Southwest Reptiles and Amphibians
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Mexican Hog-nosed Snake - Heterodon kennerlyi
Kennicott, 1860(= Heterodon nasicus kennerlyi - Mexican Hog-nosed Snake)
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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. (This faking death is called "thanatosis".) |
Adult, Cochise County, Arizona, defensive display with flattened head and smeared with its own feces. | |
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| Adult, White Sands New Mexico © Filip Tkaczyk |
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| Mexican Hog-nosed Snake tracks, Cochise County, Arizona |
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| Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona | Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona | Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona |
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| Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona |
Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona | Habitat, White Sands, Otero County, New Mexico |
| Short Videos | ||
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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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