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From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be.
We go back to the late 1970s to relive the moment when zoos began to change — literally the moment that the modern zoo was born, as embodied by a few tentative steps of a gorilla named Kiki. That story is told by zoo director David Hancocks, architect Grant Jones, and gorilla keeper Violet Sunde.
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🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.
🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
Photo illustration by Jared Bartman
Video by Kim Nowacki
From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be.
We go back to the late 1970s to relive the moment when zoos began to change — literally the moment that the modern zoo was born, as embodied by a few tentative steps of a gorilla named Kiki. That story is told by zoo director David Hancocks, architect Grant Jones, and gorilla keeper Violet Sunde.
🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW
🌱 Listen to more Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE
🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53
👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!
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🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.
🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
Photo illustration by Jared Bartman
Video by Kim Nowacki
