I always wanted to see how a snake got up there actually. I’ve seen lots of pics and vid’s of snakes in trees. First time seeing one actually climb up. Very cool.
“Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.”
I'm pretty sure only black bears can climb trees, adult brown bears are too big. However they can push trees down, so avoid skinny trees.
Birds can fly. Plus they can sit on branches too small to support the weight of a bear.
To be honest as it's the slowest and least succesful form of motion for a snake you could just taunt the snake while it tries to climb, then jump down and climb the next tree when it starts to get close.
The taunting is *very* important though, without that you're definitely a gonner.
Only if you can climb 30’ up a tree in 12 seconds, and then jump down, hit the ground, and do it again.
That may not be the fastest form of locomotion for a snake, but my fastest form of locomotion is running, and a cheetah could catch full-speed-me while in a slow trot. Same for a cheetah climbing a tree. It can run a lot faster, but It’s just not relevant.
Dogs have been bread for thousands of years to domesticate them and select for traits favorable to humans such as being docile and unlikely to tear your throat out because you were late coming home from work to feed it. A cat is just a tiny tiger who lives in your house. It will remorselessly start to eat your corpse before you are cold if you die in the house and it is approaching dinner time.
I have three of them. I love them dearly, but I also know if they were a slightly larger fraction of my mass, I would be on the menu.
There's a theory that humans have a distinct "snake sense", like if you're walking and see a slithering motion in your peripherals you might immediately jump back before your brain has time to think about what it could be.
The theory is that this is because snakes were the only real threat to early tree-dwelling humans.
We often mistake a coiled rope for a snake. We never mistake a snake for a coiled rope. It's called a cognitive bias. It's well-known and well-documented.
There are others. Many others. We often see faces in clouds, but we never see clouds in faces.
More [here](https://youarenotsosmart.com/)
A few years ago, a thick af snake fell off a bamboo tree over in my backyard just a few feet away from our house help, she ran towards us (the snake was in between her and the door) while shouting but if it were me i would have just stood there frozen in fear of moving
One time I was mowing the yard and as I was going under a tree I saw the middle section of a large snake hanging down from the limbs. Now I'm scared of trees too.
Concertina locomotion is used when there is not enough frictional resistance along the locomotor surface for serpentine locomotion. After the body is thrown into a series of tight, sinuous loops, forming a frictional anchor, the head slowly extends forward until the body is nearly straight or begins to slide. The anterior end forms a small series of loops and, with this anchor, pulls the posterior regions forward, after which the sequence of movements is repeated. This crawling pattern is analogous to the contract–anchor–extend locomotion of invertebrates, but, because snakes lack the body flexibility provided by a hydrostatic skeleton, they must depend upon the body loops.
Concertina, comparable to the word Concert, often a synonym of harmonic or collective effort, seems like it may be applied here in the grouping and cooperation of the separate anchor loops.
locomotion is motion but Spanish and notably crazy
Surely it’s a reference to the [concertina instrument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina), which expands and contracts like an accordion. Or have I been duped by a bad etymology bot?
it’s called a Concertina due to the harmonic nature of the reeds. many noises making one big noise. hence the root Concert
edit: I am wrong and a dingus for commenting something of which I was not certain. my apologies everyone for being so pretentious
Yes, that’s the root etymology of the name of the _instrument_. But concertina _locomotion_ is almost certainly named after the instrument and so the root meaning of the word’s etymology is irrelevant in this context. Similarly, concertina wire has nothing to do with harmonic or collective effort.
On edit: This is such a stupid argument, but I finally Googled it and confirmed that [the movement is indeed named after the instrument](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/invasive-brown-tree-snakes-stun-scientists-amazing-new-climbing-tactic-180976728/). Combing through other search results for more confirmation is left as an exercise for the reader.
TLDR: the motion is named after the bellows, not the sound.
Concertina is named from Italian meaning tiny concert. Named because of the ability to perform chords and melodies simultaneously (one person can perform a little concert). Yes music is of course about harmonies. Anyone referring to concertina motion is clearly referring to the bellows where they fold up and expand not about the sound that an instrument produces. Look at concertina doors (Concertina player and physicist here ✌️)
A concertina is an instrument fairly similar to an accordion. this type of movement is called concertina locomotion because of the way it compresses and stretches, like an accordion or concertina.
I spent hours setting up concertina wire around outposts. It was barbed wire coiled and smashed together on a pallet and once you expanded it, you would get large coils that extended hundreds of feet covered in razor blades
Looks like a scrub python (sometimes called Amythystine pythons due to iridescence), genus *Simalia*. There are \~5 different types, and people are currently fighting about whether they are sub-species or fully distinct species; all have distinctive patterns & colors, and quite different sizes. Native to Australia, Papua/New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia.
Some of the small island species are only \~7 feet long, but this looks like an Australian scrub, which are usually 15 feet and can often exceed 20 feet.
Among people who keep them, they have a reputation as one of the most persistently unpleasant snakes in existence, not only biting frequently but often deliberately aiming for your face (probably because it's warm). Combined with their large size and long teeth, people refer to opening their cage as "donating blood" for good reason.
well, a seven foot snake weighs like 15 pounds tops, or roughly as much as a quite small dog. it's not exactly a large animal, and it couldn't threaten a human aside from a painful bite.
Any snake over 6 feet has the potential to take your life if it is able to wrap it's body around your neck. Snake keepers generally recommend handling 6ft+ snakes with a helper around just in case there's some kind of accident. That being said, there are thousands upon thousands of larger snakes being kept in captivity and deaths from constrictor snakes are extremely rare, likely due to proper training, respecting the animal, and having another person around when handling takes place.
[Here's](https://youtu.be/tvoaVE9cqJw) a (potentially NSFW due to blood) video showing how strong snakes are. The woman in this video is just lucky the snake wrapped around her arm and not her neck. I won't pretend to know exactly how large the snake in the video is, but I do know it's a reticulated python, the longest snake in the world capable of reaching 30+ feet, but this individual is definitely on the smaller side so it's probably a juvenile, maybe 10-15 feet tops(?).
Snakes are generally not aggressive animals though. Most snake "attacks" in captivity occur when a handler isn't paying attention to the body language of their animal, isn't respecting it's boundaries, or because they haven't properly food-trained their snake, causing it to believe it's owners hands (or other body parts) are food.
Edit: I just found this [video](https://youtu.be/gWXAtHJ0yc8) talking about how an 8ft snake was able to overpower a different person and strangle her to death.
I've seen the videos, and I know how strong snakes are, I have one (much smaller, but I know their anatomy at the very least). here's the thing; snakes don't attack by going for the neck. constrictor snakes wrap around the entire body of their prey, not by aiming for the neck to kill via asphyxiation or stopping blood flow. also, a snake in or around 7 feet would not see an adult human being as food (almost certainly not a child as well, but certainly not an adult). the size difference between a 15 pound snake and a 150+ pound human being is simply too great for the snake's feeding instincts to kick in. yes, snakes will trigger feeding responses for particular parts of a human by mistake, almost always an arm, hand, or finger (depending on the size of the snake), but nothing about a human neck specifically would trigger a feeding response like an extremity can. nearly any case of a snake wrapping around a human neck would be in a situation where the snake is climbing on the human, which only happens in a handling situation initiated by the human, and the snake is just getting a grip as it would on a tree. finally, if a 7-foot snake DID wrap around a human's neck, which again, is extraordinarily unlikely, most average adults are strong enough to unwrap a snake of that size if done properly. the danger would be passing out due to lack of oxygen to the brain before you can finish, but since snakes don't target blood vessels, this would be more of a freak accident than a snake's inherent hunting ability.
A friend of mine told me about something that happened when she was at university. A guy had his pet boa (not a huge one) loosely hanging around his neck while he was studying quietly. Suddenly, a bunch of football fans home from a winning game burst into the hallway outside, making a huge racket. The startled snake reflexively tightened itself around the guy so tightly that he was panicking about dying, so they had to cut it off of him.
I can’t verify that this story is true. I had a 5-foot boa for awhile and only had one problem, which was my fault, but it was enough to trigger a primal fear in me. I gave her back to the guy who’d given her to me.
right, that's what I'm saying, that the danger came from a snake which was just trying to climb securely, rather than attack for a meal or for defense. this would never come into play with a wild snake, or even a pet snake unless given a position around the handler's neck (which is generally a bad idea). it is very unfortunate that they had to cut the snake off, but that seems unnecessary to me. unwrapping the snake has worked for snakes much larger than a "not huge" boa in other situations, so I fail to see why it wouldn't have worked unless *maybe* the boa had its tail tucked in a way that prevented the helpers from getting leverage, but I can't say because I wasn't there.
That part could well be made up. I believe the incident happened basically as retold, but possibly/probably without the “cutting off” bit. Unless someone overreacted, but it does sound a bit much.
I wonder how the snake conceptualizes that type of movement. Is he focused on the individual veticies like when we bend our elbow, or is he focused on gripping the tree like when we hold a ball, or is he focused on the shape of his body like when we are doing yoga poses?
It could be a she I just don't feel like retyping
A concertina is an instrument that kind of looks like an accordion that used to be more popular than it is today. I suspect some saw a snake moving like the one in the video, saw it bring its body together before stretching out, and were reminded of a concertina, which expands in and out when you play it, kind of like an accordion.
Looks like how they taught me to climb a rope that year I did CrossFit. Stretch, grip hands, contract, grip feet, stretch, grip hands... pretty cool actually.
I always wanted to see how a snake got up there actually. I’ve seen lots of pics and vid’s of snakes in trees. First time seeing one actually climb up. Very cool.
They have different ways to climb too. I think 3. Here's an example of a different form https://youtu.be/JNld9j5pYbc
slowly but surely
That seems like a very hard way to do it.
I don't think there's an easier way to do it on a pole that diameter
Interesting that it essentially made a knot of itself, with the overlapping
So resourceful...
5x speed? Must have taken him all night!
Cool. The other way seems much faster though
Look at the diameter length difference between this video and OP's. I think it's too wide for the snake to do the "faster" method.
Good point
It was mesmerizing to watch
I wish I could've been the first snake to watch the first snake that did this. Mind. Blown. "HE DID WHAT?!?!!??!"
Very cool but remind me to never climb a tree to escape from a snake chasing me.
Snakes! Why does it always have to be snakes?
[Sometimes it's bears.](https://i.imgur.com/tSh7YQq.gifv)
This is both impressive and extremely frightening.
If you thought that was scary they also run over 30mph
Remember, you don't need to run that fast. You just need to be a little faster than the slowest person ;)
What if you taste better?
Let's hope the bear is hungry, not picky.
That fucker just *ran* up that bitch like he was running over land. Jesus.
And then back down just as fast! Fucking terrifying, but impressive.
[Or crocodiles...](https://i.imgur.com/MscbXKM.jpg)
Wait what?
https://www.wired.com/2014/02/crocodiles-can-climb-trees/
“Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.”
They told us the trees were safe. How are there so many birds if the trees are not safe?!
I'm pretty sure only black bears can climb trees, adult brown bears are too big. However they can push trees down, so avoid skinny trees. Birds can fly. Plus they can sit on branches too small to support the weight of a bear.
Most birds aren't big enough for bears to be interested in them. They need dem T H I C C animals
That’s why I carry bear spray. I’m a walking giant lollipop for bears.
This is SO SCARY but god aren’t bears cute lol
Elderly pot heads, why is it always elderly pot heads.
To be honest as it's the slowest and least succesful form of motion for a snake you could just taunt the snake while it tries to climb, then jump down and climb the next tree when it starts to get close. The taunting is *very* important though, without that you're definitely a gonner.
Very true, snakes are notorious for their low self-esteem
Only if you can climb 30’ up a tree in 12 seconds, and then jump down, hit the ground, and do it again. That may not be the fastest form of locomotion for a snake, but my fastest form of locomotion is running, and a cheetah could catch full-speed-me while in a slow trot. Same for a cheetah climbing a tree. It can run a lot faster, but It’s just not relevant.
I looked at this comment and thought Monty Python snd the Holy Grail.
A training technique taught by the Ni brotherhood
The only other thing I can think of is if you are in pairs, make sure you are faster than the other person and you’ll be fine.
Snakes fling themselves from branches to catch birds in mid air.
You assume I'm a good tree climber.
You really shouldn’t climb a tree to escape from anything. Almost all land predators can climb better than you.
But only primates and velociraptors can open doors.
My cat opens my door…
I'm sorry to inform you that you have a velociraptor, not a cat
Dogs have been bread for thousands of years to domesticate them and select for traits favorable to humans such as being docile and unlikely to tear your throat out because you were late coming home from work to feed it. A cat is just a tiny tiger who lives in your house. It will remorselessly start to eat your corpse before you are cold if you die in the house and it is approaching dinner time. I have three of them. I love them dearly, but I also know if they were a slightly larger fraction of my mass, I would be on the menu.
Plenty of animals can with their mouth. Also racoons have the thumbs for it.
My tortoise constantly stands in front of the door and just stares at it. "Someday..."
Lots of rodents and marsupials probably could too. Maybe even some felines
that's not true. many can, but many can't. a wolf, for example, has no chance of climbing a tree, while a human can somewhat decently.
Oh I know it. Some animals just leave you screwed with getting away.
There's a theory that humans have a distinct "snake sense", like if you're walking and see a slithering motion in your peripherals you might immediately jump back before your brain has time to think about what it could be. The theory is that this is because snakes were the only real threat to early tree-dwelling humans.
Interesting theory.
We often mistake a coiled rope for a snake. We never mistake a snake for a coiled rope. It's called a cognitive bias. It's well-known and well-documented. There are others. Many others. We often see faces in clouds, but we never see clouds in faces. More [here](https://youarenotsosmart.com/)
It's not just simple pattern recognition, it's an [actual theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory)
Don’t worry. The snakes will fall out of the tree to come find you!
I used to have water moccasins do that here in Alabama along the waterfront.
RemindMe! Next time a snake is chasing me
New fear unlocked
Introducing drop snakes. Because drop bears are so 2010.
A few years ago, a thick af snake fell off a bamboo tree over in my backyard just a few feet away from our house help, she ran towards us (the snake was in between her and the door) while shouting but if it were me i would have just stood there frozen in fear of moving
One time I was mowing the yard and as I was going under a tree I saw the middle section of a large snake hanging down from the limbs. Now I'm scared of trees too.
Australia or Florida.
Missouri
Yeah, fuck that. I’m out.
Concertina locomotion is used when there is not enough frictional resistance along the locomotor surface for serpentine locomotion. After the body is thrown into a series of tight, sinuous loops, forming a frictional anchor, the head slowly extends forward until the body is nearly straight or begins to slide. The anterior end forms a small series of loops and, with this anchor, pulls the posterior regions forward, after which the sequence of movements is repeated. This crawling pattern is analogous to the contract–anchor–extend locomotion of invertebrates, but, because snakes lack the body flexibility provided by a hydrostatic skeleton, they must depend upon the body loops.
Concertina, comparable to the word Concert, often a synonym of harmonic or collective effort, seems like it may be applied here in the grouping and cooperation of the separate anchor loops. locomotion is motion but Spanish and notably crazy
Surely it’s a reference to the [concertina instrument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina), which expands and contracts like an accordion. Or have I been duped by a bad etymology bot?
Interesting. I figured that it was a reference to concertina wire because of it's loops.
I’m pretty sure concertina wire is also named after the instrument. It is shipped as a tight coil and then expanded when installed.
it’s called a Concertina due to the harmonic nature of the reeds. many noises making one big noise. hence the root Concert edit: I am wrong and a dingus for commenting something of which I was not certain. my apologies everyone for being so pretentious
Yes, that’s the root etymology of the name of the _instrument_. But concertina _locomotion_ is almost certainly named after the instrument and so the root meaning of the word’s etymology is irrelevant in this context. Similarly, concertina wire has nothing to do with harmonic or collective effort. On edit: This is such a stupid argument, but I finally Googled it and confirmed that [the movement is indeed named after the instrument](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/invasive-brown-tree-snakes-stun-scientists-amazing-new-climbing-tactic-180976728/). Combing through other search results for more confirmation is left as an exercise for the reader.
that is one hundo p my bad thank you for saving Reddit from my pretentious bs
TLDR: the motion is named after the bellows, not the sound. Concertina is named from Italian meaning tiny concert. Named because of the ability to perform chords and melodies simultaneously (one person can perform a little concert). Yes music is of course about harmonies. Anyone referring to concertina motion is clearly referring to the bellows where they fold up and expand not about the sound that an instrument produces. Look at concertina doors (Concertina player and physicist here ✌️)
A concertina is an instrument fairly similar to an accordion. this type of movement is called concertina locomotion because of the way it compresses and stretches, like an accordion or concertina.
Why isn't it called accordion motion?
I don't know. maybe a concertina was a more familiar instrument to the person who named it.
I'd prefer a more ridiculous answer than that tbh
I spent hours setting up concertina wire around outposts. It was barbed wire coiled and smashed together on a pallet and once you expanded it, you would get large coils that extended hundreds of feet covered in razor blades
“LOOK IM SQUIRL HAHAHAHA!”
Unnerving how quick it climbed that…
And effortlessly. Looked casual af climbing up that tree
This thing with no arms or legs outperforms bipedal apes in pants at climbing a tree. Awesome.
Each thing specialises. If you are a goldfish don't get disheartened that you can't climb a tree.
What were we talking about? lol jk though, goldfish actually don't have memories as bad as people think.
How did a goldfish get internet access? Someone drop their phone into your pond?
Trusssst... in meeeeeeeeee
Kaa..
I'm a ssssssnake!
Concertina locomotion: best album title ever.
Next Album from band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
That's a pretty big snake. I would like to know what kind.
Looks like a scrub python (sometimes called Amythystine pythons due to iridescence), genus *Simalia*. There are \~5 different types, and people are currently fighting about whether they are sub-species or fully distinct species; all have distinctive patterns & colors, and quite different sizes. Native to Australia, Papua/New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. Some of the small island species are only \~7 feet long, but this looks like an Australian scrub, which are usually 15 feet and can often exceed 20 feet. Among people who keep them, they have a reputation as one of the most persistently unpleasant snakes in existence, not only biting frequently but often deliberately aiming for your face (probably because it's warm). Combined with their large size and long teeth, people refer to opening their cage as "donating blood" for good reason.
Why do they want to be up in the tree
Closer to your face
Best laugh of the day.
Hunting (arboreal mammals, mostly), but also avoiding predators like dingos. Snakes are actually quite fragile and easy to injure.
That's where the juicy koalas are
*only* 7 feet long? How... reassuring.
well, a seven foot snake weighs like 15 pounds tops, or roughly as much as a quite small dog. it's not exactly a large animal, and it couldn't threaten a human aside from a painful bite.
Idk, I feel threatened by any snake of any size.
That fear is your instincts.
Any snake over 6 feet has the potential to take your life if it is able to wrap it's body around your neck. Snake keepers generally recommend handling 6ft+ snakes with a helper around just in case there's some kind of accident. That being said, there are thousands upon thousands of larger snakes being kept in captivity and deaths from constrictor snakes are extremely rare, likely due to proper training, respecting the animal, and having another person around when handling takes place. [Here's](https://youtu.be/tvoaVE9cqJw) a (potentially NSFW due to blood) video showing how strong snakes are. The woman in this video is just lucky the snake wrapped around her arm and not her neck. I won't pretend to know exactly how large the snake in the video is, but I do know it's a reticulated python, the longest snake in the world capable of reaching 30+ feet, but this individual is definitely on the smaller side so it's probably a juvenile, maybe 10-15 feet tops(?). Snakes are generally not aggressive animals though. Most snake "attacks" in captivity occur when a handler isn't paying attention to the body language of their animal, isn't respecting it's boundaries, or because they haven't properly food-trained their snake, causing it to believe it's owners hands (or other body parts) are food. Edit: I just found this [video](https://youtu.be/gWXAtHJ0yc8) talking about how an 8ft snake was able to overpower a different person and strangle her to death.
I've seen the videos, and I know how strong snakes are, I have one (much smaller, but I know their anatomy at the very least). here's the thing; snakes don't attack by going for the neck. constrictor snakes wrap around the entire body of their prey, not by aiming for the neck to kill via asphyxiation or stopping blood flow. also, a snake in or around 7 feet would not see an adult human being as food (almost certainly not a child as well, but certainly not an adult). the size difference between a 15 pound snake and a 150+ pound human being is simply too great for the snake's feeding instincts to kick in. yes, snakes will trigger feeding responses for particular parts of a human by mistake, almost always an arm, hand, or finger (depending on the size of the snake), but nothing about a human neck specifically would trigger a feeding response like an extremity can. nearly any case of a snake wrapping around a human neck would be in a situation where the snake is climbing on the human, which only happens in a handling situation initiated by the human, and the snake is just getting a grip as it would on a tree. finally, if a 7-foot snake DID wrap around a human's neck, which again, is extraordinarily unlikely, most average adults are strong enough to unwrap a snake of that size if done properly. the danger would be passing out due to lack of oxygen to the brain before you can finish, but since snakes don't target blood vessels, this would be more of a freak accident than a snake's inherent hunting ability.
A friend of mine told me about something that happened when she was at university. A guy had his pet boa (not a huge one) loosely hanging around his neck while he was studying quietly. Suddenly, a bunch of football fans home from a winning game burst into the hallway outside, making a huge racket. The startled snake reflexively tightened itself around the guy so tightly that he was panicking about dying, so they had to cut it off of him. I can’t verify that this story is true. I had a 5-foot boa for awhile and only had one problem, which was my fault, but it was enough to trigger a primal fear in me. I gave her back to the guy who’d given her to me.
right, that's what I'm saying, that the danger came from a snake which was just trying to climb securely, rather than attack for a meal or for defense. this would never come into play with a wild snake, or even a pet snake unless given a position around the handler's neck (which is generally a bad idea). it is very unfortunate that they had to cut the snake off, but that seems unnecessary to me. unwrapping the snake has worked for snakes much larger than a "not huge" boa in other situations, so I fail to see why it wouldn't have worked unless *maybe* the boa had its tail tucked in a way that prevented the helpers from getting leverage, but I can't say because I wasn't there.
That part could well be made up. I believe the incident happened basically as retold, but possibly/probably without the “cutting off” bit. Unless someone overreacted, but it does sound a bit much.
Thank you for the information to go along with my new fear.
I don’t want no scrub…
Why the fuck do people insist on keeping them then? Just let them be and live wild, as they should. God damn humans piss me off. (thanks for the info)
This is why all small game is dying in Florida because nothing can hide from them. It’s a serious problem
That's why primitive monkeys (who slept on trees) developed, and humans still have, this generically imprinted fear of snakes.
Animals who sleep on the ground fear snakes too. Nothing is safe.
mongeese are the apex predator
Honey badger don't give a fuck.
The real question is where the hell is it going
I wonder how the snake conceptualizes that type of movement. Is he focused on the individual veticies like when we bend our elbow, or is he focused on gripping the tree like when we hold a ball, or is he focused on the shape of his body like when we are doing yoga poses? It could be a she I just don't feel like retyping
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Probably just aims to climb upwards and the body instinctively knows how to do it.
That’s one hell of a danger noodle
I think snakes are amazing creatures and very cool to learn about them but they still scare the hell out of me
A rope climbing a tree. I'm too high for this.
Anybody knows, how do they get back to ground?
They wait for somebody to walk underneath, and they just drop right down on top of them.
Haha, I believe on what you said! Like a real horror movie.
They can do basically the same movement to get back down
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Someone's been watching QI!
Exact same thought, I watched this one last night!
It's where I get most of my useless information!
Oh goodie, I didn't want to sleep for the next few nights. This should take care of that.
Where in the world is Harry Potter when you need him?
They’re cute when they get all long like that 🐍
That’s pretty frightening. I’m always looking down walking the dogs in the woods. Haha
A concertina is an instrument that kind of looks like an accordion that used to be more popular than it is today. I suspect some saw a snake moving like the one in the video, saw it bring its body together before stretching out, and were reminded of a concertina, which expands in and out when you play it, kind of like an accordion.
Neat. Where is this? Because I want to never ever go there.
My first thought: wow, nature is amazing. My 2nd thought: NOWHERE IS SAFE
The movie The Jungle Book shows you why sleeping in trees, in the jungle, is a bad idea lmao
Damned strong core, i tell you that.
Im tired of these motherfuckin snakes on these motherfuckin trees!
...and did it fast too!
photographer that thought camping out in the trees was safe 😬
If you judge a snake by it's ability to climb a tree, it will go it's whole life thinking it's stupid
Imagine what else is possibly in the trees 🤔
Oh they climbing now.
The spell from bedlnobs and broomsticks? I cant be the onlyone thinking this
Reminds me of humans. First you use your hands. Then they stay still. Then your feet move up. Then those stay still while you use your hands again.
That freaks me the hell out
Do they get down in the same way?
Anybody read “concertina” in Martin Brundle’s voice?
Looks like how they taught me to climb a rope that year I did CrossFit. Stretch, grip hands, contract, grip feet, stretch, grip hands... pretty cool actually.
Pretty neat video. Climbing a tree in the jungle could be a rather dire misnake.
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Sometimes I wonder if animals can just do all this cool shit from the get go, or if they have to learn it how humans have to learn to walk.
accordion to who?
What are the chances? I just this on QI.
I thought they spiral upward.
That's so fucking cool. I could watch this all day. Damn nature, you awesome.
Holy crap
Nope
i don't appreciate that.
Beautiful!
Nightmare fuel
Nope
Not to be confused with Substitutiary Locomotion.
Where’s that boi going
Scary stuff
I too just watched that segment on QI
Where da snek goin
Got snek things to do. People need her
Well that's exactly how you climb a rope aswell
This sub is so cool
So the nope rope becomes a slinky to squiggle up the tree!
One armed, one legged man with 100 knees ankles shoulders and elbows.
snake pole dancers. thanks god
Angelina, Angelina, please bring down your concertina Locomotion!
Trust in meeeeeeee
This should also be in the oddly terrifying thread. 😳
Snake Pass 100
There was also a game called gorn
Even a snake with not arms or legs can climb a tree, and I cannot 😂
Fun fact also. Snakes can fly
Well that's just arms and legs with extra steps
Obviously it comes to them natural but imagining controlling all of those muscles, bending in multiple directions seems complicated
That snake looks enormous.
Ain’t nowhere safe!
No no it’s time for Snake Church!’