SciShow: 6 Animals That Thrive Upside-Down

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Content of the Lesson: For humans, being upside-down isn’t a comfy way to hang out for very long, but for these six animals, upside-down feels just right! 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: Silas Emrys, 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 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://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407917325137 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0172 https://www.livescience.com/45147-how-sloths-hang-upside-down.html https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00035/full http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/uhtoday/fall06/research/jellyfish/index.html https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08623 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/784173v2.full.pdf https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-upside-of-upside-down-jellyfish/ https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-breasted_Nuthatch/lifehistory https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/nuthatches-the-upside-down-birds https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/earth-matters/the-sometimes-upside-down-life-of-the-nuthatch/ https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00395.x https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/exploring-the-vast-nuthatch-empire/ https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/5558 https://sites.duke.edu/alexldavis/files/2019/09/Davis2019_Article_LiftAndDragActingOnTheShellOfT.pdf https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/56/5/550/5559893 http://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/charlotteco/2015/05/27/whats-up-with-those-baby-horseshoe-crabs-swimming-upside-down/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001841 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982030/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080325203450.htm https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083476 http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2014/01/16/ANDRILL+team+discovers+ice-loving+sea+anemones+in+Antarctic https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7543 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729856/ Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upside-down_jellyfish_(Cassiopea_xamachana).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51437096 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aeroforces.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesolimulus_walchi.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Araneidae_web.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0xG_ss_5lI&ab_channel=CageTheRaven https://openbeelden.nl/media/715938/Boomklever_roepend.en#download https://www.flickr.com/photos/68105231@N00/115022995 https://www.flickr.com/photos/43322816@N08/4035583762 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/47460903 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/44287486 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/2558788 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/97533235 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001841 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083476 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729856/


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