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A serpent that turned the laws of falling into a personal suggestion.
means A snake adapted to life in trees, typically slender and agile, that hunts and lives among branches rather than on the ground.
from A plain English compound — "tree" from Old English treow (a word for tree or wood, with deep Germanic roots and cousins across Indo-European, reaching back to a sense of something firm and solid) joined to "snake" from Old English snaca, likely related to a root meaning "to crawl or creep." The name simply marks where the creature lives, the way English so often labels animals by habit or habitat. The various species — the green tree snake, the brown tree snake, the famous "flying" snakes of Southeast Asia that flatten their bodies and glide — all inherit this honest, descriptive tag.
- glide ratio
- Flattens its body to soar between branches
- midair turns
- Steers while falling by undulating through open air
- binocular vision
- Forward-facing eyes judge distance before launching
- venom
- Mildly toxic, harmless to humans, lethal to lizards
- named flying
- Genus Chrysopelea literally means flying snake
flying snake — chrysopelea paradisi flattens its body and glides through air in southeast asian rainforests
emerald tree boa — corallus caninus coils on branches in amazon rainforest with bright green coloring
mambas of africa — dendroaspis species hunt in trees across sub-saharan africa with highly toxic venom