Slug Sex and Bubble Rafts: Nature's Most Unusual Slime

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Slime videos have been a popular trend on YouTube recently, but there are a few animals with their own versions of slime, which they use for some very cool things! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Slime composition www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/articlesbytopic/solidsliquidsgases/chemmatters-dec2004-slime.pdf www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19201713 www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Prezant2/publication/236964382_Molluscan_mucins_a_unifying_thread/links/53dfcb890cf2aede4b4940ab.pdf Hagfish jeb.biologists.org/content/213/7/1092 gizmodo.com/ooey-gooey-hagfish-slime-is-an-amazingly-versatile-mate-1784713798 gizmodo.com/hagfish-slime-is-wonderful-1796918961 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bta18FdkVcA www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16326943 www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-hagfish-77165589/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20348334 Slug web.mit.edu/nnf/research/phenomena/slug.html www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/27/from-goo-to-glue-slug-slime-inspires-new-wound-mending-surgical-adhesive www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/slip-sliming-away www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/27/539473673/slug-slime-inspires-scientists-to-invent-sticky-surgical-glue www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157752/ www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150114-the-strange-sensational-world-of-leopard-slug-sex www.wired.com/2015/09/absurd-creature-week-slug-big-penis-mate-upside/ Violet sea snail news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111019-about-sea-snail-mucus-bubble-rafts/ www.livescience.com/16476-bubble-rafting-snail-evolution.html www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2811%2900886-4 ur.umich.edu/1112/Oct17_11/2761-in-bubble-rafting-snails www.mesa.edu.au/atoz/Violet_Sea_Snail.asp Images: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M.E._Blochii_..._Systema_ichthyologiae_iconibus_CX_illustratum_(Plate_104)_(7038552661).jpg www.nature.com/articles/srep30371 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limax_maximus_5.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slug-oh_my!.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mating_Great_Grey_Slug_4111.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Janthina_janthina.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Janthina.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg

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