Asking Science About Giraffe

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On a sunny day in March 2020, researchers in South Africa discovered the bodies of two giraffes. From what they could tell, the giraffes had died a few days earlier. But the cause was a mystery. To understand what happened, producer Dean Russell turned to the subreddit AskScience. He discusses his findings with Endless Thread co-hosts Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson.

Credits: This episode was written and produced by Dean Russell. Mixing and sound design by Matt Reed. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson are the co-hosts.

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0:00.0	Hey, endless thread listeners. It's Ben Brock Johnson. I want to tell you about an event
0:07.0	that's upcoming in Boston that I am so excited about. And it is put together from a bunch
0:18.0	of crazy disaster movies. So if you like disaster movies and you like watching clips
0:23.0	from disaster movies and you like talking about ridiculous films from the 90s and 2000s
0:30.0	and and OTS and all the time that Hollywood has done a terrible job at talking about climate
0:36.1	change. I want you to come to this event. Dean Russell has been working on it with me
0:42.4	and Dean, how would you describe this experience for the audience that we're going to have?
0:47.7	Let's choose your own disaster event where everyone gets to vote on what happens next
0:54.7	in the great plot that we're moving through in our disaster movies.
0:59.7	And it's going to be unlike anything we've ever done and we're really excited. And if you're an endless
1:04.7	thread fan and you're a disaster movie fan, we encourage you to join us on April 21st, 2023.
1:13.7	Just go to wbur.org slash events and you will find this. Choose your own disaster event
1:21.7	right there at the page. All right, we hope to see you. Let's party. Here's the show.
1:27.7	WBUR Podcasts Boston.
1:37.7	Amory. Ben. Dean. Dean. I'm going to start with something I read online recently.
1:45.7	This is a mini murder mystery. Oh boy. Does that mean the person place or thing that was murdered
1:52.7	is miniature? Well, actually the opposite. It's March 2nd, 2020. And a team of researchers
2:00.7	are trekking through this wildlife preserve in South Africa. And they come across these two
2:08.7	female giraffes lying on their sides. And it doesn't take long to discover that these two
2:15.7	have unfortunately gone on to greener pastures. But there's something really strange about their deaths.
2:25.7	The cause was an absolute head scratcher because these two giraffes looked
2:33.7	besides the fact that they were dead. More or less fine. Like nothing was wrong with them.
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