# Science has Fun: From rare species to simulation in medicine
Welcome to the show co-produced by the University of Montpellier and Divergence-FM that takes you on a cruise through the laboratories of the Muse archipelago. This week, Science s'aMuse is heading to the southern hemisphere with Nicolas Loiseau to talk about animal species that are said to be ecologically rare. In the second part of the show, we take you to visit the simulation platform of the Faculty of Medicine with emergency physician Blaise Debien.
Characterized by both abundance and a restricted geographic distribution area, ecologically rare species are particularly defined by their functional originality, in other words the unique and irreplaceable role they play on the scale of their ecosystem. The yellow-headed marmoset of Brazil, the tree kangaroo of Queensland, Gunnison's grouse, the parrot Strigops habroptila, the marsupials of Madagascar or the hummingbird Lucy's Ariadne... In total, there are more than 4,600 species of land mammals and 9,287 species of birds, the disappearance of which would lead to the disappearance of many other species, particularly plants. So today, we are not offering you a safari but a visual navigation to better understand the role of these species and the importance of the issues affecting their conservation.
To guide us throughout this stopover, our guest today is Nicolas Loiseau. He is a researcher at Marbec , the laboratory of biodiversity, exploration and marine conservation at the University of Montpellier and his study is published this month in the prestigious journal Nature communications . Work carried out with the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity , the CNRS and the University of Grenoble which maps these ecologically rare species and warns of the need to better protect them to guarantee the preservation of the ecosystems in which they live.
In the engine room: the medical simulation platform
In the second part of the show, we head to the Arnaud de Villeneuve campus. We offer you a long report on the simulation platform of the faculty of medicine run by the CESU, the emergency care teaching center. There, some curious machines await us: patient robots. Used by students in training or by healthcare staff as part of continuing education, they allow you to learn or perfect technical gestures according to the principle: "Never the first time on a patient" . Blaise Debien, emergency physician and coordinator of the platform gives us a tour.
- Watch the UM Health Thursdays video on the simulation platform
- Read the article “Very patient robots”
La science s'aMuse, you've got the map, let's go!
Co-production : University of Montpellier and Divergence-fm
Animation : Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview : Aline Périault and Lucie Lecherbonnier
Report : Aline Périault and Lucie Lecherbonnier
Editing : Lucie Lecherbonnier
Technical : Adeline Flo'ch
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