Audio Story post 5

http://www.radiolab.org/popup_player/# The Shy Baboon
In this podcast, a biopsychologist attempts to find an elusive bit of shared space across species lines.In this podcast, a biopsychologist attempts to find an elusive bit of shared space across species lines.

I decided to listen to radiolab this time, I thought a shorter story would be something that you could connect with faster, like what we are aiming to transform our audio interviews into. What happened in this story is that this scientist goe sout and becomes close to a 'clan' of wild baboons as you can see from the description. I for some reason was very surprised when the scientist started speaking and it was a woman, I'm not really sure why I assumed it would be a man, but now that I think of it it is probably better that a female approached the baboon's versus a male approaching them. When I was listening to this interview I was afraid that it would get boring (she had a boring voice) and I assumed she was going to go into (what would seem unnessecary to me) loads of detail about their face, hair, claws, teeth, etcetera but she didnt. Instead she focused more on recounting their expperience together, her and the baboons. First it was like they were enemies of course, I'm sure you could guess baboons wouldnt want some wierd lady walking around on theiir territory but she was dedicated enough to come back each day to get closer and closer until it became normal for them to be around eachother, and she even unconsiously started to mimic their actions. The most beautiful part in this story was at the end it was pouring rain and the lady was looking for somewhere to go so she duccked into some tent that was pitch black dark and after a hwile she noticed that all of the baboons were in there. It was really surprising to me, she said they didn't make any noise or anything. I wouldve expected to have a screeching baboon if I was in her shoes, but its just a good story about how humans can cross the invisibile barrier that exist between humans and wild animals.