I can see it happening ... it's like the wildlife guy suggested. It could have been a reflex. When I was a kid dad killed a rattlesnake by crushing its head with a piece of pipe. He threw the snake in a cardboard box and put it in the back of his truck along with a bunch of other junk. When we got home and were unloading the truck, we discovered the rattler wasn't in its box anymore ... it had somehow slithered out despite being dead as door nail. We found it and hung it over a tree branch, only to come back later and find it on the ground about 10 feet away. It kept twitching periodically and moving until sunset. Apparently, being cold blooded, snakes will do this. It's just muscle refexes, but they'll keep doing it until nightfall comes and the lower night time temperature finally stiffens up their body.
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