Howard Before We close. This foundation is this idea of pristine wilderness from the very beginning, I think all of us well I can't speak for other people, but but you always have this idea of wanting to get it back to some kind of pre human condition, pre human being, the operative word. Go to Shopify dot com slash radio lab. So it's a lot. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Today we begin on a plane which carried our newly married producer, tim howard to the Galapagos. Transcript. Hello Gisella. But as they become rare and rare, they're harder and harder to detect. These five species, does that mean that they may go extinct in the next five years in the next 50 years? So thank you very much for the interview. My version was, is my dream of what it would be like as you land on and it's sort of like low grassy knoll and an enormous turtle comes by the one that you could sit on the top of it. WebIt was that last word, gonadsand a researcher who referred to them as magical organsthat sent Radiolab producer and host Molly Webster on a quest to reignite our fascination with embryonic development, X and Y chromosomes, and reproduction. But here's the problem. Yeah, judas codes. So talked into the story of these finches is the story of Galapagos. Beaks adapted to whatever the they were eating one islands finches had literally like the beak would be shaped sort of long and then the next island. Yeah, mother, mid eighties. But you know, we have the case of the mangrove finch, we have 60-80 individuals left. He like points at the cars in front and behind as if like dude, seriously, you see how many of us there are. The warbler finch is the smallest of the Darwin's finches. And she told me that researchers recently did a survey of finch nest, four different species on two islands and all research groups found about 95% mortality in the nest, 95% of the babies were dead. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. And he tells me, well, I'm nervous. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. And the goats that were out there were gorgeous, You know, they had curled horns, different coloured fur, just beautiful animals and they've been there for 500 years, some people were concerned with goats have their own if you will right to be there. It would look almost the same but much shorter. The goats become quote educated. It's actually the footprint of the white man. Uh but they ultimately were infertile. It is about enabling the key actors, the bridge engineer to do their work more effectively more efficiently. This is possibility powered by Shopify. You know, it might be like the planes just covered with buffalo or maybe the Serengeti desert with Lines and elephants. Just because so today a little step back in time to one of my favorite radio producers, tim Howard telling us the story of a truly singular spot on the face of our earth. Set up a little expat community and started breeding with the locals. Humans. Galapagos | RadioLab So we, you know, we do this interview in english and I'm almost embarrassed that I wanted to talk to him because I think the dude is just gonna be so down and out exactly the opposite. WebRadiolab is one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio programs in the world. Yeah, the results of this were absolutely impressive. It's keeping score. But that shouldn't really happen. He visited an island called Fernandina and the first thing I saw was a lava flow that was moving. I'm the restoration Ecologist at the Charles Darwin foundation. So go join at radio lab dot org slash join and I'll see you all later. They're not sure where it came from or quite how it got here. Well it means that these two different finches had started having babies together. School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Grady Health Galpagos - Radiolab (podcast) | Listen Notes Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Fund Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Radiolab For transcripts, see individual segment pages. I actually visited one of the main researchers in Congo. She worked with him every other day or so for a few months and was never successful. She says, you have islands with massive volcanoes and forests, tree ferns that grow, you know, well above a human sight. It goes off and has this kid and it's very solitary, which is the last thing you want when you're trying to get goats off islands. Darwins 5 weeks on Galapagos pushed him to develop his theory of evolution and thats also why when we think of evolution we think of the Galapagos and in They kept them around. It's it's a very simple song. How did these little fly babies? Report for Radio Lab. This is the villain. And the flags are still flying everywhere. I'm not going to say it wandering jew basic house plant. Here's the backstory. This is just to grab a few flies, take them back to the lab and study them so they can learn how to fight them charlotte and paid ads. But I mean in the bigger picture, you can make the argument that humans now affect every square meter of the earth. And what happens is that as soon as birds start laying eggs, mother flies swoop in and lay their eggs on the base of the nest underneath the finch eggs. But then the national Park comes in same group that's doing the goat eradication And they tell the fishermen they're overfishing the sea cucumber. Darwin's five weeks on Galapagos pushed him to develop his theory of evolution. This is Mathias espinosa and naturalist guide in the Galapagos and like linda. But what if simply putting your foot on the ground can completely transform a place hola back to producer tim Howard. And of course the shock was there was a wave went around the room when he said that I recall seeing a second wave of the spanish translation passed around the room. So I took the plane from Kyoto. Yeah, I mean powerful colors. Chimps. This is James gibbs, professor of conservation biology at the State University of new york, it's one of those islands, it's not part of any tourist visitation site. Their mating calls. Now the Galapagos government spends millions of dollars checking all of the goods that come in and out trying to quarantine the ones that might have things that are a problem. You know, they, they plow down vegetation disperse seeds, but for centuries they've been hunted by those whalers and in about 1906 The Penta Tortoise went extinct 1906, a little over 100 years ago. It is the end of our budget year. Favorite Podcasts Normally with people, nothing like. Okay, so here's a wood plaque That says Lonesome George is the last survivor of the dynasty of land tortoises from Pinta Island and in fact in 2012, after decades of trying to get him to breed lonesome George Dies. The guy who wins, he spent $500,000. This story unfolds on one of Galapagos most northern islands where they also had to get rid of some goats. This is Augustine Lopez's longtime fisherman. And he told me that in the seventies and eighties lobster was fished all year round no restrictions. So where your values lie. WebRadiolab Galapagos Podcast RESURRECTION (18:01) 10. People are right now throwing beers at each other around what is the right strategy josh says that there are basically two camps right now on the one side, you've got this classic like what you might call Eden approach conservation Biology. We only have a few days left to meet our financial goal. It grabbed the goats dart, um, and then in a matter of minutes, snip snip did you do this? As of September 2020, Radiolab is hosted by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller. The show focuses on topics of a scientific, philosophical, and political nature. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as "time" and "morality" in an accessible and light-hearted manner and with a distinctive audio production style. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "On the origin of species", and the unspoilt islands still fascinate researchers. It was breath taken. But she told me that these four flies will probably die because they always die right now we have huge problems trying to re file in captivity, which is ironic given how abundant it is in the wild when I was there told me that so far, they had only successfully raised three, three adult flies when you're saying they needed millions. Then when I showed up after a few years again I was truly even more perplexed. But then my power supply didn't work and my nook died. They would need like millions of traps every few feet to do that. She first came to study tortoises back then. That's Shopify dot com slash radio lab. And so the best way you can help us is to become an annual member of the lab and you can do that right now, go to radio lab dot org slash join and if you join as an annual member before june 30th at midnight, you will get two months free using the code summer. But that's four generations of tortoises, not rats. Galpagos - Transcripts WebRadiolab Episode Memory and Forgetting Contributing Organization WNYC (New York, New York) AAPB ID cpb-aacip/80-80vq8sgb If you have more information about this item than what is given here, or if you have concerns about this record, we want to know! So Carl Campbell figured out a technique where we could sterilize them in the field. Once the eggs hatch, the eggs hatch of the flies as well in the larvae wriggling little larvae will crawl out from the bottom of the nest up the finch's body into its beak and they go into the noses of the baby finches and just start eating. WebRadiolab Science Friday See All Podcasts FEATURED EPISODES Jane Mayer on the Ethical Questions About Justice Clarence Thomas The staff writer discusses the latest financial-disclosure scandal involving the judge, and the decline in public trust in the Supreme Court. Dylan keith is our Director of sound design. And every once in a while one of these Hitchhikers slips under the radar and just wreaks havoc. He wasn't curious. I'm talking tie dyed caps and hot pink sweatbands. They take 39 tortoises raised in captivity and they use them as placeholders. Not on Penta that had a lot of Penta D. N. A. I remember very clearly the moment was very very exciting. It feeds on flowers and we think decomposing fruits, baby flies, they're not vegetarians, they will, you know, blood. They eliminate over 250,000 goats. the new york public school system has been called the most racially segregated in the country. If they're going to release sterilized male flies into the wild, they have to be able to raise millions of these flies in the lab and they're trying like crazy showing me all of the larvae that hatch today and four baby flies that had just hatched and these little cups. Oh for sure. What do they look like? So they began to frantically study it. Even if they could for who knows maybe a million years. It would be lovely if we could find something like that because if they could find that chemical that love chemical that the flies used to attract each other, they could disrupt it, confuse the flies and screw up their mating. Did a genetic analysis and found something they never expected a group of tortoises. And wherever they went, they would lure those male goats out of their caves so that, you know, all in all over the course of this two year program, we had hundreds of judas goats out and using those goats, they were able to go from 94% goat free to 96 to 97 to 98. any way to find transcripts of the podcasts And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? So I'm just going to step in to play an episode that well, if I'm honest, it's just one that I felt like hearing and running again at this moment. Jun 24, 2022. They're just basically the lawnmowers. Yeah. The water then drips down from the top of the trees down to the ground, creating what we call drip pools, which provides tortoises with water during the dry season and they like to rest in water. It's like having a program on you over and over and over again, it gets worse. So damn case in point. I just came in second. 24 June 2012. The whalers and pirates would often take goats that they brought with them and throw them onto the islands that way when they're on their way back and sick of eating tortoises, they could grab those goats. We thought about the worst years ever and all through that listener support was one of the things that kept us going. But in the end there's just George that then shifted the focus on now what do we do? Here we are, we're going to look at these incredible creators called los malos and as we're walking along the path, she's like, oh wait, look at this, She points just to the right of the path. Radio lab is supported by the john Templeton Foundation Funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder learn about the latest discoveries in the science of well being, complexity, forgiveness and free will at Templeton dot org, As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! You know, Galapagos was really isolated, barely any cars. I started studying Darwin's finches in particular. You mean eat the fly larva? Yeah. Miller and Latif Nasser are co hosts. Now most of these plants are actually probably harmless and you know like you said Galapagos national park they spend tons of money, tons of time trying to keep invasives out. And then, um, I actually didn't get back there for maybe 15 years from when I was there the first time and when I returned That forest was 100% gone. Um they seem to have stopped, you know taking over National Park and killing tortoises. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. Let's just take some tortoises from a nearby island and put them back on Penta. And really what that guy was specifically saying was don't be precious. 2.2K views about 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to Surely in four generations you could have 90% of the pinto genome restored. We just told you a story about how far humans are willing to go to protect something. WNYC Studios | Podcasts That's right. So linda when she first went to Galapagos to study these tortoises about 30 years ago I did a trip where we backpacked around the caldera. Yeah. So they choose not to breed. So many kids want to make a change, but a high school girls volleyball team is redefining what it means to play together. This one, which first aired in 2014, tells the strange story of a small group of islands that keeps us wondering: will our most sacred natural landscapes inevitably get swallowed up by humans? Hosted by Latif Nasser and Bonobos. They hear your footsteps, they raised their heads, they come out to see what's going on and then they get whacked. Image credits: Rene via Adobe Stock. They showed me where the traps are trapped hanging from a tree here and you see them actually all over santa cruz. And so there under the trees, you have these ponds with dozens of tortoise domes just rising out of the water. He says that when he first got to the Galapagos in the eighties, he couldn't believe that the place was real. And the thing to know is that even though these are three different species, they're actually really hard to tell apart visually. I'm a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University said that at this meeting there was one guy who just couldn't take it all I remember is him just fuming. Yeah. Yeah. you're radically remaking the world. So they lash out, they marched down Charles Darwin avenue, they would come down the street throwing rocks and sticks and everything. Yeah. WebGalpagos - Transcripts June 24, 2022 Favorite Share Facebook Twitter Messenger WhatsApp Email Copy Link As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, Those arguments came up frequently to which carl would respond, Are we going to let tortoises go extinct. I guess. And that's paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Contact us, indicating the AAPB ID (cpb-aacip/80-80vq8sgb). This is to control the population. So not only that, but according to linda, those goats, couple islands where they've been eliminated, fishermen have put them back. And this guy, he doesn't even say anything. To what cause was the demise of the Pinta tortoises attributed? Doesn't matter point is an introduced species. Steffi Basnet - 84 Galapagos Podcast Pt 2 - 7426314 When he visited Galapagos, he collected a lot of specimens of finches, took them back to England and eventually he realized that the beaks had all adapted. These bright yellow traps hanging from trees. Created in 2002, Radiolab began as an exploration of science, philosophy, and WebPodcast Transcripts of Radiolab Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? Okay, um it's sort of the first thing that really just like, where the hell am I I? It's like a soprano saxophone and alto and a 10 or something like that. Radiolab ' s first nine seasons (February 2002April 2011) comprised five episodes each. Subsequent seasons contained between nine and ten episodes. Season 15 began airing in January 2017. In 2018 the show's seasonal and episode format became obscured when online content moved from radiolab.org to wnycstudios.org. I'm just I'm robert Krulwich, this is radio lab in this hour. I don't know I'm not sure many other people think about that. And basically when you have only judas goats meeting up with other judas goats, then you can say the goats have been eliminated, you're done A point, they got to at least on Isabella in mid 2006. The wrench of the white man. But speaking of beaks that finch that Arnaud was holding his beak, did you see the, especially this side is extremely huge. It wouldn't notice that you were there. They sterilize them and put them on pinter. And more importantly, can we? So how big a problem is this? Thanks to Trish Dolman and screen siren pictures, Alex gala font Mathias espinosa. Well these are very purist sort of visions. WebThe Galapagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin to form his Theory of Evolution based on the biodiversity he'd observed there. But then I spoke with this woman. AMS159 Galapagos listening guide.doc - Nature and World We're still trying to figure that out. It's like so cynical. Web72 votes, 254 comments. He's adorable. So I met this woman named Hanky Yaeger who is like a plant scientist. He's also a well known musician in Galapagos turns out thanks to the Galapagos national park Charles Darwin Foundation Island conservation and the Galapagos Conservancy. In the meantime the vegetation on Pinta is growing out of control from an ecological point of view pinter can't wait. The uneasy marriage of biology and engineering raises big questions about the nature of life. Yeah. The finches look similar but their beaks were always a little bit different and this gets them thinking what if it isn't the way that everybody always says, what if God didn't create every single species in the beginning and leave them unchanged? That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. It was a magical, magical area. In fact says that it's actually in the same family as the regular house fly, but it's actually a boat fly called the Lorna's down. Another possibility is sterile insect technique sterilized male flies and introduce them back into the wild so that the female mates with a sterile fly and obviously doesn't produce fertile eggs. So they poked around in the areas where we got the one and I found a shell of a female, how had this female toward has died? And this brings us to our second school of thought, which in its most extreme version goes something like this. WebThe interview originally from a podcast called The Relentless Picnic, but presented by one of Lulus current podcast faves, The 11th is part of an episode of mini pep talks designed to help us all get through this cold, dark, second-pandemic-winter-in-a-row. Hey, this is radio lab. This tiny little dead finch in this box, wow! And you could argue we're gonna have to get a whole lot better at making some very, very difficult decisions. Thanks to Matthew judas guilty without whom tim would have been crushed just by the sheer amount of tape that he gathered. They've got, they sterilized 39 of them. Science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty moore Foundation Science sandbox assignment Foundation initiative and the john Templeton Foundation Foundational support for Radio Lab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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