This episode explores new research, which has found that the wing length of the monarch butterfly has evolved in response to migration habits.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise’ by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 189: Tasting Geckos
Episode 188: Exotic Dangers in the Urban Forest
Episode 187: Vanishing Stripes
Episode 186: Cut out the Fireworks
Episode 185: Gardeners of the Forest
Episode 184: Unnecessary Deaths by Fire
Episode 183: A Lungful of Flying Lead
Episode 182: Sunburnt Algae
Episode 181: Deep-sea Soot
Episode 180: A Lethal Climate
Episode 179: Breathing Plastic
Episode 178: Risky Resilience
Episode 177: Binding the Coast
Episode 176: Caring Corals
Episode 175: Rays of Hope
Episode 174: Woody Infestation
Episode 173: Shrinking Rhinos
Episode 172: Buzzing Electricity
Episode 171: Shipwrecked Sediments
Episode 170: Washed into Dust
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