Bizzare Video of Snake Eating Another Snake Leaves TikTok in Disbelief: Experts Say It Is Totally Normal

Bizzare Video of Snake Eating Another Snake Leaves TikTok in Disbelief: Experts Say It Is Totally Normal

  • A wildly odd video of a snake trying to eat another snake left many TikTok users traumatised
  • TikTok user @wildanimals8686 shared the video showing the situation and an expert confirmed it was normal
  • Many people took to the comment section to try and make sense of what was going on with the snakes

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If you were today years old when you learnt that snakes eat other snakes as part of their regular diet, join the club. A TikTok showing a snake trying to eat another snake left many puzzling.

TikTok of snake eating snake
TikTok user @wildanimals8686 shared the video showing the situation, and an expert confirmed it is normal. Image: TikTok / @wildanimals8686
Source: TikTok

Snakes are mysterious creatures that eat all sorts of things like rats, chickens and even small buck, but it is not particularly common knowledge that they are cannibals.

TikTok video of snake trying to eat another snake blows minds

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The extremely odd snake video was shared by @wildanimals8686. While you might need to watch it a few times to wrap your head around what the snake has its mouth wrapped around, you’ll see it is another snake!

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Snake expert confirms that this behaviour is totally normal

Briefly News got in touch with our trusty snake expert, Ralph Riggens from Ultimate Exotics, to find out what snake this is and why it was trying to eat another snake. It turns out it is normal!

“That's a king cobra, eating some sort of ratsnake...There are quite a few snake-eating, snakes. King cobras feed almost exclusively on snakes in the wild, in captivity they eat rodents and poultry.”

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This was a lot for some people to process. The comments were quickly filled with disbelief and fear of the snake-eating snake.

Read some of the comments:

@carl lucas said:

“Relationship status - it’s complicated.”

@dats real spit said:

“How did the smaller snake punch through the mouth of the larger one...”

@LIZZY'S MAKENA said:

“What going on here?”

@user2446626448873 Vicky said:

“ Almost broken my phone...”

@Chimbusonma Kalu said:

“I don't understand, is it two-in-one snake or...?”

Snake big enough to swallow a human sends TikTok users into frenzy: Man sets trap to catch the huge serpent

In related news, Briefly News reported that snakes are sneaky critters and one of the most feared things in the world. Brave men set a trap to catch a snake that looked big enough to swallow a human whole.

Most people have watched terrifying movies where snakes eat humans, and it has left people fearful for life. Whether the snake is big or small, best believe someone will be screaming.

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TikTok user @joshchancey55 shared a video showing how the men caught the huge snake. It is an eye-opener watching the snake come out of the water – it is ginormous!

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Denika Herbst (Editor) Denika Herbst is a Human Interest writer at Briefly News. She is also an Industrial Sociologist with a master's degree in Industrial Organisational and Labour Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, which she completed in 2020. She is now a PhD candidate at UKZN. Denika has over five years of experience writing for Briefly News (joined in 2018), and a short time writing for The South African. You can reach her via: denika.herbst@briefly.co.za.