SciShow: 6 Delightfully Goth Animals

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Content of the Lesson: When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones! 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: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, 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: Pygmy Grasshoppers https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22122 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2003.09.006 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-007-0876-y https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01324.x https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.338 Black “Panthers” https://doi.org/10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00128-3 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050386 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170378 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226136 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00731.x https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.12.016 Gray Wolves https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1165448 https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1147880 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy031 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0703-1 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esu024 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1209441 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26988852/ Hornworms https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_3055 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1118888 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011563 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2009.01.008 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.311.5761.591a Ayam Cemani https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0173147 https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.111.136705 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40104-018-0272-y https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v137i1.2017.a9


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