Tim Hefflinger, a student in Professor Courtney Baines’s Sustainable Development course at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, read and responded to the YES! One day I boldly accepted the challenge of talking about a beautiful hognose snake to a small group of people outside of the visitor center. I remember hopping up on a bench with hognose snake in hand, turning to face the group—and having absolutely nothing to say about the hognose snake. The truth is, though I knew what this snake ate and that it was male, I didn’t know any other scientific information. I didn’t know its Latin name, its breeding habits, what other snakes it was related to, or how it survived in the wild.