This is a better video on Facebook but I can’t embed it here due to a paywall on WordPress. There are many such videos on Youtube but they lack clarity. Anyway, it’s the first time I saw this behavior, although I knew of it. It was neat to see and a wonder that such an Oscar worthy performance works.
All we have here are garter snakes, and a few other small ones. Steve is a real snake guy, who has a thing for rattlers, so this is likely super tame stuff to him.