Fun Facts: Creepy, Crawly, and a Little Bit Gross! 🧟🪳

Sleep Tight Science - A Bedtime Science Show For Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are going to learn about the animal kingdom’s strangest and grossest creatures! We’ll start with the housefly, discovering its unique habits like tasting with its feet and vomiting on its food, and move on to the resilient cockroach that can survive a week without its head. We’ll also learn about the hippopotamus’s unusual mating habits, the cube-shaped poop of wombats, and meet other creepy animals like tarantulas, giant squids, and vampire bats. Each creature may seem icky, but they all play important roles in nature, showcasing just how weird and wonderful the natural world truly is! Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark❤️👂📖 --- 👉 Join Premium for AD FREE listening and extra bedtime stories! 👉 Sleep Tight Premium is now available in Apple Podcasts! 🎉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. 📢 Have an interesting science topic you would like to investigate? Send us an email at [email protected] , and we may feature it in an upcoming show. --- About Sleep Tight Science We’ve got bedtime down to a (Sleep Tight) Science! Sleep Tight Science is an engaging bedtime show that makes science accessible and enjoyable for the whole family. Snuggle in and drift off to sleep while learning about science topics submitted by listeners! Designed for curious young minds (but simple enough for grown-ups to understand), Sleep Tight Science uses big words to answer big questions that kids wonder about, like why do we feel icky sometimes and how do our legs help us move? Learn something new about the natural world while drifting off to dreamland. Have an interesting science question or a topic you’re curious about? Email us at [email protected], and it might just be the focus of an upcoming episode! Dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of children, Sleep Tight Media helps families replace bedtime struggles with bedtime snuggles.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sweet Tight Science.
0:04.5	Did you know that the brain of a zombie ant is actually controlled by a fungus?
0:23.6	What?
0:24.2	The parasitic fungus takes over the ant's body, turning it into a creepy, mind-controlled zombie. Zombie.
0:50.3	Hello, friends, and welcome back to Sleep Tight Science, a bedtime show that answers your questions about science.
1:00.2	In this episode, we will combine all the information we gather into one of our favorite formats,
1:09.7	lists of facts. We love these bite-sized pieces of information because they are fun, can be easy to remember, lead to more questions,
1:12.8	and you may find you will impress your family and friends with all kinds of fun science facts.
1:21.4	We will explore some of the weirdest and grossest creatures out there,
1:30.8	from houseflies that will vomit on their food and cockroaches that can survive without heads, to hippos flinging poop and wombats with cube-shaped
1:40.5	droppings. We'll also meet creepy animals like tarantulas, giant squids, and vampire bats,
1:50.1	discovering the odd ways they survive in the wild.
1:54.8	Even though they might seem gross, these creatures play important roles in the animal kingdom.
2:03.1	So let's get started.
2:08.7	First, let's talk about flies and cockroaches.
2:13.8	You may have seen them buzzing or scurrying around, but do you really know just how gross houseflies and cockroaches are?
2:24.6	These little critters may seem harmless, but their habits can be disgusting.
2:31.7	From tasting with their feet to surviving without a head, here are some fun facts
2:38.5	about flies, cockroaches, and other creatures that creep and crawl. Did you know that
2:48.5	house flies actually taste with their feet?
2:52.5	That's right.
2:54.2	When they land on you, they're not just resting.
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