Now the Galapagos government spends millions of dollars checking all of the goods that come in and out trying to quarantine the ones that might have things that are a problem. I actually visited one of the main researchers in Congo. And then you go on and actually in under a year through this aerial attack, they end up wiping out 90% of the goats on Isabella. Can you imagine Schools of Hammerhead sharks like 500 800 passing in front of you like tuna. The other three of money behind them and you see their flags all over santa cruz. And the fishermen are like, who are you to tell me that I can't feed my family. Yeah. Teladoc is available through most insurance plans and if you're not covered, you can still have access, download the app or visit Teladoc dot com slash radio lab. There's 100,000 of them, So many doubters, Carl says even heard the idea, why don't you put lions? Yeah, I mean powerful colors. Thanks for listening. What's that? This is Augustine Lopez's longtime fisherman. Radiolab ' s first nine seasons (February 2002April 2011) comprised five episodes each. Subsequent seasons contained between nine and ten episodes. Season 15 began airing in January 2017. In 2018 the show's seasonal and episode format became obscured when online content moved from radiolab.org to wnycstudios.org. This story unfolds on one of Galapagos most northern islands where they also had to get rid of some goats. You had the small tree finches and the medium tree finch is. And song samples made some recordings, brought all this stuff into the lab analyzed the genetic samples and had this terrible realization that the large tree finches now extinct, totally gone from the island. Our newsletter comes out And this allowed for those important drip pools. So you're saying that that that the call, let's go back to when it was good. Right? A little black fly looks like every other fly. Boxid. Transcript From their Penta ancestors than others. It's customized for your needs, provides tools to manage your day to day needs and drive sales and helps make your idea real. Most recently, in an exploration of the science of aging and the search for immortality in an episode titled "Mortality," hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich To what cause was the demise of the Pinta tortoises attributed? And he says that as the meeting were on it got tense. He never really liked other tortoises much. WebPodcast Transcripts of Radiolab Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? There have been no tortoises there for 100 years. And as he went island to island, he started noticing that there were all these creatures that were really similar to each other but also a little bit different. Ornithologists have started to notice some new behaviors. No. And so in 1994 we had what we called the tortoise summit in England and that was where we started the discussions about what are we going to do, experts came from all over the world linda says we want to get rid of the goats and many of them thought we were nuts and that it was impossible. you're radically remaking the world. But it's an average. Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and Indeed. One I particularly love is Radiolab, the NPR mix of nerdy science and audio bombast. Earlier this summer, its gregarious hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich produced an episode entirely on the Galapagos Islands. We all know the Galapagoss role as a laboratory of evolution. So they lash out, they marched down Charles Darwin avenue, they would come down the street throwing rocks and sticks and everything. You know, on average 50% of your genome comes from your mom and 50% from your dad. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. 179 years later, the Galapagos Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth. It wouldn't notice that you were there. So we we just sat in the forest and we would always quiz each other. WebRadiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 45 episodes Share Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. Three tree finch species, the small, the medium and the large, and we went out and we set up our miss nets and we caught the birds and we measured them. We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. Oh my God, he looks a little bit furry, Almost really tiny, vulnerable fledgling of a warbler finch. She says, you have islands with massive volcanoes and forests, tree ferns that grow, you know, well above a human sight. Today we begin on a plane which carried our newly married producer, tim howard to the Galapagos. This is James gibbs, professor of conservation biology at the State University of new york, it's one of those islands, it's not part of any tourist visitation site. And what makes it so perfect for tortoises is in the dry season in Galapagos, the guru, a which is a very, very thick mist comes onto the island. James says a lot of tortoises. This is radio lab and we are dedicating the entire hour to this little set of islands and to that question as the world is filling up with more and more and more people, Is it inevitable that even the most sacred pristine places on the planet will eventually get swallowed up? But we will be different when we come back. Transcript And so the best way you can help us is to become an annual member of the lab and you can do that right now, go to radio lab dot org slash join and if you join as an annual member before june 30th at midnight, you will get two months free using the code summer. Just wandering by. I can see the sea cargo ships going by and we have drones flying that are taking thousands of pictures of every angle of that bridge that no human could actually quickly process without artificial intelligence. Yeah. WebRadiolab live "Apocalyptical" In the fall of 2013, Radiolab toured North America with an ambitious multimedia live show called "Apocalyptical." There is where evolution is very strong. So whalers and buccaneers. You mean eat the fly larva? And this guy, he doesn't even say anything. Darwin's five weeks on Galapagos pushed him to develop his theory of evolution. We only have a few days left to meet our financial goal. So she would end up relying on their songs. 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. What's, what's going on you? In the mid nineties we started in 94 Gisella and some folks from the Galapagos national park, they began taking a census of all the tortoises in the Galapagos. Lava flows are like 1000 sea iguanas taking a sun bath. And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? But as they become rare and rare, they're harder and harder to detect. The show is nationally syndicated It's it's a very simple song. radiolab Transcription for Galapagos - Radiolab | PodScribe So you really only had two species left. Transcript. I want this to work. And I'm like, is he gonna win? Everyone held out hopes for just finding more tortoises back. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial. Galapagos RadioLab - YouTube Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. The adult fly seems to be harmless. Well they needed the goats because well yeah, there was a problem of people Because during the 90's these demonstrations started to happen, demonstrations of outrage, violent activity, constant conflict to explain. Scientists had to find clever ways to help the turtles on the island! What is the color of the pacific ocean when you look out the plane window? Now the jury is still very much out on what will happen. He visited an island called Fernandina and the first thing I saw was a lava flow that was moving. (727) 210-2350. www.caahep.org. 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? I think it might have been the worst, We went up into treetops. They might not be stupid ideas, but we still might not be able to do them. We covered disability and access in a way that was totally new for us. Galpagos - Radiolab (podcast) | Listen Notes Description Description You know, they basically feed on the blood of the baby birds. And that's where I thought oh something's changed in the system. The water then drips down from the top of the trees down to the ground, creating what we call drip pools, which provides tortoises with water during the dry season and they like to rest in water. 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. Um they seem to have stopped, you know taking over National Park and killing tortoises. It grabbed the goats dart, um, and then in a matter of minutes, snip snip did you do this? That's Shopify dot com slash radio lab. Thanks to Matthew judas guilty without whom tim would have been crushed just by the sheer amount of tape that he gathered. 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. One male tortoise, maybe 50 years old. Our fact checkers are diane kelly, Emily Krieger and Adam Sibyl Hi, I'm Erica in Yonkers leadership. So here's the story, Goats were originally brought to the Galapagos probably by pirates and whalers back in the 1500s. It, it's a combination of reasons on the one hand, fishermen have started to participate in the actual fisheries management more because it seems like they realize if they're going to keep their livelihood, they can't just fish everything out. You're saying this pinto DNA was on another island. 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? And then fishermen started making a killing fishing sea cucumber because there was this huge demand. But even worse so far. 179 years later, the Galapagos are It's a race against time. Can I get you to introduce yourself? Every population of tortoises on all the islands. full access to Shopify his entire suite of features. NSF He was their counter protesting and he says that at one point they went after National Park buildings and they were attacking the ranger stations with molotov cocktails. This tiny little dead finch in this box, wow! On the other hand, you had all of these goats that didn't choose to be on the island. 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. And how far are we willing to go to return a place to what it was before we got there. This one, which first aired in 2014, tells the strange story of a small group of islands that keeps us wondering: will our m. Created in 2002, Radiolab began as an exploration of science, philosophy, and Here's the backstory. This is Mathias espinosa and naturalist guide in the Galapagos and like linda. He's adorable. There was no shade, tortoises were sitting out in the sun or crowded around a couple of stalks that were still there. Then when I showed up after a few years again I was truly even more perplexed. Well, I talked to one scientist sonia klein door for I'm professor in animal behavior at flinders University, south Australia. 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.
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