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🗓️ 24 April 2019
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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 Yachtold, visit |
0:21.8 | yacolkot.co.j.j. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, |
0:30.0 | count on Yacolt. |
0:31.0 | This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Christopher and Taliatta. |
0:39.2 | Freshwater dolphins live in many of the world's biggest rivers, from the Amazon to the |
0:43.5 | Ganges, and they differ in a lot of ways from their better-known ocean-going cousins. |
0:48.1 | They have a flexible neck. They have different types of teeth. They can also move their |
0:52.9 | flippers independently in different directions |
0:55.4 | so they can swim backwards. Gabriel Melo Santos, a marine biologist at the University of |
1:00.8 | St. Andrews in Scotland. When I decided that I wouldn't be a biologist, I decided that I wanted |
1:05.3 | study dolphins. And being born in the Amazon, it was only natural to go for the river dolphins. |
1:16.0 | He says another thing that sets his study subjects apart from marine dolphins are their calls. |
1:23.2 | Over several years, Milo Santos has recorded the sounds of Aragoyan river dolphins that came calling at the Mokajuba fish market. |
1:26.2 | That's on Brazil's Tokunateen's river. |
1:28.4 | Then, using sound analysis software, his team fished 237 distinct sound types from the recordings, |
1:35.0 | indicating the dolphins have a wide repertoire. |
1:37.7 | The call collection, published in the journal Pierj, has only a few whistles. |
1:42.2 | Instead, three-quarters of the collected sounds |
1:44.6 | were short two-parters like this one. |
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