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- Title
Squirrel lightsaber.
- Abstract
The article discusses the study which reveals that the adult squirrels, which have the ability to neutralize rattlesnake venom to defend themselves against predators, heat up their tails to ward off infrared-sensing rattlesnakes. Aaron Rundus, a graduate student of the University of California Davis, and his colleagues have exposed squirrels to rattlesnakes in the laboratory, and they have found out that squirrels have produced this infrared signal. Rundus has considered that the special ability of rattlesnakes to sense infrared radiation has triggered evolutionary changes in squirrels.
- Subjects
SQUIRRELS; ANIMAL defenses; ANIMAL weapons; ANIMAL behavior; AGONISTIC behavior in animals; RATTLESNAKES; INFRARED radiation; INFRARED heating; RUNDUS, Aaron
- Publication
Science Scope, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 2, p8
- ISSN
0887-2376
- Publication type
Article