SciShow: How to Catch a Bird… If You’re a Fish

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Waves and Light course. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Some toothy tigerfish have been documented catching unlikely prey in the most unlikely of ways: snatching birds right out of the sky. 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: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, 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.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02705060.2005.9664809 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.2728 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jfb.12278 https://www.fws.gov/fisheries/ANS/erss/uncertainrisk/ERSS-Hydrocynus-vittatus_Final_June2019.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydrocynus_vittatus_The_fishes_of_the_Nile_(Pl._XVII)_(6961607491).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chasse_de_pigeons_par_des_Silures_(vid%C3%A9o).webm Cucherousset J, Boulêtreau S, Azémar F, Compin A, Guillaume M, Santoul F (2012) “Freshwater Killer Whales”: Beaching Behavior of an Alien Fish to Hunt Land Birds. PLoS ONE 7(12): e50840. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050840


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