30 Animals That Made Us Smarter By Patrick Aryee
- Narrated by: Patrick Aryee
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-13-22
30 Animals That Made Us Smarter By Patrick Aryee AudioBook Summary
Season one of the hugely successful BBC radio series about the natural world and the awesome ways it has inspired us.
Over billions of years, animals have evolved and adapted, learning through trial and error the best strategies for surviving and thriving. So who better to help us humans when it comes to solving our own challenges? In this fascinating series, biologist and wildlife filmmaker Patrick Aryee tells the incredible stories of some remarkable animals and the surprising ways they have enabled us to make technological and scientific breakthroughs.
From the kingfisher whose beak led to a redesign of the bullet train, to the spider’s web that may help us detect the earth’s vibrations and turn them into electricity, the animals in these 30 episodes all have extraordinary abilities that could revolutionise our world. There’s the bloodsucking mosquito whose mouthparts might hold the key to a future of painless injections; the woodpecker whose hard head has given us ideas for better bicycle helmets and black box recorders; the shark whose scaly skin could show us how to fight superbugs, the tenacious mussel that could make risky foetal surgery safer and save lives – and many more.
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