SciShow: Firehawks: Nature's Arsonists

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming The History of Food. Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free! We all know that birds are incredibly smart, but some birds in Australia take things to the next level — they can intentionally start fires! Hosted by: Stefan Chin 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: 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://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Ethnobiology/volume-37/issue-4/0278-0771-37.4.700/Intentional-Fire-Spreading-by-Firehawk-Raptors-in-Northern-Australia/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700.short https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/smart-bushfire-birds/7216934 https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/australian-raptors-start-fires-to-flush-out-prey https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1970.72.3.02a00130 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milvus_migrans#/media/File:Fire_hawks.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milvus_migrans#/media/File:Milvus_migrans,_Ol%C3%A9ron.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistling_kite#/media/File:Whistling_kite_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Falco_berigora#/media/File:Brown-Falcon,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/firefighter-gm1125209235-295702590 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milvus_migrans#/media/File:Black-Kite.jpg


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