SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 33: Whales
The sea is filled with giant, super-smart aquatic mammals communicating across vast distances and using the stars to navigate. No jokes in this description! Whales are amazing!
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[Truth or Fail]
Dogs sniffing out poop
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703337/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-dogs-sniffing-out-whale-poop-science-180958050/
https://conservationbiology.uw.edu/research-programs/killer-whales/
https://www.biology.washington.edu/news/news/1504634400/tucker-orca-poop-detection-dog-seattlemet
Robots scooping poop
http://dcs.whoi.edu/
https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/02/22/whale-of-a-journey-robot-searches-for-elusive-humpbacks-on-high-seas
https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/30/technology/mit-robots-sewers/index.html
Whale litter box
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/faking-out-whales
[Fact Off]
Whale heartbeat
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/50/25329
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/su-rrf112219.php
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-measure-blue-whales-heart-rate-first-time-180973662/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/diving-blue-whales-heart-beats-very-very-slowly/602557/
Lunge feeding
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11135
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/uobc-gwh042815.php
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-ultimate-mouthful-lunge-feeding-in-rorqual-whales
https://www.popsci.com/whale-nerve-cells-can-stretch
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982215002845
[Ask the Science Couch]
Whale navigation
https://www.wired.com/2011/04/humpback-whale-migration/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0279
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/solar-storms-might-throw-migrating-whales-course-180974278/
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jcr/article-abstract/doi/10.2112/SI75-111.1/29667/Coastal-Fronts-Utilized-by-Migrating-Humpback?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://www.livescience.com/63791-underwater-volcanoes-tasmania.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Anal syrup
http://whitelab.biology.dal.ca/rwb/kogiastat.pdf
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pygmy-sperm-whale
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/slimy-saliva-sticky-tongues-and-anal-syrup-3-of-the-slimiest-creatures-in-the-animal-kingdom/