Although snakes frighten us in several ways, it generally does not do so by flying! Snakes do not usually fly, because they do not have wings. However, if you ever go to Southeast Asia, you might see a snake flying over your head! If snakes do not have wings, how do they manage to fly?
These snakes, in fact, are not really flying like a bird. They are merely gliding from one tree to another. A flying snake launches itself at high speed from a perch on a tree, raises its limbs, and flattens its body to form a kind of parachute. A flying snake cannot take an upward flight. They glide only downwards. It may even swish and contort itself in flight so that it can control where it lands.
Flying snakes can hunt their prey in the air too, crushing small animals with their powerful jaws. A flying snake can glide as much as 24 metres in the air!
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