This is an I-Heart podcast.

Welcome to Creature Future production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of many parasites, Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology.

And today on this show, it's a listener

questions episode. You send me your questions to Creature FeaturePod at gmail.com and I do my

best to answer them. These can be questions about animals, about your pets, about wildlife, about

evolution, about the environment.

And I will try to answer all of your questions.

So let's get right into it with our first listener question.

Hi, Katie.

I hope you had a great summer.

I'm a seventh grade science teacher.

This year is part of our ecology unit,

I'm planning on having students focus on ephemeral pools, including raising some tryups under various conditions in our classroom.

I was wondering if you'd be willing to do a show on ephemeral pool organisms, including these adorable, charismatic little guys.

I love the show. Best wishes Amanda M.

Hi, Amanda.

So I'm so happy that you're enjoying the show.

That's a fantastic suggestion for an episode that I'm definitely interested in doing.

When I was a kid, I was given some desiccated try-up eggs in one of those little kits. And I managed to bring, I think,

a couple to life for a little while, very briefly. But I had no idea what I was doing. I used tap water,

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