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Outside/In

If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world

Outside/In

NHPR

Science, Renewable Energy, Energy, Documentary, Outdoor Recreation, Environment, Climate, Public Radio, Wildlife, Nature, Natural World, Ecology, Society & Culture, Human Interest Stories, Wildlife Management, Biology, Outdoors, Wilderness, Natural Sciences

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

From ultrasonic beats made by tomato plants to the nose of the shark and the migration of the monarch butterfly, we explore the many ways of communicating beyond human awareness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm actually going to kick this off by telling you a story, so one day I got a text from

0:07.6

a neighbor down the street and she wrote, good morning, decided to take an early walk

0:13.4

and discovered a little baby squirrel in the street in front of your house.

0:17.7

Use some boards to get it out of the road, didn't want to leave it, but also didn't want

0:22.2

to scare the mom away.

0:24.1

Can you check on it but not get too close?

0:26.8

And then she also sent you a picture of a very cute baby squirrel holding on to a little

0:32.5

piece of wood.

0:33.5

I feel like it looks almost like, you know, in Titanic when what's your name Rose is like

0:39.2

grasping on to like a little door, forget like, yeah, yeah, exactly.

0:44.9

So what I did was I called a wildlife rehabilitator and they told me to keep it warm and hydrated.

0:51.6

So I put in a little shoebox with some hand towels and a little dish of water.

0:55.8

Oh, and you made a video.

0:56.7

There's the squirrel trying to get out of your nice little shoebox shelter.

1:02.7

So my hope or our hope was that the mom squirrel would find this baby squirrel, but you know,

1:08.1

I was checking in on them throughout the whole day and mom never came.

1:11.7

Oh, so then finally I called the wildlife rehabilitator again for advice and like the

1:16.2

mom's not coming.

1:17.2

What would we do?

1:18.8

And they're like, okay, there's this one thing you can try.

1:21.7

It's a long shot.

1:23.0

Yeah.

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