(Video) Viper vs. Viper! This Never-Before-Seen Battle is Epic!

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Ever wonder what would happen if two venomous snakes ran into each other out in the wild? Some may think that the two might just pass each other like two strangers on the street, but that's just not the case. Wonder no more because we've got the one-on-one combat video right here.

Despite the fact that neither snake has any qualms about utilizing its deadly venom when facing off with, say, your leg, the snakes in this video seem particularly reluctant to make use of their intimidating fangs.

Rather than pulling their bites into the fray, the two resort instead to wrestling it out until they've resolved their differences. The reason for this is that they prefer to save their bites for catching prey, rather than solving their argument with their next door neighbor.

Besides, if another predator came into the mix right now and both snakes had used up their venom on each other, they would be easy pickings. Pretty smart for cold-blooded killers.


45 Comments

  1. Gary Capristo said:

    Same species and they are mating not fighting!!! Who writes this$#%&!@*

  2. Jon Whitehead said:

    it can be hard to interpret the behavior unless you spend time observing the animals……if you still have it, the copperhead and timber rattlesnake display is a good place to observe courting and combat behavior

  3. John Poster said:

    2 males display “fighting” over a female. (100% sure)That may be a melanistic copperhead, not a moccasin. (50-50)

  4. Terry Wallace said:

    It is a fight, it is not mating, as said last time this came out they are competing for hunting rites. Bunch of city folks, an even some country folk that should know better, I guess ignert is an excuse.roflmao

  5. James Hetem said:

    If they were fighting, one would be eating the other less than two minutes into the video.

  6. James Hetem said:

    If they were fighting, one would be eating the other less than two minutes into the video.

  7. Todd Riggins said:

    They aren’t mating. They are competing for a female in the area. This ritual doesn’t involve fighting, just establishing dominance over the “weaker” of the two.

  8. Tom Ellison said:

    These two closely related species cross breed. They weren’t fighting. They were making the unspeakable “beast with two backs” .

  9. Frank McCarthy said:

    Copperhead has the reach but the cottonmouth has the mass. That’s a pretty big copperhead, usually they’re smaller

  10. Bobby Faulks said:

    That’s as fake as a 3 dollar bill. Copperhead’s don’t get over about 3 feet long ( and that’s a huge one ) that snake was 5 to 6 foot. And that was a big$#%&!@*cottonmouth too.

  11. Jimmy Callins said:

    BANG!!!! BANG BANG BANG!!!! Kill them with fire till they’re dead! Kill their families and neighbors! I want them all dead!!

  12. Troop Pnuer said:

    One time i saw two rattlers doing that and i shot one dead with a bb gun

  13. Justin Kyle said:

    Maybe it’s a small cottonmouth, no? Can’t really tell the size by the video. Not sure how you could take a video like that. A picture, maybe. A video, no.

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