Watch: Snake shows off its acrobatic skills on wire fence

Watch: Snake shows off its acrobatic skills on wire fence

This snake took the ordinary way of slithering and turned it completely upside down.

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You’d expect to come across a snake slithering through a tree, right? On the ground under some leaves or hiding in your garage? Maybe lying on a flat wall getting some sun? But you would never expect it to be slithering around like a balancing act in a circus... 

A Tasmanian tiger snake in Australia is confusing the hell out of people after it was caught on video moving ever so elegantly along a fence on a farm based in Tasmania.

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I don't have a problem with snakes, but I definitely wouldn't want to be caught hanging out with one. I have a colleague that hates them to the point where he can't even look at pictures or videos of them. Eek!  

Give credit where credit is due – this snake balancing on a thin strand of wire must have serious abs and do some serious core workouts to be able to balance like this. Maybe it was trying to prepare for the Olympics?

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