Carolina
On the show — 8 mentions total
Carolina is an African giant pouch rat, and she screens phlegm samples for TB — much more effective than humans with microscopes. Over seven years working in this job, she's detected over 3,000 cases of TB.
from 578: No Such Thing As A Pouched Rat On The Housing Ladder, 2025-04-10 at 00:00:50 · read transcript
Other times Carolina came up
They've done that successfully, and now the fifth generation of quagga has been reborn. Then I found a list of likely candidates for de-extinction. There's the Carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, which apparently was the most common pigeon in America, and was largely just like if they saw one, they'd shoot it for a laugh. That went. The woolly mammoth, I think we've all been expecting that for a while now.
62: No Such Thing As The Ugly Panda, 2015-05-22 · listen
We all have a stack of small slips of paper in front of us and we're going to see if this works, which I think it might. Let's have a fact if anyone's got one. I'm going to open with a fact from Leander, from Switzerland. Incas, the last Carolina parakeet, died in the same cage as Martha, the last passenger pigeon. Oh, that's interesting. No further info.
No Such Thing As A Cursed Cage, 2025-03-27 · listen
More places from this episode
578: No Such Thing As A Pouched Rat On The Housing Ladder put 5 places on the map.
- Buenos Aires · Argentina
- Siena · Italy
- Metropolitan Museum of Art · United States
- Salt Lake City · United States
Coordinates: 35.5000, -80.0000