Biomechanics

Gliding flight in snakes

By Jake Socha, Virginia Tech

Type of Resource	Media including photos and video clips
Topic	Locomotion/motility
Taxa	Vertebrate
Organizational Level	Organismal
Role of activity in your course	Video and photo archive of flying snakes
Description	All things flying snake, at flyingsnake.org. This is a resource for movies, photos, literature review, and more, centered around issues of gliding flight in flying snakes (genus Chrysopelea). There also exists a half-hour television program featuring these snakes, which focuses on an experiment from 2003 and includes higher-quality footage of gliding; contact the author for more details if interested.
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