Baby female western hognose playing dead. The defense mechanism that hognose are so famous for!By @jmgreptile Wisconsin's attorney general asks the state Supreme Court to stop Musk's $1 million ...

The eastern hognose snake, also known as the "zombie snake ... Eastern hognoose snake playing dead to deter predators Why does it play dead? This behavior has been termed "thanatosis" or ...

Playing dead works because many predators prefer fresh, moving prey. A motionless animal might be seen as sick, dead, or just ...

A stock image shows a young southern hognose snake playing dead. The behavior is known as thanatosis, and it is believed that the snakes play dead to deter predators. A stock image shows a young ...

"The snake is a eastern hognose snake, a native species in Georgia ... in the U.K., previously told Newsweek. "So if you're dead, that potential predator might leave you alone." ...

One such defensive technique wielded by a hognose snake will leave you in splits. A video going viral on Reddit shows how the snake enthusiastically pretends to play dead when it feels threatened.

If hissing, flattening its head fails to deter predators, the Eastern Hognose Snake plays dead with a gaping mouth and goes through a state called tonic immobility.

According to the Cayuga Nature Center in New York, western hognose ... like to play dead when threatened, according to the nature center. Exeter wrote on its Facebook post, the snake's arrival ...

Most predators lose interest quickly, believing the opossum is already dead and possibly diseased, giving the opossum time to escape unharmed. The Eastern hognose snake doesn’t just play dead ...

(WGHP) — We may not have cobras in North Carolina, but we definitely have one snake ... to play dead and roll around instead of attacking. However, they will still strike. Eastern hognose ...