Snake With A False Head

One Way Two Directions ― image credit wikifaunia.com ∙ Did you know that the Calabar Ground Boa (Charina reinhardtii) is pretty famous for its defensive behavior because of its extraordinary blunt head and equally blunt tail that are hard to tell apart? When threatened, it rolls into a tight ball with its head safely protected in the center of the coils and raises its tail as a false head in order to protect its real head (as shown on above image). ∙ The Calabar Ground Boa can reach a maximum length of [...].