10 Bizarre Ways to Avoid Being Dinner

If you’re a wild animal, you might spend your days actively trying to NOT become another animal s dinner. And some animals have come up with some pretty bizarre strategies to stay safe. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Bryce Daifuku, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Accalia Elementia, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Mike Frayn, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Kathy Philip, Patrick D. Ashmore, Thomas J., Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- 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: Assassin bugs http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-insect-uses-its-victims-carcasses-as-camouflage-83656246/?no-ist http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00335.x/full http://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(02)02519-3#back-BIB1 Moths http://www.life.umd.edu/faculty/wilkinson/honr278c/PDF/Miller01.pdf http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325.abstract http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/24/4278.short http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/13/moths-superhearing-evolved-to-escape-bats/ California ground squirrels http://www.pnas.org/content/104/36/14372.full http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/squirrel-hot-tail-tell-snakes/ Bombardier beetle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqF-ND2XcY http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-bombardier-beetles-produce-defensive-spray-0430 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6234/563 Black-capped chickadees http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5730/1934 http://www.washington.edu/news/2005/06/23/chickadees-alarm-calls-carry-information-about-size-threat-of-predator/ http://www.raptorsoftherockies.org/html/chickadee%20overview.pdf http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publications/BergstromAndLachmann01.pdf Triggerfish http://www.arkive.org/queen-triggerfish/balistes-vetula/ http://pubs.iclarm.net/libinfo/Pdf/Pub%20SR76%207.pdf http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/triggerfish/ Boxer Crab https://www.deeperblue.com/creature-feature-not-quite-muhammed-ali/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098113002827 Hagfish http://jeb.biologists.org/content/209/4/702.long http://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/24/4613.long https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uBXTCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA259 http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/22/hagfish-slime-animals-science-weird-fish/ http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00131 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FyehAR6hsUUC&pg=PA235 Thomson’s gazelles https://www.jstor.org/stable/4600191?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347203003531 Ground beetle larvae http://io9.gizmodo.com/5842323/this-beetle-larva-tricks-its-predator-into-becoming-prey http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025161