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Herpetofauna - One Life's List Eastern
Hognose Snake St. Louis Co., Missouri. February 17, 1976. |
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is interesting to watch Hognose Snakes feign death the first few times.
They flip over on their backs and writhe a bit; saliva oozes from the slack
mouth, and the forked tongue hangs limp. Come back in ten minutes and it may
be still upside down. Sometimes I just want to take a picture of a
Hognose not playing dead, and so it becomes rather irksome when they
promptly roll over and do their bit. No need to go through all of that
for my sake - after my picture we'll go our separate ways. I ran across an all-black hognose in southern Illinois once and thought it was a Cottonmouth for some seconds, until it reared up and spread its hood! And me without a camera. |
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