This Fish Bulks Up When Danger is Near

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Sometimes the hairs on the back of your neck raise up when you sense that danger might be near, but what if you were also able to bulk yourself up like a muscular balloon to fend off that danger? This fish, it turns out, can do exactly that! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- 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: Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer, Christoph Schwanke, Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Nazara, Ash, Jason A Saslow, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, GrowingViolet, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Piya Shedden, charles george, Tom Mosner, Jeremy Mysliwiec, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, Silas Emrys, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298192/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191945 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3546410 https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-scent-of-danger-makes-these-fish-hulk-out/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arothron_meleagris_by_NPS_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki

Published 2022-02-08 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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