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Jun 2017
23m 53s

A Hermit Crab Housing Crisis And The Gre...

Tinkercast | Wondery
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What motivates hermit crabs to fight for the ultimate dream shell? How would the fastest runner in the universe fare in a running race with a rabbit? Join Mindy and Guy Raz for hermit crab wrestlemania and a race through history to find out why we humans walk differently than other animals! It's all happening in this week's who, what, when, where, w ... Show More
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