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What IS an island? How do birds and plants and mammals GET there? What happens when they stay? Dr. Andy Kraemer studies how life populates and survives on hunks of remote rock and chats all about the Galapagos Islands -- where he does his research.

© Alie Ward Length 25 min 26 June 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

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© Alie Ward Length 25 min 26 June 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

This is an episodic podcast, so you can listen to it in any order, but episode one is a great place to start.

Listen to episode one here

What IS an island? How do birds and plants and mammals GET there? What happens when they stay? Dr. Andy Kraemer studies how life populates and survives on hunks of remote rock and chats all about the Galapagos Islands -- where he does his research. We address the smallest island in the world, the largest, some bananas biological adaptations, Darwin's finchy mistakes, shrinking skeletons, and of course, pirates.

Donations went to islandconservation.org and ecologyproject.org

Full-length (*not* G-rated) Island Ecology episode + tons of science links

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Sound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media, and Steven Ray Morris

Made possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Jacob Chaffee, Kelly R. Dwyer, Aveline Malek and Erin Talbert

Smologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

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© Alie Ward | 25 min

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