Would you leave your family, friends, home, and job to move over a thousand miles away to take care of a pet squirrel? Meet two people who did just that for 8 year-old Thumbelina.
Then, meet a birdkeeper at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who was chosen by an endangered crane to be her life partner for almost 20 years.
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GUESTS:
- Christina and Michael Reyes: The human parents of , an eight-year-old squirrel who has more than two million followers on social media
- Chris Crowe: Birdkeeper at the ’s campus in Front Royal, Virginia, and caretaker of Walnut, an endangered white-naped crane from 2004 until her death in January 2024
Roshan Patel
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Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Jessica Severin de Martinez, Meg Fitzgerald, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, and Meg Dalton contributed to this show.
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