ANIMAL THOUGHTS: Inside Our Pets' Minds 🐶🐱
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!
In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and learn all about what our pets are thinking!
Dan kicks off with the latest science news, starting with what scientists are calling the 'strongest evidence yet' of life beyond Earth, after a faraway world showed potential signs of life. Next, we unpack the moment a colossal squid was captured on camera in the wild for the first time ever. And finally, Dan speaks to Dr. Kate Pattle from UCL to unpack the significance of the first all-female spaceflight in over sixty years!
Then, we answer your questions! Etta wants to know: why the Moon has a different orbit everyday? And Tim Jones from Sally's Duck Rescue answers Jenny's question: How do ducks float on water?
In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the deadly blanket octopus!
In Battle of the Sciences, animal scientist, Dr. Jackie Boyd, takes us on a fascinating journey—from unravelling the mysteries of parasites to uncovering what our pets might really be thinking.
What do we learn about?
· The first all-female space flight in over 60 years
· A faraway world with potential for life
· How ducks float on water
· The DEADLY blanket octopus
· And in Battle of the Sciences, we unpack what are pets are thinking
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Explorer. Welcome along. You've stumbled upon the smartest show in the solar system, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's time to take a look around. Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:11.6 | My name is Dan. We're about to make loads of discoveries. This week, we're diving into ducks. |
| 0:18.3 | Have you ever watched them gliding across a pond effortlessly? And you've thought, |
| 0:24.7 | how on earth are they doing that? Why aren't they sinking? Well, we'll find out. |
| 0:28.9 | It's mainly the oil, the oil gland. So when you see them preening and sitting on the side |
| 0:33.2 | and rubbing their feathers and pulling at their wings, that's what they're doing. |
| 0:42.4 | They're spreading that all all around their body to help keep them afloat. |
| 0:49.9 | In our Battle of the Sciences this week, we'll try and discover what your pet is actually thinking about you. |
| 0:58.2 | Right now, the really exciting thing I'm looking at, and I'm teaching teaching my students about is sort of the emotional life of animals and the fact that animals are fundamentally experiencing the world often in the same way that we are |
| 1:04.5 | so they have thoughts, feelings, fears, lots of other emotions. |
| 1:09.4 | And for our dangerous, Dan, |
| 1:11.3 | we're learning about one creature |
| 1:13.2 | that uses another creature as a weapon. |
| 1:16.4 | It's coming up in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 1:23.0 | Let's start with your science in the news. |
| 1:26.1 | Scientists have found new, but very tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star |
| 1:35.8 | might be home to life. |
| 1:38.4 | A team from Cambridge University have been studying the atmosphere of a planet called |
| 1:43.0 | K2-18B, very catchy, they've detected signs of |
| 1:48.5 | molecules which on Earth are only made by organisms. |
| 1:54.0 | Now this is the second time chemicals associated with life have been detected in this planet's |
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