Nature is endlessly strange if you look closely enough. Elephants are genuinely cautious of bees but probably not of mice. Seashells are not found objects; they are structures animals built molecule by molecule over a lifetime. Coconuts carry the history of the flower they came from written into their shell.
Smile with Daniel is a nature podcast for curious kids and families, exploring the living world through questions that start with something you can hold in your hand or see on a walk. What is a seashell actually made of? Why do dogs kick after they go to the bathroom? Why do sloths move so slowly, and why does that slowness turn out to be a remarkably effective survival strategy?
The natural world rewards curiosity more than almost any other subject. The closer you look, the stranger and more elegant it becomes.
Here you’ll find every Smile with Daniel episode about nature and the living world, from animal behavior to plant biology, always starting with something you might have walked past a hundred times without wondering about.
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