How many geckos to hold up a human?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Colour-switching sticklebacks, geckos with enough adhesive power to hold up a human, bats with built-in sonar and moles with amazing noses - this week we go in search of the world's most incredible animals. Scientists passionate about their species put their cases to our panel. But which animal will be crowned king? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	And the I'm here at the Cambridge Science Center where we're recording this program with this wonderful audience.
0:23.0	In the next hour we're going to hear about some incredible animals and even meet a few of them.
0:32.0	Ultimately we'll decide and even meet a few of them.
0:33.0	Ultimately, we'll decide which amazing animal is the best in our lineup.
0:38.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. Our scientists are nervously waiting to take to the stage and fight it out for your votes and also to impress our
0:55.7	panel of judges. On the panel we have Naked Scientists Georgia Mills. We also
1:01.6	have Max Gray who is a PhD student at the Department of Zoology and this year won the Cambridge
1:07.5	round of fame lab, which is a science communication competition. We also have George who's representing our studio audience.
1:15.0	Hi George. Hello. How old are you?
1:18.0	11. What's your favorite animal?
1:20.0	Moles.
1:22.0	Fantastic. animal. Molds? Molds!
1:23.0	Fantastic!
1:25.0	That was a good answer for one of our participants tonight.
1:30.0	So what's going to happen tonight is each of our participants is going to
1:36.3	have a few minutes to try and convince you that their animal is the best. And then
1:40.7	our judges are going to give them a mark out of 10.
1:43.0	Those marks are going to be added up and at the end of the night,
1:46.0	the three participants with the top marks are going to go over to your vote.
1:51.0	And you are going to choose from those three who you think the
1:54.7	winner is going to be. Does that sound good everyone? Fantastic. So I think it's
2:00.2	about time we get our first participant up. So kicking off the competition is Yola Yolas who's a PhD student at the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University.
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