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Smart Lobsters

The lobsters people eat, it seems, may be the stupid lobsters (or at least the unlucky ones). Scientists observing a lobster trap set in the Atlantic off Portsmouth, New Hampshire were surprised to learn that the vast majority of lobsters that enter the trap were easily able to escape. Robert Siegel talks with University of New Hampshire Zoology Professor Win Watson. (4:00)

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Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.