Zoology: Stories about wild animals
b'This week, we present two stories of encounters with wild animals, from a seal named Crystal in Antarctica to a flatulent rhino in South Africa. Part 1:\\xa0Science writer Ed Yong is confronted by a flatulent rhino while on safari. Part 2:\\xa0In Antarctica, scientist Gifford Wong attempts to save a seal that has gone into \\u201cdive mode.\\u201d Episode transcript at\\xa0http://www.storycollider.org/2017/8/11/zoology-stories-about-wild-animals _______________________________ Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic, and is based in Washington DC.\\xa0His work\\xa0appears several times a week on The Atlantic\'s website, and has also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and many more. He has won a variety of awards, including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award\\xa0for biomedical reporting in 2016, the Byron H. Waksman Award\\xa0for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2016, and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award\\xa0in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. He regularly does talks\\xa0and radio interviews; his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people.\\xa0I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, his first book, looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. Published in 2016, it became a New York Times bestseller, and was listed in best-of-2016 lists by the NYT, NPR, the Economist, the Guardian, and several others. Bill Gates called it "science journalism at its finest", and Jeopardy! turned it into a clue. \\xa0 Gifford Wong is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow working at the Department of State. He previously served in the Senate as the American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College, his Honours in Antarctic Studies from the University of Tasmania at Hobart, and his Bachelor\\u2019s degree in Asian American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He has done fieldwork in Greenland and Antarctica, co-developed and co-instructed a graduate-level science communication course at Dartmouth, and thinks penguins and unicorns are cool. Every now and again he is on Twitter as @giffordwong.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'