Ep 21: Fish Fart Diplomacy

How fish farts nearly caused a war between Russia and Sweden, how severed octopus arms continue to try to feed the octopus, and why we use a rodent to predict the future.

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Resources:

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/for-15-years-sweden-thought-enemy-submarines-were-invading-its-territory-it-turned-out-to-be-herring-farts/

How herring farts almost lead to a diplomatic crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1Jr6QqSlE

No Such Thing As A Fish https://audioboom.com/posts/7771797-no-such-thing-as-potter-the-great

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severed-octopus-arms-have-a-mind-of-their-own-2403303/

Severed Arm Resisting Stranger Octopus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6Usm5bi_U

https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2016/10/07/5-reasons-the-octopus-is-the-coolest-animal-in-the-sea

Scientific American: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/even-severed-octopus-arms-have-smart-moves/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/how-octopus-arms-regenerate-with-ease/

Science Alert:  https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-octopus-arms-make-decisions-without-input-from-the-brain

https://io9.gizmodo.com/detatched-octopus-arms-show-independent-awareness-1209041248

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day

https://bestlifeonline.com/hilarious-groundhog-day/

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