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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Welcome along to your weekly trip around the solar system! Dr Lisa Yon from the University of Nottingham is telling us all about a brand new app being used by elephant enclosures to help their keepers understand how they're feeling and what their health is like. Broken trunk? There's an app for that!
In science news, Harrison Ford has yet ANOTHER animal named after him! First an ant and then a snake, Harrison is now the namesake of a new species of snake in Peru. We also set out to answer some of your questions, like why are yawns contagious? You better not be yawning listening to this!
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1:04.9 | universe in our fun kids science weekly. My name's Dan welcome along thank you |
1:11.6 | for listening for following for streaming. This is the podcast every week where we |
1:16.7 | explore some of the amazing science secrets lurking through the solar system. |
1:21.2 | This week you can hear about a brand new app that lets scientists know exactly |
1:26.8 | how elephants are feeling. Elephants aren't a really amazing species they're |
1:32.3 | really intelligent and they live really long lives they can live up to 70 years |
1:36.5 | and so we think that it's really important that we look after them the best |
1:41.2 | that we can in captivity also because unfortunately although it's great to see |
1:46.9 | them in the wild they're actually endangered which means that they're dying |
1:51.5 | out in the wild pretty soon we're not going to have them there and so the |
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