SciShow: That’s Not A Spider: It’s a SNAKE!

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Content of the Lesson: This episode is sponsored by Awesome Socks Club, a sock subscription for charity. Go to http://awesomesocks.club to sign up between now and December 11th to get a new pair of fun socks each month in 2021. 100% of after-tax profit will go to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone, which is one of the most dangerous places to be pregnant in the world. Lots of animals pretend to be other animals to lure in their pray, but the spider-tailed viper takes this to an almost unbelievable level. 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: Jb Taishoff, 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, KatieMarie 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: https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2020.1757910 https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-00002997 https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164664A5916336.en https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2010-17-4-275-279 https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2009-16-2-134-138 https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2020.1757910 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3890973 https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/HER_29_3_4_0135-0142.pdf https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/82549#/summary Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/spider-tailed-horned-viper-gm976522472-265572079 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/spider-tailed-horned-viper-gm976528946-265572368 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coiled-western-diamondback-rattlesnake-arizona-gm1171183503-324379788 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rattlesnake-gm172464620-23449944 https://brill.figshare.com/articles/media/Avian_deception_using_an_elaborate_caudal_lure_in_Pseudocerastes_urarachnoides_Serpentes_Viperidae_/1454446 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/snake-skin-scales-texture-seamless-pattern-black-white-background-simple-ornament-gm1183917726-333051772 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudocerastes_urarachnoides_distribution.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/spider-tailed-horned-viper-gm976522458-265572070


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