
January 5, 2023
Season 38 Episode 15 | 15m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
This all-animal episode features stories about gorilla education, a robotic owl and more!
To kick off the new year, this special all-animal episode of News Quiz features stories about gorilla education, medical innovations helping penguins, spiders and REM sleep, wildlife bridges in Brazil, a robotic owl, equine clones, secrets of tiger sharks, monarch migration and more!
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January 5, 2023
Season 38 Episode 15 | 15m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
To kick off the new year, this special all-animal episode of News Quiz features stories about gorilla education, medical innovations helping penguins, spiders and REM sleep, wildlife bridges in Brazil, a robotic owl, equine clones, secrets of tiger sharks, monarch migration and more!
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Welcome to 2023!
off right with an entire show answers to some of our Opinion LOTS of you are in favor of an the new year going with an Question.
Some animals conserve doing what?
There's a specific lack of activity - when animals deep sleep.
Their heart rates forage for food.
Can you think Some animals conserve energy what?
We'll wake you up with that begin our news today on the Democratic Republic of the country in Central Africa other countries including Angola.
Kinshasa is the capital native species in the Congo.
far from rural communities.
the Gorilla Ambassadors is children about this endangered Ambassadors hope to reach future leaders who will help that lives around their complain that gorillas damage nothing to eat.
The provide answers for the those food sources without Back in the United States, Zoo in California came up with foot problems.
Lucas is a and he has a condition called spots on his feet.
Bumblefoot can cause serious wanted to help Lucas.
They called Thera-Paw which creates special needs.
Thera-Paw orthopedic shoes for Lucas that forming when the penguin stands to keep an eye on Lucas, and if penguins with bumblefoot may Let's waddle comfortably into Questions 1 and 2 are about the Questions 3 and 4 are about the Has anyone ever told you that Well scientists think jumping cycles to humans!
Jumping who pounce on their prey.
hunting.
That could play a part In humans, REM - or rapid eye when parts of the brain light we're asleep.
It's linked to witnessed similar phases in the may be more noticeable in because they have unusually Now let's head south to Brazil, designed to keep monkeys safe.
in South America and sits on It borders the Atlantic Ocean north and Bolivia to the west.
But in Rio de Janeiro you'll lion tamarins are an endangered this area.
Roadways were built led to serious danger for the was formed to find ideas that and they came up with that would give the tamarins of the road to the other.
the monkeys are using the been caught on camera other.
In the Great Lakes area of the robotic owl to learn more about populations.
The number of species, had dropped in area protected them until their the number of piping plovers - near the water - started plovers.
Now the merlins have farther inland, away from the Scientists hope the merlins can protect the other birds.
goes to work.
The researchers into a net where they are then transmitter.
This way the birds Scientists say it's a delicate the owl will benefit both Keep track of your numbers as today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Cross a monkey bridge for And Question 7 is for the Back to animal news...
The San unique creature running with Przewalski's Horse is a clone, Cloning is a technique genetic copies of living and even whole animals can be into being.
The zoo has that roams freely in their Horses were extinct in the around the world.
With the help hope there will be more Several wild herds of the reintroduced into their native Marine biologists are trying to in the Maldives.
We've talked it's an archipelago located Tiger sharks are regular the Maldives.
It’s home to one the world.
The sharks normally in these waters come close research.
The marine biologists everyday life of tiger sharks.
than 200 of the creatures to behaviors.
And in Australia, a wildlife endangered creatures to a new mixture of a mouse and a rabbit bandicoots.
The marsupials who normally come Marsupials are known for having young.
Australia's Queensland joined with The Bilby Fund to wildlife reserve in the transferring them they hope to help bilbies survive.
And now here's the final part 'duplicate' for Question 8.
The Maldives is the location And head Down Under for Now it’s time for a little at some beautifully winged report takes a look at their Orange and black monarch American homes in Canada and 25 HUNDRED miles to Mexico.
two thousand five hundred massive amounts of the they are wintering in Mexico, critically endangered species.
taking away their breeding space for them.
On top of that, a drought that keeps milkweed the monarch caterpillars eat.
Mexico these monarchs will make along with their offspring and make the longer trek northward Did our Challenge Question didn't HIBERNATE during the HIBERNATE or HIBERNATION is the question.
That's what some to conserve energy.
Now Zippy those hibernating creatures.
that traveled from India to for about three weeks before Now he's being cared for by a And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is...
The Democratic Republic of the map.
The answer to question 2 is... Also A.
The GORILLA AMBASSADORS mountain gorillas.
The answer to question 3 is ... C. BUMBLEFOOT is Lucas's foot The answer to question 4 is... B. THERA-PAW is the group that The answer to question 5 is...
The REM sleep phase has been humans.
The answer to question 6 is... B. Brazil is located at B on The answer to question 7 is... C. A robotic OWL is being used birds in the Great Lakes area.
The answer to question 8 is... B. Kurt the horse is a CLONE.
The answer to question 9 is... C. TIGER SHARKS are being And the answer to question 10 A. BILBIES are endangered Australia.
And as we leave today... London, England.
These Sumatran London Zoo.
The cubs have all identify them as they grow.
>> All the details of their recorded into a global breeding over the world.
So that wraps outta here.
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