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do all snakes strike their meal target at the same speed or are some faster than others?
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Some are A LOT faster! LOL
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which ones are the fastest/slowest?? Any proof?
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my carpet python hits way harder and faster than my ball pythons. and my tree boa strikes 2 or 3 times in the time my BP's can. no proof except for the small set of puncture wounds in my thumb...:8o
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LOL that's cool. I think my fastest snakes are my carpets and my slowest one is my king snake
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According to good old Wikipedia, the Australian Death Adder can strike, envenomate and withdraw in as a little as 0.13 seconds. Pretty fast!
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I hope anyone who gets bit by one of those gets a dry bite LOL
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My green tree python is definitely my fastest snake. She tagged me the other day, and when I was washing the blood off I found five holes in my hand, rather than two. I didn't even realize she hit me more than once. =p
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I used to have a big nasty-tempered Papuan Python(often erronously called an "Olive Python", but true Olives are Australian Liasis)which fortunately had a really slow strike. If you couldn't avoid getting tagged by this snake, you should have seen a neurologist or something! It wasn't that he didn't WANT to bite-trust me, he DID-he was just a slow-poke. Cobras actually have a slow strike, too, compared to other "hots", which is probabl;y why a lot of venomous keepers prefer them to the viper-type snakes. Puff Adders are notorious for a very fast strike. Among the snakes I currently keep, my adult Colombian Boa girl has a really fast and HARD strike, and she actually cracked the glass on her first enclosure when she missed the rat I was dangling from tongs and hit the side of the enclosure instead. In contrast, my Jungle Carpet(who's a good seven feet himself)doesn't strike at all, but takes rats out of my hand like a well-mannered dog accepting a treat. My Water Snakes have a fast strike, which I guess is useful when your main food is the wild is a fast-moving, slippery fish, but they've got horrible aim and seem to react mainly by smell and touch rather than sight when going for food. The only bites I've ever gotten from Nerodia, barring one baby Northern I was holding who flipped out when a dog walked up, have all been feeding responses where the snake simply missed its intended target and nailed my hand instead.
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I was bringing an apparently very lazy rat snake to be microchipped for a program. I just watched him slowly open his mouth and lean sideways to latch onto my hand. 
I was fascinated so I let him. Not a prey strike but hey it counts right?
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I love when my carpets nip me cause some times if I see it coming I can avoid it but they are fast.other times I don't see em nip me til they are letting goI was bringing an apparently very lazy rat snake to be microchipped for a program. I just watched him slowly open his mouth and lean sideways to latch onto my hand.
Haha yeah I have to watch my hands with my king snake. He thinks absolutely everything in the vicinity is food.
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haha..yeah while we were at the missouri bug hunt i was pop sexing a few snakes for people and one i sexed was a little milk snake. i didnt see it or feel it but apparently jeremy, chrispy, and bell all seen him gnawing on my hand. lil bugger left some niceholes but i didnt feel it. i like it when snakes bite. only one that ive been tagged by that really sucked was a copper head. it hurts bad. but for the fastes strike in my opinion it varies. but id say any adder hasto be the fastest.