Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. remains committed to science learning and accessibility. I am therefore refurbishing many of my SciWorks Radio Podcast episodes and making them available for anyone (students, teachers, science enthusiasts) to listen to and/or read. These educational science podcasts were created between 2014 and 2017 when I worked at SciWorks, now called Kaleideum. Located in Winston-Salem, NC, Kaleideum is an interactive museum of arts, sciences, and exploration formed by the merger of The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks in July 2016. The two museums merged into a single organization to reimagine learning and better meet the needs of our diverse community by providing more access to informal science discovery and cultural experiences.

Blue-Footed Boobies’ Struggle To Survive in the Galapagos

October 29, 2021 by Shawn Fitzmaurice

Shawn Fitzmaurice

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Winner of the National Science Foundations’s Science 360 Best Science Podcast Award, 2014.

The Galapagos islands are famous for their association with Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection.

But the islands also have species who live there, but did not evolve there; Blue-Footed Boobies for example. Interestingly, they might be relying on more deep-seated and complex survival strategies.

The driving goal of life is to reproduce. But that doesn’t work if you don’t survive. Over billions of years, life has adapted so many weird and wonderful strategies to cope with hard times, and Doctor David Anderson, professor of Biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem believes the Boobies kind of waiting for financial stabilitie before having children… Sort of…

First aired August 8, 2014

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Blue-Footed Boobies’ Struggle To Survive in the Galapagos

Shawn Fitzmaurice

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