The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing back, broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but, having no dangerous fangs and no venom, eventually, if its pursuer is not cowed by the performance, will fall over and play dead.

• Abroadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but, having no dangerous fangs and no venom,  
• Bbroadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom,  
• Cbroadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigning repeated strikes, but it has no dangerous fangs and no venom, and  
• Dbroadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and  
• Ebroadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and