Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/11/scientists-discover-snakes-strange-method-of-lasso-locomotion-climb-large-trees.html
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Look like it’d work for going up your leg, too.
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I had thought this was how snakes climbed trees already, but probably only because of how Ka moves around in The Jungle Book (1967 version)
edit: sorry for making this a reply instead of a new post
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So, this newly-observed way of climbing is different from another method that’s been long-observed:
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That’s the concertina method, right?
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Just wait until they see the Australian Hoopsnake.
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Snakes got abs for days…
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Aren’t snakes pretty much just free-living abs that have reduced the rest of the organism to little more than a vestigial support system?
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Well yeah, if you want to say it all smart-like 
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Gotta say that snakes give me the willies but this climbing motion is absolutely beautiful.
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That’s amazing.
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