SciShow: What’s Up With Those Bright Blue Eggs?

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Content of the Lesson: It seems like birds would want to hide their eggs, but there are hundreds of species that lay blue to blue-green eggs. Thanks to some clever experiments, we’re finally starting to understand why birds might benefit from conspicuously colored eggs. Hosted by: Michael Aranda 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://doi.org/10.1086/685780 https://doi.org/10.1093/ps/85.3.546 https://doi.org/10.1086/694297 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-1107-9 https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2009.09090 https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2008.8634 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-005-0092-x https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-006-0315-9 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2006.0908-8857.03915.x http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal-XNND199404014.htm https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-beauty-and-biology-of-egg-color/ ------- Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/ https://www.storyblocks.com/video https://youtu.be/p7r_dQuQMgA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ficedula_hypoleuca_egg.JPG https://youtu.be/4NZBreUdiOQ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-headed_weaver_(Ploceus_cucullatus_bohndorffi)_male_nest_building.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ploceus_cucullatus_MHNT_228_St_Gilles_La_R%C3%A9union.jpg


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