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Mother rabbit puts smackdown on baby-attacking snake

The mother rabbit in Ramakanth Peechara's back yard taught the black rat snake a lesson about messing with her young.

By Ben Hooper
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FAIRFAX, Va., June 23 (UPI) -- A mother rabbit filmed confronting a snake that attacked her babies in a family's back yard struck a major victory for the underdog by fending off the serpent.

A video posted to YouTube by Ramakanth Peechara shows the mother rabbit return to her nest to find the predator, identified by experts as a nonvenomous black rat snake, attacking her young.

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The mother rabbit unleashes the fury of a protective mother on the snake, kicking and biting the serpent as it attempts to flee the onslaught.

Children's voices can be heard rooting for the rabbit in the video.

"Go, Mr. Bunny! Kill that snake!" a child's voice says.

"Bite it! Bite it!" another child cheers.

The fight eventually leaves the camera frame, but the mother rabbit seems to have come out victorious.

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