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Terrestrials

by WNYC

Welcome, nature lovers, to the home of the Terrestrials podcast and family-friendly Radiolab episodes about nature. Every other week, host Lulu Miller will take you on a nature walk to encounter a plant or animal behaving in ways that will surprise you. Squirrels that can regrow their brains, octopuses that can outsmart their human captors, honeybees that can predict the future. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew. You’ll hear a range of nature stories on this podcast. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes, full of original…

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Terrestrials explores the relationship between humans and crows through the true story of Emma Terry, a cheerful, colorful woman who spent seven years leaving treats for crows in her cemetery neighborhood—a stark contrast to the birds' spooky reputation. The episode challenges the morbid stereotype surrounding crows…

Worth it if you enjoy thoughtful nature storytelling, have curiosity about animal intelligence, or want to reframe Halloween's crow symbolism through a lens of wonder rather than spookiness.

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