Extinct Animals - Special Earth Day episode

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

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🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Happy Earth Day, listeners! On this special episode we talk about four cool animals that have been impacted by humans and climate change: the dodo bird, Tasmanian tiger, white lemuroid possum, and Fernandina giant tortoise. Through hunting, climate change, introduction of non-native species, and more, these animals have been brought to the brink of extinction, and sometimes even have gone extinct.

We end this episode with practical ways that you can make a difference for animals and for our environment.

By the way, the 200 million number on straws is probably very low--but we can't find an accurate number for how many straws are used every year.

What are your ideas for what you can do to protect the environment? Let us know at [email protected]

We also want to hear your audio clips of animal facts or questions. Send them to us at [email protected]. If we get enough, we will make your clips into an episode!

Thanks as always to Ear Snacks for our theme music. And thanks to all of you for listening, rating and helping to protect our environment!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Cool Facts About Animals. Today we are doing our Earth Day episode.
0:05.0	We have videos.
0:06.0	Today and here with Porter and hope green overalls don't go extinct.
0:11.0	And Ducky!
0:14.0	Quack, quack, quack!
0:15.0	Becky and Grady with Jaguar!
0:19.0	Hi everybody! Tomorrow is Earth Day! Get on your Earth Day glow! Grady with Jaguar. Hi, everybody.
0:22.5	Tomorrow is Earth Day.
0:29.9	Get on your Earth Day gloves, the knees, and stuff, and have fun with the Earth!
0:31.2	Pongo! Pongo!
0:32.1	Oh, he Pongo!
0:32.8	And hi, my name's Theo with Bunny.
0:38.3	Hi everybody.
0:39.3	Well, thanks everyone for joining us for our Earth Day episode.
0:41.3	Bye.
0:42.3	We're going to have a little bit of a different format than usual today.
0:45.3	We're going to talk about four different animals, two of which have gone extinct, one of which is almost extinct and one which used to be extinct, they thought, but actually is not.
0:56.6	And then at the end of our show, we're going to give some tips for things you can do to help the earth
1:00.3	and make sure that more animals don't go extinct too.
1:02.8	So we're going to get right into it, and Clara's going to go first with...
1:06.8	The dodo!
1:08.3	So, Clara, tell us about the dodo.
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