I just came in second. We found this on 13 islands. Our budget year ends with the school year. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts, I'm john, I'm robert Krulwich, this is Radio lab today, a whole hour on the Galapagos islands. 2.2K views about 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to I really do because it has the potential to be incredibly anti basis from W. N. Y. C. Studios and the bell. But I go up to him and I yell at him, who's your candidate and he said, I am a candidate? They hear your footsteps, they raised their heads, they come out to see what's going on and then they get whacked. But then one evening in March of 1972. There's thousands of islands around the world that have goats on them. Mhm We'll be back in less than 200,000 years. Yeah. They're not exactly and they put them on Pinta and they're just chomping away right now they're living out their lives really happily on pinta. Which 15 years ago, they would never do back in the year 2000, Sonia and some colleagues tried feeding the finches, some fly larva and if ever there were a look of disgust on a finch face, that was it. Not worse. I began my work in Galapagos in 1981. They literally drove the rangers out of the National Park headquarters and took it over on Isabella. That sally dream is she's an environmental Law professor at the Berkeley School of Law in California? Addeddate. Listen 18 min The Political Scene | The New Yorker Corpse Demon 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. I started studying Darwin's finches in particular. Galapagos Here's Kareem Yousef, the general manager of AI Applications at IBM, I'm standing on top of a suspension bridge, I've got a vast view in front of me. You know because like we talked about in the 17 18 hundreds, these whalers would come along grab a bunch of tortoises, put them on the ship and then they would hunt for whales. Penta is was a very special place. 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. WebRadiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. You had the small tree finches and the medium tree finch is. We have at least five species that are known to be facing extinction and another six in serious decline. These are such alien looking creatures. You're not sad and he's like a friend. It's actually the footprint of the white man. Or maybe it's 10,000 hammerhead sharks. And so the technique that we would use was you would fire up your helicopter, you fly around, you'd find some goats, capture goats, capture them live and then come back back to base camp, offload them and you put a radio collar on them and you throw them back on the island. Shopify powers millions of entrepreneurs from first sale to full scale every 28 seconds. For transcripts, see individual segment pages. James says a lot of tortoises. So-Called) Life They might not be stupid ideas, but we still might not be able to do them. They learned that this sound means, so the goats start hiding so they're going to bushes, they won't move, They learn to stand under a tree holding their breath. But a high school girls volleyball team is redefining what it means to play together. They tagged, we collected genetic samples, got some D. N. A. They kidnapped some people, including some of my crew and they even killed dozens of tortoises, slitting their throats. You can go, I don't know the depths of the Impenetrable jungle, It's been affected by human activity. And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? Bonobos. Uh but they ultimately were infertile. The tortoises had different shells depending on the kind of island they lived on. Hey, it's latin. They'll actually go into caves. We know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but our show is listener funded and we need your help. 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. 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. Scientists had to find clever ways to help the turtles on the island! I'm Janna boom rod. It wasn't their fault. Radiolab - Galapagos | The Best Podcasts, As Chosen By You earbud.fm by NPR Radiolab Galapagos "I love the Galapagos episode. More information 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. And then dropping to the ground, the last goat or two might sort of run into a area where it's impossible to reach. Wow, that is freaking amazing, describe them. The tortoise is a tortoise is a tortoise. And I'm like, is he gonna win? And really what that guy was specifically saying was don't be precious. We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. Normally a female goat would be in heat for maybe a couple of days. So Carl Campbell figured out a technique where we could sterilize them in the field. But when I ask charlotte what she makes of all of these changes, she said, I think probably too little too late. The medium tree finch has patrol that boundary. They basically got their home back. Hey, radio lab listeners, Here's a message from our partner, IBM. Transcripts and Recorded Audio - WNYC Galapagos RadioLab - YouTube She's a researcher at the Charles Darwin foundation. For instance, add up as picking the lafayette of the nostrils of the baby birds and what we're starting to see is that they're beginning to consume them. So now they had a dilemma. Web72 votes, 254 comments. 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. He's adorable. Our fact checkers are diane kelly, Emily Krieger and Adam Sibyl Hi, I'm Erica in Yonkers leadership. Climate change seems to mean that a lot of species are Pretty much doomed, 30%, 40%, 50% of the species now on the planet in a few decades maybe disappearing. They introduced goats to Galapagos, but on islands like Isabella, which is this massive island size of Rhode island, The goats were actually penned into just little part of it Because there was this black lava rock that ran across the island, extremely rough lava that's extremely difficult to walk across 12 miles of it. They would crush you to death. So she would end up relying on their songs. 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. Let's go back to a better time. That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. you're radically remaking the world. Super limited electricity. But that shouldn't really happen. The guy who wins, he spent $500,000. But then Sonia told me something really surprising. So they did it. So thank you very much for the interview. And he tells me, well, I'm nervous. I don't know I'm not sure many other people think about that. But there's a much bigger question here that that goes way beyond globally, which is basically like what is the right way to protect nature now?
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