1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: here's Kel. Two new species of electrified eels were identified 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: in South America recently, one of which has the most 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: potent electrical charge of the two d and fifty known 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: electrified fishes in that part of the world, and of 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: any known to science. These eels, which are actually a 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: type of knife fish, can grow to eight feet in length. 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: Hopefully you can see them coming. Beyond the simple fact 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: of how cool these fish sound, I'm amazed and excited 11 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: that we're still finding new creatures, especially ones this big. 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: Makes you wonder what else is out there, and in 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: a way gives you some assurance that there is plenty 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,639 Speaker 1: of adventure to be had in the world. Now this 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: part may shock you. Electric eels in the Amazonian ason 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: have captivated Western scientists for hundreds of years. In fact, 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: electric eels inspired a fellow by the name of Alissandro Volta, 18 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: an Italian physicist, to design the first battery way back 19 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: in s and this supercharged eel now bears his name 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: Electro for us Voltai. But the eel puts old Alissandro 21 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: to shame by producing an astonishing eight hundred and sixty volts, which, 22 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,559 Speaker 1: according to the New Jersey Electrical Contractors Association, is plenty 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: to kill an adult man. In fact, this eel producing 24 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: eight hundred and sixty volts is producing more than eleven 25 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: times the voltage needed to kill an adult man. But 26 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: don't worry. Although e voltai packs more than three times 27 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: the voltage of a typical wall socket, it likely won't 28 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: kill you. Depending on the conductivity of the contact surface, 29 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: of course, and the fact that this eel is only 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: producing one amp, which is low flow so to speak, 31 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: that wall socket will be in the tended why amp range. 32 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: Alissandro Volta the physicist, not the eel or knife fish. 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: His first batteries weren't even strong enough to produce a spark. 34 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: Considering these Amazonian eels were first described two and fifty 35 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: years ago, maybe Alessandro should have found a stronger eel. 36 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Of course, batteries have come a long way since then. 37 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: Just ask the folks over at Steel Power Equipment who 38 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: happened to power this podcast. They're using batteries to power 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: professional chainsaws, even saws like a normal guy like me 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: uses steel one forty is my personal chainsaw choice for 41 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: the back of the truck or the side of a mule. 42 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: This week, we've got carnivores, the Bahamas, Dorian's Aftermath, the 43 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: strange sexual ways of honey bees, and so much more. 44 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: But first, I'm gonna tell you about my week. I 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time thinking and talking about elk 46 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: this past week, looking at photos of bulls on friends 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: phones and answering calls with you get your elk. Yet 48 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: it's that time of year. The elk rat has begun 49 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: here in Montana and everywhere else. Elker found the magical 50 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: musical on sexual time when elk compete for, you know, sex, 51 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: or if you want things in purely biological terms, compete 52 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: for the opportunity to spread their d NA. Currently, over 53 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: a million elk reside in the US. We should talk 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: about this as the places where elk can be found 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: have changed a lot in North America. In fact, many 56 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: of the places I currently hunt or have hunted elk 57 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: were completely void of elk only a short time ago. 58 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: Prior to European settlement and estimated ten million elk roamed 59 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: much of the continental US, as well as a large 60 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: part of Canada from coast to coast. European encroachment literally 61 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: eight up elk without game management agencies, unregulated hunting for 62 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: meat and hides, and habitat destruction reduced the total population 63 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: to an estimated fifty thou animals and completely extirpated them 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: from much of their native change. What the market, hunters, settlers, 65 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: and native people's couldn't kill and eat were pushed into 66 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: new and seldom traveled terrain. Elk scattered to pockets of 67 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: sanctuary high in the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, especially 68 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: thick timbered, steep slopes areas where feed was scarce but 69 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: people were two. These holdouts were eventually used to re 70 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: establish populations, starting here in the West and then moving 71 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: into the Midwest and even stay It's like Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, 72 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania. In n fifty, elk were delivered to Pennsylvania 73 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: by train from the Wyoming side of Yellowstone Park for 74 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: your only thirty bucks ahead. Interestingly, over a hundred years later, 75 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: a resident of Wyoming pays fifty seven dollars for an 76 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: elk tag. If you aren't familiar with elk hunting, a 77 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: tag dang sher doesn't guarantee an elk. So the thirty 78 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: dollars for a whole live elk sounds like the steel 79 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: of a century if I stop and think about it. 80 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: I've hunted Wyoming elk in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and New Mexico, 81 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: but never actually in Wyoming. Kind of head scratcher, I'll admit. 82 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: If you don't know what I mean, take a look 83 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: at a map and look at where I'm at in Bozeman, Montana. 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: Now that I've bored you with that, I'll get back 85 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: to the sex. The rut can mean different things to 86 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: different people, but it only means one thing to elk. 87 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: The rut is the time elk compete to spread their 88 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: genes through sexual reproduction. Elk compete with each other and 89 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: entice each other through a huge range of vocalizations, most 90 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: commonly broken down into the human terms of bugles from 91 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: bowls and muse from cows and calves. Take it from me, 92 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: there is a wide range of vocalizations in the language 93 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: of elk love, and now is the time to go listen. 94 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: I encourage you, whether you are hunting or not, to 95 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: go to the refuge, state park, monument, or national park 96 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: nearest you with an elk population and listen to some 97 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: of the coolest animals in the woods. You will hear 98 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: an elk bugle with more than just your ears. You'll 99 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: hear it with your whole body. Experience what active conservation 100 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: cooperation and management from state and federal agencies as well 101 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: as conservation groups have done to partially restore this iconic 102 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: and tasty animal to the landscape. Moving on US fish 103 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: and wildlife. Just to prove the import of a horn, hide, 104 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: and skull from an African black rhino, there have been 105 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: five rhinos imported into the US after nearly a three 106 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: decade long hiatus, three under the Obama administration and soon 107 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: to be three under the Trump administration. The rhinoceros to 108 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: which the parts belonged was legally killed by US hunter 109 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: from Michigan. Black rhinos are considered critically endangered, with just 110 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: over fifty hundred remaining in the wild. Namibia houses more 111 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: than half the population and currently allows five animals to 112 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: be hunted each year. The Michigan hunter importing the parts 113 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: drew heavy criticism for killing the twenty nine year old 114 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: male rhino. For example, the Humane Society of the United 115 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: States was no fan of this hunt, which is no 116 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: surprise since hunting any species at any time draws criticisms 117 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: from the H s U. S. But I'll admit hunting 118 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: a critically endangered species sounds wrong to just about everyone 119 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: at first glance. According to the Endangered Species Act, it 120 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: is illegal to import any trophies of an endangered species 121 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: unless doing so would help the survival of the species. 122 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: Disappears to suggest that importing the michigander's trophy rhino parts 123 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: has been determined to help the survival of black rhinos. 124 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: But how could killing one of only a relative few 125 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: critically endangered animals help the survival of said animals seems counterintuitive. 126 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: We need context. The rhino in question was hunted and 127 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: killed on the Mangetti National Wildlife Park, where he was 128 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: seen by wildlife officials as a threat to the rhino 129 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: population's ability to grow. Apparently, the twenty nine year old 130 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: bowl was successful in running off other breeding age bowls 131 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: while not quite being able to get the job of 132 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: mating done himself. For that reason, the old rhino bowl 133 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: was specifically selected to be taken out, killed, lethally removed 134 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: from the population. The hunter paid a whopping four hundred 135 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to pull the trigger. That four hundred thousand 136 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: dollars now supposedly supports ongoing efforts to protect and restore 137 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: black rhino populations. The meat of the rhino was apparently 138 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: distributed to people living around the park. You may have 139 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,239 Speaker 1: noticed a few seeds of doubts sprinkled in those last 140 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: couple of sentences. I have supreme faith in wildlife agencies myself, 141 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: but doubt almost always creeps into the conversations when talking 142 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: hunting and conservation in Africa. Is the four hundred thousand 143 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: dollars actually doing good for wildlife? Did the meat really 144 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: get eaten? Is the hunter hunter? Or did he pay 145 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: to kill? Is this conservation? I don't have the answers 146 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: to all that, but I do know that poaching, not hunting, 147 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: has been the largest driver of black rhino decline. Poaching 148 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: is not hunting. We can debate the reasons people hunt, 149 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: but poach for monetary gain, in this case, to satisfy 150 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: the demand for rhino horn. Rhino horn is sold as 151 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: a medicinal cure for hangovers and lazy libidos, not to 152 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: mention being just a status symbol in some cultures for 153 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: the ultra wealthy. I don't know about you, but no 154 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: matter how hard my mornings get after long nights, I 155 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: haven't come close to grinding up a critically endangered species 156 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: to shed a temporary headache. Of course, I won't be 157 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,359 Speaker 1: paying four thousand dollars for hunts either. I'm not defending 158 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: or condemning African trophy hunting here, but I feel it's 159 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: important to draw clear distinctions between poaching and hunting and 160 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: point blame for species decline where it actually belongs. Where 161 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: you believe in paying huge dollars for rare animals or not. 162 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: It's hard to ignore the fact that in this area 163 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: of Namibia at least, the black rhino population is rising 164 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: and poaching is declining, either despite or because of their 165 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: regulated hunts. Now, keeping with theme here at the Weekend Review, 166 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: old poop DNA from the parasite talx of Scars Leonina 167 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: was recently discovered in the desiccated feces of a puma 168 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: in South America. This DNA evidence suggests that the species 169 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: of roundworm, still common in the guts of modern dogs, cats, 170 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: and foxes, has been around for nearly seventeen thousand years. 171 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: Prior to this discovery. Folks thought that wild carnivores contracted T. 172 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: Leonina from domestic cats and dogs, but this shows that 173 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: the parasites were in that part of South America before humans, 174 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: so wild cats and dogs were carrying them around long 175 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: before the process of domestication even started. One family of 176 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: animals that have never been successfully domesticated ours today or bears. Unfortunately, 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: too many bears have been conditioned to turn to people 178 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: or our refuse for food. The old saying a fed 179 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: bear is a dead bear once again came true here 180 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: In Montana, State wildlife officials had to euthanize a three 181 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 1: hundred pound male grizzly last week after he became conditioned 182 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: to humans, likely because campers were careless with their food 183 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: and trash. Lewis and Clark National Forest District Ranger Mike 184 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: new Knows says the bear approached within twenty feet of people. 185 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: Though the bear hadn't acted with any aggression, his continued 186 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: pursuit of easy meals near campsites supposed a potential problem 187 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 1: that rangers just couldn't ignore. So even though the bear 188 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: hadn't done anything wrong, he had to be put down 189 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: because people were acting out of either ignorance or carelessness. 190 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: Just something to think about when you head out there 191 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: into bear country. I mean, how many of these stories 192 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: do you folks need to hear? Quit feeding the animals 193 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: here at meat here we think a lot about what 194 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: we eat. So I was surprised to learn that up 195 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: until recently, evolutionary biologists hadn't really looked at the evolution 196 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: of diet across the animal kingdom. When a group of 197 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: researchers at the University of Arizona finally did so, their 198 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: findings proved surprising, at least to some spoiler alert carnivores 199 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: are king. But before you start getting all high and mighty, 200 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: recognize that you are not a carnivore. No matter how 201 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: much flood she choose to consume, You're still an omnivore, 202 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: which puts you in the smallest minority. From an evolutionary 203 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: diet perspective. The recent findings published in the Journal of 204 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: Evolutionary Letters suggest that carnivory is the most common diet 205 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: among all animals living and extinct at sixty her bivy 206 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: like eating plants, comes in at thirty two percent, and omnivory, 207 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: which is eating plants and meat accounts for just three percent. 208 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: Before you start taping furiously about my mathematical failure. The 209 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: remaining two percent were considered ambiguous taxa, meaning the researchers 210 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: aren't sure where they fit. I've got a few friends 211 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 1: like that. The study also suggests that many of the 212 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: carnivorous species living today share a common ancestor that dates 213 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: back eight hundred million years, a single celled organism that 214 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: filter fed on bacteria. Her Bivory, on the other hand, 215 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: seems to be a much more recent evolutionary development, and 216 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: omnivory is downright freakish. While it may seemed like animals 217 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: with indiscriminate diets would have a leg up on the competition, 218 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: it doesn't actually work that way. And if you think 219 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: about that one buddy we all have who will eat 220 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: absolutely anything, no matter how long it's been sitting out 221 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: on the coffee table or hidding back the fridge, that 222 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: makes sense. Moving on to our pollinator desk. I'm not 223 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 1: trying to get to zoomorphic around here. That would be 224 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: the opposite of anthropomorphic or assigning animalistic qualities to humans. 225 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: But speaking of that one buddy, he or she may 226 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: make other questionable life choices beyond the dietary. I'm specifically 227 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: thinking about behaviors around sexual partners and the finding, attracting, 228 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: and maintaining of said partners. I don't know about you, 229 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: but I have a number of friends with spotty histories 230 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: in that department, and it appears that male honey bees 231 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: do too. New research shows that male honey bees inject 232 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: their partners with toxins that cause temporary blindness. And no, 233 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:04,359 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about tequila. The researchers hypothesized that temporarily 234 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: blinding the female bee prevents her from flying away and 235 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: mating with other male bees. While this may sound like 236 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: the female bee gets the short end of the stick 237 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: in this whole deal, keep in mind that hill go 238 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: on to live for many years and start a whole 239 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: colony of her own, while the male will be dead 240 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: in a matter of minutes or hours despite his best efforts. 241 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: She'll likely fight through the temporary blindness and go on 242 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: to mate with a dozen or more other bees. So 243 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: I'd say she comes out ahead here. I know, our 244 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: Florida desk must seem like it's the size of a 245 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: Vegas buffet table, considering how much coverage we give the state. 246 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: Some of you may remember that I was over there 247 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: earlier this summer filming an episode of the Meat Eater 248 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: fishing show Doss Boat with my buddy Ed Anderson. If 249 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: you follow this show and you watch that episode, you 250 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: know Florida is dealing with some water management issues that 251 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: have resulted in nasty stuff like a naturally large red tides, 252 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: seagrass and oyster bed die offs, fish kills, and huge 253 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: toxic algae blooms. The reasons behind all of this are 254 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: complicated and generally misunderstood. I don't have time to break 255 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: it all down for you, but if you've been wondering 256 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: exactly what the deal is with Florida water, we just 257 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: published a fantastic article over at the meat eater dot 258 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: com titled Florida's water crisis is new leadership finally turning 259 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: the tide. It's a comprehensive breakdown that would give you 260 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: all the info you need to know about what's going 261 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: on with Florida's fisheries and what's being done about jumping 262 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: slightly east of Florida, let's take a minute to talk 263 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: about the Bahamas. At this point, I assume that all 264 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: of you are aware that a Hurricane Dorian decimated the 265 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: Northern Bahamas, Abaco and Grand Bahama in particular. But I'm 266 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: not sure if we're all really apprehending the totality of 267 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: this storm. The New York Times reported in this part 268 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: of the Bahamas, nearly everything is gone. Hurricane Dorian didn't 269 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: just upend life, Dorian crushed it. There are no public 270 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: utilities and no reliable sources of food or drinking water, 271 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: and there's no sense when those needs might be restored. 272 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: Our buddy, Chris Dombrowski, has spent a lot of time 273 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: in the Bahamas and even wrote a book about the 274 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: history and culture of sport fishing there. He told me 275 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: on the phone, it's all your worst nightmare. The need 276 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: to get people off the islands is imminent. Chris has 277 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: managed to fly some of his close people to Florida. 278 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: At this point, bahama Anians aren't even thinking about rebuilding. 279 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: They're just trying to get away. It takes an extreme 280 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: situation to make people leave their homelands with nothing but 281 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: the clothes on their backs. When most of us think 282 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: of the Bahamas, we picture Christine, sand flats crawling with 283 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: bone fish, sweaty kaalic beer, bottles and conq fritters and salad. 284 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: Whether you fish there, are just always dreamed of fishing there. 285 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: This whole massive hurricane thing might seem like kind of 286 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: a bummer, but let's all just take a breath and 287 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: realize that the devastation this storm unleashed on the residents 288 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: of those islands is far bigger than that fishing vacation 289 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: you were really hoping to take. One day, a fishing 290 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: buddy of the Meat Eater Crew, guy by the name 291 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: of Josh Mills, came up with the hell of a 292 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: good idea. Josh has never been in the Bahamas, and 293 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: he's not what you'd call wealthy. He thought to himself, Man, 294 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: I don't have enough money to really make an impact 295 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: on this problem, but I do want to do something. 296 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: So he sat down in his fly tying vice, spun 297 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: up a dozen steel head flies and decided to auction 298 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: them off over Instagram to the highest bidder and donate 299 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: whatever he made. Then he realized that there's this whole 300 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: big community of fishing folks out there, and if he 301 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: could get them working together, he might be able to 302 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: do something meaningful. So he did what the kids do 303 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: these days. He started a hashtag and put the word 304 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: out there into the social media land. As of this writing, 305 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: hashtag dozen for Dorian has over thirty different fly tires 306 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: donating collections of their work. We even got in on 307 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: it here at the met Eatter and tied up a 308 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: Baker's dozen flies, jigs and lures that we auctioned off. 309 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: This is such a great example of the outdoor community 310 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: rallying together to help folks in need that it makes 311 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: me feel just a tiny bit better about the world. 312 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: Hunters anglers are a generous bunch, and we rally around 313 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: our own. I invite all of you to dig a 314 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: few bucks out of your beer fund and send them 315 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: to people in need. You can bid on some flies 316 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: on Instagram, or just go ahead and make a donation 317 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: to relief organization. The other day I talked to Jim Kluge, 318 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: who's helping coordinate one of those organizations. The Double Hall 319 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 1: for Dorian Relief Coalition, is partnering with the Bahama Manians 320 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: who work in the fishing industry to get relief supplies 321 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,479 Speaker 1: directly to their communities. As of September tenth, they've managed 322 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: to get three plane loads of supplies into Abaco and 323 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: Grand Bahama. But as Jim told me, this is not 324 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 1: a problem that's going to be cleaned up by the 325 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 1: time it's falling out of the news cycle next week. 326 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: We're working on a long term effort to help people 327 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: survive and rebuild their lives. So donate if you can, 328 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: but also don't give up on your dream of fishing 329 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: these islands. They will rebuild and they're definitely going to 330 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: need those tourist dollars in the years to come. And 331 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 1: don't worry about the bone fish either. They just moved 332 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: deeper water and they'll be back up on sand flats 333 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: as soon as the crabs are. 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