{"id":3943,"date":"2024-10-15T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2024-10-09T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:58:41","slug":"holy-moses-that-snake-fooled-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/10\/holy-moses-that-snake-fooled-me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Moses! That snake fooled me, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iranian spider-tailed viper tricks bird\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFjoqyVRmOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot get over how persuasive the movement is of this snake&#8217;s &#8220;faux-spider&#8221; tail lump-and-floofs is. Structurally, it looks practically nothing like a spider; it&#8217;s like a skin tag put on a feather boa. But the way the snake moves it is an amaaaaaaaazing piece of puppetry. I could watch this video all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want more danger noodles, here&#8217;s the excellent Ze Frank explaining how kangaroo rats put snakes in their place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How snakes move (short)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0JkDNC_Nvi8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot get over how persuasive the movement is of this snake&#8217;s &#8220;faux-spider&#8221; tail lump-and-floofs is. Structurally, it looks practically nothing like a spider; it&#8217;s like a skin tag put on a feather boa. But the way the snake moves it is an amaaaaaaaazing piece of puppetry. I could watch this video all day. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/10\/holy-moses-that-snake-fooled-me-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy Moses! That snake fooled me, too!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,1041,1040,315,904,572,1038,1042,901,1039],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113311785612485935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}