In the end, Minaj performed "Anaconda" snakeless. "This can be the case even for animals that are used to the treatment, as we learned with the Siegfried and Roy tiger tragedy." Rocky, for example, is a 15-year veteran of the entertainment industry, according to MTV News, without a previous history of biting. "Any large animal is a potential danger to people," Steen says. But snakes, unlike cats and dogs, don't have the benefit of thousands of years of domestication. "You can expect any animal to attempt to defend itself when it feels threatened, and that was undoubtedly the case with this particular boa constrictor."īoa constrictors have a reputation as docile reptiles, which makes them popular pets. "Being on stage can be a stressful experience for people, can you imagine what it's like for an animal that has no idea what's going on, with the noise, lights and rapid movements?" David Steen, a herpetologist at Auburn University, writes in an email to The Dodo. But Rocky is the first to underscore a critical point - that snakes are more than props or accessories, but animals capable of causing injury or, if improperly handled, being injured themselves. And a decade before that, Britney Spears took to the stage draped with a Burmese python quite a bit larger than Bieber's snake. In 2011, Justin Bieber brought his pet albino constrictor (which he would auction off two years later) wrapped around his wrist. The snow Kenyan sand boa morph is white with tan and lavender spots across its body.
It's not the first time a boa constrictor or python has made VMA headlines. Albino Boa constrictor on a piece of wood, on a black background. Rocky, likewise, escaped the incident unscathed.
The bite wasn't life-threatening - the snake, Rocky, is a boa constrictor and isn't venomous - and the dancer was sent to a hospital out of an " an abundance of caution," a Viacom Media Networks director told MTV News. During a dance rehearsal in preparation for Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, a 6-foot-long snake bit the left arm of one of Nicki Minaj's backup dancers.
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