SciShow: Dangerous Soaps: How Animals Use Surfactants

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Content of the Lesson: When you think of surfactants, you might think of soaps, detergents and other man-made chemicals. But it turns out that some other animals utilize their own versions of these sudsy molecules. 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: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- 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: Cooper & Kennedy (2010): Biofoams & natural surfactants https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301462210001699 Ivankovic & Hrenovic (2009): Surfactants in the environment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338873 Latherin https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005726 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2013.0453 Rostas & Blassman (2009): Insect defense https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2008.1281 Dalgetty & Kennedy (2010): Tungara frog foam nests https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0934 Foams, commercial https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841088/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335791063_Biosurfactant_A_new_frontier_for_greener_technology_and_environmental_sustainability Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/noisy-grey-color-background-gm1165714895-320850666 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brown-wood-texture-dark-wooden-abstract-background-gm1137996207-303653020 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brown-horse-running-on-a-white-background-gm148496250-20768845 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-the-front-legs-of-a-brown-horse-gm171336614-20553789 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/horse-sweat-gm183362258-15155927 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sweating-horse-gm178367114-20510256 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ahal-teke-horse-gm157441833-10526214 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/spodoptera-exigua-hubner-worm-gm870525046-145341013 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-rendered-solenopsis-invicta-red-fire-ant-gm538558434-95778361 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-ant-gm180811811-24476999 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tungara_frog_(Physalaemus_pustulosus).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engystomops_pustulosus_egg_foam_-_Flickr_-_Dick_Culbert.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/memory-foam-texture-gm1097793764-294813001 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engystomops_pustulosus_swimming.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asil-arabian-mare-isolated-on-white-gm453564753-25927541 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/soap-suds-and-bubbles-in-a-tub-gm97587205-12226997 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/girl-blowing-soap-bubbles-gm177310690-20223577


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