Excellent line-up

Ah!

Or a blacksnake, those tricky buggahs will rattle their tails in dry leaf litter when spooked.
So will a hog-nosed snake.
They are mostly harmless so they try to scare ya away with that trick.
Prolly a nervous tic on their part, but it makes them seem sentient.

Black racers and bullsnakes will then split, but the hog-nosed will coil-up and act all fierce.
If that no work, touch it anywhere and it will fake a painful death then play possum.

In my youth, I was an amateur herpetologist.

There are no snakes on the islands so we are up to our asses in rats while Riki-tiki-tavi goes hungry!
I kind of miss the snakes.

Aloha,
Us 'zards knows our reptiles.