Spooky Stories & Tailless Tenrecs | Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 4
We've got SpoOoOoOoOooky science stories on this week's episode! Footage of our bird prep lab, a missing label mystery, and an adorable diseases reservoir. ooOOoOOoOooo... *hoot hoot* ↓...
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Hey, welcome back to Natural News from the Field Museum! We've got some spooooooky stories in today's episode! New research on a few of Madagascar's adorable bacterial-disease carrying critters, a shout-out to our volunteers in the bird prep lab, and a scary story about how a ghost from science past continues to haunt our researchers today. Let's get to it! Tenrecs are funny little mammals - they look sort of a mashup between a shrew, an opossum, and a hedgehog - some of them even have quills! There are a number of species throughout Africa and the island of Madagascar, and recently one of these - the Tailless tenrec -- was discovered by Field biologist Steve Goodman and his collaborators to be adorable reservoirs... for DISEASE. Tailless tenr...
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Hey, welcome back to Natural News from the Field Museum! We've got some spooooooky stories in today's episode! New research on a few of Madagascar's adorable bacterial-disease carrying critters, a shout-out to our volunteers in the bird prep lab, and a scary story about how a ghost from science past continues to haunt our researchers today. Let's get to it! Tenrecs are funny little mammals - they look sort of a mashup between a shrew, an opossum, and a hedgehog - some of them even have quills! There are a number of species throughout Africa and the island of Madagascar, and recently one of these - the Tailless tenrec -- was discovered by Field biologist Steve Goodman and his collaborators to be adorable reservoirs... for DISEASE. Tailless tenr...
