Hognosed snakes have patterns on their skin. The children cut their snakes out of brown paper. Then they used Q-tips and 2 brown paint colors to create their own unique pattern on their snake.
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Hognosed snakes eat toads, insects and small lizards. They use their pig like snout to burrow in the sand to catch their food. They brumate (like hibernation) in other animals holes that they find. Most commonly an abandoned chipmunk or mouse hole. Hognosed snakes can be found at the National Seashore. They don't bite and they are not poisonous. They do hiss..but they usually scare themselves and then coil their bodies up and play dead.
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Hognosed snakes eat toads, insects and small lizards. They use their pig like snout to burrow in the sand to catch their food. They brumate (like hibernation) in other animals holes that they find. Most commonly an abandoned chipmunk or mouse hole. Hognosed snakes can be found at the National Seashore. They don't bite and they are not poisonous. They do hiss..but they usually scare themselves and then coil their bodies up and play dead.