These Fish Eat Scales

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Most of us don’t really give fish scales a second thought, but for some fish, the scales of others can make for a tasty snack. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon 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: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr.Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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.washington.edu/news/2018/01/17/scale-eating-fish-adopt-clever-parasitic-methods-to-survive/ https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/piranha-eat-cows2.htm https://www.fishbase.se/Glossary/Glossary.php?sc=is&q=Lepidophagy http://agrilifecdn.tamu.edu/aquaticecology/files/2012/07/Grubh-Chanda-Copeia_04.pdf http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1679-62252012000200011&script=sci_arttext https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00690855 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.00711

Published 2020-01-04 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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