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Well, I borrowed my sister's video camera and got ol' Piglet out this morning, did everything I was doing the other day to him, chopstick, glove, etc. and he wouldn't bite.

So either he is shy on camera

or

I am doing something different this time

or

???????

I am going to try again tonight/tomorrow morning.

That is "nature" photography for ya!
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Might be the reason? Just a thought.

That would defeat the purpose of this experiment. The idea is to demonstrate a defensive bite, and NOT a feeding response. Good thinking though.
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"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
Governor George W. Bush, Jr.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

Good question! I have used chopsticks to put mice in his feeding bowl (essentially a bowl with a lid (with airholes) that I put him in, the mouse in, and then cover with a pillowcase so its dark. He won't eat unless he's not distracted).

However, the chopstick I used to poke him with the other day, and which he kept striking, is a brand new, never used to move mice, chopstick.

I will have to try with a different implement.

As he kept biting the chopstick he also tried to bite a plastic ashtray (purchased new just for him) which is one of his hides. All the time doing the hissing, hooding, I'm a cobra act.

Really would like to get this on video for y'all.

I thought it was someone having a Hognose with an extreme feeding response.

It is as you describe. What the 'experiment' part consists of is trying to videotaping him biting me, a chopstick, or whatever.