Walking and Looking
Alexandra Horowitz teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College and is the author of Inside of a Dog and now On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes. She tells what...
View ArticleJustice Sotomayor; Against Landmines; Primates and Humanism
Today's show is a best-of, so we won't be taking any calls. But the comments page is always open! We’re airing some of our favorite recent segments on this Memorial Day. U.S. Supreme Court Justice...
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A Zoo For You
"Hey," says your mom. "Let's go to the zoo and see the animals," and right away, you know she's talking about monkeys swinging from ropes, lions and tigers pacing, seals diving into pools, stately...
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What's That Clinging To The Towering Wall And Why Doesn't It Fall Off?
Maybe you've seen this, (it's gotten around), but I'm still gobsmacked. Totally amazed. We're in northern Italy looking at the face of the Cingino Dam, and here and there on the vertical stone wall,...
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'You're Invisible, But I'll Eat You Anyway.' Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes
Robert Krulwich/NPRI'm a fox. It's January. I'm hungry. I want a meal. My food, however, is buried three feet down, deep in the snow, hiding. It's alive, in motion, and very small, being a mouse. So...
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The Starling That Dared To Be Different
You've seen them. We've all seen them.Loic Poidevin//Nature Picture Library/CorbisHundreds of starlings are sitting side by side by side — up on a power line yakking, preening — when all of a sudden,...
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I Won't Eat, You Can't Make Me! (And They Couldn't)
Robert Krulwich/NPRIt was found in Baja California, in the water, scuttling about. It's an isopod — a many legged, many jointed, bottom-crawler, related to prawns and crabs and it happily eats dead...
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What's The Biggest Animal Gathering Ever? (Was Rod Stewart There?)
It's a small moment in a sprawling Shakespeare play. Most people miss it. A nobleman named Mortimer has been locked up by the king, who decrees: Don't anyone say "Mortimer" in my royal presence. That...
View ArticleAll Things Octopus and Neil Gaiman Takes Us to Neverwhere
Please Explain goes underwater with Sy Montgomery to look at the intelligence, capabilities, and even souls of octopuses. Documentarian Hubert Sauper unravels his latest film about Africa, specifically...
View ArticleLearning From Dog Trainers
Melissa Holbrook Pierson was stunned when she hired a trainer, who established an immediate rapport with her border collie. Pierson was determined to find out more about the methodology and practice of...
View ArticleHello: The Broadcast
It's hard to start a conversation with a stranger—especially when that stranger is, well, different. He doesn't share your customs, celebrate your holidays, watch your TV shows, or even speak your...
View ArticleHomo-Thespian
The play "Hominid," by Ken Weitzman, reenacts a violent incident that took place in a chimpanzee colony. Primate expert Frans de Waal and the play's actors describe what it took to stage a chimpanzee...
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What squirrels can teach humans about frustration
YouTube viewers are well-acquainted with the squirrel genre: Thousands of videos that show squirrels going to great lengths to extract seeds from bird feeders, or humans trying to thwart their efforts,...
View ArticleThe Sex Lives of Animals
It turns out that humans aren’t the only ones who have a tough time dating. In her new book, Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom, biologist Dr. Carin Bondar , who also hosts the...
View ArticleA Dog Nose
Alexandra Horowitz, a teacher at Barnard College where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab, and author of Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell (Scribner, 2016), takes us into the special...
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