E501 - Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe

We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. 

Akiba works for FreakLabs.org on global conservation projects. We talked about their Boombox which Meredith uses to create experiments to map the landscape of fear in predator/prey relationships. While this may look like pranking animals with jump scares, well, there is real science being done. 

What would it look like to be smooched by a lioness? (Video)

Bird hears lion, decides to go over there (Video)

Checking the reflexes of some zebras and ot...