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The hognose snake is perhaps the most famous practitioner of thanatosis. When threatened, it initially tries to ward off the predator with hissing and false strikes. If these tactics fail, it ...

When agitated the snake at first may lunge at the object causing the disturbance; this is a bluff as the mouth stays closed. Then often but not always the hognose begins to writhe spasmodically going ...

The hognose flips onto its back, gapes its mouth open, lets its tongue dangle, and then releases a foul-smelling musk or sometimes even a fluid that looks like it's oozing from wounds.