SciShow Tangents Classics - Giant Rodents
Episode description
No, you didn't wake up back in March 12, 2019, this is just a rerun of the classic Giant Rodent episode in honor of Groundhog Day. Be back with something exciting next week!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projects
http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/background
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosis
[Fact Off]
Hippos & biggest rodent:
Beavers & carbon emissions:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-014-0575-y
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gigantism:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/
https://www.nature.com/articles/482008d
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358651/
[Butt One More Thing]
Capybara anal pouches:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x
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