Interview with National Geographic Author Julie Beer

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

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🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, we speak with National Geographic author about all sorts of cool animals facts. We talk about why pandas are black and white, why t-rexes have short arms, and some of her favorite animal myths to debunk. Julie is the author of almost 50 books, including a number of Weird But True books, and her new book - Why? Animals.

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0:00.0	Welcome to cool facts about animals.
0:02.0	Today we're going to interview Julie Beer.
0:04.0	She wrote the Why Animals book, which we'll be interviewing her about, and also a lot of the weird but true books.
0:10.0	There's a lot of facts in there that are very surprising.
0:13.0	What I think is cool about this book, this but why book, is that it's like weird but true, except a little bit more in depth.
0:19.0	So you still get those really cool facts, but you understand a little bit more about depth. So you still get those really cool facts,
0:21.5	but you understand a little bit more about them. There's also a lot of pictures of yummy-looking
0:26.4	things, yeah? Yeah, like what looks delicious to you. Elephant. Uh-huh. Sheep. Okay, but sheep are
0:34.1	endangered. Cheetah. Okay, but Cheetah's are cats.
0:38.3	I'm a dog.
0:39.3	Oh, right.
0:40.3	We really enjoyed talking to Julie Beer about many different kinds of animals, including
0:46.3	pandas, T-Rexes, cats, and bats.
0:50.3	We even talked a little bit about T-Rex's tiny arms and why they're so tiny.
0:55.5	Although I don't think anybody really knows.
0:57.5	There's some guesses, but no one really knows.
1:00.4	Maybe they're not that long.
1:02.7	It's just they go on longer.
1:05.0	Scientists didn't find that part of the bones.
1:07.1	That's kind of what I wonder.
1:07.9	Because it dissolves more easily than other parts.
1:10.0	Yeah, like if it's just cartilage or something after some point.
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