Why this Baby Python's Life will Soon Be Over I Nature is Brutal

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🐍 The Indian rock python is one of the largest land predators in Sri Lanka. Its mottled brown body provides perfect camouflage on the jungle floor, making it an excellent ambush hunter.
🥚 But a newly hatched python, just 50cm long, can easily become prey instead of predator … Learn how a mother python protects her eggs, what purpose an “egg tooth” serves, and what risks a baby snake faces on its first day out of the shell.
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@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Hi friends! Christopher from Terra Mater here. I hope you liked our short trip into the jungle of Sri Lanka. Have you already seen our bird slaughter video from last week, if not check it out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lduoqcd6zMvcaKc.html

@sailaab 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christopher bhai👌🏽🤍

@stevebennett9839 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought snakes would lay their eggs underground in an abandoned hole. Learn something new everyday. Another great video. U brought it around full circle where they predator becomes the prey.

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Steve! Thank you for your kind words!

@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 2 жыл бұрын

Snakes and crocodilians are actually very dedicated mothers. It certainly puts a spin on the common perception of them, doesn’t it?

@stevebennett9839 2 жыл бұрын

@@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 I knew crocs and gators protect their eggs but yea didn't know pythons had nests like that.

@FunkySnake 2 жыл бұрын

Well, some will

@teijaflink2226 2 жыл бұрын

Not all snakes protect their eggs or babies, some just leave. But it's interesting how some have some kind of mothering or protective instincts, ball python is one example of a snake who curls around and protects its eggs.

@vlearnx2883 2 жыл бұрын

As an Indian Python programmer, I approve of this video.

@djenebasidibe468 2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear 🐍

@pierreabbat6157 2 жыл бұрын

That is a different species, Morelia rossumana (formerly Montypythonoides rossumanus).

@Alinor24 2 жыл бұрын

😄

@deplorabledegenerate2630 2 жыл бұрын

"They don't crush their prey! They just squeeze them until their heart stops from the pressure!" Wolves don't lacerate their prey, they just bite them until they die of bloodloss and exhaustion!

@brycekirkham6896 2 жыл бұрын

These snakes are gorgeous. Great video as always!

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Bryce!

@brycekirkham6896 2 жыл бұрын

@@terramater no problem!

@palefoxcrafts 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh, these babies are adorable 🥺

@tristanheaton2127 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they are

@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 2 жыл бұрын

But when they grow up , they are enough big and strong to squeeze up an adult human to death 💀

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

That's the thing about baby animals 🐍

@hebislay 2 жыл бұрын

@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 but why will they. An Indian Python’s food is never and will never be humans. They prefer to eat rats, pigs. They wouldn’t want to even come in contact with us

@paemonyes8299 2 жыл бұрын

Random question, but I noticed birds have hard shell but reptile eggs appear to be…. Leathery. I’m from Malaysia and we actually eat turtle eggs here, and I notice their “shells” don’t seem shell like. I’ve even seen someone dig out gecko eggs and it did not look like bird eggs

@bobbyjoe232 2 жыл бұрын

Good question.

@raccoontrashpanda1467 2 жыл бұрын

What is the question? Birds have eggs with hard shells and most reptiles have eggs with leathery shells, though there are some exceptions. Crocodilians have hard shelled eggs.

@touremuhammad5983 2 жыл бұрын

Those turtle eggs better have not been fertilized, & not endangered. 😑

@lumiere2713 2 жыл бұрын

It's mainly due to how eggs are incubated, bird eggs are hard due to parents sit on them so they need to be strong, while most reptile eggs are leathery because it's incubation depends on the environment, and because they are cold blooded they don't need to sit on them instead they just buried it or put it in an ideal environment for incubation and they only guard their egg for protection. Atleast that's what I've recalled from my biology class.

@hemerocallis463 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Malaysia too and I assume you're from the east coast, please don't eat turtle eggs, and please encourage others to not eat them too. We have regular eggs to eat, we don't need to harm the turtles for food. Also to answer your question, yes reptiles do have leathery eggs, that shell is actually permeable, so they should be kept in moisture places or they'll dry off. If they are dry, they'll shrink and if they regain moisture, they'll become round and full again.

@DandansoyTV 2 жыл бұрын

I don't like snakes and watching this makes me shiver to the bones but I have to toughen my guts to learn new something about this video.

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

There is something interesting about every animal

@leninnayak563 2 жыл бұрын

This is the classic "the hunter becomes the hunted". The circle of life is amazing.

@jayzenstyle 2 жыл бұрын

These dang spawncampers.

@falcoperegrinus3712 2 жыл бұрын

"pythons don't crush their prey, they just squeeze it hard enough to give it cardiac arrest"

@sujoy456 2 жыл бұрын

03:27 the eagle winked at the camera :)

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

You really watched closely 🦅

@bri1085 2 жыл бұрын

0:55 isn't that crushing their prey?

@xavierzabie8184 2 жыл бұрын

guess it depends on what you mean by "Crush". squeezing something until it has a heart attack is not the same as shatter all its bones and organs into a dead organic mush vaguely reminiscent of the creature it once was.

@bri1085 2 жыл бұрын

@@xavierzabie8184 turning the prey item into mush, seems a little too comical in my opinion. More like crush the life out of it.

@lemsavage9473 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like: "contrary to popular belief pythons don't crush their prey, instead they die by their heart shutting down because they are crushing their prey"

@potatoman2579 2 жыл бұрын

@@lemsavage9473 English is not my first language but wouldn’t squeezing fit it more?

@caspiablue6605 2 жыл бұрын

@@potatoman2579 they both work. Crushing gives off a more destructive and harmful feeling, which works since they are killing their prey. Squeezing personally feels more neutral. Like, if I am squeezing someone's hand, I am just holding it tightly. But if I am crushing someone's hand then I am holding it so tight it is painful, or harmful.

@isaiahnaegi645 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video about Maned Wolves or Norwegian Lemmings?

@benfranco3801 2 жыл бұрын

Maned Wolf!!! YES! One of my favourite animals

@poopp6969 2 жыл бұрын

Maned wolves r so underrated

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

We will take a note on that 😉

@nian60 2 жыл бұрын

Cute babies. 🐍

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

There are some more baby-animal-videos on our channel 😉

@indyreno2933 2 жыл бұрын

Boas and pythons along with other fairly similar snake families are classified within the infraorder Henophidia, henophidians are the most basal infraorder of snakes, as these snakes are most closely related to each other and are not closely related to any other snake, this divides snakes into four infraorders, Henophidia, Scolecophidia, Mesophidia, and Toxicophidia, Mesophidia includes the colubrids and other fairly similar families of snakes, its sister group Toxicophidia includes the vipers, elapids, and other extremely venomous families of snakes, Scolecophidia happens to include the smallest and most harmless snakes, in fact, the infraorders Mesophidia and Toxicophidia are in the clade Caenophidia, which is grouped with the infraorder Scolecophidia in the larger clade Neophidia, while Henophidia is the most distantly related from all the other groups.

@katryzza1171 2 жыл бұрын

Terra mater contents never disappoint 💖

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Kat, this means a lot to us 😊

@shawnohagan5503 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@Deeer69420 2 жыл бұрын

Woah, good vid!

@terramater 2 жыл бұрын

Glad that you like it!

@mohit5496 2 жыл бұрын

I don't need sleep, i need answers

@bri1085 2 жыл бұрын

Go sleep Mohit

@blunzengrostl5899 2 жыл бұрын

Danger Noodles are the best!

@chathuravimanga 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing as always.

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much 😊

@palak22 2 жыл бұрын

They missed the part I was waiting for from the beginning, the catch.

@TheyCallMeNewb 2 жыл бұрын

One may assume that when so small, these pythons eat insects rather than hopping mammals? Or at least that's my leading thought.

@xaserizm 2 жыл бұрын

theyre not really that small and they have 2 jaws that unhinge allowing them to eat prey bigger than their head. they 1000% dont eat insects

@owl4609 2 жыл бұрын

They'd eat smaller mammals and birds! At this age they are nimble enough to climb trees so that allows them easier access. Once they get older they prefer to stick closer to the ground however.

@JKenny44 2 жыл бұрын

Half a meter seems plenty big to eat small mammals

@Amitdas-gk2it 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

We think so too 😊

@bladestar2322 2 жыл бұрын

Go Eagle! 🦅

@shareeve7597 2 жыл бұрын

*Never know snake eggs shaped as inflated beach ball...*

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

They look funny right?! 🐍🥚

@yvetteworrall8909 Жыл бұрын

Delicious, tasty ... are these adjectives accurate? Are birds blessed with taste buds??

@akarshpandey6135 2 жыл бұрын

Srilanka hyperinflation.

@narohato1749 2 жыл бұрын

lol at the serpent eagle peeking through the leaves like a creep

@Jake-iw3tl 2 жыл бұрын

Danger Noodle

@andresdeleon5160 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man

@dnacarnive 8 ай бұрын

When an Eagle grabs an opponent it is not an easy thing to avoid...only a 1% chance of surviving!

@terramater 8 ай бұрын

They're def great hunters!

@JohnDoe-rp8xn Жыл бұрын

Why Everyone's Life will Soon Be Over

@theqdie 2 жыл бұрын

Not an expert and not me correcting nature documentation. It was too my understanding those big snakes can do well with only one meal a month.

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

Since this mother snake just laid her eggs, she used up a lot of her energy and has to gain some strength again therefore needs more food 🐍

@SchnippiTheCat 2 жыл бұрын

mum not protec, eagle tek snek.

@WanderTheNomad 2 жыл бұрын

3:39 what is that camera work?

@WanderTheNomad 2 жыл бұрын

I basically didn't see anything in that time

@williamb.brockmeyer9474 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video BUT - There are two errors in this: 1. They don't kill by "heart stopping from the pressure", but pressure on the lungs causing suffocation. 2. They won't "grow big enough to become predators someday". They already are predators before being hatched, and immediately feed on small baby snake sized prey..... a. They won't increase mass & grow bigger unless they eat, anyway. In life, In your life: you want to be an expert, .... ~ Become one.... (Or leave a disclaimer)

@sailaab 2 жыл бұрын

Life

@danielovercash1093 2 жыл бұрын

Dang I know nature is scary, but can we get a fluffy kitten video next week?

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

Haha we'll take a note on that 😊 but there are some really cute videos on our channel with fluffy animals 😉

@Yourgoofyfollowingme 2 жыл бұрын

💪⬛👍

@swarupsaha4087 2 жыл бұрын

Why don't the video shows the hunt...

@lumiere2713 2 жыл бұрын

Because of KZfaq's community standards.

@swarupsaha4087 2 жыл бұрын

@@lumiere2713 that's really bad....it's only a natural predator hunting its prey..

@lumiere2713 2 жыл бұрын

@@swarupsaha4087 because KZfaq hate natural phenomenon/stuff, and most likely the video will be demonitized if they show the actual hunting because KZfaq says it's too graphic. 😂

@swarupsaha4087 2 жыл бұрын

@@lumiere2713 really...wow..

@lenafromterramater3690 2 жыл бұрын

There is a hunting scene in fact 🐍🦅