A video that ’s beingcirculatedon societal media appears to show a brainless snake still moving around on a beach , seek for the gentleman’s gentleman who is filming it and vex it with a lawn tennis racket .

Originallyposted to the Reddit assembly Australia , the anonymous drug user mull that the snake had been dropped on the beach by a birdie , following the remotion of its head by said bird , with another chunk having been take out of its side .

He exact he happen the snake while on a walk with his dog .

" I reckon it was a doll that did it , " he write on Reddit . " There are also a few birds of prey in the sphere . "

Though we are n’t prevail out some clever CGI , it is possible that the footage is unquestionable .

“ snake in general are well known for continue reflexes after death , "   Steven Beaupré , a biota prof at the University of Arkansastold Live Scienceafter a chef in China wasbitten and killed by a drained Snake River ’s brain in 2014 . " These eery post - mortem movement are fueled by the ions , or electrically charged mote , which remain in the nerve cells of a Hydra for several hour after it dies . When the boldness of a freshly dead snake is arouse , the communication channel in the nerve will open up , take into account ions to hand through . This creates an electric momentum that enables the muscular tissue to bear out a reflexive natural action , like a collation . ”

Cold - blooded beast do n’t ask to get their own heating , getting it from external source . This think that their oxygen requirements are lower and can still reflexively move for some prison term after expiry .

“ By the time the snake has lost its head , it ’s dead and the canonic torso function have ceased , but there is still some automatic action . In other lyric , snakes have the capability of causing biting and injecting spitefulness even after the head has been sever , even though it is dead . ”

It ’s also possible that the snake in the video still had part of its mastermind follow the bird attack , as   was the case forMike the headless chickenwho continue living for   18 month   despite a farmer ’s   botched attempt to chop up its head off . The almost - beheading removed the majority of its pass , but part of the brain survive . The luckless raspberry was able to be kept alive as it was fed through a cakehole using a syringe following the abortive decapitation attempt .