Zoo&A: Why cant dogs eat chocolate?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's QnA time, or should we say ZOO and A? We're pondering about pets and inquiring about insects as Jacob Dunn, Eleanor Drinkwater, Jason Head and Stuart Eves join Chris Smith to answer the animal-inspired questions you've been sending in.For more podcasts by The Naked Scientists, head to thenakedscientists.com or follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. We're @nakedscientists. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science.
0:09.0	And that is to say physics, medicine, nature, or
0:12.0	big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	This week, why do cats play with the food that they catch?
0:19.0	Where do flies go in the wintertime?
0:21.0	And how do snakes eat animals that are much bigger than they are.
0:24.4	It is Q&A time or more strictly we could say
0:27.1	zoonay time because this week we're pondering about pets and inquiring about insects
0:31.4	to answer the animal inspired questions that you have been sending in.
0:34.9	Hello, I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:38.9	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:44.0	UK.
0:45.0	Now first up let's meet the panel of people who are with us to answer your
0:54.3	questions this week from Anglia Ruskin University is Jacob Dunn. Now you're
0:58.0	here to talk about people's primate ponderings who study apes and monkeys and primates.
1:03.0	Hi Chris, yeah, I'm a zoologist and I mainly study primates and I'm really interested in the different kinds of noises that they make.
1:09.0	Do you get to travel as part of your work?
1:11.0	It's always an attraction working on exotic animals.
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