'Animal,' Episode 6: Bats

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On the final episode of “Animal,” Sam Anderson travels to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula to meet with a creature he's long been afraid of: bats. For photos and videos of Sam's journey to the Yucatán, and to listen to the full series, visit nytimes.com/animal. You can search for “Animal” wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael.
0:02.0	Today we have something really special for you.
0:05.0	A blissful break from the news.
0:08.0	It's a new series from NYU Audio called Animal.
0:13.0	Animal. My colleague Sam Anderson from The Times Magazine
0:16.0	traveled the world to have encounters with animals,
0:20.0	not to claim them or to tame them, but just to appreciate them.
0:24.9	Each episode is a journey to get closer to a creature that Sam loves.
0:31.1	For the next six weeks, we'll be running this limited series every Sunday here on the Daily
0:35.8	Feed. But if you want to hear all the episodes right now, you can search for it wherever you get
0:41.7	your podcasts.
0:43.4	Today, our final episode, episode six.
0:48.0	Hope you enjoy it.
0:52.1	One of the very worst things I've ever read in my whole entire life is this poem by D.H. Lawrence,
1:00.0	called Bat.
1:02.0	At evening sitting on this terrace,
1:05.0	even Florence, when the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of
1:09.6	Carrara departs and the world is taken by surprise.
1:12.8	D.H. Lawrence actually wrote some really great poems about animals,
1:16.5	about goats and elephants and even snakes.
1:20.1	Swallows gave way to bats.
1:22.1	But something about bats just breaks his brain.
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