Ce serpent d'Asie plane dans les airs
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00:00 This is the Chrysopelea paradisi, which prefers to jump rather than bite.
00:05 When it is threatened by a danger or attracted by food,
00:10 it flattens, rushes into the air and flies like a glider.
00:14 Jake Socha came to Singapore to capture some of these flying birds.
00:25 He studies animal biomechanics and tries to find out how these reptiles manage to defy gravity.
00:32 Here you have an animal that's shaped like a cylinder, that's able to move in the air.
00:38 I'm just fascinated with how it works.
00:41 I want you guys to form a round circle, I want a couple of people outside too.
00:45 If it's already difficult to catch a snake that's crawling, what about a snake that's flying?
00:52 There's so many gaps up here.
00:55 It's not going to come down.
00:57 To your left, to your right, straight up, straight up from you.
01:00 You got him Norman, he's right above you.
01:03 Get him, get him, get him, come on!
01:05 This is what you call a slow motion.
01:09 He's not looking at you, you'll be fine.
01:18 Luckily, the experiment always ends up paying off.
01:21 And luckily, the bite of this snake is not dangerous for humans.
01:25 Beautiful snake, isn't it?
01:27 Nice catch.
01:28 Let's move on to the real objective of this capture.
01:31 3, 2, 1.
01:34 Filming the snake flying.
01:38 You just need two scaffolding, rope, an intrepid cameraman and a small slope for the altitude.
01:45 Or not.
01:47 I don't like heights.
01:49 They've stopped at a...
01:51 It shouldn't be too wobbly up there.
01:55 At least, that's the idea.
01:57 A non-toxic paint layer will allow a computerized software to track the snake's movements during its flight.
02:07 The show will begin.
02:09 Whoa!
02:10 A little wobbly there.
02:13 This is what keeps me from plummeting to the earth.
02:17 I hope.
02:20 Okay, I'm reaching down for the snake.
02:22 I don't normally name these things, but my volunteer called it Tony.
02:26 We'll name this one Air Tony.
02:28 Let's see what Tony's going to do.
02:30 He's looking down.
02:34 He's going now.
02:35 He's going down.
02:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:41 (whooshing)