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🗓️ 11 April 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman. |
0:38.6 | Coyotes are now common residents of many large urban areas. |
0:42.8 | And while it doesn't happen all that often, coyotes are increasingly coming into conflict with people and with pets. |
0:50.1 | They're these mid-sized carnivores, which most people see them just as, you know, large carnivores. |
0:56.3 | University of Washington, Tacoma, evolutionary biologist Christopher Schell. |
1:01.6 | Being in, say, like a city like Los Angeles, or Chicago or New York, is just mind-boggling and awe-inspiring. |
1:13.6 | And in some instances, for a lot of people, because they don't know much about the animals, could be something that generates fear because of |
1:19.6 | misunderstandings. |
1:20.6 | Shell wants to understand how coyotes come to feel so comfortable around people, so we can |
1:26.6 | come up with strategies for preventing it. |
1:29.2 | And he suspects it might have something to do with the parenting. |
1:32.7 | Our main goal was to see and test whether or not parents that have extended experience of people |
1:41.6 | and human disturbance get habituated to the point where they actually transfer |
1:48.2 | that habituation and that fearlessness to their offspring. |
1:52.4 | Shell and his team focused on eight coyote families living at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's |
1:58.5 | Predator Research Facility in Utah. |
2:07.0 | Though captive, they live in large enclosures and lead mostly typical wild lives. |
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