To escape from enemies
No the are in fact quite large. If you saw a green snake in the grass you must have seen a grass snake. They pretend to be dead so that predators don't attack them.
"Ringelnatter" is a German equivalent of "grass snake (Natrix natrix).A frightened European grass, ringed or water snake may react in any one of three ways. The snake may release a foul, garlic-smelling fluid from its anal glands. It may hiss and go into a strike position, but without ever opening its mouth. It may go limp and pretend to be dead.
The rattle snake lives in the grass.
It's only a grass snake
yes because the grass snake is bigger.
Pretend We're Dead was created in 1992.
A False friend is just like a snake in the grass.
In the sentence the slimy, green snake slithered through the tall grass the nouns are snake and grass
I thought he was a friend, but he turned out to be a real snake in the grass.
It varies from snake to snake. Most will run if threatened. Some have venom as defense, some play dead, some bite, others pretend to be venomous snakes like cobras or rattlesnakes; some snakes will even whip their tail at predators in defense.
no
The simple answer is you don't ! The Grass-snake, along with the European Adder and the Smooth Snake (which is actually a lizard) are ALL protected species.