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Moment Of Um

Why do we have bones?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bones! We’ve got lots of them. Leg bones, arm bones, face bones, even ear bones! But…not all animals even have bones inside their bodies. So what are our skeletons for? Why do we have them?  We asked pediatrician Dr. Emma Gerstenzang to help us find the answer. Got a topic you’d like to bone up on? Send us a question at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll paTELLa you the answer.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind Brains On, this is the moment of um.

0:08.0

Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM studios.

0:14.8

I'm Mr Bonejangles, Brains On headquarters resident skeleton here with a special message.

0:22.2

Um. It's easy to take the most essential things in our lives for granted.

0:26.8

And some of the most essential things in your life, nay, all of our lives are bones.

0:32.1

Now I imagine you're saying to yourself, bones?

0:35.4

What have they done for me lately?

0:39.8

And to that, I say everything.

0:46.2

Without your bones, you'd simply be a squishy pile of skin and muscles and guts, like a partially full garbage bag. One of those things you see outside of a car dealership with those inflatable

0:51.5

balloon thingies. Oh, I'm sorry if that sounds rude.

0:55.6

To be honest, I've been told

0:57.9

I don't have a filter when it comes to what I

1:00.0

say, especially when I'm

1:01.6

ribbing, my pals.

1:03.5

But most of my friends still think I'm pretty

1:05.7

humorous.

1:11.8

It's mainly one friend that thinks that, but I agree.

1:15.5

But just in case you think I'm telling a fib, Yala, my friend Zaid asked a question about this,

1:21.3

and I have a doctor to back me up.

1:23.6

Roll the tape.

1:27.2

The reason that we have bones is because all creatures that move need something hard and strong to help them move.

1:34.8

My name is Emma Gersten Zang, and I'm a pediatrician in Philadelphia.

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