The snake — which is an eastern hognose, by the way — "does play dead when threatened. It does NOT die and come back to life like a zombie," the department told CBS News. According to the ...

Many snake species, when threatened, employ a survival tactic called thanatosis, or playing dead. Dice snakes intensify the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

On Golem Grad, a lake island in North Macedonia, Dice snakes under threat from birds play ... dead. “Two seconds might not be much when you’re reading the paper, but it could be enough for a ...

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 ...