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Met a beautiful snake today on the road. An Ahaetulla nasuta or green vine snake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahaetulla_nasuta
(Amazing nose, isn't it?) It was around 5 feet long, less than an inch at the thickest, and had about 10 inches of it's front end up to watch me. (Nice, shins. Can I have a nip or two?)
So I hooked it to get it off the road. It slipped over the hook like a AA fuel altered on hot asphalt. It then meandered up the bank pretty slowly and up into the jungle foliage. The adaptation there was glaringly obvious. It just cruised along up stalks and stems, over some banana leaves (more slippery than snot on a midnight doorknob) and up into twigs and leaves. When moving along the ground it chugged, a lot like a mouse filled rattler but up in the trees it was as graceful as anything I have ever seen.
In the past month I've hooked a 5 foot cobra and a 4 foot ratter. On the hook they sort of dangled and burped. A very striking comparison to the arboreal animal. The vine snake with roughly 146,000 ribs per inch if anything was able to move faster on the hook than on solid ground.
(Amazing nose, isn't it?) It was around 5 feet long, less than an inch at the thickest, and had about 10 inches of it's front end up to watch me. (Nice, shins. Can I have a nip or two?)
So I hooked it to get it off the road. It slipped over the hook like a AA fuel altered on hot asphalt. It then meandered up the bank pretty slowly and up into the jungle foliage. The adaptation there was glaringly obvious. It just cruised along up stalks and stems, over some banana leaves (more slippery than snot on a midnight doorknob) and up into twigs and leaves. When moving along the ground it chugged, a lot like a mouse filled rattler but up in the trees it was as graceful as anything I have ever seen.
In the past month I've hooked a 5 foot cobra and a 4 foot ratter. On the hook they sort of dangled and burped. A very striking comparison to the arboreal animal. The vine snake with roughly 146,000 ribs per inch if anything was able to move faster on the hook than on solid ground.
