Celebrity Monkeys and Frozen Frogs

Moth Vacations and Deep Sea Peril

Katie tells us why moths need a summer vacation, and Amy talks about people dying in the ocean.

Lemming Lies and the Blindness-Schizophrenia Connection

Katie breaks the news that we've all been lied to about the habits of lemmings and Amy discusses the connection between blindness and schizophrenia.

Celebrity Monkeys and Frozen Frogs

Amy presents a study about monkey viewing preferences and Katie discusses how animals survive extreme cold! References: Deaner RO, Khera AV, Platt ML. Monkeys pay per view: adaptive valuation of social images by rhesus macaques. Curr Biol. 2005 Mar 29;15(6):543-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.01.044. PMID: 15797023.

Zombie Ants and Lethal Shrimps

Katie tells us how to make an ant think it's dead, and Amy talks about shrimp with similarities to firearms.

Egg Teeth, Fairy Fingers, and Sexual Suicide

Katie reviews the ways that animals escape from their eggs and other weird adaptions for being born. Amy discusses a tiny marsupial that exchanges sleep for sex before dropping dead.