Who Runs The World? Squirrels!

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Who Runs The World? Squirrels!

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Jul 22, 2021

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Squirrels are everywhere — living in our suburban neighborhoods to our city centers to our surrounding wilderness. Rhitu Chatterjee talks with researcher Charlotte Devitz about squirrels and how studying them might help us better understand the changing urban environment. You can email Short Wave at ShortWave@NPR.org.

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Jul 22, 2021

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