Wildlife

Shark Week: The Podcast – Dr. Riley Elliott on his Passion for Remarkable Mako Sharks in New Zealand

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Luke Tipple speaks to Riley Elliott aka “The Shark Man”, scientist & star of Discovery’s Shark Week Special Clash of Killers: Great Whites vs. Makos.

How Technology is Transforming Wildlife Protection

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Learn how surveillance methods employing satellite tracking, drones and artificial intelligence are transforming wildlife protection.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Human-Wildlife Conflict and Believing Leisure Is a Waste of Time

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Learn about the science of human-wildlife conflicts; and what you risk by believing that leisure is a waste of time.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Cities Have Squirrels, How Psychopath Brains Are Different, and a Holographic Brain Device

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Do Wild Animals Know What to Eat?

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Learn why helping others feels like helping ourselves, how wild animals eat healthy, and how the Sahara feeds the Amazon.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Elephants Get Drunk (and They’re Lightweights), Pigeons Helped Win Wars, and Night Owls May Struggle to Regulate Their Emotions

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Learn about why it might actually be pretty easy to drink an elephant under the table; how carrier pigeons like Cher Ami helped win the world wars; and why night owls may have worse emotion regulation than morning people.

Species Loss is a Disaster for Wildlife and Humankind

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Biodiversity and species loss is a grave threat, facing not only animals and plants but society too. Ecologists say that losing species directly affects human food production, water supply, building materials, and energy sources, so our interactions with and handling of ecosystems must be regulated.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”

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Learn about why monkeys imitate other species’ accents; and the “dataome,” a new way to think about information.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back

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Learn about how to combat revenge bedtime procrastination; the power of elephant trunks; and how pineapples eat you back.

Could Sharks Live in Space?

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Europa to be specific. Yes, I know it’s a crazy question, but hear me out. This will be fun.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes?

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Learn about a newly discovered way to cut down on intrusive thoughts; why wombats poop cubes; and why UPS trucks almost never make left turns.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Duck-Billed Platypus Is Weirder Than You Thought

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Learn about what researchers found when they sequenced the bizarre duck-billed platypus genome; a trick for unlocking your creativity; and the strange reasons for job-specific voices, like those of pilots, newscasters, and poets.

Could Sharks Exist in Space?

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Astronomers around the world are engaged in a massive, decades-long hunt for life outside the Earth. Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter contemplates if sharks could live somewhere out in space. If so, where?

World Wildlife Conservation Day Aims to Protect Endangered Species

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How to Help Save the World’s Endangered Rhinos

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World Rhino Day, on September 22, aims to celebrate the black, white, greater one-horned, Sumatran and Javan rhinos, and all the subspecies in-between.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Foods to Curb Sleep Deprivation, Light Levels Affect How Cold You Feel, and Kangaroo Pouches

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Learn about why the amount of light you see affects how cold you feel; what’s inside a kangaroo’s pouch; and, foods that can curb the effects of sleep deprivation.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Wildlife Crossings Work (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and Get Happy by Doing One Creative Thing a Day

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Beth Pratt, leader of the Save LA Cougars campaign, explains how wildlife crossings work and the unique engineering behind the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing. Plus: learn how doing one creative thing every day can boost your happiness.

Behind the Scenes: Tiger Shark King

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