Gay Animals - with Field Guide to Gay Animals! | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Head to https://shopify.com/scishow to learn more and for a free trial. Thanks to Shopify, a commerce platform that helps you start, grow, and manage your business, for supporting SciShow. It wouldn't be Pride at Tangents if we weren't getting into some science! We're joined by Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson, the hosts of a new show from news outlet Canadaland called "Field Guide to Gay Animals." Our conversation ranged far and wide across a myriad of ways queerness is expressed in the animal world and the challenges and joys of studying it. Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! 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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen Sources: [Truth or Fail Express] Sequentially hermaphroditic shrimp https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eeblog/2020/12/01/sequential-hermaphroditism-or-why-to-be-wary-of-frog-dna/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oceans-rising-acidity-could-impact-shrimps-early-sex-reversal-180972521/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218238 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355179232_Protandric_Transcriptomes_to_Uncover_Parts_of_the_Crustacean_Sex-Differentiation_Puzzle Nudibranch with male and female sex organs https://www.livescience.com/27065-sea-slug-uses-disposable-penis.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639767/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-018-0562-z?wt Sparrows with white or tan stripes and functionally four genders https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated-sex-lives-white-throated-sparrows https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725849/ [This or That: Bird or Bug?] Male-male duo that dances together to attract a mate (blue-backed manakin) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51171525#page/225/mode/1up https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/18/1/21/209396 Male-male pair that takes over a male-female pair’s nest (Japanese termites) https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/680968 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216301233 Mating-related injuries on both male and female specimens (dragonflies) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16252041#page/48/mode/1up [Ask the Science Couch] History of sexual diversity in animals documented or not in zoology (e.g. Adelie penguins) https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 https://www.penguinscience.com/reprints/10%20Russell.pdf http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/pdf-77304-13455?filename=Same_sex%20sexual%20behaviour.pdf [Butt One More Thing] Aristotle’s History of Animals mentions female pigeons laying wind-eggs after same-sex sexual behavior https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.6.vi.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-an-egg-with-no-yolk #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents