Have You Seen This? The mesmerizing movement of a tree-climbing python

THAILAND — Reticulated pythons are large. How large? Nicely, they get longer than some other species on earth. They’re so large, the truth is, that they sometimes eat folks.

Once I labored as a reptile handler years in the past, one in every of these pythons wrapped round one in every of my co-workers and it took three of us to free her. It is unimaginable how heavy and powerful they get.

So it is comprehensible that a few of us would possibly assume {that a} snake that is as large round as a tree trunk would not have the ability to climb timber. In spite of everything, how can one thing that weighs a whole bunch of kilos and lacks arms or claws climb a tree?

However reticulated pythons can do extra than simply slither on the bottom. They’re gifted swimmers and have really been discovered cruising round within the ocean removed from land. And, as this video exhibits, they’ve a tremendous approach of attending to the tops of timber.

Wow. That is some unimaginable power and agility on show. Form of jogs my memory of essentially the most cellular snake of all: Sir Hiss from Disney’s “Robin Hood.” So far as I do know, he is the one snake to ever grasp the artwork of ballooning.