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Today, you\u2019ll learn about eels that burrow into the hearts of sharks and feast on their blood, parrots that love to gab on video calls, and the secret of the bowhead whale\u2019s cancer fighting superpower.\xa0

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Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/shark-eating-eels-lonely-parrots-whales-repair-dna

Shark-Eating Eels

• \u201cEels Have Been Found Living and Feeding On Blood Inside the Heart of Sharks.\u201d by Rachael Funnell. 2021.
  • https://www.iflscience.com/eels-have-been-found-living-and-feeding-on-blood-inside-the-heart-of-sharks-58317

Lonely Parrots

• \u201cParrots Taught to Video Call Each Other Become Less Lonely, Finds Research.\u201d by Hannah Devlin. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/parrots-taught-to-video-call-each-other-become-less-lonely-finds-research
• \u201cBirds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment.\u201d by Rebecca Kleinberger. 2023.
  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581166

Whales Repair DNA

• \u201cBowhead Whales May Have a Cancer-Defying Superpower: DNA Repair.\u201d by Meghan Rosen. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bowhead-whales-cancer-dna-repair

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