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We know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but our show is listener funded and we need your help. He just kind of points. WebThe audio for this video comes from NPRs RadioLab - I do not own the rights to this. Listen to keeping score a special series on the United States of anxiety wherever you get, listener supported W. N. Y. C. Studios way listening to radio. This tiny little dead finch in this box, wow! Our main story is the haunting tale of a chimp named Lucy. But at the time the immediate question was, are there any more because if they could find a female for George, then they could, you know, maybe de extinct the species. These females would go for more than 100 and 80 days. So we we go outside. There is music under the breaks. Thanks to Matthew judas guilty without whom tim would have been crushed just by the sheer amount of tape that he gathered. The adult fly seems to be harmless. The each legs, two clutches were ultimately laid in his corral and the scientists are like George got our hopes up dramatically. 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! Listen. 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. Almost every day during that time fraser would fly over Isabela island, two guys with two shooters either side of the helicopter, what you do is so you come across and you're flying along and you might see one goat says you follow that goat as it ran away until it joined its friends. That was definitely not what I thought you were gonna say. He didn't seem to like humans and maybe that's why he survived. And what we'd do is we'd find a location as close as we could. Which means at least 100 years. It's like so cynical. So Darwin's finches In short, Darwin! 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. Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and You can go, I don't know the depths of the Impenetrable jungle, It's been affected by human activity. Do you remember the song types? Look at this species here, Small levi, green thing they call it Huntin in spanish, it is in its plan ta go, I think in the U. S. They call it, Was it the wrench of the white man? Normally a female goat would be in heat for maybe a couple of days. But then she sees something amazing in that genetic data. I'm not going to say it wandering jew basic house plant. But the fact is, there's only so much you can do. The natural skied from the first chapter Who wrote this song, Peak Open Zone. The adult fly is actually vegetarian. At first nobody had any idea what kind of creature it was. Yeah, it's P. H. I L. I can't spell out loud Phil or L. O. R. N. I. S. D. O. W. N. S. I. Filan is actually means bird loving. Contact us, indicating the AAPB ID (cpb-aacip/80-80vq8sgb). And this brings us to our second school of thought, which in its most extreme version goes something like this. I want this to work. And really what that guy was specifically saying was don't be precious. You know sleuthing adventure sonya and her team rounded up some of the birds. 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. The place that inspired Charles Darwin to create his theory of evolution, whose basic ingredients are lots of time, isolation and then constant change. He never really liked other tortoises much. These tortoises are only found here. 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. Yeah. And you could argue we're gonna have to get a whole lot better at making some very, very difficult decisions. WebRadiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 45 episodes Share Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. He wasn't curious. More often, I'm Kareem Yousef and at IBM we use artificial intelligence to solve real world. And so you end up flying around in an expensive helicopter, not fighting any goes Now the way we deal with that is an interesting one. Here at Radiolab we wanted to flip that flop, so we dredged up the most mortifying, most audio story. Sometimes you have a year this is justa flop. Howard Before We close. She showed me her lab. So I took the plane from Kyoto. What if everything has been changing all the time? So anything you can do helps us thank you for listening and being part of this journey of telling all of these stories about our wild, crazy big small world. You know, until the originals are ready. I mean that's what I thought. It's our new membership program and it comes with awesome perks, ad free listening, bonus, audio content, live events. Oh my God. And he tells me, well, I'm nervous. Normally with people, nothing like. Okay, so quick context, Galapagos Islands, cluster of islands way off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific 19 bigger islands, bunch of smaller ones. Were all great apes. It has a terrible common name in english. They would crush you to death. So you um you complete that with Isabella and did it work? Our newsletter comes out But then at the same time the tourism economy has been taking off and so all of these fishermen, they find that it's easier for them to actually survive by using their boats to take tourists around island island. Darwin's five weeks on Galapagos pushed him to develop his theory of evolution. But then one evening in March of 1972. I mean like like sergeants. What you do is you sit at the back of the tortoise and first you have to get to where they'll allow you to touch them. My name is, he's an ornithologist from the University of Vienna. So she would end up relying on their songs. So it's a lot. They don't know the exact date. Yeah, the results of this were absolutely impressive. The show is nationally syndicated She says if we keep doing that, taking the babies with the most painted DNA, breeding them together slowly. 179 years later, the Galapagos are They get back over the island with this little device. External Link A discussion of the attacks on LaBeouf, Rnkk & Turner 's HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US art project by far-right trolls. Radiolab took down this episode and issued an apology on August 12, 2017, following accusations that it appeared to condone the actions and ideologies of extremist groups. It's introduced found in europe north africa shouldn't be here. 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. And if you think about it, we all have this, we all have this this picture of what we want to bring it all back to. A given episode Here's the backstory. WebThe Galapagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin to form his Theory of Evolution based on the biodiversity he'd observed there. Transcript. I'm walking through the town. See? I began my work in Galapagos in 1981. WNYC's Radiolab series tackles just five topics each season. On the one hand, the tortoises needed help. We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. a short break. So what if we took those tortoises and read them together, select them for the next generation. That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. Shopify powers millions of entrepreneurs from first sale to full scale every 28 seconds. There's no place, no matter how remote we get, you can go to the North Pole, it's been affected by human activity. And so what they decided to do is leave the judas, goats on various islands where they can live out their sterilized days chomping on grass, sharing war stories until such time as it might be needed again, is the, is the war between the greens and the and the fishermen and such, is that still hot and difficult And are they still no killing tortoises and they're not the fishermen. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about special events. Addeddate. We did this amazing story about one of the worst american football games in history. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. just a boom rod. Mhm We'll be back in less than 200,000 years. I'm surrounded by shelves and on the shelves are these tiny little plastic cups that are filled with flies. They burned down a building. By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. That's Shopify dot com slash radio lab. 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. Report for Radio Lab. And this guy, he doesn't even say anything. You have to find all those other goats circle real low, you fly around them, round them up, try and get them in a single group and then They start picking off the goats one x 1 x one and they're actually videos online where you see these packs of goats running for their lives. We've done so much on the show since last summer. He sat there getting more and more and more frustrated and finally he just blurted out shoot that tortoise and quit wasting our time because in his view this the single individual was holding up this huge conservation opportunity. 1. He was on santa cruz Island having dinner with some friends and we got into chatting about tortoises and one of the people he's eating with says, hey, I was recently on pinata Island collecting snails and I saw this tortoise and I thought, do you know what you have done? Like the large ones. They're also seeing baby finches climbing up over each other just struggling to get away from the larva on the bottom of the nest and then they'll even start standing on the nest rim just to avoid being eaten. 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. 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. No, that's a that's a very specific trip. But then Sonia told me something really surprising. It would look almost the same but much shorter. 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. Oh yeah. So his name is, he is a naturalist guide. And James says in a way it was a paradox because on the one hand, awesome, we have an actual living pinta island tortoise. I like to think of it as a kind of Darwin finch. And this became one of the, one of the most important pieces of evidence that, you know, when animals would move from one place to another, they would begin to differentiate based on very, very important. Right? But on the other hand, he might have actually been like the worst possible candidate for last of his kind. And sometimes when they were done and the ship was filled with whale products, there's no room down here. That's cool. But then my power supply didn't work and my nook died. We will stay tuned. And that's paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. It grabbed the goats dart, um, and then in a matter of minutes, snip snip did you do this? 179 years later, the Galapagos She took a trip to this island called Isabella, hiked up the side of a volcano and looked at all the tortoise country and it was an Impenetrable forest, basically tortoise heaven. That's charlotte costin. As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing On the other hand, you had all of these goats that didn't choose to be on the island. The tortoise is a tortoise is a tortoise. A little black fly looks like every other fly. 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. This is radio lab, we'll be back with producer Tim Howard and this hour on Galapagos. They throw a few extra tortoises overboard. I met him at this pizza place the election had happened the night before and did he win? It's called scandia sharpie thing. But if the hybrids do have a fitness advantage and if they survive, we may be witnessing in hyperspeed the creation of an entirely new species. 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. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Week two weeks go by, you fire up the helicopter. We thought about the worst years ever and all through that listener support was one of the things that kept us going. All lower case for a free 14 day. 14K subscribers in the Radiolab community. They took me outside. And that's also why when we think of evolution, we think of the Galapagos and in particular we think of two iconic creatures, the tortoise and the finch.