for not realising rattlesnakes can still kill after it is dead?!

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44392861

I am not snake-phobic really, but this story freaked me out!

"Jennifer Sutcliffe told local station KIII-TV that her husband was working in the garden when he saw the four-foot (1.25m) rattlesnake and decapitated it.

When he picked up the snake's remains to dispose of them, the head bit him.

A snake's bite reflex can be triggered up to several hours after it has died "

ffs after THEY are dead, I mean!

Huh, that used to be one of the things I knew when I was a child, like the members of the English football team and the average pterodactyl wingspan. Can't believe I forgot that.

Good thing for me I don't find rattlesnakes very often in my suburban English garden.

Vile vile vile, was terrified of snakes before and now even more!

I never knew that!!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/47626-severed-snake-head-can-still-bite.html

This article explains it in a bit more detail

Fuck that.

I knew there was a reason why I don't like snakes.

@HarrietKettleWasHere

Thanks - that's a great article.

Gives a new meaning to a dish with a bit of bite

I saw that story this morning and it creeped me out

On Reddit these stories always end in a lively debate about how long it takes the head to actually die after decapitation.

Upstart does anyone trot out the story about (was it Anne Boleyn or Marie Antionette?) moving their eyes and lips after their head got cut off?

Omg.
I'm terrified of snakes.
I thought this would be someone stood on a dead snake.
A dead snake head moves and bites?
Nooiiooioiii.

Thats also one of those random useless facts I had somewhere in the back of my brain.

kind of felt for the snake though, living in Texas I guess you expect to see snakes but chopping it's head off kind of seems a bit cruel.

Well there's something I didn't know

Its on BBC news. Horrible thought and probably something one will remember forever...

I must remember to tell ds about this - he absolutely loves snakes and snake facts. He wants to keep one as a pet. I've said I might get him a corn snake but he insists it has to be a black mamba. He's 7.

There are YouTube videos that show this phenomenon. It's quite freaky

I think I learned this through reading it in a novel! I am rationally scared of snakes - that is, I'm only scared of snakes that have the potential to harm me.

Seal I both do and don't want to see this

Someone living in snake country should have known this was wrong way to get rid of a rattler..
Bees can still sting after they die.
DO NOT try to run away from a mountain lion.
Don't walk right behind a grumpy horse (or cow).
Don't reach your hand into the nettles...

Omg! How long can the head live for?

This is cray!

HarrietKettleWasHere TMI warning;

No, theres a couple of very disturbing videos of various snakes and an an alligator snapping after they've been decapitated.
A herpetologist friend of mine said 'think of it as an animal that has had most of its body cut away'.

"Bees can still sting after they die"
Only if you touch the sting surely? They don't actively come for you?!

An alligator too... Omg

UpstartCrow

Oh wow!

AAAAARGHARHTHHSHS!