Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Stories on birds that guide people to honey, genes left over from the last universal common ancestor, and what the nose knows about antibiotics, with Devi Shastri. The Endangered Species Act—a 1973 U.S. law designed to protect animals in the country from extinction—may need a fresh look. The focus on “species” is the problem. This has become especially clear when it comes to wolves—recent genetic information has led to government agencies moving to delist the grey wolf. Robert Wayne helps untangle the wolf family tree and talks us through how a better understanding of wolf genetics may trouble their protected status. [Image: Claire N. Spottiswoode/Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.3	Welcome to the science podcast for July 29, 2016.
1:21.6	I'm Sarah Kreske.
1:26.9	In this week's show, Robert Wayne discusses contentious issues in wolf genetics.
1:31.4	And Davy Shastri is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:36.8	Now we have Davy Shastry, an intern for our daily news site.
1:39.3	She's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:43.1	First up, we have a story on a human bird bond.
1:49.2	The greater honey guide bird is just that, a bird that guides one to honey.
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