Everyone can see the grass but you have 20/20 vision and a high IQ if you can spot the snake in less than 7 seconds
Animals the world over are known for death feigning - aka playing dead - as a defence tactic but few go as far as the diceIn an extreme version of this common trick, dice snakes have been observed smearing themselves in poo to deter predators.
Some of the snakes go as far as bleeding from the mouth too as an added desperate effort to put birds of prey off.Scientists from the University of Belgrade in Serbia published their findings in the Biology Letters journal based on dice snakes from a lake island in North It's here that they noticed the reptiles started to play dead by quickly smearing themselves in poo and producing blood from their mouth.
However, scientists timed them and noticed that the snakes who pulled these theatrics spent about two seconds less faking their death.
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