Squirrel waves hot tail at rattle snake

how does that trick it. it looks no bigger than it did before

The rattlesnake has special infrared sensors and is able to sense the body heat of a smaller mammal and able to attack them, but the California ground squirrel has a secret weapon that wards off the rattlesnake. The squirrel heats up its tail than waves it in the snake's face, hence confusing the snake, making it think the squirrel is a bigger animal. The snake senses the heat with the infrared sensor and gets confused by the size of the squirrel.

It wags its hot tail? Is that it?

what?

silenced smg: why? is an amazing thing that has been discovered, thats fairly interesting. And you call it gay? how is it gay? thats the worst insult ive ever seen. Whats wrong with homosexuality anyway.

Hi richj005, thanks for flagging up that previous comment. I've deleted it.

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Admittedly a bad insult, but this video shows nothing to most people - You can't see what's happening, and I personally have no idea what it's about.

Squirrels are violent.

I see dead people...

I'm continually amazed by the finds of how animals work.