Saving Real-life Furbys
Series: October 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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Remember Furbys? Those toy robots with big eyes and ears? Well they're back, but this version doesn't take batteries, because it's the real-life equivalent: Indonesia's pygmy tarsier. Scientists last spotted the two-ounce primates in 1921 and after that assumed they went extinct...
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Remember Furbys? Those toy robots with big eyes and ears? Well they're back, but this version doesn't take batteries, because it's the real-life equivalent: Indonesia's pygmy tarsier. Scientists last spotted the two-ounce primates in 1921 and after that assumed they went extinct...
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