Animals

How Squirrels Protect Themselves From Rattlers

In the popular TV series “The Walking Dead” humans hide from zombies by covering themselves in zombie guts to mask their healthy scent. The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) uses a similar tactic to hide from one of its major predators, the rattlesnake, which relies heavily on smell to track down its prey.

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San Francisco Four Days Before the 1906 Earthquake

Nearly all these structures and many of the people in view would be lost to one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of America, only four days after filming. Historian David Kiehn was unable to find any historical reports of the filming in archives, so he revisited the footage and noticed some interesting

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