SciShow: Those White Crusts on Whales Are Alive and Full of Stories

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. You might think the white patches that grow on whale’s heads and faces are just weird skin growths, and you’re not wrong. But when you look closer, these patches are crawling with tiny stowaways! 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://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.20535 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128043271000820 https://baleinesendirect.org/en/what-is-the-function-of-the-callosities-in-right-whales/ https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Urban_Whale/-m6r-SfaSy4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA79&printsec=frontcover https://www.whoi.edu/cms/files/mms_patrician_59400.pdf https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z99-249 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128043271002685 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z96-014 https://www.int-res.com/articles/dao2005/68/d068p071.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02664.x https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s10152-017-0486-y Image Sources: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/north-pacific-right-whale


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