At least, it's contagious among a group of captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary. How do researchers know? A very dedicated grad student at Kyoto University. In the quest for scientific knowledge, Ena Onishi logged over 600 hours in the field! This episode, host Regina G. Barber and special guests Jonathan Lambert and Ari Shapiro get into the nitty gritty of the research and their hypotheses for why this is happening in this episode.Read Jonathan's full reporting about contagious peeing in chimps.Delighted by other scientific discoveries you think we should share with the whole class (the rest of our audience)? Let us know by emailing [email protected]!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Hey, short wavers. Regina Barber here with science correspondent Jonathan Lambert. Welcome to the News Roundup.
Thank you. Excited to be here on my first News Roundup with y'all.
We are totally excited to have you. And we're also excited to have a News Roundup favorite, Ari Shapiro, one of the hosts of All Things Considered. Welcome back.
I only came because I heard you were going to be here, John.
Okay, so we're going to do what we usually do. We're going to go over three science stories in the news. The first one being what, John?
Contagious peeing in chimps. Need I say any more? No, please don't.
And not only do we have peeing chimps, but we're also going to get chirping chorus waves from space.
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