Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS) Encore with Karen Munroe
Ologies with Alie Ward

Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS) Encore with Karen Munroe

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 30, 20261 hr 40 min
  • Interview
  • Science

Flying squirrels. Fox squirrels. Giant squirrels. Tiny ones. Grey ones. Black ones. Fluorescent ones? Alie is losing her mind talking to dream guest and Sciuridologist, Dr. Karen Munroe. This Baldwin Wallace University professor has studied squirrels for decades and addresses where they sleep, how many babies they have, if they bite each other’s junk, how they find their acorns, Marvel movies, birdfeeder drama, imported squirrels, melanistic morphs, world domination, fistfights with birders, the rarest squirrel, the best place for squirrel tourism and more. You’ll scatter hoard so many nuggets of squirrel trivia. Enjoy. Follow Dr. Karen...

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Oh, hello, up top. This is me from the future of 2026. And the three-part menopause episodes laid me out a little. So here's an encore of one of my favorites. I can't believe we've never re-eared it because it's so good. We have also added some new information that might haunt you in a good way forever. It's so good. Also stick around until the end for an update to my original

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secret. Also haunting, to me at least. Okay. Oh, hey, it's your neighbor with the smelly trash cans. What's in there? Allie Ward. I am going to make this intro as short as possible because I have squirrels in my pants. I want to start this. First things first, I wanted to interview this person for years. Somehow my emails never got returned. My dreams never materialized. And then

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one day I realized she followed me on social media. Hot dang. I DMed her with so many exclamation points. It was embarrassing. And from the first second of this interview, I'm losing my shit. And I think you will too. So she got her undergrad in cellular and molecular biology at Arizona State University. She had a master's in ecology and evolutionary biology at Purdue, and then got a

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