Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this week’s show: Comparing human-dog bonds with human-wolf bonds, and monitoring termite decay rates on a global scale First up on the podcast this week, Online News Editor David Grimm talks with host Sarah Crespi about the bonds between dogs and their human caretakers. Is it possible these bonds started even before domestication? Also this week, Sarah talks with Amy Zanne, professor and Aresty endowed chair in tropical ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of Miami. They discuss a global study to determine whether climate change might accelerate the rate at which termites and microbes break down dead wood and release carbon into the atmosphere. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: Christina Hansen Wheat; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: Björk, a female wolf, with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9777 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.9	This is the science podcast for September 23rd, 2022. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we talk about the most
1:26.9	interesting news and research from science
1:29.6	and the sister journals. First up this week, online news editor David Grimm. He's going to talk
1:35.6	again about pets and our love for our pets. And we're going to specifically talk about this
1:41.6	special bond between humans and dogs and a way to test whether this kind of bond could have formed between people and wolves before domestication.
1:50.9	Also on the show this week, we have Amy Zann. She's a professor and a resdy chair in tropical ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of Miami.
1:59.7	We're going to discuss a big project, this is really a global project,
2:03.6	to measure the activity of termites and microbes that break down would,
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