SciShow: 5 Animals With (Understandably) Poor Judgment

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Content of the Lesson: Evolution is a long, slow process - but sometimes, changes (often caused by humans) happen too quickly for a species to properly adjust. These scenarios are called evolutionary traps, and can lead species to make seemingly-illogical decisions triggered by rapid changes to their environments. 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 Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- 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.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2015/05/australias-beer-loving-jewel-beetle/ https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle https://joshuamcnall.com/2016/09/13/why-beetles-mate-with-beer-bottles-evolution-and-perception/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150914102741.htm https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/How-much-plastic-does-it-take-to-kill-a-turtle https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51804884 https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/seabirds/laysan-albatrosses-plastic-problem https://www.nparks.gov.sg/mygreenspace/issue-19-vol-4-2013/conservation/the-secret-life-of-dragonfly-larvae https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01798.x https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44585834_Reducing_the_Maladaptive_Attractiveness_of_Solar_Panels_to_Polarotactic_Insects http://www.fernbank.edu/Birding/parasitism.htm https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c15a/0d0e803b7989009ad9e13478cac51f98b5d6.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041122092100.htm http://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio300b/cbp.htm https://monarchjointventure.org/get-involved/create-habitat-for-monarchs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650158/ https://xerces.org/blog/tropical-milkweed-a-no-grow http://europepmc.org/article/med/29618170 Image Sources: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/Deforestation/show-all https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/40th-top10-amazon.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buprestidae_-_Julodimorpha_bakewelli.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewel_Beetle_(Julodimorpha_bakewelli)_(8226842917).jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/63479603@N00/13894000343 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bottle,_soda_(AM_629572).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerremans.Monographie.des.Buprestides.06.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Sea_Turtle_grazing_seagrass.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_bag_jellyfish.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emperor-Dragonfly-(5).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewsters-angle.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_butterfly_in_BBG_(84685).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cardenolide.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asclepias_curassavica-Thekkady-2016-12-03-001.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asclepias_curassavica_1854.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asclepias_curassavica234.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danaus_plexippus-caterpillars.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asclepias_curassavica_(BG_Zurich)-01.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heteronetta_atricapilla_blackheadedduck_(cropped2).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-gartered_Coot_RWD5.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-gartered_Coot_(Fulica_armillata).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fulica_rufifrons_-_Red-fronted_coot;_Punta_del_Este,_Uruguay.jpg


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