Ted Stankowich

Ted Stankowich, animal behaviorist and evolutionary biologist at Cal State Long Beach who studies skunks, armadillos, pangolins and other defenses. He tours his lab and explains where armor, spines, sprays and toxins evolve. He contrasts innate versus learned predator avoidance, trade-offs of heavy defense, thanatosis and bizarre tricks like blood-squirting horned lizards.