SciShow | Meet The Black Swallower: Nature's Top Competitive Eater

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Episode Title: Meet The Black Swallower: Nature's Top Competitive Eater
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Description: Go to http://curiositystream.com/SciShow to start streaming Deep Ocean. Use the promo code scishow during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. Deep in the ocean lives a fish that seems pretty normal right up until dinner time, when it reveals its secret talent: devouring meals much larger than itself. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon 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: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, 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: ftp.library.noaa.gov/oedv.lib/Okeanos_Explorer_2017_EX1711/doc/rov_dive_summaries/EX1711_DIVE09_20171211_ROVDiveSummary.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0032945209100063 https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Chiasmodon-niger.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/light_travel.html https://www.caymancompass.com/2007/10/10/Small-fish-takes-big-bite/ https://books.google.com/books?id=quRaAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA247&ots=Ho8oWMWI0V&dq=%22it%20espies%20a%20fish%20many%20times%20larger%20than%20itself%22&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/13427/v19_p1_a1_Vladykov_some_unreported_rare_fishes_coast_Nova%20Scotia.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y http://www.fao.org/3/y0870e/y0870e16.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=shALAAAAIAAJ&q=swallower#v=onepage&q=chiasmodon&f=false https://www.pnas.org/content/110/51/20645 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saccopharynx_ampullaceus_drawing.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceratias_holboelli.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chiasmodon_niger.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51553_Black_Swallower,_Chiasmodon_niger_Johnson,_containing_a_fish_larger_than_itself_Le_Have_Bank.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chiasmodon_niger1.jpg https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lightinocean.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seven_Mile_Beach_2006.jpg https://vimeo.com/65014153 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXodTk268I


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