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Spider Monkeys, Part II: Interview with Dr. Michelle Rodrigues

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

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4.5642 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this second part to our spider monkey episodes, we have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Michelle Rodrigues, who has Jaguar's dream job - getting up close and personal with spider monkeys. (Although her motivations differ from Jaguar's.)

Dr. Rodrigues talks to us about spider monkey sociality, the effect of climate change on spider monkeys, whether they laugh, and - of course - answer Jaguar's question about why they are so delicious. 

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Thanks to Andrew of Ear Snacks for our theme song! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. I'm excited to share with you today the second part of our spider monkey episodes.

0:07.3

This was our interview with Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, who studies spider monkeys for her job.

0:13.2

So Jaguar and all of us are a little bit jealous.

0:16.3

But in this episode, we speak with Dr. Rodriguez and her howler monkey stuffed animal, Santiago,

0:22.6

about what makes spider monkeys so awesome, about their different socialization behaviors,

0:28.1

and of course, Jaguar had a couple of pointed questions about their deliciousness.

0:33.1

So we hope that you enjoy this episode, and we will be back very soon with our next episode.

0:38.6

And you guys, this is our 100th episode.

0:42.5

Pretty exciting.

0:44.1

All right, here's the episode.

0:49.5

Thanks so much for joining us.

0:53.3

Thank you for your time.

0:54.5

Here's Santiago.

0:56.0

Here's our crew.

0:57.8

And my cat wants to join in too.

1:00.3

We've got three cats waiting for lunch around here too, so there might be some yass in the background.

1:05.2

So we were hoping that we could just start by having you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do,

1:09.9

and then we have a whole bunch of questions prepared to ask you if that works okay all right so I'm a biological

1:17.9

anthropologist what this means is we study all of the biology about what it means to be human

1:24.6

including human relatives and human ancestors and And so I focus on primates

1:31.1

because primates are our closest relatives and we are primates. And one of the ways in which we can see

1:38.5

the commonalities that we have with other primates is we all have fingers that have fingerprints and nails and we also have

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