SciShow: 8 Ways to Eat Bones

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Content of the Lesson: Bones are hard to digest and can be downright dangerous to eat, but some animals have evolved pretty bizarre adaptations to accommodate their crunchy, splintery diets. 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.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1358032/pdf/annsurg00170-0087.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856294/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/08/giraffe-wildebeest-bone-eating-throwing/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002070 https://www.academia.edu/17458304/Osteophagia_and_dental_wear_in_herbivores_actualistic_data_and_archaeological_evidence https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-017-1095-4 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.950040112 https://bit.ly/39a7BXE https://www.audubon.org/news/what-owl-pellet https://books.google.com/books?id=jyEahxSFAKkC https://www.jstor.org/stable/20094938 http://manatipr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/6.-PelicanMedicine.pdf https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/jrr/v028n02/p00073-p00078.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6525594/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228788046_Iron_oxides_in_the_plumage_of_bearded_vultures_Medicine_or_cosmetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08812-2 https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/jrr/v028n02/p00073-p00078.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225406543_Bearded_Vultures_Gypaetus_barbatus_prefer_fatty_bones https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720323536 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963924/ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.529.7483 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227786379_Of_arcs_and_vaults_The_biomechanics_of_bone-cracking_in_spotted_hyenas_Crocuta_crocuta http://facstaff.susqu.edu/p/persons/hyena.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080453378000310 https://arathusa.co.za/the-little-five-leopard-tortoise/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232662762_Osteophagy_by_the_desert_tortoise_Gopherus_agassizii https://www.mbari.org/bone-eating-worms/ https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/zombie-worms-crave-bone https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)30595-4.pdf https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/for_boneeating_worms_smaller_is/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/eaters-of-the-dinosaur-dead-45672019/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2008/05/blame-it-beetles https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282856984_The_earliest_fossil_evidence_of_bone_boring_by_terrestrial_invertebrates_examples_from_China_and_South_Africa Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masai_Giraffe_(Giraffa_camelopardalis_tippelskirchi)_eating_bones_(8290751405).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartgeier_Gypaetus_barbatus_front_Richard_Bartz.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/31867959@N04/6645883349 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crocuta_crocuta_02_MWNH_249.jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39823623 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325299417_First_bone-cracking_dog_coprolites_provide_new_insight_into_bone_consumption_in_Borophagus_and_their_unique_ecological_niche https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59025315 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3018335 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38776917 https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-7-74#Sec4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MBNMS_Whale_Fall_at_Davidson_Seamount_(49639154888).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osedax_lehmani_(10.11646-zootaxa.4377.4.1)_Figure_14.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osedax_ryderi_(10.11646-zootaxa.4377.4.1)_Figure_8.png https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/45160.php?from=215975 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51613673 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/bc-tso081012.php https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27611109


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