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A guy is grabbing a gabbon by the head and one of its fangs sinks thorugh its bottom jaw and bites the guy? Another good reason not to grab large fanged snakes by the head lol.

Nah mate, please post the Vid up...

Love to see it

"Im Evil HAHAHAH"

ive read that in tiger snakes the fangs can actually grow through the bottom jaw and that one can be envenomated without the snake even opening its mouth. anyone heard of this in tiger or other snakes?? it would be my advice to anyone not to pick up ANY venomous snake by the head.
joe

Crikey, thats real amazing..

I heard (and seen) that with taipans, but at least taipans and brown snakes are (mostly) fixed fanged. If you're holding them behind the head they should not be able to reach you (I still wouldn't recommend it).

The real problem is with vipers. Some can get the fang throught the jaw (gaboons) or out the side of the mouth and hook it back far enough to get your finger. Most vipers can't reach if your grip is correct, but it doesn't take much of mistake to get in range.

I've even had a monocled cobra flex it's entire skull to get a fang out the side of it's mouth, bend around and get a lot closer than I would have liked.

The moral of course is "don't grap a snake by the head unless you really know what you're doing AND have a good reason"...
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>>The moral of course is "don't grap a snake by the head unless you really know what you're doing AND have a good reason"...

"grap" = "grab"

I should really start using a spell checker...
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.