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Deception

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The Hognosed Snake

Gordon burcard, he works at the university of tennessee. And i have several rooms where we keep a variety of different reptiles. Small guy amout the size of a pencil, called a hog nosed snake. Heaviest element is coiling its tail. Bloodll even come out themouth. Then it boos itself and os nohis ton a deft little bit. It's writhing, and then it gets really eat andl finally stop still. In fact, it'll stop breathing. But as soon as we took a few steps back from the cage, the snake pops its head up, goes flip and flattens itselfand there it was, alive again.

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