Why Don’t Vultures Get Food Poisoning? 🦅🤢
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This Week’s Big Questions!
You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…
📺 How do TVs work?
💡 How do lightbulbs turn on?
🚀 Why don’t rockets break apart during take-off?
🚗 How does a car motor work?
🦅 Why don’t vultures get food poisoning?
🐆 Where do cheetahs get their spots from?
And jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. Join Principle Pulsar and his class as they learn all about how worm holes can help us to take short cuts in space!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Explorer, welcome along to an adventure across the universe with all of your questions sorted. |
| 0:11.1 | It's a brand new science quest. My name is Dan. We are on a journey to learn so much about what's |
| 0:17.4 | lurking through the galaxy and even further away. We'll travel to the top of mountains, head through rainforests, deep down under the oceans. |
| 0:24.2 | It's all about your questions. |
| 0:26.3 | If you ever have anything sciencey that you want answered, make sure you leave it as a voice note for me on the free FunKids app or at FunKidslive.com. |
| 0:34.1 | This week, we're looking at light, rockets and vultures stomachs. Let's get to it. First question |
| 0:42.4 | this week. A voice note sent in by Viharne. Hi, my name is Vihon. I live in Los Angeles. My question is, |
| 0:53.1 | how does television work? Okay, Viharne, how do TVs work? |
| 0:57.9 | Well, there's a lot that goes into your TV and the ones that we have, but today, compared to the ones, |
| 1:04.9 | what, 70 or so years ago when they were first invented, they are wildly different. Back then, they were just black and white. |
| 1:13.5 | They would still look really grainy, but now it's like you are there, you have been transported, |
| 1:18.9 | wherever the show has plonked you. So firstly, the telly gets the information about the picture |
| 1:24.4 | and the sound that it needs to show you. These can be broadcast through |
| 1:28.8 | signals in the air, which are picked up by an antenna, or maybe through a satellite box, |
| 1:33.3 | maybe you've got like a streaming stick or your games console, maybe it's just the smart |
| 1:37.1 | TV itself that's using the internet, that's using Wi-Fi. So they all send packets of |
| 1:42.4 | information to your TV. Inside that is a video processing |
| 1:47.0 | chip. That's the real brains. It decodes all of that information and it figures out what the pixels need to show, |
| 1:55.0 | uh, to put the picture on the screen. Now the pixels, they are tiny squares. They fill up your TV screen. They can |
| 2:03.4 | show either red, green or blue, or sometimes cyan, magenta, yellow and black. So that's all one |
| 2:12.3 | pixel can do. It can show one of those colors at a time. But there are loads of pixels that make up your TV. |
| 2:20.3 | Millions. In a modern, fairly big 4K, telly, there are over 8 million of those pixels. |
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