A species of snake that fakes its own death to avoid being being eaten by predators uses some pretty gory tactics.Dice snakes put on a convincing show of dying by lying still, with some upping the ante by defecating, leaking blood from their mouths and releasing a foul-smelling musk from their butts.These dramatic flourishes allow the snakes to spend less time faking their own deaths than their cousins who don’t get body fluids involved, according to a new paper in the journal Biology Letters.
Image of a dice snake faking its death. This species may just lie still like this snake, while…
