bascule Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Bunny wins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ez5QPW-ku4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetrahedrite Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 That's incredible:eek: If someone told me they had seen that, I would of said they were full of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenoise Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I wonder what would happen if you through a chicken into the mix?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib65 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 That's hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 In the next video, the snake comes back with a Holy Hand Grenade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackomen Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Not the results I would have expected... In the next video, the snake comes back with a Holy Hand Grenade. You had me rolling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 snakes can climb trees? this is all the more reason to never leave nj as ive never seen a 6 foot snake cruisin along my front lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib65 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Hey, that just made me think of how evolution works. Even though snakes aren't built to climb trees, they could do it if they had to (like if the world was suddenly populated by vicious warrior bunnies ). Then, eventually, snakes would evolve who are excellent tree climbers. Something similar happened with humans, didn't it? When we left the jungles of Africa for the grass lands, we hand to stand on our hind legs even though we weren't built for it.... Anyway, it just made me think of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenoise Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Hey, that just made me think of how evolution works. Even though snakes aren't built to climb trees, they could do it if they had to (like if the world was suddenly populated by vicious warrior bunnies ). Then, eventually, snakes would evolve who are excellent tree climbers. Something similar happened with humans, didn't it? When we left the jungles of Africa for the grass lands, we hand to stand on our hind legs even though we weren't built for it.... Anyway, it just made me think of this. Actually I'm pretty sure that because of their ability to wrap around limbs most snakes are excellent tree climbers. Well assuming they're long enough to wrap around a limb a few times. Though I maybe wrong. But they're always in trees in the cartoons!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 yeah, theyre in trees because having snakes chillin on a front lawn would scare the shit out of kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 snakes can climb trees? Yes, and some snakes love trees: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I Hate Snakes. **** those things give me heebiejeebies. And what the hell, u couldnt find a more menacing, demonic looking picture of a snake than one coiled up in its mass of malevolence and evil? Yeah i probably couldnt either. Kudos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 And what the hell, u couldnt find a more menacing, demonic looking picture of a snake than one coiled up in its mass of malevolence and evil? Sure can: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 u son of a bitch. (it would be a shame if a snake that bad-ass looking ate anything less than a horse) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleiades Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I used to have a rabbit that attacked my cat on a regular basis. The rabbit is long dead, but to this day the cat has a fear of rabbits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I happen to still have a cat that disemboweled a rabbit on my front lawn. One more off to the castle Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghh... I'm in a Monty Python joke mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokele Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Actually snakes climbing is what I'm doing my thesis on, and it's a really exciting area, since nobody else has done squat on it. It seems that most species can climb pretty well, and many are very good. Specializations of the body, scales, and musculature have convergently evolved in multiple lineages. Plus, their climbing is interesting for a special reason: like primates and racoons, their grips are friction-based (rather than using claws or adhesion). Friction-based grips depend upon the arc of the perch over which the animal can apply force. For a given diameter, primates have a given maximum force (defined by muscles and hand-span) and a given number of grips (4 hands/feet). However, snakes can strengthen their grip by encircling more of the perch with their bodies, but in doing so, they use up body that could be used for more grips. So they have a tradeoff between number of grips and strength of grips, while limbed animals with frictional grips do not. Mokele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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