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The first 2013 Butter Tessera is a cutie. The response-to-stimulus reaction that hatchling snakes employ most is backing up. While encouraging this one to stop stretching out (so I could get a tight shot), like sucking back into an egg when startled by proximity motion, it just decided to keep backing up. When its tail touched the corner of the egg box, like still being in the egg, it was not deterred. In reverse, it just followed the path of least resistance right out of the egg box. A tap on the tail tip and it posed for this tall shot.