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Latest revision as of 02:57, 9 February 2013
This is the most common form of serpentine locomotion. Muscular waves travel along alternate sides of the snake’s body and generate posterolateral forces at fixed points* on substrate. Lateral components cancel each other out, and the overall resultant force moves the snake in a forward direction.