[nashashmi]

Most animals are capable of revenge. Story: A family in Palestine were doing a routine cleaning of the house. They had a snake nest in the house and it was no pet snake. So to clean better they put the nest and eggs in a different corner.

The snake came back looking for the nest and could not find it. It looked around with no luck. It went to the family water vase (because there was no piped water supply) and spit inside. The mother saw this and told the other to put the nest back.

The snake saw the nest, went immediately back to the vase, coiled it and flipped the water over over to empty it.

It had spit poison in the supply to hurt the family for revenge of its nest. And then sought to undo that act.

[bckr]

That's an interesting story, albeit one that sounds like a good fairy tale. Any source for this?

[nashashmi]

I know a member of the family first hand through my workplace who told me and a few others. The guy was about 55 years old at the time (7-8 years ago) when he narrated the story. He was a Palestinian but in Jordan at the time it happened and was there before he reached age 18. (I should not have stated he was in Palestine.) I am not sure what other details I can provide beyond name for this narration.

[Gunax]

While normally people differentiate 'venom' from 'poison' to be pedantic, I don't think snake venom is particularly harmful if ingested.

[stef25]

I'd be surprised if snakes have the capacity for that kind of reasoning.