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  2. Mobbing (animal behavior) - Wikipedia

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    One example is the California ground squirrel, which distracts predators such as the rattlesnake and gopher snake from locating their nest burrows by kicking sand into the snake's face, thus disrupting its sensory organs; for crotaline snakes, this includes the heat-detecting organs in the loreal pits. [16]

  3. San Diego Zoo Introduces Their Meerkat ‘Mob’ and It’s Total ...

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    The meerkats all know who's responsible for what and they do their jobs so they don't get whacked. Commenters also got a kick out of the video, and one laughed at, "The fall guy LOL!", and the Zoo ...

  4. Fauna of California - Wikipedia

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    The forests of Northern California are home to many animals, for instance the American black bear.There are between 25,000 and 35,000 black bears in the state. [6]The forests in northern parts of California have an abundant fauna, which includes for instance the black-tailed deer, black bear, gray fox, North American cougar, bobcat, and Roosevelt elk.

  5. Vigilance (behavioural ecology) - Wikipedia

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    Vigilance, in the field of behavioural ecology, refers to an animal's monitoring of its surroundings in order to heighten awareness of predator presence. Vigilance is an important behaviour during foraging as animals must often venture away from the safety of shelter to find food.

  6. Why Meerkats Stand Up - AOL

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    This stance, called the tripod stance, improves observation, surveillance, foraging, and even fighting. One such animal that adopts this positioning Why Meerkats Stand Up

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  8. Predatory dinoflagellate - Wikipedia

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    Like Pfiesteria, Hysteria is a unicellular, microscopic predator capable of producing a paralytic toxin. Like cellular slime molds, it can release chemical stress signals that cause the cells to aggregate into a swarm which allows the newly formed superorganism to feed on much larger animals and produce a fruiting body that releases spores for ...

  9. List of mammals of California - Wikipedia

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    California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae. Thirty species of squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots occur in California. Subfamily Sciurinae (tree squirrels and flying squirrels) Humboldt's flying squirrel, Glaucomys oregonensis. San Bernardino flying squirrel, G. o. californicus (CDFW special concern; endemic)