Ground Squirrels Repel Gopher Snake

Two ground squirrels closely monitor and successfully repel a very large gopher snake by pushing dirt and debris towards the snake.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• squirrel
• snake
• repel
• defend

[mabarbour]

Great Video. Do you mind if I ask where you documented this interaction? I study these same interactions but between rattlesnakes and ground squirrels and they are very different (squirrels are much less aggressive)!

[patcuvie]

@mabarbour - This was videotaped in central California, at a hot spring resort. I forget the name of the resort.

[my83merc]

I love snakes, but that was very cool to watch.

[patcuvie]

Thanks my83merc. I was hoping that there would be thoughtful people like you that would watch and enjoy this video as I enjoyed seeing it live.

[ShowNoMercy502]

You are an idiot

So the snake isn't cute and fuzzy, so I guess it deserves to die, right? You're probably one of those idiots who'll stomp a snake on sight just because you 'don't like them'

To be honest, I don't like alot of people, but I don't go killing them, even asmuch as I'd like to. Let them live and do their own thing

[sts70004]

haha I like your response to that. I agree, snakes have a bad reputation, but they didn't really do anything to deserve it. Because Eve was tricked by a snake in the Garden of Eden? Come on now, really. I'd agree if a snake slithered up to me and offered me an apple, but as of today, thats never happened.

[Vei2aC]

that's really cute and amazing dont let ppl's flaming get in the way of it it's just showing what thay do to defend themself verry intresting to watch thanx patcuvie good work :3

[vapor022]

thats my birthday

[lgx22]

they have to move to another tree just because the snake inhabited their habitat

[Korinski]

Nothing boosts an economy like free labor. Vote yes on proposition 69! Sorry bubba, but some one has to cook that delicious chicken you like so much.

[valandilcamcacil]

no one asked you what you're opinion was. I just stated that we shouldn't hate something or someone cause they're different. What if all the black people enslaved whites. I would love to see you as a slave cause you wouldn't be able to handle the life they went through

[araldenizi]

well valandilcamcacil i think it was a mistake to free the slaves

[valandilcamcacil]

why do you kill snakes? Just because they're different. That's why we enslaved Blacks before the civil war. You shouldn't kill something just to kill it because its different.

[pixelsilva]

They behave like a beisbol manager trowing dirt to the umpire. They have some kind of inmunity against the snake venom. Although able to dodge the snake bite sometimes got bit and still and harass the snake. All because their cavehole must be near close and little youngsters might be a prey for the snake and don´t have inmunity yet.