SciShow: Heat-Seekers: Harnessing the Infrared Senses of Animals

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Content of the Lesson: Go to https://curiositystream.com/SciShow to start streaming The Secret Life of Snakes. Use code SciShow to sign up, just $14.99 for the whole YEAR. These animals can detect heat through some fascinating biological mechanisms, and they are proving to be boons to the scientific community. Hosted by: Hank Green 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, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie 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: Jewel Beetles & Wildfire Detectors https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2015.00391 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21977430/ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037627 https://doi.org/10.1007/s003590050210 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.821434 Pit Vipers & Infrared Cameras https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.006965 https://doi.org/10.2307/1564650 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08943 Vampire Bats & Thermogenetics https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10245 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-020-01001-1 Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/pov-of-a-thermal-imaging-camera-taking-a-high-temperature-of-a-man-during-coronavirus-b-kyh80flk9tcjyi2 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/4k--forest-fire-in-southeast-asia-bk7i_xdimuykyig https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanophila_cuspidata_(Klug,_1829).png https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27931481 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/campfire-camp-fire-summer-burning-fire-near-the-rice-field-rendered-as-slow-motion-sewt0o4zeivwhacxq https://www.uni-bonn.de/neues/133-2012/schwarzer-kiefernprachtkaefer-melanophila-acuminata/image_large https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uob-ffo052312.php https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bushfires-burning-forest-landscape-vector-illustration-gm1199064485-342914727 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/strong-forest-fire-heavy-smoke-and-open-fire-s8fphny6ejw67bt1l https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/strong-forest-fire-heavy-smoke-and-open-fire-s8fphny6ejw67bt1l https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rattle-snake-gm153587456-16840835 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/ai-artificial-intelligence-or-secret-vision-pov-monitors-man-in-living-room-hq6xoxt3xjnz4ze59 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fire-fighting-drone-concept-extinguish-fire-with-drone-gm1299049187-391790531 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vampire-bat-gm1306475656-397043228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desmodus_rotundus_feeding.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-common-vampire-bat-is-a-small-leaf-nosed-bat-native-to-the-americas-it-is-one-of-gm1192192066-338643324 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bright-brain-gm907873684-250084559 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/neuron-structure-nerve-cell-flat-vector-illustration-gm1188566838-336184140 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bothriechis_schlegelii_(La_Selva_Biological_Station).jpg?fastcci_from=1072929&c1=1072929&d1=15&s=200&a=fqv https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/common-vampire-bat-gm1304401146-395569678 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/different-types-of-switches-illustrated-gm472319109-24421853 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanophila_consputa_P1030379a.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/antique-animal-illustration-vampire-bat-gm1207521023-348680472 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/antique-medical-scientific-illustration-high-resolution-brain-gm486403288-72999659 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-girl-with-a-red-hot-pepper-in-her-teeth-gm1247886642-363416801 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/purple-spotted-pit-viper-gm1298772937-391577491 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/infra-red-thermal-image-of-a-pigeon-gm469327062-62338244


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