The Varmints! podcast is an education/comedy podcast that’s all about animals! Every week a bunch of nerds a do a whole bunch of reading to bring you a mix of science, education, pop culture and comedy about all things that creep, crawl, slither, fly, jump, hop and swim on this planet one animal at a time.
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The Varmints! podcast is an education/comedy podcast that’s all about animals! Every week a bunch of nerds a do a whole bunch of reading to bring you a mix of science, education, pop culture and comedy about all things that creep, crawl, slither, fly, jump, hop and swim on this planet one animal at a time.
Our last Frog-a-Day episode!
We didn't manage all 30 days but we only missed 2. We ended up learning a lot about frogs and we hope you did too!
Thanks for everything, especially to Henry, and until next time, be nice to animals!
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Urban Wildlife Institute at the Lincoln Park Zoo [https://www.lpzoo.org/conservation-science/science-centers/urban-wildlife-institute/]
Join the cast of Varmints! Podcast for our series of Frog-a-Day shows to celebrate National Podcast Posting Month.
Today: we discuss a neat article about horizontal gene transfer (a really cool thing we'll explain in the episode) seems to happen like crazy between snakes and frogs in Madagascar.
Read the original article by Veronique Greenwood at this link:
How Genes Can Leap From Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar [https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-genes-can-leap-from-snakes-to-frogs-20221027/#0]
The Varmints! podcast is an education/comedy podcast that’s all about animals! Every week a bunch of nerds a do a whole bunch of reading to bring you a mix of science, education, pop culture and comedy about all things that creep, crawl, slither, fly, jump, hop and swim on this planet one animal at a time.
