It can glide, as with all species of its genus Chrysopelea, by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs.

It is fully arboreal, mostly found in moist forests, and can cover a horizontal distance of about 100 metres in a glide from the top of a tree.

However, Chrysopelea pelias is not nearly as common as the paradise tree snake.

[6] Chrysopelea pelias begins gliding by jumping in an upward position that seems to be different from the behavior of other limbless vertebrates.

This way of moving, as seen in a closely related genus, might have been a behavioral precursor to the evolution of gliding in snakes.