Why Blue Whales Don’t Get Cancer - Peto’s Paradox

Get Merch designed with ❤ from Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 ▼▼ More infos and links are just a click away ▼▼ Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox that remains unsolved to this day: large animals seem to be immune to cancer. Which doesn’t make any sense – the bigger a being, the more cancer it should have. To understand why, we first need to take a look at the nature of cancer itself. Sources & further reading: OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: by FUNK Spanish Channel: by WIX HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us! Get Merch designed with ❤ from Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Reddit: Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: Discord: Newsletter: OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700 minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: Soundcloud: Bandcamp: Youtube: Facebook: The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: Bandcamp: 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons from who support us every month and made this video possible: Dennis Barzanoff, HGING231, Taylor Sutton, Agazzy Kan, Isabelle Sagastume, Richard Larsen, Carini, Arvīds Pelēcis, chrisnov, Anish Weerasooriya, Erik Stafford, Apoorva Chandra, Renee Annan, Alex Cross, Jan Karlík, Alexander Fielding, Lukas Schmidt, André, Jianzhuo Wu, Dina Andrei, Iskandar 323, Promethius84 ., Michael Altherr, Devon Meyer, Honza Tomášek, Da Yi, stephanie santos, Kyrill Abrams, Scott Blechman, Alexandre Valdetaro, Balázs Varju, TheBozzCL, Bufe, Mr_Blu42, Kamil, Scott, Alan Lu, Chris Gardner, Youssef Adib, Sean Markham, R, Severin Klingler, Sebastian, Gurneel Kang, SatanicPanic, ohad shalev, Grayson Gordon, 健樑 黃, Taavi Taijala, Lara Rimassa, Paul Wittau, Sir. Forest, schanuel, Cleo Wong, Mihaela Ciobanu, Tibor, secure taka, GeF, rolf redford, Martin Kärgell, Devyn Phillips, Tiger Darian