How butterflies self-medicate
- Title:
- How butterflies self-medicate
- Speaker:
- Jaap De Roode
- Description:
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Just like us, the monarch butterfly sometimes gets sick thanks to a nasty parasite. But biologist Jaap de Roode noticed something interesting about the butterflies he was studying — infected female butterflies would choose to lay their eggs on a specific kind of plant that helped their offspring avoid getting sick. How do they know to choose this plant? Think of it as “the other butterfly effect” — which could teach us to find new medicines for the treatment of human disease.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 06:15
Daban Q Jaff edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate | ||
Rabar Omar edited Kurdish (Central) subtitles for How butterflies self-medicate |