so, where..is it's anywhere below the bowels/poop shoot (cannot remember anatomical name for it) the some snakes can detach that area and live onwards. If it's above that area then the snake is doomed.

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    3 points Championpuffa

    Have a closer look at the pic. The snakes jaw or mouth seems to be stuck in the beak and is bleeding. It’s quit possible this snakes jaw/mouth is in fact broken or at least damaged to some extent.

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  • 88 points Spare-Dingo-531

    The expression that heron's face, lol.

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    40 points Judazzz

    "The fuck?"

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    12 points nstc2504

    I'll never hear the end of this....

    His friends all cracking up in the background..

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  • 34 points VadakkupattiRamasamy

    Bro thought he could eat that noodle with his chopsticks

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  • 23 points Xenomorphian69420

    This feels like one of aesops fables

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    4 points J-Oat

    There's actually a Chinese fable about a snipe that tried to eat a clam. The clam clamped the snipe's beak shut and neither would let go. A fisherman came across them and got an easy meal.

    It's used to warn against conflicts because it could lead to a lose-lose situation and just benefit a third party.

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  • 15 points weirdgroovynerd

    "Ha! You can't hurt a heron my head!"

    "I bet you r-egret your snack choice now."

    *Dad-Snake

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  • 11 points bucketboy9000

    So now they both battle starvation till one of them is defeated

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  • 8 points raptorrat

    So, like Toad, Green Snake also never gives up?

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  • 6 points tardiusmaximus

    Snake be like "he he, Got your nose"

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  • 4 points Amazing_Attorney8929

    Mutually assured destruction.

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  • 3 points racebanyn

    Checkmate

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  • 3 points dogdogdogdo

    Am I a joke to you?

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  • 1 points mirkk13

    Thats an egret, not a heron.

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    18 points UtterShenanigans

    It is a heron, egrets are in the heron family (Ardeidae). Therefore, all egrets are herons, but not all herons are egrets

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    7 points mirkk13

    Ok, but a "great white heron" is an entirely different bird from the one depicted here.

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    2 points UtterShenanigans

    You're correct there, I didnt reread the title to see they had give the species

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    5 points GoldLegends

    Okay, but here’s the thing….

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    1 points Tybalt941

    Yep, and other languages, like German, don't make a traditional distinction between the herons and the white herons, which makes sense since many are in the same genera. In German the grey heron is the Graureiher (grey heron) and the great egret is the Silberreiher (silver heron).

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  • 1 points Executioneer

    Fox and the pike story

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  • 1 points ragnhildensteiner

    Well the bird will die of thirst/starvation if the green noodle has the stamina to tough it out a few days, no?

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  • 1 points enchufadoo

    Checkmate.

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  • 1 points Munk45

    The Standoff

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  • 1 points captaincornboi

    Reminds me of that picture of a crab holding a gator's jaw closed with its claw

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  • 1 points peeweewizzle

    Bird: If I open my mouth, I will eat you. Snake: If

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  • 0 points Extension-Copy-8650

    i bet all whit high calculus

    but fuck im bad at maths

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  • 0 points No_Freedom_4098

    Which animal will tire first? (Mammals usually outlast reptiles.)

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  • -1 points DreamingDragonSoul

    Aws that jaw. Poor little danger noodle. Bold attempt but hopeless in the end.

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