Apparently the snake isn't that dangerous if you can get that close. Any other aggressive snake perhaps like the cobra, would have made you blind by now, well if you ain't wearing glasses that is. The snake would have probably stricken already. I think if the snake was really that dangerous, he wouldn't get that close to it. Hunched over and almost with his face in it and he was able to pick it up smoothly. I don't know the species of the snake, neither am I an animal expert. The only thing I like to watch when he was younger, was Discovery Channel, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter. I think for a really aggressive snake, you need a camera with a long zoom range. Snakes also tend to be defensive Strikers, when it comes to humans. There are just a handful that would actually attack, as in chasing you.