From Snowbird, Utah, at a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
Several of the Northeast’s least ferocious forest creatures taunt rattlesnakes. In woodland-surveillance videos, scientists have watched chipmunks, gray squirrels, and a thrush lunge at and hop over the vipers.
Harassing of North American snakes had previously been reported along the West Coast (SN: 6/26/04, p.
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