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 31: Elephants
This week we pay tribute to our big, wrinkly, grey friends with funky trunks: elephants!
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[Fact Off]
Elephants and bees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/893601
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/632820
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/beehive-fences/
https://www.livescience.com/33261-elephants-afraid-of-mice-.html
Elephant skin wrinkles
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/607368
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3
Computer simulation image: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3/figures/4
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JF001842
https://elephantconservation.org/elephants/just-for-kids/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Elephant communication/grief/etc.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-animals-experience-grief-180970124/
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/11/04/1497634.htm
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-do-elephants-talk-each-other
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/unforgettable-elephants-crack-the-code-of-elephant-communication/5885/
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-internet-appears-to-believe-elephants-worship-the-moon/
https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/context/interdisciplinary-seminar/the-elephant-before-darwin
[Butt One More Thing]
Elephant gold enema
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442189/pdf
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-16th-century-pope-buried-his-pet-elephant-under-the-vatican