Animal Minds
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In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication.
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-You're listening to Radio Lab from WNYC and NPR. -So where are we? -We're in a church, in a church and that's different for us. -It's not usually where we start, we're in a church. Cathedral, really, a huge cathedral in Upper Manhattan, St. John the Divine. Got an organ. -The preacher, that's preacher. -A congregation, of course. -A couple thousand people in the pews, at least. -You're a basic Sunday service. Except today. -You've also got here it comes. -Dogs. -The reason we begin here is because today the church is filled with dogs. -Can I talk to you about your dog? -Yeah. -What's his or her name? -His name is Blizzard. -And what is he? -He's a Labrador and Poodle Mix. -Well, I have legend who I just adopted in January. I have Denzel. -Oh, by the way, you have more than dogs. You've got birds. -His name is Jesse. It's a barn owl. -And now has this guy ever been blessed before? -I don't think so. No, he was just born this year. -In Hamsters, his name is Tubby, Teddy Toes, and if he'd come out, you'd see why, because he's really fat. -And all kinds of creatures. -We've got a little girl with a falcon and behind her. Oh, it's a giant tortoise. -This is the St. Francis Day of the Animals, a yearly event. -Coming toward us? -Where people bring their animals to be blessed. -The folks that are gathered here. -There's a little girl with a hermit crab. -They don't think there's anything weird or inappropriate about this. In fact, if you ask them. -And here comes a bull. -Cures what they say. -I don't know if it means anything to her, but it means it to me, because you know you want to baptize your babies, and this is more or less the same kind of thing. -And what does it mean to you? -It just means when she finally does go away, she's going to go to heaven. -What kind of parrot is she? -Oh, pull or go? -Oh, yeah, don't put you in the inner space.
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In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication.