A couple of years in the past, 10-year-old Man used to be riding alongside the Australian coast when he noticed whales, spouting water up into the air. He used to be amazed. “Then my brother farted, and then I wondered if whales fart,” says Man.
Man joined our host Eloise to position his query to Vanessa Pirotta, a natural world scientist at Macquarie College in Australia in this week’s episode of The Dialog’s Curious Youngsters podcast.
In each and every episode of The Dialog’s Curious Youngsters, a curious child joins host Eloise to invite a most sensible researcher their burning query. This episode is a follow-on from the episode “Do whales sneeze?” in our first season.
To hear season two, keep on with us anywhere you get your podcasts, or pay attention at the Yoto Participant by way of the Uncover phase at the Yoto interactive audio platform for children.
You’ll be able to additionally pay attention again to season one and browse quite a lot of solutions to questions despatched in via kids all over the world in our Curious Youngsters collection.
This season of The Dialog’s Curious Youngsters is supported via the College of Southampton in the United Kingdom, a world-leading research-intensive college with an international community of world scholars and campuses in Malaysia and Delhi.
Disclosure commentary
Vanessa Pirotta does now not paintings for, seek the advice of, personal stocks in or obtain investment from any corporate or organisation that will take pleasure in this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.
Credit
This episode of The Dialog’s Curious Youngsters used to be hosted and combined via Eloise Stevens. The manufacturer used to be Katie Flood and the chief manufacturer used to be Gemma Ware. Audio clips from Discovering Nemo, and seal domestic dog sounds from schaarsen and whale noise from kaekhor by way of Freesound.