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    (c) Paul Donahue, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) venus5026, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Lena Chow, all rights reserved

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    (c) Chien Lee, all rights reserved

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    (c) Alan Couch, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Paradise Flying Snake

Chrysopelea paradisi

Worldwide
1,867 observations
Group
Reptiles
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

Paradise tree snake or Paradise flying snake, Chrysopelea paradisi, is a species of snake found in southeastern Asia. It can, like all species of its genus Chrysopelea, glide by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs. It is mostly found in moist forests and can cover a horizontal distance of about 100 metres in a glide from the top of a tree. Slow motion photography shows an undulation of the snake's body in...

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