 incredible just seems to be defying gravity to help me wrap my head around how a snake can behave like velcro mark peeled the snake off the tree and showed me his belly so i could see his ventral scales and those ridges he was pushing into the bark those are the big belly scales the ventral scales ventral meaning underneath okay and they go right across and slightly up the side yeah before they meet the first dorsal scales there's a ridge you can feel it with your finger