Snake tongs were originally invented for the purposes of holding snake food in the form of rodents. It's better that a snake bites a piece of metal than your hand,if it misses it's target when it strikes.Until recently, herpetologists reptile experts caught snakes by hand, or if using ools these were restricted to hooks,or more commonly for wild snakes inning sticks the objective being to immobilize the snake long enough to ailit grab it near the end of the tail,not at the end of the tail,before dropping it into a bag or box.

While not necessarily a pleasant experience for the wild snake as the grabbing is in the genital region,the snake would emerge from the experience physically unharmed.Keepers of snakes used snake tongs to offer food to snakes, the basis being that if the snake missed the rodent being offered,a metal snake tongs would be bitten,rather than a hand.Copperhead killed through the illegal use of snake tongs.This was a particularly important consideration when venomous snakes were concerned.In recent years a group of individuals too afraid to grab snakes by hand started using these same metal snake tongs as rab-sticks shown above for snakes.
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