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Flying Snakes And Serpents
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Flying Snake When you think of animals that can fly, what do you think of? Could it be birds, or maybe bats, or even flying fish? If you are thinking only about these creatures, you have left out one important sector and that is flying snakes. No I have not been drinking, there have been reports of flying snakes for thousands of years. I know you are wondering how a snake can fly. So did I, so I did some snake research. I didn't think that there would be much on this subject, but I was pleasantly surprised. Apparently flying snakes is a subject that a considerable amount of people are interested in, much as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. The difference here is that the flying snake actually exists while the other two animals are still conjecture. In my search for how snakes can fly, I came across a very interesting article by a Live Science Staff Writer named Bjorn Carey. Here is how he described the snake's flight capabilities. "First of all, they flatten their bodies out all the way from their head to tail. Snakes are part body and part tail, and they have ribs up until the tail. They flatten their ribs and make themselves Frisbee-like in form." This is amazing isn't it? These flying snakes fly in the same way that a Frisbee does when thrown. He went on to say further, "As [the snake] starts falling, it starts sending large S-shaped waves through its body mostly by moving its head from side to side," Socha explained. "It also keeps its body parallel to the ground." The snakes make an undulating motion and they keep their bodies in the shape of an S, which gives them, in flight stability. To take off, the snakes hurl themselves from a branch or ledge and then begin to glide. I don't mean to digress, but as if we didn't have enough to worry about when camping out, now we have to look to the sky and make sure flying snakes are not headed for us. I guess there is some sort of distant humor in this, unless you are the one that the snake bites. I have to wonder though, how many people were ever arrested by the police for being drunk, because they said that flying snakes were after them? I also wonder that if some snakes can fly, how come we haven't heard much about this before? Most of us know about flying squirrels don't we? Maybe this kind of snake should have been called a gliding snake, since it has no wings. You have to wonder how this all began for the snake? Did one of these snakes see prey well below it and just launch itself? Snakes are notorious for having bad eyesight, but they do have a good sense of smell, so this must have been triggered. As other snakes realized what was happening, they too must have began this strange behavior. The question now is whether the behavior is learned, or is it passed down in some way similar to the action of bee memory?
Feathered Serpent Head At Aztec Ruin This file is licensed under Flying snakes have appeared throughout history. One of the most famous flying snakes was the most powerful God of the Aztecs. His name was Quetzalcoatl. He was the creator and wise legislator. He was also god of the wind, water and fertility. He appeared as a light skinned and bearded man, or was represented as a feathered flying snake. In years past there have been all sorts of reports of snakes that have wings. Here are a couple of the older reports of flying snakes: It was about 130 years ago when a farmer in Texas reported that he and some field hands saw an enormous serpent that was as large as a telegraph pole. He described it as yellow with stripes. What made this report even stranger, is that this large snake was not on the ground but floating through the air and had gone into a cloud that was heading east. The witnesses stated that the snake was clearly visible and that they could see it coil and uncoil. They also saw it turn over and push its huge head forward, in a manner that snakes do when attacking something. It moved just like an earthbound snake. In 1877 a snake was spotted near Bedford, Iowa. There were several witnesses, but only one was mentioned. As the witness watched the sky, he thought at first that he was looking at a buzzard, but as the creature got closer, it became painfully clear that this was no buzzard. As the creature closed in, he realized that whatever this was, he had never seen anything like it before in the sky. Finally he realized that a flying snake was heading for him. What he said he saw was a snake that was over one foot wide, that had glistening scales and a forked tongue. The snake did not land on him however, but instead landed on the ground and slithered off like a conventional snake. Today there are still a lot of stories about people that see sky serpents, or sky snakes. A lot of them are nothing more than contrails from planes, but there is an element, be it small, of certain sightings that can not be explained. I do find though that most of the unexplained sighting look more like a plasma trail that is crossing over itself, than a snake and the only resemblance is the long thin body of the trail. I have yet to see an actual snake in any of the photos, that was flying through the clouds, or anything that even resembled a living creature. Are these flying snakes, not the ones that actually exist, just some sort of figment of the imagination and why have they been said to have been seen for so many hundreds and thousands of years? Could it be that there is even another species of flying snakes that have some sort of wings? Could they be retractable? We are discovering new species every year, so it really makes it hard to rule any animal sighting out. So keep your eyes open and watch the skies, there may be a snake overhead. |
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