Why Stress Sweat Smells Worse, Studying Wildlife During the Pandemic, and Do Men Just Not See Messes?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how scientists and animals are benefitting from the “anthropause” during the coronavirus pandemic; why sweat from stress smells worse than regular sweat; and whether men really “see less mess” than women.
We're in the "anthropause," a unique opportunity to study wildlife by Steffie Drucker
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- Simon, M. (2020, June 29). The Anthropause: How the Pandemic Gives Scientists a New Way to Study Wildlife. Wired; WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/the-anthropause-a-new-way-to-study-wildlife/
- Rutz, C., Loretto, M.-C., Bates, A. E., Davidson, S. C., Duarte, C. M., Jetz, W., Johnson, M., Kato, A., Kays, R., Mueller, T., Primack, R. B., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Tucker, M. A., Wikelski, M., & Cagnacci, F. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z
- Goldfarb, B. (2020, July 6). There Really Was Less Roadkill This Spring. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/07/pandemic-roadkill/613852/
Why stress sweat smells worse than regular sweat by Andrea Michelson
- Santos-Longhurst, A. (2019, February 26). Stress Sweat Is Real, Here’s How to Manage It. Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/stress-sweat
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- Fox-Skelly, J. (2015). The smelliest animals in the world. BBC.com. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150610-why-its-good-to-smell-bad
Some Say Men Just Don't See Mess, So Researchers Put It to the Test by author
- Ruppanner, L., Sabino Kornrich, & Thebaud, S. (2019, July 2). Men do see the mess – they just aren’t judged for it the way women are. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/men-do-see-the-mess-they-just-arent-judged-for-it-the-way-women-are-118728
- Thébaud, S., Kornrich, S., & Ruppanner, L. (2019). Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms. Sociological Methods & Research, 004912411985239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119852395
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:05.0 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why |
| 0:09.6 | the pandemic gives scientists a unique opportunity to study wildlife, why sweat from stress |
| 0:15.0 | smells worse than regular sweat, and whether men really see less mess than women. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.0 | If you've watched the news or scrolled through social media during the pandemic, |
| 0:27.0 | you've probably seen some surprising animal pictures, |
| 0:31.0 | from wild boars running amok in Italy and Spain to pumas taking to the streets in San Francisco, |
| 0:38.0 | wild animals are showing up where we've never seen them before. |
| 0:42.0 | Researchers say it's because the pandemic is keeping humans at home. |
| 0:46.8 | They've even coined a phrase for this unprecedented time |
| 0:50.0 | of human hibernation, the anthropeause, and it's proving to be a silver lining to this dark |
| 0:57.0 | time, both for animals and for science. |
| 1:01.0 | Now I'm not trying to downplay the terrible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's nice to know that it's at least come with some major benefits for the environment. |
| 1:10.0 | Less travel has saved tens of thousands of animals from being hit by cars, |
| 1:14.8 | and it's significantly improved air quality. |
| 1:18.4 | It's also providing an amazing opportunity for scientists |
| 1:22.1 | to learn more about how humans and wildlife opportunity for presence is cramping their style. For example, we can outfit animals with advanced |
| 1:35.5 | trackers to give researchers a trove of data on their movement and behavior. |
| 1:41.1 | Then they can compare that to data on our own. and behavior, like traffic patterns to show whether the animals are acting differently |
| 1:49.7 | without people around. |
| 1:52.1 | Tracking and comparing all of this |
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