Jul 30, 2018
This episode comes to you from our camping trip at Fort Stevens at the very top of Oregon. Sloths have a bad reputation for being lazy, but they really aren't. They evolved to be as slow as they are. We learned a lot of cool things about sloths, including how they have a symbiotic relationship with moths, how...
Jul 15, 2018
In our goofiest episode to date, the CFAA crew talks about the
barn owl aka ghost owl aka demon owl aka you get the point owl. We
talk about how it hunts so well in the dark, what it absolutely
won't eat, what it sounds like, and lots more.
Don't forget to answer our creature quiz or riddle at the end of
the episode!...
Jul 3, 2018
In this bonus episode of Cool Facts About Animals, we interview Kathryn Olivarius, a professor of history at Stanford University who studies the spread of diseases through mosquitoes, particularly yellow fever in the southern United States in the 1800s.
We talk about:
- what diseases mosquitoes spread
- the ethics of...