Now the jury is still very much out on what will happen. And every once in a while one of these Hitchhikers slips under the radar and just wreaks havoc. But the fact is, there's only so much you can do. The story about the invasive Susie Leuchtenburg is our executive producer. Yeah. 2012-10-10 06:29:29. And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? We want to hit the ground running as we go into the next year and you've heard of the lab, we've been talking about it, we've been so excited about it. Let's go back to a better time. She says there's actually very little known about the fly. He says that when he first got to the Galapagos in the eighties, he couldn't believe that the place was real. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. And then, um, I actually didn't get back there for maybe 15 years from when I was there the first time and when I returned That forest was 100% gone. That's what I thought. 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! There is music under the breaks. Scientists tried everything humanly possible to get lonesome George to mate with another tortoise so they could resurrect the species and bring Pinta island back to its original state. I thought you were gonna say people, it was kind of a collaboration. This is Radio Lab, and today elements. Hey listeners, this is molly Webster. So talked into the story of these finches is the story of Galapagos. 2.2K views about 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to Mhm We'll be back in less than 200,000 years. But that's four generations of tortoises, not rats. Here we go. She's lived in Galapagos for over a decade. Set up a little expat community and started breeding with the locals. Hey, this is radio lab. And the medium tree finch is just a bit slower. So you're saying that that that the call, let's go back to when it was good. They sterilize them and put them on pinter. Galpagos. 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. You had plants re emerging, you had trees growing back and in a really short period of time. Indeed. Those arguments came up frequently to which carl would respond, Are we going to let tortoises go extinct. Penta is was a very special place. 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. Yeah. 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. She's a researcher at the Charles Darwin foundation. The ideal judas goat, if you will is a goat that would search for and be searched for and that would never get pregnant. 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. That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. You know, it might be like the planes just covered with buffalo or maybe the Serengeti desert with Lines and elephants. The tortoise is a tortoise is a tortoise. I actually visited one of the main researchers in Congo. It's this on ending struggle. 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. Not know how would that happen. WebRadiolab is one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio programs in the world. WebGalpagos - Transcripts June 24, 2022 Favorite Share Facebook Twitter Messenger WhatsApp Email Copy Link As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, The other three of money behind them and you see their flags all over santa cruz. 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. 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. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth. She thought, God why can't I tell these finches apart? Miller and Latif Nasser are co hosts. They get back over the island with this little device. WebRadiolab live "Apocalyptical" In the fall of 2013, Radiolab toured North America with an ambitious multimedia live show called "Apocalyptical." The natural skied from the first chapter Who wrote this song, Peak Open Zone. It goes off and has this kid and it's very solitary, which is the last thing you want when you're trying to get goats off islands. And the fishermen are like, who are you to tell me that I can't feed my family. I've got my thing over here and you got your thing over there. The adult fly seems to be harmless. It's called Penta. So you um you complete that with Isabella and did it work? Radiolab This tiny little dead finch in this box, wow! The wrench of the white man. We went live on the radio that was so fun. I began my work in Galapagos in 1981. It's kind of late, the sun is just starting to set. But a high school girls volleyball team is redefining what it means to play together. Not worse. I mean that's what I thought. Podcast Transcripts of Radiolab - Happy Scribe You're not sad and he's like a friend. And tortoises. It's like a biological rule about who you're not going to make a baby with. 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. WebThe interview originally from a podcast called The Relentless Picnic, but presented by one of Lulus current podcast faves, The 11th is part of an episode of mini pep talks designed to help us all get through this cold, dark, second-pandemic-winter-in-a-row. Oh yeah. No, no, no that's not. And then fishermen started making a killing fishing sea cucumber because there was this huge demand. WebPodcast Transcripts of Radiolab Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? It was very confusing. Galpagos - Radiolab (podcast) | Listen Notes What if on these islands, thousands of tourists arrive every day carrying fruits and chocolates and souvenirs jumping from island to island. Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and That sally dream is she's an environmental Law professor at the Berkeley School of Law in California? Listening to These Podcasts Can Make You Better Transcripts and Recorded Audio - WNYC WNYC's Radiolab series tackles just five topics each season. Report for Radio Lab. And you have this one here. So they began to frantically study it. 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. There was no shade, tortoises were sitting out in the sun or crowded around a couple of stalks that were still there. Yeah, judas codes. It has a terrible common name in english. Radiolab - Wikipedia I don't know I'm not sure many other people think about that. 1. How far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? He's also a well known musician in Galapagos turns out thanks to the Galapagos national park Charles Darwin Foundation Island conservation and the Galapagos Conservancy. They'll actually go into caves. Doesn't matter point is an introduced species. That's cool. I hope not. I'm Jad Abumrad. 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? 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth. So Gisella thought just by chance some of these tortoises are going to have a little bit more Penta D. N. A. And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? And when you set foot first on pin to you immediately since your abundance all the insect life and birds problem is on pena things were spinning out of control vegetation was growing wild in the forest was getting overgrown with the wrong kind of plants and the whole ecosystem was just teetering out of balance And one of the reasons for this, according to Linda Coyote is that we had an island with no tortoises because tortoises are sort of like the lawnmowers. I wanted to borrow someone's gun. Yeah. So Carl Campbell figured out a technique where we could sterilize them in the field. I spent what two grand friend is The beginning is the beginning of a new a new future for the island. To what cause was the demise of the Pinta tortoises attributed? It's keeping score. That's right. Radio lab is supported by Teladoc. I'm not going to say it wandering jew basic house plant. This kind of eradication program was far beyond anything that anyone had ever done anywhere in the world Because it turns out they weren't just doing this on Isabela Island? Test the outer edges of what you think you know. Addeddate. There is where evolution is very strong. Two females that sort of looked like George but weren't quite the same species and we put them with George to see if we could get him to breed, he never did wasn't interested. But speaking of beaks that finch that Arnaud was holding his beak, did you see the, especially this side is extremely huge. This is radio lab. Is there any time scale we should worry about. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. But according to Linda sometime in the late 1970s, the goats got brave. I'm the restoration Ecologist at the Charles Darwin foundation. It wasn't their fault. It would possibly be one of the first vertebrate examples of speciation in real time that we can observe. And wherever they went, they would lure those male goats out of their caves so that, you know, all in all over the course of this two year program, we had hundreds of judas goats out and using those goats, they were able to go from 94% goat free to 96 to 97 to 98. Darwin's five weeks on Galapagos pushed him to develop his theory of evolution. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. Galapagos The warbler finch is the smallest of the Darwin's finches. Listen to this special series on the United States of anxiety wherever you get podcasts. So damn case in point. They were a little bit different depending on which island the finches lived on with the beaks. But that's the only possible the first day. It was breath taken. Yeah. But in the end there's just George that then shifted the focus on now what do we do? No Bocelli the incumbent one. And shortly after we walked up, he reached out into this tree and he grabbed this tiny little baby finch right off the branch. What if in fact life is purely changed. Like the large ones. We talk about going from weeks to hours, two minutes, two seconds at its core artificial intelligence for me has always been about decision support. Say a few from maybe those Penta tortoises swim with occurrence to that nearby island. These tortoises are only found here. He like points at the cars in front and behind as if like dude, seriously, you see how many of us there are. The adult fly is actually vegetarian. 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. They took me outside. 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. Well the honeymoon's over Galapagos. It was a magical, magical area. They eliminate over 250,000 goats. So they called around offered huge cash rewards. Um they seem to have stopped, you know taking over National Park and killing tortoises. They kidnapped some people, including some of my crew and they even killed dozens of tortoises, slitting their throats. Someone chopped it in half. Sometimes you have a year this is justa flop. She says, you have islands with massive volcanoes and forests, tree ferns that grow, you know, well above a human sight. Dylan keith is our Director of sound design. a short break. You know, they basically feed on the blood of the baby birds. You know, they eat goats in africa, you know, why don't you get lions on there? Really? It's a race against time. Our main story is the haunting tale of a chimp named Lucy. But she told me that these four flies will probably die because they always die right now we have huge problems trying to re file in captivity, which is ironic given how abundant it is in the wild when I was there told me that so far, they had only successfully raised three, three adult flies when you're saying they needed millions. You've got. Whereas the numbers were very small for the medium tree finch and smaller for the small tree finch, wow, I dare say that sounds kind of hopeful. Clearwater, FL, 33763. If the party in power now the front runners, if they get elected, then I see a dark and uncertain future, more big hotels, more of these enormous boats, more people. All right on top of the cave, drop out one of the two shooters that was in the helicopter and he'd physically go into the cave shoe, the goats out or shoot them on sight. And then dropping to the ground, the last goat or two might sort of run into a area where it's impossible to reach. So you can give a push to this Process. They would crush you to death. I started studying Darwin's finches in particular. So they thought maybe he needs a pinto lady. Here at Radiolab we wanted to flip that flop, so we dredged up the most mortifying, most audio story. Coincidentally, these are the topics that Radiolab also loves. Did a genetic analysis and found something they never expected a group of tortoises. They've got to limit their catch. You just grabbed it just like that. 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 We're God, we might as well get good at it and we're going to have to create these ecosystems based on our best science. He visited an island called Fernandina and the first thing I saw was a lava flow that was moving. He seemed to really like to keep to himself. So nature has a boys now has the boys. 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. WebRadiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 45 episodes Share Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. Howard Before We close. Every population of tortoises on all the islands. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of. We don't think it was natural Gisella thinks it might have been the whalers. You should actually get better with experience. Well, there's there's a couple of clues that say maybe, Yeah, for example, when you look in the nests, they seem to have fewer parasites and they seem to have more babies that survive 15%. 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. Sony says each time she go into the field the song sounded like they were starting to blur together. radiolab If they can't make babies, the population will crash and in some cases you can successfully eradicate a species. Radiolab The test-writers definitely listen to this podcast to get ideas for science passages The science passages you see on the LSAT often have to do with evolution, psychology, and interaction between humans and nature. Hello? Transcript And then everyone gets shot except the judas go, they let it go find more friends and then everyone gets shot except the judas go and then they do it again, everyone gets shot except the judas goat. These five species, does that mean that they may go extinct in the next five years in the next 50 years? Transcription for Galapagos - Radiolab | PodScribe That's charlotte costin. I call it the phoenix blodgett. Right? Today we begin on a plane which carried our newly married producer, tim howard to the Galapagos. He never really liked other tortoises much. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. This is Augustine Lopez's longtime fisherman. just a boom rod. We have at least five species that are known to be facing extinction and another six in serious decline. Radiolab - Galapagos | The Best Podcasts, As Chosen By You earbud.fm by NPR Radiolab Galapagos "I love the Galapagos episode. Then when I showed up after a few years again I was truly even more perplexed. That was a big problem for dire into power and then the islands come into sight. And sometimes when they were done and the ship was filled with whale products, there's no room down here. So go join at radio lab dot org slash join and I'll see you all later. They're just basically the lawnmowers. Let's just take some tortoises from a nearby island and put them back on Penta. 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. They wear those trousers on the plane and then they wear them when they come here and then people walk and then just distribute or disperse the seeds along the trail. I met him at this pizza place the election had happened the night before and did he win? 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. TRT: 59:00 *Breaks: Two 1:00 minute breaks. It's like a soprano saxophone and alto and a 10 or something like that. 14K subscribers in the Radiolab community. I'm robert Krulwich. My name is, he's an ornithologist from the University of Vienna. Another possibility is sterile insect technique sterilized male flies and introduce them back into the wild so that the female mates with a sterile fly and obviously doesn't produce fertile eggs. 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. Oh my God, he looks a little bit furry, Almost really tiny, vulnerable fledgling of a warbler finch. 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. For the medium is a check for the large Chee Chee wow. Either the whalers or the pirates. But then at a certain point I noticed this one guy by himself standing on the sidewalk wearing a white shirt and jeans, he's waving a flag, but his flag is a different color. Hosted by Latif Nasser and Thanks to Matthew judas guilty without whom tim would have been crushed just by the sheer amount of tape that he gathered. There have been no tortoises there for 100 years. But whatever the scene is that just doesn't have any people but is carrying that idea, those pictures in your head even like useful anymore. My version was, is my dream of what it would be like as you land on and it's sort of like low grassy knoll and an enormous turtle comes by the one that you could sit on the top of it. Yeah, the results of this were absolutely impressive. 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. So I met this woman named Hanky Yaeger who is like a plant scientist. He and some national park rangers race out to pin to and there it was this beautiful tortoise. You actually end up meeting a lot of people employed that way in Galapagos and he tells me politically speaking, he's an outsider and of course I'm wondering why he's standing there by himself waving a flag at this entire parade of people who don't support him at all. 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. Yeah, well I stood next to carl and watched him do it and carl took it one step further and he actually gave these females hormone implants, basically put them in the heat for an extended duration.
