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The linked study has a video: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...

I definitely haven't seen snakes do that before... Funky.



If I was a snake, I would prefer the movement of the reticulated python. It seems to be the least energy consuming (from the first look).


I actually think the first motion, that's like a belt is probably the easiest. The Pythons wrapping seems to result in a point where it runs out of itself and has to regrip resulting it it lifting it's body the whole way up. But again. I'm not a snake Dr.




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