By Leone Seidel
There was a new motion in brown tree snakes that was discovered recently that allows them to climb up smooth metal poles if they are tempted enough. This was first observed in the University of Chicago on January 11 of 2021, and was followed by most scientist’s birdhouses that were placed on those sort of poles to be immediately removed and placed on conical metal objects. They were testing whether brown tree snakes could climb up these poles, and this experiment was probably vital. Otherwise, the snakes might have eaten the birds in the birdhouses before they knew that it was possible! This was somewhat surprising, as people had only found 4 of the ways snakes can move. This is said to be a fifth way of movement. These snakes could apparently wrap their bodies around the pole to somehow get up[Citation]. I don’t know about you, but this shocked me. Tree snakes were designed to slither up trees, not metal poles. What surprised me is that snakes had actually found a way to do this! How did these snakes, that was designed to slither up sough trees learn to do this?! Scientists say that conical smooth metal structures will be harder to climb, but who knows what snakes will able to do next. Maybe if scientists made the poles larger in diameter, the snakes might not be able to wrap their body around it. This could also be a solution. Maybe the snakes will find other ways to climb up metal poles, or even find a way to climb up these smooth cones. What will snakes come up with, after they have come up with this insanely clever way to climb up smooth poles? I don’t know. But until scientists have tested if the snakes can climb up these cones, or the snakes start finding ways to do it in the wild, no one will know if the snakes can, in fact, climb up smooth poles.