Species: Chrysopelea paradisi

Size: snout-vent length=63 cm, mass=27 g

Video recording type: NTSC standard (30 Hz)

Playback rate: real-time

Description: C. paradisi glide with turn

Additional comments: This is a standard C. paradisi glide, with a turn near the end of the sequence in which the snake avoids the tree. The lateral projection of this trajectory is shown in Figure 1 in Socha (2002), Nature 418: 603-604.

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