Mouth-Peeing and 5 Other Extreme Turtle Traits

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This video was supported by KiwiCo. Learn more about KiwiCo’s seven different subscription options here: kiwico.com/scishow From peeing out of their mouths to being capable of living in icy water, turtles have evolved remarkable, but a little bit bizarre traits to survive. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://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: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/turtles-endangered-biodiversity-ecology-tortoise-terrapin-animals/ https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/10/771/5079873 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/30/379933 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575239 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26940060 https://brill.com/abstract/journals/amre/31/1/article-p97_9.xml http://jeb.biologists.org/content/205/10/1495.short https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3892218.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmor.1051720106 https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/41/6/1299/241319 https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/australian-snake-necked-turtle https://www.jstor.org/stable/1443705 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1674/0003-0031(2008)160%5B61:EAATAE%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10577-006-1029-6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18679815 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-temperature-sex-determination-reptiles/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.2460 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06519 https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/279441 https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/54/5/757/2797857 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19625321 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leatherback-sea-turtles-can-measure-sunlight-through-their-skulls-180952703/ https://conserveturtles.org/information-about-sea-turtles-leatherback-sea-turtle/ https://www.seeturtles.org/sea-turtle-migration/ https://www.nps.gov/pais/learn/nature/leatherback.htm https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0592 http://theconversation.com/leatherback-sea-turtles-use-mysterious-compass-sense-to-migrate-hundreds-of-miles-38519 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4051/791 https://www.nature.com/articles/244181a0 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098106001663 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-decline-of-the-pig-nosed-turtle-29463559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23125335 https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/fly-river-turtle https://batrachos.com/sites/default/files/pictures/Books/vitt_caldwell_2014_herpetology.pdf https://peerj.com/articles/4565/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2016.1180720 https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/urea-turtle-finds-unusual-excretion-12-10-16/ http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/21/3723 https://www.livescience.com/23893-turtle-pees-from-mouth.html http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/21/ii http://publications.rzsnsw.org.au/doi/pdf/10.7882/AZ.2010.016 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/207/17/3099 https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00454.x http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z03-037#.XCUO3s82qu4
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