SciShow: Splat! 5 Species that Masquerade as Bird Droppings

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Content of the Lesson: It’s tough out there for small animals. Other animals are always trying to eat them, so they have to use tactics like blending in or being toxic to stay alive. These 5 animals, however, take self-preservation to a whole new level, and disguise themselves as… bird poop. 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: 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, KatieMarie Magnone, 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: General https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/group/poison-dart-frogs/ https://phys.org/news/2018-10-elucidating-cuttlefish-camouflage.html https://www.pnas.org/content/108/16/6532.short https://www.audubon.org/news/what-makes-bird-poop-white https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10336-019-01692-5 https://australianmuseum.net.au/blog-archive/amri-news/amri-bird-poo-frogs-more-species/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282246084_Theloderma_asperum_Hill_garden_Bug-eyed_frog_Defensive_behavior https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2015-10-12-how-plants-dupe-dung-beetles-into-burying-their-seeds https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants2015141 Potter wasps https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03946975.2015.1027103 https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Potter-Wasp http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0085-56262013005000044&script=sci_arttext https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-30_potter_wasp_eumenes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp Orb web spiders https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/spider-web-spun-look-bird-poop-180951589/ https://www.nature.com/articles/srep05058 Caterpillars https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Giant-Swallowtail-Butterfly http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/giantswallowtail.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347215001463 Bird-dung crab spiders https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28124-zoologger-a-spider-that-looks-and-smells-like-bird-droppings/ https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.12177 http://gb.oversea.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?filename=1016047741.nh&dbcode=CMFD&dbname=CMFDTEMP https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/asjaa1936/48/1/48_1_71/_pdf http://www.chanel-00.com/lib_/Qikan/Article/Detail%3Fid%3D665129207&prev=search Macrocilix maia https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/art-hiding http://www.myrmecos.net/2011/08/30/a-mural-on-moth-wings/ Image Sources: https://figshare.com/articles/Bird_dropping_masquerading_of_the_nest_by_the_potter_wasp_i_Minixi_suffusum_i_Fox_1899_Hymenoptera_Vespidae_Eumeninae_/1400491 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potter%27s_Wasp_Nests.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/treegrow/46268384155 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15520576 https://www.flickr.com/photos/10239508@N07/5657149985 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papilio_cresphontes_larva_defensive.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyclosa_ginnaga_(%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A2)_(15009463214).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyclosa.ginnaga.male.1.-.tanikawa.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A2_(Cyclosa_ginnaga)_(15508045951).jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16148293 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20873833 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20873892 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31044535 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phrynarachne_ceylonica_(37664885586).jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19818462 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macrocilix_maia.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macrocilix_maia_(23481819553).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macrocilix_maia_(34360241635).jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/botalex/6564971201/in/photostream/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A43-20170426-137_(34909531601).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarcophagid_fly_Portrait.jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19568181 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19568175 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theloderma_asperum.png


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