To avoid becoming a meal, some animals simply fake it until they make it. And fake deaths with several unappealing elements may make the whole display more efficient, a study finds.
Dice snakes that bleed from the mouth and cover themselves in musk and feces spend less time pretending to be dead than those that don’t, researchers report May 8 in Biology Letters. These defenses, the scientists suggest, could be working in synergy: heightening the overall impact of the display while helping the snake escape a predator more quickly.
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