North Carolina Zoo on X: A snake playing possum? Eastern hognose

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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

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