Perrin Schiebel Shows How Snakes Were Placed in An Arena to Observe How they Responded to Obstacles (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Perrin Schiebel Shows How Snakes Were Placed in An Arena to Observe How they Responded to Obstacles

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Perrin Schiebel, a recent Georgia Tech Ph.D. graduate, shows how snakes were placed into an arena to observe how they responded to obstacles. The snakes use an S-shaped wave to move through the sand and did not alter it when encountering a set of rubber pegs.

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Image courtesy of Allison Carter (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta).

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