hognose

• A corn snake was incorrectly identified as a hognose snake in a photo that ran with the Nature Notes column in Sunday's Good Life section.

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• A corn snake was incorrectly identified as a hognose snake in a photo that ran with the Nature Notes column in Sunday's Good Life section.

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Other animals, such as hognose snakes, do exhibit what scientists call "tonic immobility" upon sensing a predator, sometimes delivering an Oscar-worthy performance.

Boing Boing: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 Archives 2006

You reject “ugly” or “harmful” creatures—pine voles, rosy apple aphids, starlings, and hognose snakes.

Archive 2008-08-01 papabear 2008

When a hognose snake that's facing a predator flips belly-up, its mouth opens and stays agape, sometimes oozing drops of blood.

Boing Boing: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 Archives 2006

You reject “ugly” or “harmful” creatures—pine voles, rosy apple aphids, starlings, and hognose snakes.

Archive 2008-08-03 papabear 2008

I learned many other things like how the hognose snake fattens its head to try and scare predators, or it just throws up on them.

fishbuttocks Diary Entry fishbuttocks 2006

Instead, the hognose snake picks up the vibrations of your footsteps transmitted from the ground to its inner ear via its jawbones!

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The loose, workable soil of a field is attractive to burrowers such as ground squirrels, eastern hognose snakes, toads, and meadow voles.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Look for eastern hognose snakes—sunning in sandy, weedy areas, or burrowing underground to escape high temperatures.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989