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The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic (Replay)

3/12/202625 min

Middle schooler, Aanya, has an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which leads her to an obsession with one of North America's most common critters. She tells host Lulu Miller all about the overlooked superpowers of squirrels, including one squirrel who lives way up in the Arctic, where the weather gets so cold the squirrels who live there drop their body temperatures down below freezing and somehow, miraculously, survive.

Host Lulu travels to Alaska to meet one of these squirrels as it sleeps, and Lulu talks with biologists Dr. Kelly Drew and Dr. Brian...

Clips

Is It Dead Or Sleeping?
Hibernation For Mars Missions
A Brain Reborn In Hours
Heart To Five Beats
Puberty Every Spring
They Remember Their Buddies
Do Squirrels Eat Their Buddies?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lulu Miller· Host0:00

    [music] Hello, friends. Uh, the tree outside my window has just started to sprout its yellow flowers, uh, which can only mean one thing, that Mother's Day and Father's Day are coming up. And I just thought of a pretty funny, punny card. Okay, here it goes. It goes like this. There's a drawing of an owl, and it goes, "Who, who is the best parent?" And then you open the card and it goes, "You. Thank you for owl that you do." [laughs] Uh, so that, I'm g- I'm offering that to you. If anyone wants to draw that, make that, that's great. But I was also wondering what ideas for punny animal cards do you have that show love for the adults in your life? Maybe there's something in a sloth, like, "I love you more slowly than a sloth." That isn't really good. Maybe you have a better idea. Anyway, draw yours and email us at- T-E-R-R-E-S- R-I-A-L-S @WNYC .org. And we will read some of our favorites on a future episode and post some to our Instagram to share your ideas so that other people can use them too. Anyway, happy spring. Hope you're well. Send us your cards.

  2. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:05

    Uh, wait. You're listening [laughs]- Okay? All right.

  3. Lulu Miller· Host1:12

    Okay?

  4. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:13

    All right.

  5. Lulu Miller· Host1:15

    [clears throat] You're listening- Listening ... to Radiolab.

  6. Alan Goffinski1:18

    For kids.

  7. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:19

    Radiolab.

  8. Lulu Miller· Host1:20

    From...

  9. Alan Goffinski1:21

    WNYC.

  10. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:22

    [laughs] Yeah.

  11. Unknown speaker1:25

    [laughs] [slurps]

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