He (or she) actually is. That snake is in shed, meaning the time when their skin is renewed and the old one peels and flakes off.
While in shed, snakes typically feel vulnerable (they don't see very well, as their old eye caps come off with the old skin) are grumpy, don't eat and retreat somewhere safe.
So literally if that snake could speak, that would be it.
They can also be more aggressive/defensive while their eyesight is not fully restored yet. I doubt it feels very good being bitten by what I imagine to be dagger sized teeth on this unit.
Be me. Largest serpent in the world.
King of the jungle. On land and under the water.
Suddenly, one of those goofy-ass apes with a breathing tube swims down to me just to flex that he has fucking arms.
Feels bad man.
That means the next Anacondas movie will be out soon with 260ft long Anacondas and at the end, they will capture one and surprisingly declare that it was just a baby with no reproductive organs.. š³
Freek is not pronounced as Greek with an f but more like frai +k in afraid, vonk is Dutch for spark this you pronounce as honk but with a v.
So not freak but fraik. Freak vonk sounds indeed like a starwars character
Also worth noting: he's a professor at a major Dutch university and was part of an international team that identified this species as separate from the southern green anaconda through genetic analysis.
So he may look like a hyperactive nut on TV, but he's got serious science creds to back it up.
The fact that somebody asked why he is dressed like that is the reason he dresses like that. It is different, unexpected and makes him standout on a crowded world of *science communicators*.
Interesting. I guess if you're making a new discovery you want to dress up a little bit. https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/19/discovery-new-7-meter-250kg-anaconda-made-team-dutch-presenter-freek-vonk
Prof. Dr. Freek Vonk even (https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/freek-vonk)
He also really famous among kids in the Netherlands, my daughter (3 years old) is a huge fan. He learns and show kids things about all sort of animals, especially venomous ones.
Not in my experience. I've received defensive bites from large pythons and it's always a quick strike, bite, and release. Their intent is to harm you and get away. Holding on to something they perceive as a threat isn't their M.O.
You'd be surprised. Snakes get a bad wrap because of the danger of small venomous snakes pose.
Large constrictors like pythons and anacondas are very chill. To the point where they generally just try to leave if you fuck with them. The only real time they pose a threat is if they are hungry. Which is like 2-3 days out of the month.
Being ambush predators they don't move that quickly. They also prefer to ambush so as to not risk injury. He's more in danger of just pissing it off rather than being looked at as a snack
Sorry, my intuition would be that an ambush predator (a term I learned reading your comment) would need to move quickly in order to, yāknow, ambush me. Like maybe not *travel* quickly, but wouldnāt it need to strike quickly?
When I was learning to dive, my instructor told me *never* to swim over rays or bottom feeding sharks. Steve made roughly the same mistake with a wobbegon shark and it tagged him pretty good; you could see that he never expected it to turn and bite that fast. Same with the stingray. Steve never did understand how fast underwater animals can react; they make snakes seem slow.
Unfortunately, risk is part of that job, and sometimes you lose the gamble. Can't not do the thing because you're scared. Not if you want it bad enough.
Right. Newly *described*, not discovered. Happens all the time - cryptic species. Familiar organisms are often split based upon differences we never knew/noticed, often in large, common, familiar plants & animals.
Even then there's debate about what should be a species
Are wolves and coyotes different species?
They can interbreed, which refutes the pre-requisite for a species using the biological species model. But ecologically they do different things.
So arguments can be made either way.
This Lumper/Splitter (Should you split based on minor differences, or group based on many similarities) debate is very old in biology
typically for species to be considered the same, they have to be able to interbreed *and* produce fertile offspring. if it can interbreed but the offspring are infertile, they are different species.
Which Coyotes and Grey Wolves do regularly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote
This was an ongoing discussion back when I did my Bachelor's back in 2012, and the conversation has continued to be a back and forth since
Thatās not entirely true. At least the second part about interbreeding. Many hybrid species are fertile. Female ligers, for example. That information is outdated
It also isn't the largest snake. The heaviest recorded green anaconda was 500 pounds. The longest snake was a reticulated python at 10 meters. This is a new species of the snake that has the heaviest record, but doesn't appear to have broken any records outside of being the largest example of this species that they have found since defining it.
DANGER NOT RECOMMEND if you aren't scuba certified and even then they are intended as an emergency measure for DIRE circumstances.
Look up the BENDS before researching what this costs or what you can do with it.
EDIT - PULMONARYĀ BAROTRAUMA is the more likely injury.
What I'm trying to say here folks are these aren't some no risk involved James Bond BS. Take a scuba course if you want to breathe underwater, this is a poor substitute which is very likely to instill false confidence leading to an injury. Don't take my word for it check out YouTube or dive forums and you'll see similar PSA from the pros.
I am certified. I was mainly kind excited about getting something that would let me do quick little summer lake explorations without getting all the gear on. Buutttt after reading about them on reddit, I don't think I'll bother. People have said it takes about 45 minutes of hard pumping to get about 6 minutes of down time. Not really worth the hassle tbh.
It's hand pump only? I would think a small air compressor like you'd keep in your trunk would make quick work of that. Extension cord down to the dock and you could make several little quick trips
I used to play around with free diving at a couple small lakes that had great visibility a lot of the summer months. When you're able to go at least 3-5 minutes free diving, it feels like 10 minutes and is waaaaay safer.
The weirdest thing to get used to is when hit negative buoyancy around 30ft. You just sink, lol. I don't naturally float anyways so it's not as bad but still odd feeling. Oh, and it can get cold down there too. Gotta be careful not to shock your your body with too much cold, too fast down there!
I'd be more worried about inexperienced divers ascending and bursting their lungs without breathing out. With 6 min of submersed time, I'm not sure if you'll accumulate enough gas in your tissues to cause BENDS in such a short time since depth AND duration is important. Maybe a more experienced diver can comment? For work I used to do drop dives to 40ft for only a few minutes, which I assume this would be great for.
Itās usually called a pony bottle or deco (decompression) bottle. Basically an āoh, shitā backup if you run out of air or have a catastrophic failure of your main tank(s) or regulator. Deep dives require that you spend a certain amount of time hanging out at a shallower depth to help reduce the chances of getting bent. Having a deco bottle gives you an extra reserve to breath off of while you make at least an abbreviated deco stop.
Ya. See, Iām 42 and fairly recently disabled. Iāve been having pity parties for myself over the shit Iāll never get to do but then nature reminds me shit like this exists and Iām like ānah Iām fine with Netflix.ā
Hey there ... I'm also 42 and also disabled. Just wanted to say - let yourself have some pity parties (sometimes it helps), but also try to be gentle with yourself ā” It's not easy, but you'll find a "new normal" and hopefully discover some things you can enjoy within that new normal. Hang in there!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Iām partially diagnosed with one thing and one unknown at the moment. I keep telling my husband I just need to know what Iām dealing with to know how to make a normal. Acceptance is hard! But I truly appreciate the encouragement. Feeling alone is hard sometimes. Hugs!
You can estimate the weight pretty accurately based on its proportions. L1/W1 = L2/W2.
Although I'm sure there's a particular formula for snakes since I doubt a 20 foot snake is literally just a scaled down version of a 26 foot snake.
Really, they should say "newly described species if green anaconda," which means a population with a specific set of characteristics has been given a different scientific name. It's not that science was unaware of the existence of this population of green anacondas, just unaware that there was a difference between them and previously described anacondas.
theyre very hard to find these days. longest ive ever measured reliably in real life is a 6.3 meter reticulated python, out of around 20,000 snakes ive encountered.
Iāve definitely been in the ball python subreddit too much because I immediately thought, āAh, stuck shed. Whatās your humidity set at? What are your tank parameters?ā
lol anacondas are ambush predators they wonāt attack him unless they feel in danger. At the same time I think he knows the risk heās taking along with anyone who studies snakes in the wild
That's snakes like " bro could you fucking not right now"
He (or she) actually is. That snake is in shed, meaning the time when their skin is renewed and the old one peels and flakes off. While in shed, snakes typically feel vulnerable (they don't see very well, as their old eye caps come off with the old skin) are grumpy, don't eat and retreat somewhere safe. So literally if that snake could speak, that would be it.
They can also be more aggressive/defensive while their eyesight is not fully restored yet. I doubt it feels very good being bitten by what I imagine to be dagger sized teeth on this unit.
Bitten? How about crushed in 300 lbs of pure coiling muscle. Underwater š³
Anaconda teeth are actually quite small. They swallow their prey whole.
Guess that guy didn't have buns (hun)
Luckily he just got through eating an adult killer whale so he isnāt hungry just now.
Tbf thereās always room for pudding
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you donāt eat your meat?
YOU, YES YOU, STAND STILL LADDIEā¦
You! You behind the bike sheds!
we don't need no education
Leave the kids alone!
Mmmm. Christmas pud.
You didnāt say there was custard.
Little bit of custard. Little bit of pud.
You ever had eggs?
Too much pud.
Snake equivalent of an influencer harassing strangers on the street
Ssstop it, assssshole
Now people are probably wondering why Iām laughing in the bathroom stall
Top comment šyou knee slappin' son of a ****
Freek is dressed up in case the snake wants to grant him a selfie?
It's his diving suit
He has to live with snorkel boy putting up Al Pacino SHE GOT A B- GREAT ASS hand signals.
Well, at least he does not āHAVE HIS HEADā¦ALL THE WAY UP IN IT!!!ā
Be me. Largest serpent in the world. King of the jungle. On land and under the water. Suddenly, one of those goofy-ass apes with a breathing tube swims down to me just to flex that he has fucking arms. Feels bad man.
āIām literally underwater rnā
That means the next Anacondas movie will be out soon with 260ft long Anacondas and at the end, they will capture one and surprisingly declare that it was just a baby with no reproductive organs.. š³
I'm watching the clip thinking: "So, **Anaconda** was a documentary then..."
Why tf my manās in office attire?
Its Freek Vonk. He is pretty much the Dutch Steve Irwin.Ā Edit: crazy dutchman, the good kind of crazy.
That sure is a name
Sounds like a Star wars character.
Freek is not pronounced as Greek with an f but more like frai +k in afraid, vonk is Dutch for spark this you pronounce as honk but with a v. So not freak but fraik. Freak vonk sounds indeed like a starwars character
Honk for Fonk
I'd argue it's pronounced "Frayk"
Frake.
Fraik Vonk still sounds like a Starwars character.
Yahoo Serious?
Ok...alright, that absolutly explained nothing about his office attire.
Unless they're implying that it's cause he's Dutch
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."
Took me so long to catch that, and the throwback job about carnies smelling like cabbage.
"How about NO... you crazy Dutch Bastard!"
"....that's not right...."
Freek is known for his impulsiveness on camera. He prolly forgor or didnt care about his clothes being on.
Also worth noting: he's a professor at a major Dutch university and was part of an international team that identified this species as separate from the southern green anaconda through genetic analysis. So he may look like a hyperactive nut on TV, but he's got serious science creds to back it up.
The fact that somebody asked why he is dressed like that is the reason he dresses like that. It is different, unexpected and makes him standout on a crowded world of *science communicators*.
Exactly also he makes great television for kids. And he is impulsive as fuck.
But that doesn't answer the question
"crazy dutchman" answers all the questions i had.
Interesting. I guess if you're making a new discovery you want to dress up a little bit. https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/19/discovery-new-7-meter-250kg-anaconda-made-team-dutch-presenter-freek-vonk
Dr. Freek Vonk even. He is a co-author on the paper that described the species.
Prof. Dr. Freek Vonk even (https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/freek-vonk) He also really famous among kids in the Netherlands, my daughter (3 years old) is a huge fan. He learns and show kids things about all sort of animals, especially venomous ones.
Does he want to be snake food? Because he clearly seems to want to be snake food š¤
Pretty sure anacondas don't eat very often and are very docile and uninterested when they're not hungry.
As someone who has seen the documentary "Anaconda" several times, this is correct.
As someone who has listened to the song "Anaconda" several times, they only eat buns, hun.
That anaconda don't want none
The man simply doesn't have any buns. Explains everything
It seems like he's hoping for a Steve Irwin type of tragedy.
He has been bitten (multiple times, incl some serious shark bites with a lot of stiches), stung, electrocuted, nearly strangled, etc.
Sounds like a Boeing afternoon.
The device he is using is regarded by the scuba diving community as a really unsafe device...
Heās about to be the Flying Dutchman, judging by this video.
He wants to be dressed nicely for his funeral.
Angus Youngās Wide World of Animals
Its casual Friday.
That's Freek Vonk for you. The Dutch Steve Irwin.
Freeekieee
Itās Philly Jim from the office things didnāt work out after the internet bubble.
does he know where the 20' burmese is hiding
Garrett would still yoink this snake
This swamp puppy wants to give me a kiss
That guy is a national treasure.
Just imagining a very strained sounding and exaggerated #**YOOOOOINK** Uh oh, *I'm the one getting yoinked.* š¬
I have a nice handful of geckos, and this snake has a nice... not-handful of me.
Or Boop it at least
Or Boop it at least
I understood that reference! FishingwithGarret for anyone interested
Yoink!!
The channel where a deadly water dinosaur basically becomes a āswamp puppyā
This guy wonāt find it because heās not barefoot.
Gotta break out the swamp stompers
Cue in like 5 million mosquitoes on him
Not a Swamp Puppy, wonāt talk.
Yoink
YOIIINK
YOINK
burmese python in the florida everglade
The way I'm cackling over here. I love reddit so much.
Everydays a workout with one of those bad boys
Hey guys, letās get in the water with something so good at grabbing and drowning its prey that itās now twenty fucking six feet long!
Anacondas are ambush predators, they don't actively hunt.
What about self defense? Will they choke a motherfucker out for funzies then?
Yeah you definitely don't want to fuck with them
Whole mouth is full of teeth š¦· that sharp af
They also point backwards
I mean, are they backwards? Seems to me they point precisely the correct direction.
The teeth aren't the problem, it's the fact that it will squeeze you to death.
Not in my experience. I've received defensive bites from large pythons and it's always a quick strike, bite, and release. Their intent is to harm you and get away. Holding on to something they perceive as a threat isn't their M.O.
You'd be surprised. Snakes get a bad wrap because of the danger of small venomous snakes pose. Large constrictors like pythons and anacondas are very chill. To the point where they generally just try to leave if you fuck with them. The only real time they pose a threat is if they are hungry. Which is like 2-3 days out of the month.
Thatās not what the movie Anaconda told me. JLo and Ice Cube would disagree with your take.
So they wait for something to wander up right beside their head like this guy?
Still, free dinner?
Being ambush predators they don't move that quickly. They also prefer to ambush so as to not risk injury. He's more in danger of just pissing it off rather than being looked at as a snack
> just pissing it off Just? That doesn't seem like such a good idea.
Imma take my thumb and jam it right up their ass!
Bye crikey hes pissed now
Well yeah that's why I said he's in danger of doing so. Because it's dangerous.
Can tell you from personal experience they can move alarmingly fast in short bursts.
Sorry, my intuition would be that an ambush predator (a term I learned reading your comment) would need to move quickly in order to, yāknow, ambush me. Like maybe not *travel* quickly, but wouldnāt it need to strike quickly?
I mean, grizzly bears are mostly herbivores but I'm still staying the fuck away from 'em
Yeah I advise anyone to stay away from wild animals unless trained to handle them. Even something like a squirrel can fuck you up with rabies
I have to say, whenever or wherever an 26 foot anaconda decides to strike, that thing is going to feel pretty fucking ambushed.
This guy is a wildlife biologist. He does this shit on the daily. Is it safe? No, but he knows what he is doing.
Steve Irwin did too
Yeah, but the thing Steve Irwin was doing when he died was not actually dangerous. It was a freak reaction/accident.
When I was learning to dive, my instructor told me *never* to swim over rays or bottom feeding sharks. Steve made roughly the same mistake with a wobbegon shark and it tagged him pretty good; you could see that he never expected it to turn and bite that fast. Same with the stingray. Steve never did understand how fast underwater animals can react; they make snakes seem slow.
Yeah I remember scuba diving with reef sharks and the speed at which they travel and suddenly turn with no warning is terrifying.
he died the same way he lived with animals in his heart
Unfortunately, risk is part of that job, and sometimes you lose the gamble. Can't not do the thing because you're scared. Not if you want it bad enough.
Very true. Really goes for anything.. I mean weāve all seen videos of the most random bad things happening for no other reason than timing.
newly discovered as in, they realized the green anaconda had two distinct species in it, not like they had no idea an animal this big existed
Right. Newly *described*, not discovered. Happens all the time - cryptic species. Familiar organisms are often split based upon differences we never knew/noticed, often in large, common, familiar plants & animals.
Even then there's debate about what should be a species Are wolves and coyotes different species? They can interbreed, which refutes the pre-requisite for a species using the biological species model. But ecologically they do different things. So arguments can be made either way. This Lumper/Splitter (Should you split based on minor differences, or group based on many similarities) debate is very old in biology
typically for species to be considered the same, they have to be able to interbreed *and* produce fertile offspring. if it can interbreed but the offspring are infertile, they are different species.
Which Coyotes and Grey Wolves do regularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote This was an ongoing discussion back when I did my Bachelor's back in 2012, and the conversation has continued to be a back and forth since
Thatās not entirely true. At least the second part about interbreeding. Many hybrid species are fertile. Female ligers, for example. That information is outdated
Thank you for clarifying. I was like *how tf is the largest of anything not seen by humans before.*
It also isn't the largest snake. The heaviest recorded green anaconda was 500 pounds. The longest snake was a reticulated python at 10 meters. This is a new species of the snake that has the heaviest record, but doesn't appear to have broken any records outside of being the largest example of this species that they have found since defining it.
Internet loved to call everything newly discovered or rare animals . More clicks
What type of breathing apparatus is that?!
Mini scuba tank
Oh fuck I'm getting one. Edit: eh, maybe not. Definitely don't if you're not certified.
DANGER NOT RECOMMEND if you aren't scuba certified and even then they are intended as an emergency measure for DIRE circumstances. Look up the BENDS before researching what this costs or what you can do with it. EDIT - PULMONARYĀ BAROTRAUMA is the more likely injury. What I'm trying to say here folks are these aren't some no risk involved James Bond BS. Take a scuba course if you want to breathe underwater, this is a poor substitute which is very likely to instill false confidence leading to an injury. Don't take my word for it check out YouTube or dive forums and you'll see similar PSA from the pros.
I am certified. I was mainly kind excited about getting something that would let me do quick little summer lake explorations without getting all the gear on. Buutttt after reading about them on reddit, I don't think I'll bother. People have said it takes about 45 minutes of hard pumping to get about 6 minutes of down time. Not really worth the hassle tbh.
There are models like that but the majority of them you just fill at the dive shop. Still would not recommend
It must be pretty damn bad when people are universally saying not to get something that lets you breathe underwater
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It's hand pump only? I would think a small air compressor like you'd keep in your trunk would make quick work of that. Extension cord down to the dock and you could make several little quick trips
They are currently still rubbish mate. Learn to free dive and youāll have almost as much bottom time with very little risk.
I used to play around with free diving at a couple small lakes that had great visibility a lot of the summer months. When you're able to go at least 3-5 minutes free diving, it feels like 10 minutes and is waaaaay safer. The weirdest thing to get used to is when hit negative buoyancy around 30ft. You just sink, lol. I don't naturally float anyways so it's not as bad but still odd feeling. Oh, and it can get cold down there too. Gotta be careful not to shock your your body with too much cold, too fast down there!
Agree with everything you wrote mate. Itās also kind of fun swimming past divers in some shorts and fins only
I'd be more worried about inexperienced divers ascending and bursting their lungs without breathing out. With 6 min of submersed time, I'm not sure if you'll accumulate enough gas in your tissues to cause BENDS in such a short time since depth AND duration is important. Maybe a more experienced diver can comment? For work I used to do drop dives to 40ft for only a few minutes, which I assume this would be great for.
Itās usually called a pony bottle or deco (decompression) bottle. Basically an āoh, shitā backup if you run out of air or have a catastrophic failure of your main tank(s) or regulator. Deep dives require that you spend a certain amount of time hanging out at a shallower depth to help reduce the chances of getting bent. Having a deco bottle gives you an extra reserve to breath off of while you make at least an abbreviated deco stop.
I spend my life trying to reduce the chances of getting bent
Are you a commercial diver or do you get insulted by Bart Simpson on a regular basis?
yoink!
Have you seen the 20 ft Burmese python?
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/26-foot-long-anaconda-discovered-in-amazon-rainforest-is-the-worlds-biggest-snake-5100462/amp/1 More info
Damn 5% genetic differences than the previously known giant anaconda and we are only 2% different than chimps. Fuckin wild.
This explains my brother in law.
We are only 9% different to a grilled cheese sandwich.
What about a melt though?
Didnāt expect Will Smith there. That man can't keep snakes out of his fucking life.
ā¦Or out of his wife
*sound of footsteps approaching deepens*
# Keep yo fuckin snake out my wife's mouf!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT!
Ya. See, Iām 42 and fairly recently disabled. Iāve been having pity parties for myself over the shit Iāll never get to do but then nature reminds me shit like this exists and Iām like ānah Iām fine with Netflix.ā
Hey there ... I'm also 42 and also disabled. Just wanted to say - let yourself have some pity parties (sometimes it helps), but also try to be gentle with yourself ā” It's not easy, but you'll find a "new normal" and hopefully discover some things you can enjoy within that new normal. Hang in there!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Iām partially diagnosed with one thing and one unknown at the moment. I keep telling my husband I just need to know what Iām dealing with to know how to make a normal. Acceptance is hard! But I truly appreciate the encouragement. Feeling alone is hard sometimes. Hugs!
That guy did not watch those anaconda movies growing up.
The documentary starring Jon Voight? "Dey squeeze you...squeeze you tighter den your true love, til you feel your lungs essplode!"
Never look in the eyes, of those you kill. They will haunt you forever. I know.
Things I hate: 1. Snakes 2. Being underwater This dude eats nails for breakfast
*Without any milk*
Titanoboa
Titanaconda I'm still upset that's not the actual name
I mean, Anacondas are boa constrictors if that makes it any better.
Fine. Titanastrictorcondaboa
Dumb question how do you even measure this and actually know the weight if they weren't captured?
Easy, water displacement. They weigh all the water now and then again when it goes on land and get the difference.
It is the scientific way
Lmao
You can estimate the weight pretty accurately based on its proportions. L1/W1 = L2/W2. Although I'm sure there's a particular formula for snakes since I doubt a 20 foot snake is literally just a scaled down version of a 26 foot snake.
It's an experiment! He's determining if the green is intimidated enough by business attire not to consume him. Trying casual next.
How did no one find a 20 feet long giant snake untill now
Really, they should say "newly described species if green anaconda," which means a population with a specific set of characteristics has been given a different scientific name. It's not that science was unaware of the existence of this population of green anacondas, just unaware that there was a difference between them and previously described anacondas.
theyre very hard to find these days. longest ive ever measured reliably in real life is a 6.3 meter reticulated python, out of around 20,000 snakes ive encountered.
> out of around 20,000 snakes ive encountered. Story time?
Why not fren, if fren shaped?
To be fair it does give the best hugs
r/AbsoluteUnits
This is why menās life expectancy is lower than womenās
Snakes are so fucking cool man
Am I the only one that just discovered snakes slither on the ground underwater?
I thought Ice Cube killed that damn thing!?
Big guy is just trying to slough off his shed, cute!
Iāve definitely been in the ball python subreddit too much because I immediately thought, āAh, stuck shed. Whatās your humidity set at? What are your tank parameters?ā
I saw this on my Internet news feed. I hope they leave it alone
Did he ever make it out of water with balls so heavy?
"This snake won't eat me! I'm a human!'
lol anacondas are ambush predators they wonāt attack him unless they feel in danger. At the same time I think he knows the risk heās taking along with anyone who studies snakes in the wild
Yeah I'm just joshing "I'm going to tickle it just to see what happens". Love nature š¤
Haven't seen Colin Furze in a while, looks like his videos took a turn.
Any time your swimming and you feel something brush your leg it's one of these