For humans, the teenage years are marked by angst, self-discovery, and homework. For elephants, they’re marked by pus-weeping face glands, uncontrollable rage, and a green penis!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Guevedoces:
https://secondnexus.com/opinion/the-intersex-children-of-salinas/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/924291-overview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1991.tb03769.x
Cat scratch disease: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-case-of-schizophrenia-found-to-be-a-bad-case-of-cat-scratch-disease
[Fact Off]
Music
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-teen-music-choices-fear-rules/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22Gregory+S.+Berns%22
Elephant Musth
https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=teenage-elephants-need-a-father-figure
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/index.php?s=1&act=pdfviewer&id=1253211728&folder=125
[Ask the Science Couch]
Risk taking/brain development
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445337/
Lying
http://www.jeffreyarnett.com/articles/articles/ARNETT_the_right_to_do_wrong.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691815300184
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0109591
[Butt One More Thing]
Koala pap