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Bearded Vulture : The Bonebreaker and the Acid Test Jul 07, 2020

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The Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is Nature's greatest bonebreaker and bone-eater, and it uses two very different tools to make that possible: gravity and acid. It also has a somewhat mysterious but apparently significant relationship with iron oxide ...

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Music by Audionautix and Bert Alink and Unheard Music Concepts and Damiano Baldoni. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Ice Worm : Life on Ice Jun 16, 2020

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The glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus might look unremarkable, but it is an extraordinary animal. Above all, it's extraordinary in where it lives: on and in glaciers. It is one of a tiny handful of non-microscopic animals that can not only tolerate but require glacial ice to survive ...

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Music by Audionautix and Daniel Birch and Meydän. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Greater Honeyguide : The Bird of Light and Dark Jun 02, 2020

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The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is famous for its extraordinary co-operative relationship with humans. Less famous is its ruthlessly destructive relationship with other birds ...

Research assistance for this episode by Jack Wilkinson.

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Bonnethead Shark : The Shark That Eats Grass May 12, 2020

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The Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo) is a shark that packs quite a bit of unique into its smallish size. It's a member of the hammerhead family, so you know its head is going to be unusual, but the most surprising things about it are actually its teeth and its remarkable diet ...

Research assistance for this episode by Jack Wilkinson.

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Intro and outro music by Audionautix. Other music in this episode by Chris Zabriskie and Spin Day. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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West Indian Fuzzy Chiton : The Argus Shell Apr 28, 2020

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The West Indian fuzzy chiton (Acanthopleura granulata) is a relatively unobtrusive, modest-looking marine mollusc with an extraordinary secret. Its shell is not just for protection; built into it are hundreds of tiny eyes. Eyes with lenses made of crystals.

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Music by Audionautix and by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Barbary Macaque : The Monkey That Killed A King Apr 14, 2020

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The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is the only macaque that lives outside Asia, hanging on in pockets of the wild Atlas Mountains in North Africa. And, famously, living a semi-wild life on the Rock of Gibraltar. It's also been responsible for at least a couple of interesting human deaths, and exploring those connections takes us all over the place, and all over time: monkeys in prehistoric Europe, the Spanish Civil War, the Carthaginian wars, Roman arenas and a whole lot more ...

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Intro and outro music by Audionautix and by Doctor Turtle. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Yeti Crab : The Abominable Crustacean Apr 01, 2020

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Yeti crabs (Kiwa spp.). Hydrothermal vents. Life built not on sunlight, but on chemistry. We're going for a visit to some of the strangest places, with some of the strangest animals living the strangest lives, on the planet ...

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Alpine Chough : The Black Feather of the Neanderthals Mar 17, 2020

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The Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is, as far as birds are concerned, pretty much the ultimate mountaineer. It has bred at higher altitude than any other bird, and been seen hanging out near the summit of Mount Everest. But it is also a bird with a remarkable, almost inexplicable, deep history; because the Alpine chough has a mysterious, but possibly profound, connection to the Neanderthals ...

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Intro and outro music by Audionautix. Other music in this episode by Ondrosik and Chris Zabriskie. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Solorzano's Peripatus : The Giant Red Velvet Glue Gun Feb 25, 2020

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Solorzano's Peripatus (Peripatus solorzanoi) is the biggest velvet worm in the world. Which makes it the biggest example of a very, very unusual group of animals: cute, unique creatures that are highly secretive and mysterious. And are also dedicated hunters with an unusual secret weapon in their arsenal: glue.

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Intro and outro music by Audionautix. Other music in this episode by Chris Zabriskie. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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Portuguese Man-o-War : The Flagship of the Blue Fleet Jan 14, 2020

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The Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) is the most famous and spectacular member of the Blue Fleet. Questions to be asked and answered: What is the Blue Fleet? What obscure connection does it have to the Aquatic Ape theory of human evolution? Just how insanely weird is the Portuguese man o' war anyway, and what strange connection does it have to another member of the Blue Fleet – the improbably beautiful sea swallow, a ferociously predatory sea slug?

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Intro and outro music by Audionautix. Other music in this episode by Kai Engel , Jacopo Tore and Josh Woodward. All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

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