Touching a snake's tail makes it easy for the snake to get scared and thus attack humans. It is best not to touch the snake's tail.

Snakes' tails can play a role in scaring and luring enemies, such as rattlesnakes, rattlesnakes typical feature is the tail of the rattlesnake ring, rattlesnake rattlesnake ring like a string of dry hollow beads, shaking the ring will be rubbed against each other to vibrate the empty apparatus to emit a hissing sound to warn the intruder that it is poisoned by its bite.