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Photos show how a tree snake makes its body into a lasso to climb and hunt prey
4 days ago | By Business Insider
A brown tree snake in a tree in Guam.
Bjorn Lardner
A new study shows a species of tree snake uses an unprecedented form of locomotion in order to climb objects like trees.
The brown tree snake loops its body into a lasso around wide, cylindrical objects in order to ascend them.
This lasso technique likely helps the snake scale wider trees and hunt birds nesting in the canopy.
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