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!
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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
[Ask the Science Couch]
Forest migration
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BorealMigration
https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredible-moving-forest/
[Butt One More Thing]
Starling poop