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This helps them glide over a distance. On the branch, they take a "running jump" and move at 23-33 feet per second. They use this mechanism to escape from predators and catch prey. A Virginia Tech scientist called Jake Socha found out this. He got a flying snake and attached several 3D sensor programs to it and launched it off a high platform. This peculiar technuiqe is used by other animals such as the flying frog and lizard. Not to mention squirrels.

Cutest Flying Snakes posted on dogo news by Meera Dolasia 11/27/2010

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For years, people have wondered how "flying snakes" fly/glide. They wondered "How can they go 79 feet without touching any surface?" The answer is now clear: They turn into a living helicopter blade. What the snakes do, is flatten their entire body apart from their head with a special mechanism in their spine. Then they jump and fall briefly before twirling their bodies.