Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger

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Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334618159_Bird_embryos_perceive_vibratory_cues_of_predation_risk_from_clutch_mates [open-access PDF] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40235033?seq=1 https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/21/JEB193136 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666680/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6301/812 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6137/1215?ijkey=f5909f4d51ee0f47425e00031dd444b9bb42a

Published 2020-08-22 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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