{"id":4610,"date":"2016-01-12T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4610"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:37:52","slug":"join-us-at-the-museum-for-an-evening-of-tiny-giants-and-singing-mice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/join-us-at-the-museum-for-an-evening-of-tiny-giants-and-singing-mice\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us at the Museum for an evening of \u201cTiny Giants\u201d and singing mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh\u00a0\u2014 The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/tiny-giants-and-singing-mice\/\">an evening of extreme proportions<\/a><\/strong> featuring a special screening of \u201c<strong>Tiny Giants 3D<\/strong>\u201d in the Museum\u2019s WRAL-3D Theater on Thursday, January 21, 7:30 p.m. \u201cTiny Giants\u201d won Best Immersive film at the 2015 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. This extended, 40-minute version includes 20-minutes of additional footage.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the viewing, Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell of UNC-Greensboro will talk about the importance and complexity of ultrasound calling by North American deer mice, which can\u2019t be seen or heard without remote sensing technology. Her lecture,\u00a0\u201c<strong>Singing in the Rain: Songs of California Mice,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0begins at 6:30 p.m. The movie screening follows at 7:30 p.m., then Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p>Kalcounis-Rueppell teaches courses in animal behavior and vertebrate zoology at UNC-G and has a research program centered on the ecology and behavior of North American forest-dwelling bats and mice. She received her undergraduate and MS degrees at the University of Regina, her PhD at the University of Western Ontario, and post-doctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Space is limited for this event. Tickets are $5 for the General Public, Free for members.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/3947.blackbaudhosting.com\/3947\/Tiny-Giants-Special-Screening\">Tickets are available\u00a0online<\/a>\u00a0or at the Museum Box Office. Complimentary popcorn and soda will be provided. For more information, contact Andrea Jones at 919.707.9839 or via email at <a href=\"mailto:andrea.jones@naturalsciences.org\">andrea.jones@naturalsciences.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film and presentation are held in conjunction with the Museum\u2019s current traveling exhibit, \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/exhibits\/featured-exhibitions\/current-exhibition\">Extreme Mammals<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d which highlights the biggest, smallest and most amazing mammals of all time. The exhibition runs through March 27, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4611,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}