SciShow: These Fish Eat Scales

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Content of the Lesson: 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.0071164 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171581 https://phys.org/news/2017-09-handedness-scale-eating-fish.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-018-3800-z https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/208/24/4757.full.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Mclean6/publication/320845637_An_Investigation_of_Lepidophagy_Scale_Eating_in_Cyprinodon_Pupfishes_on_San_Salvador_Island_Bahamas/links/5a02b1cba6fdcc55a15f8ff3/An-Investigation-of-Lepidophagy-Scale-Eating-in-Cyprinodon-Pupfishes-on-San-Salvador-Island-Bahamas.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01294.x Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corematodus_shiranus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Docimodus_johnstoni.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perissodus_microlepis_juvenile_in_aquarium.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catoprion_mento.jpg https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171581 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-018-3800-z#copyrightInformation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorsal_view_of_right-bending_and_left-bending_mouth_morphs_of_the_cichlid_Perissodus_microlepis_-_journal.pone.0044670.g001.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Souvenir_piranha_jaw_detail.JPG https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029272


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