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Scarier than lions: how fear of ‘super predator’ humans is shaping the animal kingdom

Scarier than lions: how fear of ‘super predator’ humans is shaping the animal kingdom

FromScience Weekly


Scarier than lions: how fear of ‘super predator’ humans is shaping the animal kingdom

FromScience Weekly

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Oct 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Ian Sample meets the conservation biologist Liana Zanette, whose recently published research demonstrates that humans are now the super predator, inciting more fear in wild animals than even lions. She explains the ramifications of this knowledge for conservation techniques and the protection of endangered animals. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
Released:
Oct 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Science Weekly podcast will now explore some of the crucial scientific questions about Covid-19. Led by its usual hosts  Ian Sample,  Hannah Devlin and  Nicola Davis, as well as the Guardian's health editor Sarah Boseley, we’ll be taking questions – some sent by you – to experts on the frontline of the global outbreak. Send us your questions here:  theguardian.com/covid19questions