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🗓️ 13 November 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:36.9 | I'm Jason Goldman. Got a minute? |
0:38.3 | Howler monkeys. |
0:42.3 | From their central and South American rainforest home, they produce some of the loudest |
0:47.3 | animal calls in the world. |
0:48.3 | They're about the size of an adult cock or spaniel, but they can sound as large as a tiger. |
0:53.3 | Biologists have long suspected |
0:56.0 | that the monkey's howls played a role in attracting mates. The sounds are like the auditory |
1:00.5 | version of peacock feathers or deer antlers that say, hey, check me out. And now we know that |
1:06.8 | the quality of the howl depends on a bone near their throats called the hyoid. The bigger the |
1:11.5 | hyoid, the deeper the howl. Males with deeper calls sound more attractive to females, which means |
1:17.4 | that males with smaller hyoids had to come up with another strategy. When you're in the field and you |
1:22.3 | look up at the monkeys, you notice that in Aluadah Palliata, that mantled haler monkey, that the testes are huge, and they're white. |
1:30.1 | They're really obvious. |
1:31.5 | University of Utah anthropologist Leslie Knapp. |
1:34.7 | She and her team found that howler monkeys face an anatomical tradeoff. |
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