This is Chrysopelea paradisi, the Paradise Flying snake of Southeast Asia. As you can see, it can flex its ribs into flattened strips, allowing it to glide from trees using "aerial undulation".🧪 It may be the only limbless vertebrate capable of flight. (Photo by Lynette Ree)
Is gliding considered flight? 🤔
Amazing
I'm sorry, WHAT?! Flying snakes?!?!?!!!
3-D models of their movement have been constructed (see linked article in Phys.orgphys.org/news/2020-06...
When the paradise tree snake flies from one tall branch to another, its body ripples with waves like green cursive on a blank pad of blue sky. That movement, aerial undulation, happens in each glide m...
That's not flying! That's falling with style!
even though i read in your reply these are venomous it looks like such a friend 🥹
When I went to the Delhi Zoo they had a sign about “10 myths about snakes” and one of them emphatically stated that Snakes Cannot Fly. I am troubled by this reality shift (but it is a very cute lil guy!)