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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SciShow Tangents Classics - Bats
We're taking a short dirt nap this week in preparation for October's frightening festivities! Enjoy this classic, slightly spooky episode and join us next week as we kick off Monster Month!
It'll be worth the wait, I promise!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Poem]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141
[Truth or Fail]
Bats that spend time on the ground:
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/01/why-fly-when-you-can-shuffle-the-lesser-short-tailed-bat-prefers-the-ground/
Diurnal bats:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/
https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml
Suction cup bats:
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/
[Fact Off]
Bat & dolphin echolocation:
https://evolutionnews.org/2012/05/tangling_the_tr/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/refined-fine-tuned-placental-mammal-family-tree/
Moth echolocation blocker:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416
[Ask the Science Couch]
White-nose syndrome:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html
https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bats-could-bounce-back-devastating-white-nose-syndrome-180969378/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z
https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48
[Butt One More Thing]
Bat guano gunpowder:
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dkc09