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Thanks for downloading analysis, the podcast about the ideas. podcasts. and we continue the jollity with this podcast as Neil Riselle examines what threatens the rest of the natural world

and whether the planet is facing a mass extinction.

Let's start with bugs.

Axel Hawkeish loves them. As soon as you deal a little bit more intensively with them and study them more in detail,

you start to fall in love because they behave very much like other animals do.

He's a professor of biogeography at Treer University in Germany.

So if you start just sitting in front of a grasshopper and watch him displaying in front of a female for example

then waving its antenna and its hind legs making a small dance and then you see the

female not interested in all and just kicking in the way,

then you have a different feeling for insects.

However much sympathy you might have for the jilted grasshopper, he admits that insects are sometimes pretty annoying.

When we think about bugs, we think about the bad bug.

When we think about roaches, we think about the cockroach.

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