Snakes that glide

[son_of_flubber]

Cold winter night material:

This paper documents a snake with an L/D of 2.9:

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/3/382.abstract

National Geographic video full program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UczKUylZDv8

[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:15:50 -0800, son_of_flubber wrote:

> Cold winter night material:
>
> This paper documents a snake with an L/D of 2.9:
>
> http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/3/382.abstract
>
> National Geographic video full program:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UczKUylZDv8

Are there any other links?

biologists.org only provides free access to the abstract and the Naitional
Geographic restricts the video to US viewers.


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[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:15:50 -0800, son_of_flubber wrote:

> Cold winter night material:
>
> This paper documents a snake with an L/D of 2.9:
>
> http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/3/382.abstract
>
> National Geographic video full program:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UczKUylZDv8

If anybody wants to know more, there are a number of videos and photos
here: http://flyingsnake.org/

The owner of this website is one of the authors of the snake gliding
performance paper quoted by Mister Flubber.


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Flying snakes?! What's next? Squirrels?

[kirk.stant]

On Sunday, February 2, 2014 8:42:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
> Flying snakes?! What's next? Squirrels?

Pigs!

[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 06:42:55 -0800, mdfadden wrote:

> Flying snakes?! What's next? Squirrels?

Apparently flying snakes have a better glide ratio than flying
squirrels.


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On Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:42:55 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> Flying snakes?! What's next? Squirrels?

Fish

[Werner Schmidt]

Hello , you wrote at 02.02.2014 20:30

> On Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:42:55 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>> > Flying snakes?! What's next? Squirrels?
> Fish

Dragons.

regards
Werner

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On Sunday, February 2, 2014 12:45:28 PM UTC-8, Werner Schmidt wrote:

Sharknado

[Werner Schmidt]

Hello , you wrote at 02.03.2014 04:09

> On Sunday, February 2, 2014 12:45:28 PM UTC-8, Werner Schmidt wrote:
>
> Sharknado

also funny, but I referred to real animals in the real world (howevver I
know that sharks are real, too):

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28genus%29>

regards
Werner

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 5:19:10 AM UTC-8, Werner Schmidt wrote:
> Hello, you wrote at 02.03.2014 04:09
> > On Sunday, February 2, 2014 12:45:28 PM UTC-8, Werner Schmidt wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Sharknado
>
>
>
> also funny, but I referred to real animals in the real world (howevver I
> know that sharks are real, too):
>

They made a documentary film about it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado


....and provided photo evidence

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6295691776/h39C87731/

;-)

Honestly - I thought the OP was referring to "Snakes on a Plane"