Guam's invasive tree snakes loop themselves into lassos to reach their feathered prey

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Guam's invasive tree snakes loop themselves into lassos to reach their feathered prey
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. It then uses its many vertebrae to make exquisitely fine-tuned propulsions upward, wriggling its way up the pole .

Not all of the snakes—which ranged in length from 99 to 193 centimeters—actually climbed, notes Julie Savidge, an ecologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and a co-author of the study. Some made the lasso, but couldn't move themselves up the poles, whereas others just hung out on the ground below. And the snakes that did lasso their way up did so slowly, at rates of less than 1 centimeter per second, and they seemed to be huffing and puffing as they rippled upward.

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