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After a 3-year hiatus, I'm returning to the channel as a fully independent producer! Stay tuned for new content in early 2024 🥳
I'm excited to go on this next chapter with you!!
Support The Brain Scoop's relaunch on Patreon: patreon.com/emilygraslie
Shop prints + Original artwork! emilygraslie.com/prints
Discord: discord.gg/thebrainscoop
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website: emilygraslie.com
Got funding for a video? thebrainscoop(@)gmail.com Subject: REBOOT IDEA
After a 3-year hiatus, I'm returning to the channel as a fully independent producer! Stay tuned for new content in early 2024 🥳
I'm excited to go on this next chapter with you!!


![Investigating the Trees of Amazonia
When in doubt, sniff a tree. No, really! Botanists and rainforest ecologists follow their noses to identify certain species in addition to looking at the plants flowers, and counting leaves on branches.
This is the second part in a series about The Field Museums Rapid Inventory No. 27, a journey through the forests between the rivers Tapiche and Blanco in Peru. Every year, the Museums conservation group [the Action Center!] gathers together leading scientific experts across a number of disciplines (botany, zoology, geology, and anthropology) in order to gain an understanding of little-known areas of the rainforest. They work with local communities and their governments to help inform decisions made for conserving these unique, precious, and threatened parts of the world.
To learn more about the Rapid Inventory program, check out our episode: Into Peru! http://youtu.be/8XosNhRNGkI
AND
In Search of Night Life: http://youtu.be/rf5r1yojOsg
Read more about The Field Museums Rapid Inventory programs: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/blog/rapid-inventories
This expedition would not have been possible without the generosity and help of Corine Vriesendorp, Nigel Pitman, Alvaro del Campo, Tyana Wachter, Ernesto Ruelas, and the rest of the Rapid Inventory team. Thank you for allowing us to join you on this journey, and for giving us the trip of a lifetime.
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Producer, Writer, Creator, Host:
Emily Graslie
Producer, Writer, Editor, Camera:
Tom McNamara
Theme music:
Michael Aranda
Created By:
Hank Green
Production Assistant:
Katie Kirby
Filmed on Location and Supported by:
The Field Museum in Chicago, IL
(http://www.fieldmuseum.org)
Working with Barbara Velázquez, Evan Liao, Batuhan Özcan, Seth Bergenholtz, and Waris Mohammad to translate our episodes is a real tree-t. Thanks! Investigating the Trees of Amazonia](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/__VVla0PfjQ/mqdefault.jpg)






![Aliens? Demon? Nope, its just a fish. [60 Second Specimens]
Every specimen has a story; is this an alien, or a demon baby?! For hundreds of years, sailors sold these manipulated skates to tourists and oddity collectors marketed as such- but really, [spoiler] its just a fish.
Thanks to Caleb McMahan and Susan Mochel for their help on this video!
More 60 Second Specimen stories:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL8_5VpX9Txpke4mWgBrsHVgNLeunW-XY
Created by:
Emily Graslie Brandon Brungard Sheheryar Ahsan
This episode is filmed at and supported by The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org Aliens? Demon? Nope, its just a fish. [60 Second Specimens]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bUcZrJJfOMk/mqdefault.jpg)
