History of Animals, by Aristotle, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Let’s continue a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the physical characteristics of animal classes. This time, we learn about camels, chameleons, and the totally-not-made-up manticore. Science!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some |
| 0:17.5 | sleep. |
| 0:18.5 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to quite a list of new members of our |
| 0:26.1 | Patreon family. Pablo, Erica, Tricia Lee, Jenny, Physiological Cat, Mary, and Carrie, Harrison and Sabrina. Thank you all so much for supporting this podcast. By becoming |
| 0:49.1 | members of Patreon, you help us remain 100% listener supported and add free for everyone and it's very much |
| 0:58.7 | appreciated. |
| 1:01.0 | If you're interested in supporting boring books for bedtime and finding out more about the perks available to subscribers, including exclusive episodes and giveaways found nowhere else. |
| 1:13.7 | You'll find a link to Patreon in the show description. |
| 1:18.0 | You'll also find a link to buy me a coffee.com, |
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| 1:28.0 | I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. |
| 1:31.0 | Now, let's read and relax. Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. |
| 1:45.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:50.0 | Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 1:59.0 | Tonight we continue a month of listener requests from the winners of our May raffle. |
| 2:05.0 | This week, the request was something from the Greeks. |
| 2:10.0 | So let's continue our reading of History of Animals by Aristotle, first written about 2,400 years ago. |
| 2:24.6 | Let's pick up right where we left off in Book 2, Chapter 2. |
| 2:31.8 | Let's begin. |
| 2:35.0 | Chapter 2 |
| 2:38.0 | Whatever parts a man has before, a quadruped has beneath. |
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