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Flying Snakes
Description
These Snakes looks more like an ordinary snake but they are very rare and they are good glider. If someone looks at them, they can be seen as flying but it actually glides in the air. They jumps from a tree to another to hunt, and it keeps the predators away. When one reaches the end of a branch, it will dangle itself into a J-shape bend. As it leans forward to choose a landing spot, the snake essentially flings itself off by thrusting its body up and off of the branch. Small flying snakes can fly further more than the big ones .They are very venomous but fixed rear fangs make them harmless to humans. They have a very long body and they are capable of flying more than 100 m in a single glide. Depending on the species, flying snakes are green, black or dark grey in color.
Classification
Scientific name -Chrysopelea
Order- Squamata
Family-Colubridae
Kingdom- Animallia
Class- Reptilia
phylum - Chordata
Genus- Chrysopelea
Distribution
These snakes live in south Asia and be found in western India to the Indonesian archipelago .And their also been recorded in some forests in Sri Lanka and China. Their usual habitats are known to be jungles, woodland, parks and forests. There’re five species of flying snakes and they are very good gliders, much better than other flying mammalian.
Countries
Indonesian archipelago,India,Sri Lanka,China
They can live about 10 years and they grows up to 2-4 feet long. Their diet contains lizards, birds, bats, rodents, frogs. They can glide 20-23 feet per second.
They radically alter their body shape and perform an undulating dance in the air, which produces aerodynamic forces. Their conservation states aren’t very clear in the red list but it’s you can’t see them very often, much harder to separate them from the other snakes. Threats to the animal is hardly known but deforestation might be one, so we should help these creatures to survive by protecting the nature.
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