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Incredible Flying Snake


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I love Buzz Lightyear's form of flying. 

Rube Goldberg style!

Yes! Do we have any more context for the flying snake?

"Once thought to be more parachuters than gliders, recent scientific studies have revealed intricate details about how these limbless, tube-shaped creatures turn plummeting into piloting. To prepare for take-off, a flying snake will slither to the end of a branch, and dangle in a J shape. It propels itself from the branch with the lower half of its body, forms quickly into an S, and flattens to about twice its normal width, giving its normally round body a concave C shape, which can trap air. By undulating back and forth, the snake can actually make turns. Flying snakes are technically better gliders than their more popular mammalian equivalents, the flying squirrels."

Who knew?

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/flying-snake/

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