Digger the hognose snake could easily publish her own spin-off series like the "Where's Waldo?" books. Instead of searching crowds for Waldo's red and white stripes, the reader would scan forest floor images to spot this camouflaged snake - or at least part of her.
When she's not basking in plain sight under her heat lamp, we play this "Where's Digger?" game. My heartbeat takes score for this game, slowly speeding up as seconds tick by. After a third quick scan of her enclosure I worry that she must have escaped. I slow down and slide my eyes in a grid-like pattern, a technique I learned from Waldo. Finally I spot a sliver of her camouflaged body or just the tip of her nose and my heartbeat returns to normal.
Can you find Digger?
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