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Published online 16 June 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040614-3
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Squirrels use infrared against snakes
Heated tail display warns off would-be predators.
From the 41st Animal Behavior Society meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Facedwith an angry rattlesnake, you or I might freeze with fear.
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