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It’s our 100th episode! And to celebrate our migration from double- to triple-digits, we’re talking about… animal migration... Ok, we forgot it was our 100th episode. But this is still a great episode!


 


Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! 


 


While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen


 


If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:


 


[Truth or Fail]


 


Arrow Stork


https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mystery


https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/02/19/the_weirdest_ideas_about_bird_migration.html


https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zoological-collection-of-the-university-of-rostock


https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/bird_migration/





[Fact Off]


 


American and European eel migration


https://www.jstor.org/stable/2449503?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents


https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37563100


https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/7/1329


https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9705


https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mystery-of-the-vanishing-eels


https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1501694


https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html 


 


Army ant bivouac 


 


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-002-8286-y


 


We just made a SciShow video about this!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20N0yUUOavc





[Ask the Science Couch]


 


Forest migration


https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BorealMigration


https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896030567/believe-it-or-not-forests-migrate-but-not-fast-enough-for-climate-change


https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredible-moving-forest/


 


[Butt One More Thing]


 


Starling poop 


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-05/rome-is-drowning-in-the-droppings-of-a-million-migrating-starlings





It’s our 100th episode! And to celebrate our migration from double- to triple-digits, we’re talking about… animal migration... Ok, we forgot it was our 100th episode. But this is still a great episode!


Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! 


While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen


If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out SciShowTangents.org!