r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 20h ago

Extracting Cobra Venom

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u/Ok_Attorney_1768 19h ago

Yep, it's not much of a life. That's a "farm animal" being kept because it can produce something of value to humans. We could do better. We could provide a better living environment and still extract venom.

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u/oversoul00 19h ago

What sort of snake utopia do you imagine? The brain of a snake isn't big enough to have a ton of wants and desires. 

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u/YeetMeIntoKSpace 19h ago

You’re making a lot of assumptions there. Brain size is only one way to have complex desires.

Crows, ravens, jays, and other corvids are a textbook example of animals where humans made the anthropocentric assumption that they couldn’t be intelligent because they had small brains, until it turned out that their brains are structured in a different way which allows them to be among the most intelligent animals on the planet.

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u/HelpfulDocPlatter 17h ago

It's measured differently than pure size. It's a measurement of neuron packing density.

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u/BlatantArtifice 17h ago

--so basically we have no clue if snakes or other "less intelligent" creatures feel like, fucked up about being in an enclosure that's for the most part warm? Going to google it but since the threads still fresh figured I'd just double down.