:29:03
He unhooks his lower jaw
from the rest of his face...
:29:06
...so he can open his mouth wide enough.
:29:12
At first, the egg keeps slipping away,
and he goes around in circles.
:29:16
But he has a good reason for that.
:29:18
Eventually, he has the egg surrounded
so it can't slip away anymore.
:29:23
And now he can do his trick.
:29:43
Once the egg is safely inside him,
he crushes it...
:29:45
...and squeezes out all the good stuff
without spilling a drop.
:29:49
And a few minutes later, he ejects the shell
in a neat, disposable package.
:29:55
But if you want to swallow eggs whole,
there's no room for teeth in your mouth.
:29:59
That makes him the most defenseless snake
in the world...
:30:02
...so apparently, Mother Nature
has played a nasty trick on him.
:30:06
But to make up for it,
she painted phony teeth on his lips...
:30:09
...and she taught him to put up
such an act of ferocity...
:30:12
...that he can even intimidate an elephant.
:30:16
That intricate winding movement
makes him look twice his size...
:30:19
...and lets his scales make
an angry rasping sound as they rub together.
:30:23
He pretends to strike viciously,
but he has to make sure he misses...
:30:27
...otherwise his enemy will find out
that he has no teeth.
:30:31
But his act is so good
that no one ever calls his bluff...
:30:34
...and everyone believes
he's very dangerous.
:30:37
A baboon will eat every creepy-crawly
thing he can find under rocks...
:30:41
...but if he should come across
an egg-eater snake...
:30:44
...he'll fall down in a dead faint.
:30:57
And would you believe it, he looks
under the same rock and faints again.