Dr. Donald Owings

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  Donald Owings, a professor of psychology at UC Davis, said other rodents have been observed using similar behavior.

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  Donald Owings, a professor of psychology at UC Davis and an author of the study said that the squirrels are not limited to the use of shed snake skins.They also pick up snake odour from soil and other surfaces on which snakes have been resting, and use that to apply scent. Owings said that snake-scent application is one of a remarkable package of defenses that squirrels use against rattlesnakes.

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  Graduate student Aaron Rundus and his supervisor Donald Owings of the University of California, Davis, wondered how this might affect the snakes' interaction with the adult squirrels.

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  The squirrels are not limited to the use of shed snake skins, said Donald Owings, a professor of psychology at UC Davis who is Clucas' adviser and an author on the paper.They also pick up snake odor from soil and other surfaces on which snakes have been resting, and use that to apply scent.Other rodents have been observed using similar behavior.
  
  Snake -scent application is one of a remarkable package of defenses that squirrels use against rattlesnakes, Owings said.
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  "It's a nice example of the opportunism of animals," Owings said."They're turning the tables on the snake."

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  The squirrels are not limited to the use of shed snake skins, said Donald Owings, a professor of psychology at UC Davis who is Clucas' adviser and an author on the paper.They also pick up snake odor from soil and other surfaces on which snakes have been resting, and use that to apply scent.Other rodents have been observed using similar behavior.
  
  Snake-scent application is one of a remarkable package of defenses that squirrels use against rattlesnakes, Owings said.
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  "It's a nice example of the opportunism of animals," Owings said."They're turning the tables on the snake."

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  The squirrel likely warms its tail by increasing blood flow from its body to the normally cooler tail region, said study co-author Donald Owings of UC Davis.
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  UC Davis: Donald Owings PNAS

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  Donald H. OwingsUniversity of California, Davis

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  "Sometimes you feel a little bad for these rattlesnakes," says Rundus, who conducted the experiments while working toward his PhD at the University of California, Davis, with adviser Donald Owings.

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  Graduate student Aaron Rundus and his supervisor Donald Owings of the University of California, Davis, wondered how this might affect the snakes' interaction with the adult squirrels.
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  Tests with robotic squirrels confirmed that a warmed squirrel tail made rattlesnakes more likely to act defensively, say Rundus and Owings.

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  Graduate student Aaron Rundus and his supervisor Donald Owings of the University of California, Davis, wondered how this might affect the snakes' interaction with the adult squirrels.
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  That's just what Kellogg and his wife did, raising a young female chimpanzee, named Gua, with their son, Donald.
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  The responses which Donald and Gua made to language stimuli are well established reactions of comprehension.At the end of the nine-month period the comprehension vocabulary of Donald were 107 words and phrases; Gua's was 95 words and phrases.

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