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A kingsnake partitions its body to traverse other complex 3-D terrain. The three video clips are for traversing a large step downward (part 1), a large gap (part 2), and rough terrain (part 3), respectively. Parts 1 and 2 credit: Qiyuan Fu.

Snakes partition their body to traverse large steps stably

Sean W. Gart, Thomas W. Mitchel, and Chen Li

Journal of Experimental Biology 2019. 222:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.185991