Zombie Snake' Found in NC Gets Nickname From Playing Dead

Watch This Snake Play Dead

Eastern Hognose Snake Playing Dead - Stock Image - C002/1935

Grass Snake Playing Dead Photograph by M. Watson - Fine Art America

What can we learn from a snake playing dead?

File:Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) playing dead close-up

Grass Snake Playing Dead / Ringelnatter stellt sich tot

Western hognose snake

ANI082-00164 - Joel Sartore

North Carolina Zoo on X: A snake playing possum? Eastern hognose snakes play dead as a defense mechanism called thanatosis. Hognoses write around before opening their mouth & letting their tongue hang

Eastern Hog-nosed Snake - Cape Cod National Seashore (U.S.