How Turtles Unlock Memories They Didn't Know They Had | Species Spotlight

Hey friends! Today Ben talks about magnets, we learn about the smell of raindrops on footpaths, and we follow a Sea Turtle all the way home! DONATE to the Barbados Sea Turtle Project: http://www.barbadosseaturtles.org/pages/resources/index.html DONATE to the Australian Sea Turtle Foundation: https://seaturtlefoundation.org/donate ••••• Your host: Ben the Quasi-Ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my YouTube Membership! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for new merch or a sick profile pic? Check out the Explored website! https://naturalworldexplored.com ••••• Audio Credits: Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Also Sprach Zarathustra, composed by Richard Strauss and premiered in 1896. Link to license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Strauss_-_Also_Sprach_Zarathustra.ogg#:~:text=Licensing,distribute%20and%20transmit%20the%20work ••••• Sources mentioned: Boyle, A. (2023). Episodic memory in animals: Optimism, kind scepticism and pluralism. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory (Chapter 9). https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=s4V0EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT224#v=onepage&q&f=false Rattenborg, N.C. & Martinez-Gonzalez, D. (2011). A bird-brain view of episodic memory. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432811002191 Hofer, M. K., Collins, H. K., Whillans, A. V., & Chen, F. S. (2018). Olfactory cues from romantic partners and strangers influence women’s responses to stress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000110 ••••• Photo credits GEOMAR, Coastal Upwelling Diagram. https://www.geomar.de/en/discover/ocean-and-climate/climate-change-in-the-ocean/upwelling The Ocean Cleanup, Turtle trapped in garbage: https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ Cleanhub, Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://blog.cleanhub.com/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-how-marine-plastic-impacts-our-biggest-ocean Planet Earth II, BBC: https://cms.bbcearth.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/2ecmt0000001000.jpg https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/12/09/turtles-planet-earth.jpg?width=1200&height=630&fit=crop Barbados Sea Turtle Project, Hawksbill Rum: https://www.hawksbillrum.co.uk/news/barbados-sea-turtle-project ••••• 00:00 Try Not To Get Lost 00:52 Memory 03:02 I. The Geodynamo 05:50 II. Point Break 09:39 III. Eternal Sunshine of the Plotless Find 11:47 IV. The Scent Of Water 13:00 V. Turtle Recall #animal #turtle #migration #memory #science #wildlife #documentary #reptile