Get ready to travel back in time, explorers! Today, Aimee is taking us across the massive, sweeping grasslands of Central Asia to meet an animal that lived right alongside the Woolly Mammoth... and it has the most hilarious nose you’ve ever seen!

In this episode, we’re lacing up our running shoes to keep up with the Saiga Antelope. You’ll learn:

• The World’s Funniest Nose: Discover how their big, floppy Proboscis acts as a built-in air conditioner to filter out summer dust and warm up freezing winter air.
• The Great Grassland Marathon: Learn how these Nomadic runners can sprint up to 50 miles per hour across the flat plains to find fresh water!
• Ice Age Survivors: Find out how these tough little antelopes survived the Pleistocene era when so many other giant mammals disappeared.
• The Mystery of the Massive Horns: Why the males grow incredible ridges of Keratin (the same stuff as your fingernails!) on their heads.
• Communicating Across the Steppe: How they use unique acoustic communication to talk to each other over huge distances.

Put on your explorer hats and get ready to hear the snorts and stampeding hooves of one of the world's most resilient and funny-looking survivors!

Saiga Antelopes are Critically Endangered.

If you are interested in helping Saiga Antelopes, consider supporting:

Saiga Conservation Alliance | https://saiga-conservation.org/donate/

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