Wild Talk

Radiolab for Kids

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Parenting, Education For Kids, Stem, Education, Pets & Animals, Radiolab, Podcast, Storytelling, Children, Kids & Family, Kids, Science, Terrestrials, Educational, Nature, Family-friendly, Fun, Animals

4.4 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today on Radiolab for Kids, we eavesdrop on the world of animals. We bring you a story of two clever humans decoding the sonic cacophony of two clever animals in nature — Diana monkeys and prairie dogs. Both researchers decipher the “words” these animals are using to communicate to figure out what they talk about.

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0:00.0	Oh wait you're listening.
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0:07.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.0	For the kids.
0:10.0	Radio Lab.
0:12.0	Radio. From W NyC.
0:15.0	See? Yeah. Hey there Loo H. Loo is the end of the summer. And here in North America, we are just
0:30.8	beginning to leave behind arguably the loudest season for animal noises just
0:37.3	mosquitoes buzzing and crickets chirping and birds singing and and today we have a story that is about that wall of
0:46.3	noise that you can encounter when you walk into a grassland or a forest or a jungle, or a jungle.
0:56.2	Only.
1:01.4	We have a story about two very clever humans who began to decode that wall of noise down into actual
1:07.8	language. They began to understand and decipher the words, so to speak, that the animals were saying.
1:16.9	And that allowed them to eavesdrop and learn the sort of surprising things that animals
1:20.8	are actually talking about.
1:21.8	Yes, this is all real science.
1:23.5	This is all real stuff.
1:24.5	It's a very fun story.
1:26.0	And I'm gonna just kick it off, hand it over
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