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How To Do Everything

Linsanity!

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week we solve an age-old spinach mystery and help out the FBI. Plus football predictions from Gillian!

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're watching the NFL playoffs, you know that this weekend, the Seattle Seahawks will be playing the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game.

0:09.4

And those are two football teams, but what if a seahawk actually went face to face against a packer?

0:17.6

That's a meat packer is what they're based on.

0:20.4

Amy Kite is animal care Director at the Bush Wildlife Sanctuary.

0:25.0

So Amy, first of all, is there such a thing as a Seahawk?

0:29.0

Not really a Seahawk.

0:30.0

What most people consider a Seahawk or a seagel even is an offspring.

0:34.4

Okay, how big does an osprey get?

0:36.4

Osprey probably get to be about 16, 18 inches tall.

0:40.3

They weigh usually right around two pounds two pounds about that okay so I'm gonna estimate

0:48.4

our average meat packer is let's say, 180 pounds.

0:53.0

So, to make this fair, we have 90 Osprey versus one meat packer.

1:00.0

Okay, sounds good.

1:02.0

If they were to meet in battle, what do you think the

1:05.0

Ospreys strategy would be? Well, I mean, Ospreys generally want to stay pretty

1:10.8

far from humans, so if they have the chance to escape, that's going to be their thing.

1:14.5

It's just fly away and not deal with the situation.

1:17.4

They're defensive-minded.

1:18.4

Yes, very much so.

1:21.4

Their main, if you were to approach them or you were to really get into a battle with

1:26.2

them so to speak, it's their talent that are the strongest part.

1:29.1

What would happen, Amy, if you had, say, 90 Ospreys working, would they work together? and in the wild other than during mating season and stuff so you're generally not going to

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