Hello, and welcome back to the Curious Kid Podcast. Hello!

And welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

About six months ago, we learned about the largest animal on the planet, the blue whale.

This week, we are going to learn about the largest land animal.

Get ready for an enormous episode on an enormous animal.

Mail bag.

Mail bag.

Hi Jacob and Olivia.

This is Ingrid, age 5 and Moira, age 8, with their dad, Patrick, from Bel Air Maryland.

We are curious to know about the special breathing talents that both dolphins and elephants have.

We know that dolphins are mammals, but how do they survive in the water so long?

And we know that elephants have long trunks.

But how is it that they are able to

spray water out to wash their babies? Thank you so much for reading and discussing our topic.

We love your show and listen as often as we can while in the car. Keep up the great work.

From Ingrid, Moira, and Patrick. That was a great email. We are getting curious about elephants this week for Ingrid, Moira, and Patrick. That was a great email.

We are getting curious about elephants this week for Ingrid and Moira.

And if you want to know more about dolphins, you can always listen to episode 27 of Curious Kid Podcast, Curious About Dolphins. In that episode, Olivia interviewed a veterinarian who rescues dolphins in the

Florida Keys. We learned so much about dolphins in that episode. Okay, Olivia, what's the question

of the week? The question of the week is, what is the closest living land relative to the elephant?

That's a really hard one, because elephants are so unique.

It's hard to think of any animals that might be a close relative of the elephant.

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