Peeing Is Contagious!

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

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At least, it's contagious among a group of captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary. How do researchers know? A very dedicated grad student at Kyoto University. In the quest for scientific knowledge, Ena Onishi logged over 600 hours in the field! This episode, host Regina G. Barber and special guests Jonathan Lambert and Ari Shapiro get into the nitty gritty of the research and their hypotheses for why this is happening in this episode.

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0:24.1	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:29.3	Hey, short waver is Regina Barbara here with science correspondent Jonathan Lambert.
0:32.7	Welcome to the News Roundup.
0:33.9	Thank you.
0:34.4	Excited to be here on my first News Roundup with y'all.
0:36.7	We are totally excited to have you. And we're also excited to have a News Roundup favorite Thank you. Excited to be here on my first News Roundup with y'all. We are totally excited to have you.
0:38.5	And we're also excited to have a News Roundup favorite, Ari Shapiro. One of the hosts of All Things Considered,
0:44.0	welcome back. I only came because I heard you were going to be here, John.
0:48.6	Okay, so we're going to do what we usually do. We're going to go over three sign stories in the news. The first one being what, John?
0:55.9	Contagious peeing in chimps.
0:58.6	Need I say any more?
0:59.7	No.
1:00.2	Please don't.
1:01.6	And not only do we have peeing chimps, but we're also going to get chirping course waves from space.
1:07.4	I love chirps and space.
1:09.9	And better vegan cheese. We really contain multitudes. We totallyps. And space. And better vegan cheese.
1:12.1	We really contain multitudes.
1:13.7	We totally do.
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