Snakes - What Are They Counting?

A group of researchers teamed up to count observations of a specific event that involves snakes. They scoured academic journals, social media and news sights for their analysis. For today's truth or fail, i have three serpentine stories of what they were counting,. But only one of them is the actual thing that they were counting.

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Snakes get a bad rap. Sure they’re slithery, venomous, silent killers… but they have some nice qualities, too! We don’t talk about many of those nice qualities in this episode, but they do exist.

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[Trivia Question]

Gliding snakes jumping or not

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21816808/

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44950

[Fact Off]

Kukuri snakes disembowel

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/639331

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/881934