For the very last day of Snake Month, I thought I’d pull out the real exciting stuff: if you didn’t think snakes were bad enough, how about FLYING snakes?
No. Not snakes on a plane. No no no.
Snakes that TRANSFORM THEIR BODIES and fly through the air like the slithery, squirmy, snakey snakes they are. Check it out:
GAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
This is just a short outtake of a much longer NatGeo video that can be found HERE. Beware, there are a few (very short) bits about things getting eaten that the tender-hearted might not like. But I have to say, Alden and I watched the whole thing raptly.
It was fascinating, and quite exciting.
There is a moment where the scientist gets bitten when he’s trying to capture one of the snakes for his flying snake experiment. Alden didn’t like that part one bit (get it?).
I explained to her that these were the things that scientists risk in their relentless pursuit of knowledge. And that if the snake had actually been poisonous, the scientist probably would have worn gloves and been a lot more careful.
Note that the video also features some super cute little fuzzy guys called colugos, probably to balance out all the creepy snake-ness. Totally worth the watch if you have 45 minutes to spare (or 4 1/2 sets of 10 minutes scattered throughout the day as we did).