That serves as a snake's nose. My favorite snake is Lightning. Lightning is a baby gopher snake. She is about a foot long and she really lives up to her name when she is nervous. When she is calm though, you can wear her as a bracelet.
Gopher snakes are cool.
They can flatten out their heads so that they look like rattlesnakes. They also shake their tails in dry leaves and it sounds like a rattlesnake rattling its tail. They do this as a defense against their predators. If a hawk spotted a gopher snake, but thought it was a rattlesnake, it might think twice about trying to eat it. Some people are so afraid of snakes that when they see them they want to kill them.