They were a little bit different depending on which island the finches lived on with the beaks. 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. Yes. It shows you also evolution. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. Hmm. So there are no people there. Sometimes you have a year this is justa flop. Do you remember the song types? That is the sound of a tortoise breathing. It wouldn't notice that you were there. You can buy it at home depot but there it is in the Galapagos and along this path just looking to the right and the left and then she just starts counting the number of invasive species at 1234 as you can see here, it's only right next to the trail but not so much for them. 23 Weeks 6 Days Mhm tortoises walking around. Unlike on the island of Isabella, which became barren, on the island of Pinta the vegetation has grown out of control due to the extinction of the tortoises (and no goats) by 1906. Hello Gisella. They tagged, we collected genetic samples, got some D. N. A. WebGalpagos - Podcast 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! 14K subscribers in the Radiolab community. Oh, I'm never a Doubter. Radiolab - Galapagos | The Best Podcasts, As Chosen By You earbud.fm by NPR Radiolab Galapagos "I love the Galapagos episode. Just going to meet you at the airport. What happened to the forest, goats, goats? Okay, so here's a wood plaque That says Lonesome George is the last survivor of the dynasty of land tortoises from Pinta Island and in fact in 2012, after decades of trying to get him to breed lonesome George Dies. But then Sonia told me something really surprising. For transcripts, see individual segment pages. This is possibility powered by Shopify. Their mating calls. Yeah. Hosted by Latif Nasser and So damn case in point. But then along come the flies and all of a sudden like over maybe 20 years, these medium tree finch is they start to break their own biggest rule and they start to make outside of their own kind. TRANSCRIPTS We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our So where your values lie. Fantasy is that the flies use a pheromone to attract the opposite sex. Thanks to Trish Dolman and screen siren pictures, Alex gala font Mathias espinosa. Yes I do. That's really the classical definition of a species. How did these little fly babies? 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. But Darwin didn't consider this possibility. I mean we're probably talking just a few goats, but by the 1990s those few goats, the population had exploded to about 100,000 goats. Thanks to Matthew judas guilty without whom tim would have been crushed just by the sheer amount of tape that he gathered. I'm Janna boom rod. They showed me where the traps are trapped hanging from a tree here and you see them actually all over santa cruz. We've done so much on the show since last summer. Those arguments came up frequently to which carl would respond, Are we going to let tortoises go extinct. 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. The ideal judas goat, if you will is a goat that would search for and be searched for and that would never get pregnant. Radiolab: Lucy. Not on Penta that had a lot of Penta D. N. A. I remember very clearly the moment was very very exciting. 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. He like points at the cars in front and behind as if like dude, seriously, you see how many of us there are. I would just I would have shot them first. They hear your footsteps, they raised their heads, they come out to see what's going on and then they get whacked. I think yeah, whatever bugs might have snuck out of the plane. All I remember is having a smile on my face all the time because you know, as a biologist going to Galapagos is like going to mecca. 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. Listen 18 min The Political Scene | The New Yorker Corpse Demon Plus with 24/7 support, you're never alone. We only have a few days left to meet our financial goal. Listen to this special series on the United States of anxiety wherever you get podcasts. Listen. There's 100,000 of them, So many doubters, Carl says even heard the idea, why don't you put lions? Hey, it's latin. That's right. By this point, I'm getting super excited and I'm thinking about Darwin and I start reading Voyage of the Beagle, his book on this nook that I had bought for the trip. I spent what two grand friend is The beginning is the beginning of a new a new future for the island. Really? And they're like, I don't know who the guy was, but it turns out he was the incumbent. 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. To what cause was the demise of the Pinta tortoises attributed? Mhm We'll be back in less than 200,000 years. 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? WebThe audio for this video comes from NPRs RadioLab - I do not own the rights to this. At first I didn't know what that was happening but turns out it was an election and I was just really blown away that this Continue this procession for like 15 minutes. You see that they're only there for this border of about 5 to 10 inches along the edge of that path because he said what happens is that tourists, they'll be back in their home country, they'll be walking around in the garden or a park and it'll be filled with tiny seeds, the seeds stick to shoes and socks and trousers. WNYC's Radiolab series tackles just five topics each season. And really what that guy was specifically saying was don't be precious. Howard Before We close. This is the real thing. Initially it was carl's suggestion was goats, gregarious and like being in groups, they're herd animals. 25400 U.S. Highway 19 North, Suite 158. WebRadiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, and a podcast available internationally, both produced by WNYC. You're not sad and he's like a friend. Yeah, she's opening a box with some of the birds, that little benson is the finches. So she would end up relying on their songs. Chimps. I said it was impossible. They took me outside. And he told me that in the seventies and eighties lobster was fished all year round no restrictions. And then dropping to the ground, the last goat or two might sort of run into a area where it's impossible to reach. 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. Um, me and Brooke, they make announcements and at a certain point, the flight attendants, they open up all of the overhead bins and they walk up and down spraying some sort of insecticide for what for like invasive species. WebWe are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. She says if we keep doing that, taking the babies with the most painted DNA, breeding them together slowly. WebWe are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. Yeah, judas codes. (727) 210-2350. www.caahep.org. You know, like nature in its purest form. I mean like like sergeants. And this is the place of course where Darwin landed in 1835. So they choose not to breed. You know, Galapagos was really isolated, barely any cars. 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. I'm Jad Abumrad. And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? 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. But when I ask charlotte what she makes of all of these changes, she said, I think probably too little too late. just a boom rod. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Yeah, that that was a very unexpected discovery, takes a couple steps to get there, but just to set it up back in 2000, she was on floreana island for the first time. A given episode Oh yeah. The guy who wins, he spent $500,000. 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. 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. Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and Radio Lab was created by Jack Brabham Rod and is edited by soren wheeler lulu. You've got. I thought you were gonna say people, it was kind of a collaboration. Really? Let's go back to a better time. But a high school girls volleyball team is redefining what it means to play together. 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?