NOVA Minute: The Bottom of Things

Published: Oct. 5, 2010, 10 p.m.

b'NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, biologist Mark Siddall from the American Museum of Natural History tells us how he found a rare species of leech in the rectum of a hippo.\\n\\nProduced by David Levin. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.\\n\\nExclusive funding for "The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers" provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.'