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 ...

Playing dead is a common defensive move among animals. But the hognose snake is insistent about it. At the end of the video, they try to flip the snake the right way around, and it almost ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...