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

Eastern Hognose Snake — Woods & Waters Land Trust

Zombie snakes' go viral with NC officials' post about eastern hognose

North Caroline Eastern Hognose Zombie Snake Plays Dead

Eastern Hognose Snake - Heterodon platirhinos

FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute - Hognose snakes will play dead as a defense mechanism. This behavior is known as “death feigning.” It's rare in other snake species, but the southern

FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute - Hognose snakes will play dead as a defense mechanism. This behavior is known as “death feigning.” It's rare in other snake species, but the southern

Watch Snake Convulse and Flip in Horrifying 'Death Performance

A snake the plays dead? You can find it in North Carolina

North Caroline Eastern Hognose Zombie Snake Plays Dead

Officials issue warning about 'zombie snake' that tends to play dead

71 - Playing Possum from Animas, New Mexico — Michael Jacobi