There are several species of glide animals in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, the crown of the earth, that can fly horizontally to the canopy using only gravity. The golden flower snake is a kind of glide animal, they rely on body muscle swing can be a short distance from a high landing to a low place, they can glide tens of meters between the canopy. But what is puzzling is that this snake has no wings and limbs, what makes them able to glide?
The golden snake droops its body and rolls it into a J-shape at the same time, points its head towards the front, lifts its body upwards before gliding, flattens its body during gliding, just like a cobra props open the skin folds of its neck, and the goldenrod expands its ribs outwards, and the ribs will prop up the skin, changing the body from cylindrical to flattened bands. With this deformed body, the momentum of the Golden Flower Snake's forward movements the surrounding air away, like the lift generated by the wings of an airplane. During the gliding process, the whole body of the golden flower snake will create aerodynamics, and it will show an S-shaped gliding, constantly changing and deforming to ensure sufficient aerodynamic force, and the golden flower snake makes its body become a gliding wing.
The appearance of the gliding golden flower snake and the general snake has no special characteristics, they are a rapid and agile climbing animal, only 100-140 cm long, they are mainly distributed in India, Southeast Asia and other regions, there are also a small number of distributions in China, they are a kind of micro-venomous snake with posterior alveolar poisonous teeth, their poisonous fangs are very small, once they bite the prey, they will not easily let go, the known golden flower snake has a total of 5 species, namely the golden flower snake, the paradise golden flower snake, the twin-spotted golden flower snake and the Moluga golden flower snake and the Indian golden flower snake. The goldenrod snake lives in the canopy of tropical rainforests and prefers to prey on birds, frogs, lizards and other small mammals and even other snakes.
In the southeast Asian rainforest, there are many animals that can glide, such as: shrew monkeys. Shrew monkeys have lived in the Asian rainforest for more than 1 million years, but they are the least understood gliding animals, they are a nocturnal animal, they are often mistaken for a flying fox, the shrew monkey is actually a separate species, with long genetic ties to other primates. The fur of the shrew monkey is swirling, the gray hair allows them to almost merge with the trunk, and at night it is the peak of their activity, the shrew monkey will stretch its limbs when gliding, stretching the thin wing membrane on the body, in the glider, its wing membrane is the largest, extending from the neck to the tail. This is how they adapt to the unique life of the canopy and are emulated by other rainforest gliders. For example: black palm rain frog. Living only in the rainforests of Malaysia and Borneo, the black-palmed tree frog captures the air with oversized webbing toes and can glide for more than 10 meters with a jump.
These gliding animals rely entirely on their ability to glide to survive in the rainforest, and gliding allows them to easily travel through the rainforest to escape predators and help them catch prey.