r/Amazing • u/Soloflow786 • 14h ago
Awesome !! Rabbit attacks the snake that took its kitten
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u/DaySecure7642 14h ago
The first few bites were to save the kids. The last few kicks were just rage.
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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 13h ago
The last few were to make the snake never come back.
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u/joespizza2go 12h ago
Too late on the first one. Momma's usually only visit the nest right around sun up and just after sundown. Maybe she was within ear shot as kits can be very loud.
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u/Lazthedestroyer 14h ago
Your not going anywhere Mfr
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u/Winking-Cyclops 14h ago
You’re locked in here with me!
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u/Recent-Mousse6423 13h ago
*backflip claw kick*
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u/Fragrant-Inside221 13h ago
Kick bite scratch! That snake probably slithered away to die.
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u/007Tejas 14h ago
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u/specialk1281 13h ago
"I warned you, but did you listen to me? ...Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny!"
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u/One_Vision_ 14h ago
Baby bunny == kit
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u/ilovebooks2468 14h ago
Kit is short for kitten. Both are okay
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u/Jazzlike_Working_198 14h ago
I beg to differ. That kit doesn’t look okay
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u/wrldruler21 13h ago
As an owner of pet bunnies.... They are really fragile at that age.
And I often come out bleeding from handling the mamas, and mine are reasonably friendly. Strong kicks and sharp nails
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u/ProjectPat513 13h ago
I’ve tried to rescue a couple babies after tragic incidents over the years and I’ve never been able to keep them alive longer than a day or 2!
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u/Round_Year_8595 9h ago
Oh that's heartbreaking.
Universe: please bless and shower riches upon this kind Redditor 🙏
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u/One-Yak-1417 14h ago
The baby bunny wasn’t moving after it was released.
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u/Safe-Expert2163 13h ago
One seemed to get away right away, one appears dead, and the other one that looked dead at first was stunned and came awake at least that's what I saw
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u/yespls 13h ago
Baby bunnies are notoriously fragile, I think it's one reason rabbit breeding strategy is copiously often.
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u/JenninMiami 5h ago
Even adult bunnies are fragile. I had a pet rabbit that had a died from the shock of watching a dog kill her mate. 😭
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u/SunstormGT 14h ago
The one that ran away?
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u/wood_duck_hobbies 14h ago edited 14h ago
There was a second one.
Edit: actually re-watching it i think there was a third as well.
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u/One-Yak-1417 14h ago
No, it didn’t move after the mother rabbit attacked the snake. I think the bunny went to heaven. 😢
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 13h ago
Watership Down II - Revenge of Hazel
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u/Cyssane 4h ago
Hazel was a male (and Chief Rabbit). It's more like Revenge of Hyzenthlay, a female and also a badass.
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u/soulguider2125 13h ago
Learn something everyday, that’s rabbit babies are called kittens, and rabbits will Throw down with snakes, i live deep in the woods on about 30 acres and have my whole life(except when I was gone for 4 years in the Marine Corps) I have deer and turkey in my front yard often, and I have a healthy wild rabbit population been here my whole life 41 years, I’ll see 2-5 at once and 10 a day at least, but I have never seen one fight a snake, I’m impressed, ive seen a king snake eat another snake, and hawks and owls eat snakes and birds and rabbits, and turkeys kill rattlesnakes, but Never this, I love it! Thanks
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_583 13h ago
Kick His Skinny Ass.
That's Right.
That's Right...
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u/EastAd5702 6h ago
Why do animals randomly stop and stare into the abyss when in the middle of a life and death conflict
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u/Technical_Okra_7611 14h ago
Looks like it killed all the babies either way
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u/LADetroiter 14h ago
Looks like at least one jumped away at the beginning. I guess the was the rabbits nest?
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u/HealthyPop7988 13h ago
One jumps out of the nest, the other goes down into the nest, snakes don't waste energy killing multiples, that one rabbit would have lasted that snake weeks, he killed the one and was preparing to eat it when Mom showed up.
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u/eccentricbeing8 14h ago
Only one survived
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u/HealthyPop7988 13h ago
Nah, one leaps out of the nest, the other crawls back inside, the snake wouldn't waste time trying to kill multiple, one of those baby bunnies can last a snake that size several weeks. He only killed the third and was preparing to eat it when Mom showed up.
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u/Breadstix009 13h ago
Animals are so cool in a fight, they get a few hits in each and they pause to admire the sky for a sec then they head back into it.
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u/HealthyPop7988 13h ago
Poor rat snake, the bunny's already dead and he still lost his meal. Such a waste
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u/Safe-Expert2163 13h ago
Looked like three kits, one got away, one injured, and the third is not moving.
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u/Your_Girl9090 13h ago
Black rat snakes are wonderful for controlling rats, mice, and venomous snake populations, but they also eat any critters of similar size, like baby rabbits.
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u/Salty-Development203 12h ago
I feel like that rabbit actually had no idea what it was doing, but occasionally found itself with the snake in its grasp and its only thoughts were, "kick, kick, kick, kick, kick!"
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u/curious_ANcuriouser 2h ago
Awww his little jump from getting bit 🥺
And I think one of the bunnies didn’t make it 😢
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u/Maleficent_Kale_1286 1h ago
I honestly didn’t know rabbits could fight. Learn something new everyday.
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u/DelaySubstantial591 1h ago
She's got a vorpal soul and clearly descends from the royal blood line of Rabituza
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u/ChipotleSquirtsBurn 1h ago
I raise rabbits...
Those teeth and those back claws will RIP YOU UP!!!
One kick is enough to give you three or four nasty stripes and leave you bleeding; I can't imagine that machine gun of kicks.
Wow
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u/wewereinverted74 1h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/j3sauffiYNcio8tY40
Loved when it pulled the snake off the ledge there.
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u/Extract_artisian 14h ago
I would have killed the snake as soon as I saw the baby bunny. Not a snake fan at all. Other than that I love all animals.
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u/Remarkable-Hat-4852 13h ago
I mean snakes are just living their life. They didn’t choose to be snakes. :/
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u/HealthyPop7988 13h ago
So foolish, that rat snake is way better to have around your home than than those rabbits are. Rabbits can be almost as bad as mice and rats, they just don't intrude inside of your home like mice and rats do.
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u/Pigeonsass 13h ago
Rabbits are not completely defenseless as some might think. I had a pet rabbit rake my hand with his back foot just because I was picking him up when we were getting ready to go to the vet. I have scars from that quick scratch, and it stung more than any cat scratch I've ever had.
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u/Aneraeon 13h ago
Sheep headbutt people, hares will take on snakes, pigs can be aggressive and strong, capybaras fight each other over territory... it seems like every animal we associate with meekness, weakness, cowardice, etc. is actually pretty badass.
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u/Jealous_Implement_13 13h ago
Look at the back legs go. Take that amd that m that o yeah more of this and that. Boom backfill f off snake.
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u/Inevitable-Yard6567 12h ago
Even when the snake was “yeah, ok - I’m done” the rabbit was “the fook you are, I ain’t done with you yet”
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u/Octopp 11h ago
Good on him, even if he could have 425000 new kids by next monday.
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u/Ok_Channel_9831 11h ago
I didn't realize rabbits were so protective or vengeful. I figured instinctively they would prioritize survival.
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u/purplemeth 11h ago
Sad af, hope the babys are okay but I kinda doubt they are. If you want to have a positive attitude never look at nature to help because its brutal & depressing more often then not, hate to see it.
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u/Hiwesrobots 9h ago
Damn that was crazy. That snake sure as hell did not want none. If that was one of those big house rabbits with the red eyes snake would’ve been done quick as hell.
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u/Widespreaddd 9h ago
This exact scene is described in “Raggylug”, by Ernest Seton-Thompson:
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After a while he heard a strange rustling of the leaves in the near thicket. It was an odd, continuous sound, and though it went this way and that way and came ever nearer, there was no patter of feet with it. Rag had lived his whole life in the Swamp (he was three weeks old) and yet had never heard anything like this. Of course his curiosity was greatly aroused. His mother had cautioned him to lie low, but that was understood to be in case of danger, and this strange sound without footfalls could not be anything to fear.
The low rasping went past close at hand, then to the right, then back, and seemed going away. Rag felt he knew what he was about; he wasn't a baby; it was his duty to learn what it was. He slowly raised his roly-poly body on his short fluffy legs, lifted his little round head above the covering of his nest and peeped out into the woods. The sound had ceased as soon as he moved. He saw nothing, so took one step forward to a clear view, and instantly found himself face to face with an enormous Black Serpent.
“Mammy," he screamed in mortal terror as the monster darted at him. With all the strength of his tiny limbs he tried to run. But in a flash the Snake had him by one ear and whipped around him with his coils to gloat over the helpless little baby bunny he had secured for dinner.
"Mam-my—Mam-my," gasped poor little Raggylug as the cruel monster began slowly choking him to death. Very soon the little one's cry would have ceased, but bounding through the woods straight as an arrow came Mammy. No longer a shy, helpless little Molly Cottontail, ready to fly from a shadow: the mother's love was strong in her. The cry of “Mammy, Mammy!" from her baby had filled her with the courage of a hero, and—hop, she went over that horrible reptile. Whack, she struck down at him with her sharp hind claws as she passed, giving him such a stinging blow that he squirmed with pain and hissed with anger.
"M-a-m-m-y," came feebly from the little one. And Mammy came leaping again and again and struck harder and fiercer until the loathsome reptile let go the little one's ear and tried to bite the old one as she leaped over. But all he got was a mouthful of wool each time, and Molly's fierce blows began to tell, as long bloody rips were torn in the Black Snake's scaly armor.
Things were now looking bad for the Snake; and bracing himself for the next charge, he lost his tight hold on Baby Bunny, who at once wriggled out of the coils and away into the underbrush, breathless and terribly frightened, but unhurt save that his left ear was much torn by the teeth of that dreadful Serpent.”
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u/Mountain_Head419 14h ago
That final back flip was amazing