The rhino that flew 10,000 miles
BBC Earth Podcast
Jenkins Laura
4.6 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week we're travelling to a place that is different for all of us, but one we all hold close to our hearts: Home.
Listen to the heart-warming story of a keeper in Ohio who built an unbreakable bond with a baby Sumatran rhino named Harapan. Sumatran Rhinos are facing extinction and Harapan was the last remaining in the Western Hemisphere, kept in captivity at Cincinnati Zoo. To give the species the best chance of survival in the wild, Harapan was to fly across the world and return to the home of his ancestors – Sumatra, Indonesia. We also visit the man who keeps a flock of homing pigeons in his back garden in London and two young women who tracked down the symbol of their heritage – the American Bison of Banff National Park.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from BBC Studios. |
| 0:04.0 | A commercial subsidiary of the BBC. |
| 0:10.0 | I grew up by the river on my reserve, so I was actually grew up surrounded by trees despite being |
| 0:21.8 | a prairie's First Nation person. And we also had animals. We all had dogs and cats around. |
| 0:27.9 | And I was always surrounded with family. Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that's |
| 0:34.9 | getting back to its roots. I grew up on the beginning of reserve, kind of in the middle of a field. |
| 0:40.7 | And in the back of our house, we had a huge hill, and there was huge rocks, which we have |
| 0:45.2 | creation stories about those rocks. |
| 0:46.9 | And my brothers and I would always play on those rocks, and that was always my home, |
| 0:50.5 | was on the reserve. |
| 0:52.1 | This episode is about a very specific place that could be anywhere in the world. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a place that's different for everyone, yet it's a place we all share. |
| 1:03.0 | This episode is about home. |
| 1:05.9 | As I got older, we did move around, but that was always my home was on the reserve. |
| 1:10.9 | Home can be a place or a family. |
| 1:14.0 | It can be a familiar language, a shared past, or a culture that unites you with those around you. |
| 1:20.4 | Sometimes it's all of those things. |
| 1:23.5 | Okay, niisto ago, to doomsal got you, |
| 1:27.1 | nymphkdo a ganao, nymphedot titabi,msalgatsi, nimbkto-a-ganno, nem-tot-tot-tit-bi-a-mi-eiks, and the translation for that is, hello, my spirit is called idum-sau-gatsi. I come from Kainai, and my clans are the Mamoyiks, and the Agapugax, which is the fish eaters and the many children clans. |
| 1:48.1 | I'm Teneal. I am from the Kanae Nation and the Becani Nation. I'm 16 and I'm currently just a student in high school. |
| 1:56.0 | Deandra Bruised Head and Teneal Shade are First Nations women from the Blackfoot Confederacy, |
| 2:01.5 | tribes who have been living on the land which is now Alberta in Canada for time immemorial. |
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