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Playing possum....when you are a duck. (Original Post)
pbmus
Aug 2018
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Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)1. Or when you're a snake.
tblue37
(65,357 posts)2. Poor snake. They get stressed, and I guarantee that snake is being stressed. nt
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)3. That's a hognose natural defense mechanism.
tblue37
(65,357 posts)4. And because the man kept messing with him, he had to keep up his defensive
behavior. Being on the defense is stressful for animals.
brewens
(13,586 posts)5. I saw a squirrel do it. Two of them got in a fight and really went at it. The noise they made
when it got viscous on the ground was amazing. I saw one run off and walked over to investigate where the other went. I got close and it was laying still on it's back until I came a little closer, then it got up and limped off. The winner must have got a serious bite in on it's foot or leg.