Animal Slander! Debunking 'Birdbrained' And 'Eat Like A Bird'

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to "Animal Slander," the series where we take common expressions about animals and debunk them with science. Today on the show, we tackle "birdbrained" and to "eat like a bird" with biologists Corina Newsome and Alejandro Rico-Guevara.

Follow Maddie and Emily on Twitter. Their usernames are @maddie_sofia and @emilykwong1234. Plus, send us your animal slander—and questions and praise—by emailing the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.2	Water in the choir.
0:05.5	Hey, see you.
0:07.1	Hey, everybody.
0:07.9	Maddie's to fire in the house?
0:09.7	No, really.
0:10.5	In my house, back in the closet.
0:12.6	Like me, Emily Quang here, also reporting from home
0:16.3	with some animal slander.
0:20.1	Yes.
0:22.4	On the back, it feels so good to be doing another episode
0:26.4	of Animal Slander.
0:27.7	You know, just really sitting in our love of animal facts
0:31.1	and truth and justice.
0:32.9	Absolutely.
0:34.0	If you haven't heard an episode of Animal Slander before,
0:36.4	this is how it works.
0:37.5	We look at common phrases about animals,
0:39.6	and then we look at the science to try to figure out
0:41.9	whether or not they are true or slander.
0:45.1	It's the type of nonsense we need right now.
0:47.5	We could all use a little break these days.
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