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Outside/In

Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You've left us lots of great questions on the Ask Sam hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) so Sam and the team crammed into a studio to try and answer a few.  In this episode we'll tackle metamorphosis, animal sexuality, how to ride a bicycle when it's -18 degrees, and we'll introduce a new segment in which Sam is asked to ruin some of our favorite things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

0:04.0

I'm Sam Evans Brown. I'm here with producer Hannah McCarthy.

0:07.0

Hi Hannah.

0:08.0

Hi, Sam Evans Brown.

0:10.0

And senior producer Taylor Quimby, Hi Taylor.

0:13.0

Hello, Sam Evans Brown.

0:15.0

Now that we all know each other's last names,

0:18.0

let's all proceed.

0:20.0

Why do geese make fees?

0:21.0

Does the bumblebee sneeze?

0:22.0

Can a person eat trees? In a polar bear Does a bubble bee sneeze?

0:22.6

Can a person eat trees?

0:23.4

In a polar bear freeze.

0:24.4

Is a kidney stone kind of like a pearl and a clam?

0:26.4

But I don't know, ask Sam.

0:28.3

Never get old.

0:29.2

Now I'm in the mood for it.

0:32.1

Hi, I'm Aaron from San Diego, California, and I'm glad you guys said no question is too silly because I've been

0:39.8

wondering this for a while, but everybody laughs at me when I ask it when a caterpillar becomes a

0:46.0

butterfly. All right, so caterpillars have a bunch of little legs, but butterflies only

0:51.0

have six legs. I'm like, where do all the legs go?

0:55.0

Anyway, so hope you guys can answer that for me.

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