Me too. I discovered this paper: "Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack" [0] which seems interesting and sort of

Me too. I discovered this paper: "Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack" [0] which seems interesting and sort of relevant. It also turns out to have been cited only once so far. [1] 0. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/36/14177 http://www.pnas.org/content/104/36/14177 1. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/crossref-forward-links/104/36/14177 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/crossref-forward-links/104/36/14177