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I hear you Ok so this is right well our producer Lulu Miller was calling around trying to find some stories for head this hour let s see and she ended up on the phone with a woman named Barbara Smuts is that any better Barb Smuts is now at the University of Michigan but years ago she was a field researcher in Tanzania working with the great Jane Goodall you know following chimps at a distance and writing down everything they do that kind of thing right Ok And when she was in Tanzania she ran into an Gumby National Park particularly young male chimp name gobbler is will you tell me the story of goblin Oh sure 1st of all what does he look like well he s an adolescent male. He stood up he would come up to quite a bit above my waist and almost immediately he started picking on me in the sense that you know he would walk past me and just kind of gap me casually as he went by and sometimes he would punch me with the cyst Sometimes he would just kind of whack me with an open hand or just kin
Thinking in the next home security prison in some other week priceless strands Michael Clinton banned from the long gone 80 often vibrant West African Sunni community join me for some truly rare music off the beaten track in Malawi booking of my soul and beyond next time on a forgotten why do from p.r.i. Public Radio International. Saturday night at 11 o clock m k on Wolf in for Bruce Barber It s 9 o clock Radiolab inspect your. Door listening to Radio Lab radio from the unit w n y c. Ok ready Yeah all right let s open the show today test test test on a sunny street corner. In New Jersey where we know we are on Washington Street which is the main thoroughfare in Hoboken it s a nice day in Hoboken people are out and about after work because it s a real what are you guys Ok And we re here with a guy named John Horgan I m a science journalist he s also a teacher. John is out today with our producer in the Miller doing what he often does someone wishes to go up to someone he doesn t know
We re. Door listening to Radio Lab radio from do you need me tell you n.y.c. Say. Hey I m Jad Abumrad I am Robert Krulwich This is Radio Lab And today we begin on a plane Thank you Brooke which carried our newly married producer Tim Howard to the Galapagos so I took the plane from Quito what we had just finished a honeymoon that morning and I don t remember I m a you know for someone I don t want to hear they make announcements and a certain point the flight attendants say they open up all of the overhead bins and they walk up and down and spray some sort of. Insecticide for what for like invasive species I think yeah like whatever bugs might have snuck on the plane by this point I m getting super excited and I m thinking about Darwin and I start reading Voyage of the Beagle his book there s no quit I had bought for the trip but then my power supply didn t work and my note died was a big problem for Darren to run out of our. And then the islands come into sight. What is the color of t