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in the absence of a trunk or stone to lean on, a capybara may be an option;
I have observed these two individuals do this twice;

see also
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/nelson_wisnik/21258-the-friendly-capybara

OBSERVATION IS FOR THE SNAKE

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. April 15, 2023.

• Location: Suwannee River (brown canoe trail) N30.80520° W82.40575°
• Mostly sunny, with a high 85.
• Sunrise 7:01 AM; Sunset 7:57 PM
• Daylight hours: 12 hours 56 minute (+1m 48s)

See and learn more about the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on my blog at www.okefenokee.photography

OBSERVATION IS FOR THE PREY FROG.

October 28, 2022. Paddling from Suwannee Canal Recreation area, south down the pink canoe trail through Chesser Prairie and Grand Prairie to Monkey Lake and Buzzards Roost Lake and back.

• Location: N30.73538° W82.15448°
• Partly sunny with a high near 80.
• Sunrise 7:41 AM; Sunset 6:44 PM
• Daylight hours: 11 hours, 2 minutes (-1m 42s)

See and learn more about the incredible Okefenokee at www.okefenokee.photography

A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.

On a morning walk behind the animal control shelter, I spotted a writhing black ball and a wing in a tree. Holding up my binoculars, I couldn’t believe my eyes. About 30 feet up in the air, a Ratsnake was dangling from a limb and struggling to swallow a Northern Mockingbird. I ran back to my office for my camera. Returning in about 5 minutes, it was still going at it. I watched for about 20 minutes until they fell into the undergrowth and I couldn’t see it anymore. I was able to capture some video as well and posted it on my nature photo blog. http://williamwisephoto.com/photographyblog/ratsnake-devours-mockingbird

This is my first Long-nosed snake in Idaho! I have been herping and keeping reptiles since the 1980s, and breeding them since the late 1990s. I am quite confident in my ability to identify most species of squamate reptile in the American West. This is unmistakably Rhinocheilus. I don’t know much about iNaturalist yet, though, sorry not sorry!