Animal Slander! The Origins Of "Badgering" Will Bum You Out

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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It's the latest installment of our series, "Animal Slander," where we take a common saying about animals and see what truth there is to it. The case before the Short Wave court today: "badgering." We look at the dark origins of the word and explore the wild world of badger biology with University of Oxford scientist Tanesha Allen.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.2	Water in the choir.
0:05.7	Hey, see you.
0:07.4	Hey, everybody.
0:08.4	Emily Kwong here with Maddie Sophia.
0:10.9	Hello, Emily.
0:12.3	I have missed you.
0:13.6	I feel like it's been a geologic epic since we were last
0:17.3	on an episode together.
0:19.1	What do you have for us today?
0:20.9	Well, Emily, it's time for one of my favorite shortwave
0:24.1	segments.
0:24.8	A little series we call Animal Slander.
0:29.1	Yes, finally.
0:30.5	I mean, since we have not done one of these episodes
0:33.8	in over a year, let's tell our audiences what they've won.
0:36.8	Let's remind them what this is all about.
0:38.8	Well, Emily, Animal Slander is a series
0:40.7	where we debunk common sayings about animals that
0:43.3	are incorrect, often disparaging, pretty much downright
0:47.2	slander.
0:48.7	Wow, I forgot about how much we use that devil.
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