Watch: Man picks up snake that is 'playing dead'

Watch: Man picks up snake that is 'playing dead'

This is definitely not something you see every day...

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We have seen dogs rolling over and playing dead, now meet the snake that does the same thing.

Imagine finding a snake in your backyard and thinking it was dead, only to find that it was actually alive and slithering.

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This is what happened to an unidentified young man who found a snake 'playing dead' - and decided to pick it up!

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Needless to say that the snake felt threatened by this dangerous human, and as a defence mechanism decided to play dead, but it did not expect the human to pick it up!

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