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Thread ID: 124089	2012-04-05 19:43:00	Robot Squirrels - Yup - The Next Scientific Anti-Snakebite Evolution.	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1268480	2012-04-05 19:43:00	Squirrels do two strange things with their tails when they see a rattlesnake: they heat them up, and they wave them . For a long time, scientists had no way to distinguish the functional difference between these two behaviors . That’s where robo-squirrel come in, who’s tail can be heated and waved independently . The really interesting breakthrough with the robot squirrel came in 2007, when researchers used it in a lab setting to demonstrate that when the squirrel was heating its tail, it was really signaling the rattlesnake, who can see infrared light . The idea is that the rattlesnakes hone in on the tail rather than the body of the squirrel and attack the waving lure . This was the first known infrared communication between animals . Now, the furry robot is hitting the dirt, making its first trip outside the laboratory . LINK::: . futurity . org/science-technology/robo-squirrel-flags-snakes-with-infrared-tail/" target="_blank">www . futurity . org Lessee ---- Squirrel tail research + manufacturing a robo-squirrel + UC Davis = Tax Dollars not feeding the hungry . I mean - it's nice to know that squirrels have heated tails and they confuse a rattle snake (pit vipers 'home in' on heat) - but rattle snakes gotta eat too . NOTE: UC Davis is a radical campus in the University of California chain (IE: Merritt College, a much more radical sub-campus of UC Berkley which includes UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, etc) that gave birth to Angela Davis, Synque and The Symbionese Liberation Army and Huey Newton . The WHOLE UC system is rife with radicals - I wonder what got their interest in squirrels? Perhaps they've armed a few of them and programmed them to go to the Republican Headquarters in Anaheim, California . Sumpthin' much more sinister is afoot here methinks!	SurferJoe46 (51)
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