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Onlookers marvel as a snake thrashes around while devouring its own tail, lending literal truth to the saying “you are what you eat”

A female albino western hognose snake astonished onlookers when they found it lying writhing in a hoop in a water dish.

The snake, whose diet usually includes small rodents, appeared to be eating itself from the tail, and even drew blood.

Snake experts believe this behaviour occurs in sick animals that are unaware of what they are doing.

The western hognose is found throughout the Great Plains states of North America from Canada to Mexico.