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| Adult male, Cochise County, Arizona |
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| Adult male, Cochise County, Arizona |
Juvenile, Cochise County, Arizona |
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| Adult, Cochise County, Arizona |
Flattened head defensive display |
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| Adult, Cochise County, Arizona, playing dead defensive display. |
Adult, Cochise County, Arizona, defensive display with flattened head and smeared with its own feces. |
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| Hog-nosed snake tracks, Cochise County, Arizona |
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Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona |
Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona |
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Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona |
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| A Mexican Hog-nosed Snake is found stretched out on a road. It goes into a defensive coil, smearing its feces on itself and hissing and striking, before crawling away and down a hole. |
A Mexican Hog-nosed Snake blows and hisses and strikes. |
Hog-nosed snakes are well-known for their strategy of rolling over and playing dead to dissuade a predator. This one rolls over and plays dead, then uses a combination of playing dead and hissing. |
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A Mexican Hog-nosed Snake is released and crawls away. |
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