symbioticrelationships

Explore "symbioticrelationships" with insightful episodes like "The Wonderous World Of Nudibranchs", "Animalia Stupendium: The Deep Sea Anglerfish", "This Wild Bird Will Lead You To Honey On Command", "From the Vault: Do Ants Make Traps?" and "Carnivorous Phytobiology (MEAT-EATING PLANTS) with Hali’a Eastburn" from podcasts like ""Short Wave", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Short Wave", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Ologies with Alie Ward"" and more!

Episodes (10)

The Wonderous World Of Nudibranchs

Emily gets super nerdy with former host Maddie Sofia get as they dive into the incredible world of nudibranchs in this encore episode. Not only are these sea slugs eye-catching for their colors, some of them have evolved to "steal" abilities from other organisms — from the power of photosynthesis to the stinging cells of their venomous predators. These sea slugs are going to blow your mind!

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Short Wave

en-usMay 08, 2024

symbioticrelationships

Animalia Stupendium: The Deep Sea Anglerfish

Bored with dragons, the wizard Argomandanies turns his arcane attention to the fantastic fauna of the natural world. Welcome to Animalia Stupendium, a chronicle of Earth’s amazing biodiversity with all the enthusiasm of a fantasy monster book. In this episode, the wizard will consider the amazing courtship of the deep sea anglerfish.

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

enFebruary 14, 2024

anglerfish

symbioticrelationships

communitybuilding

neighborhoodinitiatives

fishbiology

This Wild Bird Will Lead You To Honey On Command

Honeyguides are wild birds that team up with humans and then lead them to honey. Researchers recently found that the calls these birds respond to are unique and tied to their location. NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce talks about this relationship and shares how researchers followed honeyguides to learn about their call behaviors.

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Short Wave

en-usJanuary 22, 2024

curiosity

symbioticrelationships

culturaltraditions

honeyguidebirds

honeyhunting

From the Vault: Do Ants Make Traps?

The trap is insidious. But of course it is. It was designed and executed… by ants? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, the ant wars continue as Robert and Joe explore some of the possibility that a few formidable Formicidae species actually lay traps. (originally published 1/20/2022)."

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

enDecember 29, 2022

symbioticrelationships

Carnivorous Phytobiology (MEAT-EATING PLANTS) with Hali’a Eastburn

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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Donations were made to North American Sarracenia Conservancy and Kauluakalana

Teeny Frogs With Tarantula Bodyguards, the Science of Hair Magic, an Everlasting Lightbulb

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Click here to follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything! -- Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Purbita Saha: www.twitter.com/hahabita Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

en-usJanuary 19, 2022

innovation

sustainability

symbioticrelationships

foodproduction

Nudibranchs Do It Better

Maddie and Emily get super nerdy one last time as they dive into the incredible world of nudibranchs. Not only are these sea slugs eye-catching for their colors, some of them have evolved to "steal" abilities from other organisms — from the power of photosynthesis to the stinging cells of their venomous predators. These sea slugs are going to blow your mind!

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Short Wave

en-usSeptember 02, 2021

symbioticrelationships

Listener Mail: The Final Conflict

Once more on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe turn to the mailbot and read some listener mail from previous months.

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

enNovember 19, 2020

symbioticrelationships

Strange Milk

Mammals are the true milk-bearers of nature, but there are a host of non-mammals that secrete various strange and wonderful milk-analogues. From avians to invertebrates, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the anomalous world of non-mammalian milk in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

enDecember 13, 2018

parenting

birds

symbioticrelationships

cockroachmilk

animalmilk

Meet Your Bacterial Masters

" Humans have mapped the microbiome and changed our understanding of the bacterial worlds thriving inside us. How will this affect our war on bacteria and the state of modern medicine? Julie and Robert discuss all of these questions in this episode."

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

enJune 28, 2012

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