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Who mentioned that, scales are helpful because lizards are cold blooded, so they have to regulate their temperature by the outside factors around them. And there are a lot of kids who wanna know why. I mean, that seems maybe challenging, especially for those of us warm blooded creatures who don't need the sunlight to be able to maintain our body heat. My name is. I live in Calgary, and I'm 5 in have why our reptiles are cord blooded. And my name is Evelyn. I'm six years old and Why or lizard could predict? So that takes us all the way back to evolution, right, and some animals evolve earlier than others, lizards and reptiles evolved before we did as humans, and they were able to adapt to the environment and live in their environment be they were able to generate their own heat from the environment. They can't get warm on their own, but they can lay on a really warm rock. And that's why in a lot of cases, you can get a snake crossing the road at nighttime because it's trying to warm up. I'm Julian. I'm 5. I'm from Houston, Texas, and my question is, why do lizards can stick their tongue out to their eye and we can't. My name is Agatha. I'm a six year old and I live in California. My question is, why do lizards and snakes and other reptiles stick their tongues out very often. Them. What they eat is what makes their tongue really long. Being able to touch your eye with your tongue, sure. That's kinda cool. But being able to touch a fly that's on the branch halfway across the room. Now that's impressive, and that's what a lot of chameleons are actually able to do. Crocodiles do not stick their tongues out because crocodiles do not have the same type of tongue. They actually have more like a depressed tongue that is almost
One of you has a question about amphibians. I am in Morris. I am fifty year old, and I have question about why Donald Mander attacked the whip and wet Habitat. Stick around after this episode to learn more about salamanders. But why is supported by Progressive, home of the name your price tool. You say how much you wanna pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. It's easy to start a quote. Visitprogressive.com to get started. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates, price, and coverage match limited by state law. This is, but why? A podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm. I host the show. You send us your questions about the world around you, and it's my job and the job of my colleagues, my teammates, to search high and low for interesting people that we can interview so you can get answers. We love answering all kinds of questions, And it is so cool that technology allows us to talk to interesting people no matter where they are, right, from where we are in Vermont. But when we get a chance to go on a field trip, we get really excited. Do you like going on field trips? Recently, we went to New York City, and our first stop in the city was in Harlem, a neighborhood made famous by an artistic and cultural movement called the Harlem Renaissance. That took place a 100 years ago. This celebration and blossoming of African American art and culture had profound effects on American society.
If you look under a tree, you should see lots of little partial solar eclipses on the ground dancing around as the leaves move, and it's it can be really beautiful. Coming up, we'll learn more about the corona, the sun's atmosphere that's still visible during a total solar eclipse. But first, a message for the adults who are listening. We have support from Paramount Pictures' new movie, If, in theaters May 17th. This movie introduces audiences of all ages to Bea, a curious young girl with the ability to see everyone's imaginary friends AKA IFS, get it, imaginary friends? Bee joins forces with Cal, an adult who can also see IFS, and together they embark on a magical adventure seeking to reconnect forgotten ifs with their long ago kids. Ryan Reynolds brings comedic energy to the film alongside precocious new star, Kaylee Fleming. If you have or have ever had an imaginary friend, let If answer, what if everything you believed as a kid was real? If is in theaters May 17th. But first, a message for the adults who are listening. Support for our show comes from Oak Meadow. How is school going this year? If the answer is not great, maybe it's time to rediscover the joy of learning. Oak Meadow provides student centered homeschooling curriculum and teacher supported distance learning for k through 12. To learn how homeschooling can work for your family, visit oakmeadow.com. This is But Why? A podcast for curious kids. I'm Jane Lindholm, and today we're learning about solar eclipses, how they happen, and why people are so excited about the great American eclipse on April 8th. Scientists are especially excited about solar eclipses because it's a chance for them to observe the atmosphere of the sun, which is tough to do normally.
To the ecosystem. They will go right underneath the water and disappear from plain sight, knowing that they're right at our feet. So there are efforts, but, unfortunately, this is one invasive species that is going to be a part of the Everglades, and we are gonna continue to educate about it and, get rid of them as much as we can from the landscape. And like you mentioned, we do unfortunately have to euthanize them. We can't ship them back to where they're originally from because that, of course, starts other problems. But with new invaders, we really put a lot of effort into understanding them, and that's where the science comes in. Right? What are their behaviors? And attacking them before they become a larger problem. Right? Looking at where those, concentrated populations might be and making sure that we're getting rid of them very, very early on, not allowing them to become more of a problem into the ecosystem. What are some of the other invasive species here in the Everglades? So we have a number of plant species. Many time we actually talk about animals because they have a face. Right? But we have more plant species than we do animal species invaders. Things like Brazilian pepper, Australian pine, melaleuca, all three of those plants are within the top five of our top invaders of plants in the Everglades that we manage for. So we'll burn, we will apply herbicide to them, to be able to manage for those plants. It's also a lot of money, and it's not possible to spend the money to do that in every place where there are invasive species. That is correct. Whether it's a plant or an animal, removing invasive species is extremely costly. Costly. It is very very difficult starting from the science of understanding what we're up against.
Know the answer to Liam's question. I am 6 and 3 quarters years old, and I live in the Philippines. My question is, why isn't there snow in tropical places? Why isn't there snow in tropical places? And you've been telling us about the temperature conditions needed for snow to form, and so the snow can't form in places where it's very, very warm all the time. Right? Yeah. And it all has to do with temperature. And so but it's a misnomer, right, that you can't have snow in tropical regions. It just has to do with at what level in the atmosphere are you gonna hit the freezing temperatures. Take, for instance, areas in, you know, South America, Peru, Ecuador. They sit near the equator. Right? The equator itself, right, is generally very hot. That's what we call the tropics, But, of course, we know there's parts of the world like in Peru where the mountains themselves go up to 20,000 feet. So all of the cities that are at lower elevations, you know, near near the sea level are gonna always be too warm for snow. But as you go up the mountain where it is cold enough, where the atmosphere itself, is below freezing, and then you get ice crystal formation and snow. So but in areas, you know, that are lower down in the tropics, it's just the air column itself, even above the ground, is just way too warm for snow to form. My name is Avery, and I am 6 years old. I live in Perth, Australia. And my question is, why doesn't it snow in some places? Are there other reasons other than just temperature why it might not snow very much somewhere? So in areas that don't get snow, even if they are below freezing, it's typically because you have a lack of moisture and storms. So and that has a lot to do with where is the jet stream, which brings in our weather, in relationship to, you know, the mountains or valleys. Because of the mountains and the the the downward moving air, remember, you need upward moving air to produce rain and snow.
