Takes a determined snake to climb a tree...
Aug 3, 2020 15:18:33 #
You can see the snakes muscles gripping the tree's bark in the 2nd photo. Looks like if a human would try to hang from a tree limb for as long as you could. that snake will need a rest as soon as it gets a chance I'm sure
Aug 3, 2020 15:29:23 #
My wife and I walked into the Nature Center at Indiana's Spring Mill State Park, turned the corner, and found their snake 3/4 of the way up the wall - a surprise in more than one way! (Why I always seem to be surprised by snakes is another story.)
Glad to know that they don't all do it.
Glad to know that they don't all do it.
Aug 3, 2020 17:52:10 #
OldIkon wrote:
My wife and I walked into the Nature Center at Indiana's Spring Mill State Park, turned the corner, and found their snake 3/4 of the way up the wall - a surprise in more than one way! (Why I always seem to be surprised by snakes is another story.)
Glad to know that they don't all do it.
Glad to know that they don't all do it.
Actually, none of our native poisoness snakes climb trees well.
A few water snakes climb, including the poisoness one.
But in trees overhanging water, for the most part.
Rat snakes are better than most, tho.
Bill
Aug 3, 2020 20:28:33 #
I remember that the Singapore Aquarium had an enclosed 'rain forest' with trees, vines, shrubs, , birds, bushes, frogs and snakes in the trees. You had to keep an out for them as you walked through it. They claimed they were all non-venomous.
Aug 4, 2020 02:59:07 #
A little bit of an aside but funny. We had a guy here on Kentucky Lake that would go hunting snakes on the water! On day he was under some trees when a snake fell in his boat. He shot a hole in his boat with his shotgun that he almost didn’t get back to the bank!
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