Whale scientist Nan Hauser describes how she believes a humpback whale saved her from a shark, and what happened when the same whale came back.

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Being saved by a whale, finding an extinct frog, and how one penguin founded an entire colony. In this series, you will hear how some of these animal encounters have changed people’s lives forever.

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