What to Do When Your Pet Is Scared, You Have Microbes Inside Your Cells, and Meet Natalia Reagan (Again!)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about what to do when your pet is scared; and why the theory of endosymbiosis says you have microbes inside your cells. Then, stick around to meet Natalia Reagan: an anthropologist, primatologist, and comedian who will be filling Cody’s shoes while he’s on paternity leave.
What to do when your pet is scared by Cameron Duke
- Waite, M. (2020, July 28). You Can’t Reinforce Fear (So Go Ahead and Comfort Your Scared Pet) [Prerecorded presentation]. 2020 Animal Behavior Society Conference Virtual Public Day. https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2020-virtual/program-public.php
- Waite, M. (2020, August 3). [Interview by C. Duke].
Endosymbiont Theory - you have microbes inside your cells by Cameron Duke
- Baum, D. A., & Baum, B. (2014). An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell. BMC Biology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2
- Gray, M. W. (2017). Lynn Margulis and the endosymbiont hypothesis: 50 years later. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 28(10), 1285–1287. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e16-07-0509
- Martin, W. F., Garg, S., & Zimorski, V. (2015). Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1678), 20140330. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0330
- Amoeba Sisters. (2018). Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells (Updated) [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxujitlv8wc
- Amoeba Sisters. (2017). Endosymbiotic Theory [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnS-Xk0ZqU&vl=en
Learn more about Natalia Reagan
- Follow @natalia13reagan on Twitter https://twitter.com/natalia13reagan
- Official website https://nataliareagan.com/
- Natalia Reagan on Curosity Daily: “if we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?” https://curiositydaily.com/why-there-are-monkeys-if-we-evolved-from-them-nata/
- Natalia Reagan on Curiosity Daily: “do redheads experience pain differently?” https://curiositydaily.com/fantasy-stock-league-redhead-pain-tolerance-with-n/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.7 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about what |
| 0:09.1 | to do when your pet is scared and why you have microbes inside your cells. |
| 0:14.3 | Then stick around to hear about why Curiosity Daily |
| 0:17.6 | will sound a little different over the next few months. |
| 0:20.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. If thunderstorms send your dog running for cover, |
| 0:26.0 | your instinct might be to try to comfort them. But you may have also been told that |
| 0:31.2 | comforting a fearful animal may backfire and actually reinforce the fear |
| 0:36.1 | instead. Nobody wants that. So what are you supposed to do? Well to get to the bottom of this, |
| 0:42.4 | Curiosity Daily writer Cameron Duke spoke with |
| 0:45.2 | Dr Mindy Waite who's a certified applied animal behaviorist. She says that |
| 0:50.9 | this advice comes from a basic misunderstanding of animal behavior, |
| 0:55.2 | and if your pet wants comfort, go ahead and cuddle them. |
| 0:59.2 | To understand where this confusion comes from, |
| 1:02.2 | Dr. Waite first explained how an animal behaviorist thinks about behaviors. |
| 1:07.1 | When an animal is afraid and starts panting and quivering and running to hide, |
| 1:11.8 | we often see that is all one behavior. |
| 1:15.0 | But actually, they're all separate behaviors, |
| 1:18.0 | and they each fall into one of two categories. |
| 1:21.0 | Some of those behaviors are called respondent behaviors. categories. Panting or quivering at the sound of thunder are great examples. These behaviors are |
| 1:35.4 | independent of any reinforcement. They happen on their own through |
| 1:39.7 | association with a stimulus like thunder. But then on the other hand you've got operant behaviors |
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