GETTING CURIOUS | What’re The Adventures of Frogs and Toads? with Professor Kelly Zamudio

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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“Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I’m thinking about how there’s never been an episode of Getting Curious about us.” Frog opened up his podcast feed. Toad peered over his shoulder. “Toad, there it is! An episode of Getting Curious with herpetologist Kelly Zamudio! All about where we live, how we interact, and why we’re so important to biodiversity.” They pressed play—and now, they invite you to do the same. Kelly Zamudio is an evolutionary biologist and her research focuses on the origin and maintenance of diversification in vertebrates (especially reptiles and amphibians). Her lab integrates field research in population biology, demography, and landscape/habitat change with lab research on the genetic underpinnings of population diversification, speciation, and conservation genetics. Kelly has a particular fondness for frogs and their reproductive modes. You can follow her on Twitter at @KZ_UTAustin. Her lab website is zamudiolab.org. Keep up with the latest on frogs at AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIN; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.0	On today's episode honey, I'm joined by Professor Kelly Arzimudio, where I ask her,
0:16.0	What is the story on frogs?
0:22.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness, and I am so excited about today's topic.
0:25.7	I am so excited about today's guest.
0:27.6	Without any further ado, let's jump right in.
0:30.0	Welcome to the show, Kelly R. Zamudio, who is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology
0:36.2	at the University of Texas at Austin. Go Austin! And an endowed fellow of the Dowdy
0:42.4	Region's chair
0:43.5	and molecular biology, honey,
0:45.4	her research focuses on the origin
0:48.1	and maintenance of vertebrae biodiversity,
0:50.6	especially reptiles and amphibians.
0:53.0	How are you, Kelly?
0:55.0	I'm great.
0:57.0	Thank you for having me.
0:58.0	Very excited to be here too.
1:00.0	Me too, because you are a literal, professor, and a literal reptile and amphibian expert.
1:07.6	I want to tell you how the origin of this episode came up.
1:11.3	Well, we can't be here for six hours, so I guess I'll just start with the beginning
1:15.7	in the end, but there's a lot of frog interest in the middle. One, poison dart frogs
1:21.0	when I was little. I was like, why are they poisonous? Why do they have bright colors?
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