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"This one is just barely related to World of Warcraft, but it's just too good to pass up: behold, Engineers of all races.  Our real-life scientists are working on your favorite companion.  Animal behavior scientists at Hampshire College have created a real-life mechanical squirrel.And \"Rocky,\" as they call him, is a lot more helpful than the noncombat version in Azeroth -- apparently by using the robot squirrel to mimic real-life squirrel behavior, they can \"decode\" what squirrels are saying.  And supposedly that will help them figure out the same behavior (or at least parallels) in humans.Their mechanical squirrel looks a little more realistic than ours -- they must have added some wool in with the Malachite and the Copper Modulator.  But if science can do this with a mechanical squirrel, just think what could be accomplished with an exploding sheep![Via WoW Ladies LJ]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/05/scientists-make-a-real-life-mechanical-squirrel/>