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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

4/28/202612 min

Maggie asks: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Ah yes, the age old question! Hosts Mike Bennett and Chanel Hason can certainly handle that one, along with a special guest - Adam Taylor, a stop motion animator who worked on Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget!

Adam Taylor is a stop-motion animator from the Pacific Northwest who has animated lots of animals in quite a few movies, including Wendell and Wild (Octopus), Guillermo del Torro's Pinocchio (monkey, and cricket), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget(Chickens!, and rats), Wildwood (rabbits, coyotes, and an owl), and Shaun the Sheep: The Beats of Mossy Bottom (sheep, a dog, and a raven!)

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Credits

Special thanks to

Maggie & Maggie's family, Adam Taylor, Michele Kraus Bennett, Cayley Pater, The Elakha Alliance, Teddy Albertson, chickens in general

Clips

Holding Ginger For Real
Inside The Climax Factory
Animating Twelve Puppets At Once
Chickens With Real Personalities
Learning The Chicken Run

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Maggie0:01

    Hello. My name is Maggie, and I am eight years. And I have a very important question: Which one came first, the chicken or the egg?

  2. Adam Taylor· Guest0:08

    [upbeat music] Open up the door to habitats you can explore with animals and more in the Zooquarium. Zooquarium. Zoo, Zoo, Zoo, Zooquarium.

  3. Mike Bennett· Host0:35

    Whoa, Maggie, you're asking the big questions. Uh, but here on the Zooquarium Podcast, maybe we can find an answer for you. Chanel, hi, uh, what came first, the chicken or the egg? I can't believe I get to ask.

  4. Chanel Hason· Host0:48

    I know. What a wonderful question, Maggie. Thanks for asking. So scientists think that the egg came first. So let me explain. So a long, long time ago, there were birds that were almost but not quite chickens, and one of those birds laid an egg, and inside that egg, a tiny change happened in the DNA, which is basically the instructions for building a living thing. And then that tiny change made the baby inside grow and to be into the very first true chicken. So I guess in easiest terms, an almost chicken laid an egg,

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