Can snakes fly in air?

 Flying snake is a misnomer these animals can’t actually gain altitude. They’re gliders. Once thought to be more parachuters than gliders.  To prepare for take-off, a flying snake will slither to the end of a branch, and dangle in a J shape. It propels itself from the branch with the lower half of its body, forms quickly into an S, and flattens to about twice its normal width, giving its normally round body a concave C shape, which can trap air . Flying snakes are technically better gliders than their more popular mammalian equivalents, the flying squirrels. There are five recognized species of flying snake, found in western India  . Knowledge of their behavior in the wild is limited, but they are thought to be highly arboreal.  They are mildly venomous snakes, but their tiny, fixed rear fangs make them harmless to humans. It is been assumed that the flying snake has adapted themselves in order to escap from there predator. They glid from one tree to another without touching the surface of the earth, this ability also helps them to catch there prey.