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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting May 28th, 2008.

I'm Steve Merski.

This week on the podcast, we'll talk with George Schaller, one of the world's great field biologists.

And Siam editor-in-chief John Rennie talks about a few of the articles to be found in our June issue.

Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. First up,

George Schaller. He was vice president for science and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society

and is now their senior conservationist. He gave a talk to sixth graders on May 23rd at the Urban

Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx. I spoke to him in one of the school's offices after his talk

with many school kids playing in the yard just outside.

You have this book out of the title as a naturalist and other beasts.

So by implication you're referring to yourself as one of the beasts. Well, humans are

animals, so no problem in that. You refer to yourself in one of the chapters of the book as a

feral biologist. What do you mean by that? I'm domesticated in many ways, but I run wild, and that's a feral creature.

Tell me some more about the book. It's a collection of articles that you've had published,

for the most part, in magazines over the years.

It says to give people an overview of really the wonders of nature,

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