Walking on walls: How ants and spiders do it

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ants and spiders are able to defy gravity -- but how do they do it? We'll learn about how awesome their feet are and how one predator takes advantage of these powers. Plus: A very challenging mystery sound and a Moment of Um that answers the question, "How do bananas ripen other fruit?" Today’s episode is sponsored by: KiwiCo (kiwico.com/brainson) Bona (bona.com/brainson) Panama City Beach (VisitPanamaCityBeach.com). You can support Brains On at brainson.org/donate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brains On, where we're serious about being curious.
0:04.6	Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:13.6	Ant News Network
0:18.7	I'm Ant and you're listening to the Ant News Network.
0:22.5	Coming up, PICNICS. Where are they and how can we ruin them?
0:27.2	But first, we've got a special report on an ant colony that was almost destroyed by an
0:31.7	errant basketball. Luckily, they've bounced back. For more, we turned to our correspondent out in the
0:38.4	field. So anyway, here's the studio. You're going to sit right here.
0:43.2	This is so exciting. The Brains On Studio. I'll sit here and excuse me. Ah, I was wondering
0:50.3	when you would notice me. Oh, hey, Ant, it's been a while. How's your show going?
0:55.6	It was going great until you walked right into the middle of our taping.
0:59.9	Your taping. We're supposed to be taping now. Oh, oh, hey, Molly, I was trying to find you.
1:05.9	Your taping is at 3pm Central Time, but the ants, they have this studio booked at 3pm Eastern Time, so...
1:12.4	Oh, okay. Why is the Ant News Network using our studio anyway? I thought they had their own.
1:18.2	I don't know. There's a situation with a basketball or something. It doesn't really matter.
1:22.2	We had the free studio time available and ants pay in sugar. I love sugar. You want some?
1:29.8	Are you eating handfuls of raw sugar? Yeah, I figure. You did straight. Cut out the middle man.
1:35.2	About the studio. What do we do? Our co-host James is here now. I don't really want to make him wait.
1:40.6	I don't know. What if he combined savings? Isn't the episode today all about ants and spiders anyway?
1:45.5	Sandin, you're doing an episode on ants. And you didn't call us. Sandin, you were trying to avoid
1:52.4	what happened last time when the ants took over the studio. It took weeks to get them all out of there.
1:57.9	Oh, ants! Of course we tried to reach you, but your voicemail was full. Yeah, that's it. Your voicemail.
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