Bonus: Wild Animal Dads from Terrestrials

**Lulu Miller** (0:01)
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Hey, friends, Lulu here. And with Father's Day coming up this weekend, I just wanted to drop a special little meditation on dads in the animal world. This is an episode that we are dropping for terrestrials, and I thought some of you might enjoy it because I think it expands our understanding of what fatherhood can look like. And rest assured, tomorrow is your regularly scheduled Radiolab drop, so enjoy that and enjoy this dead venture. Okay, here we go.

**Michael Feigelson** (3:32)
Wait, you're listening. Radiolab. Four kids!

**Lulu Miller** (3:42)
Radiolab.

**Eduardo Fernandez-Duque** (3:43)
From WNYC.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:46)
See?

**Lulu Miller** (3:51)
Three, two, one. Imagine.

**Michael Feigelson** (3:55)
You shrink down to the size of the Chihuahua.

**Lulu Miller** (3:58)
And your eyes grow bigger.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:00)
And bigger.

**Lulu Miller** (4:02)
Until they take up almost half your head.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:05)
And these eyes give you great night vision.

**Eduardo Fernandez-Duque** (4:08)
So when most of the forest has gone to sleep, you can come out to feast, jump, and swing, and play. An owl monkey.

**Lulu Miller** (4:24)
Now is the part where I make you sing the theme song with me.

**Michael Feigelson** (4:34)
Bestrials.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:37)
You got it.

**Eduardo Fernandez-Duque** (4:38)
Bestials.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:39)
Oh my.

**Lulu Miller** (4:40)
Terrestrials is a show where we uncover the strangeness waiting right here on Earth. I'm your host, Lulu Miller, joined as always by my song bud.

**Alan Goffinski** (4:46)
Who's who's?

**Lulu Miller** (4:46)
Alan.

**Alan Goffinski** (4:47)
Who do you think you are?

**Lulu Miller** (4:50)
Now, like snowflakes, no two families are exactly the same. There are families with one parent, families with a mom and a dad, families with two moms like mine, families with two dads, families with a non-binary parent, or a grandparent parent. Like snowflakes, the shape and beauty of a family is limitless. But with Father's Day right around the corner, we wanted to spend some time today shining light on daddies.