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Published online 4 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.641
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When snakes fall from trees
Cold snaps make for unbalanced reptiles.
Researchers investigating the agility of arboreal snakes at cold temperatures have started to detail how and when reptiles tumble out of their trees.
Snakes, like all cold-blooded animals, cannot control their body temperature.
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We all konw that movement makes balance,if less movement of course less balance.I donnot think it is a good idea.
I wonder, How the cold weather might effect the athletes, do the perform better in warm weather compared to cold.
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