These dramatic snakes fake their own deaths, complete with oozing blood effects Dice snakes, which are found across Europe and into Asia, fake their own deaths to avoid predators, and now researchers have found that by including some convincing dramatic effects such as smearing themselves with poo and oozing blood from their mouths, they can spend less time faking their deaths than their less convincing cousins. Of 263 dice snakes, 124 made the display more convincing by smearing themselves with musk or faeces, and 28 secreted blood from their mouths. The snakes that used these extra dramatic flourishes spent approximately two seconds less time faking their own deaths.
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