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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: of Mini Putt. I'm your host of Many Parasites. Katie Golden.

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Speaker 1: I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on this show,

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Speaker 1: we are looking at animals that are peeled right off

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Speaker 1: of the page of a Lisa Frank notebook. These are

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Speaker 1: animals that you would not expect to be so vibrantly

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Speaker 1: rainbow colored hued, and yet they are so. We will

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Speaker 1: talk about pink dolphins, multi colored primates, even a squirrel

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Speaker 1: and a pigeon which you would not expect to be

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Speaker 1: so very Lisa Frank. Discover this in more as we

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Speaker 1: answer the age old question why is it important to

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Speaker 1: have a rainbow But joining me today is friend of

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Speaker 1: the podcast, also friend of meet Katie and all around

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Speaker 1: awesome person producer at iHeartRadio. You know her, you love her? Joe. Well, welcome, Hey.

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Speaker 2: How's it going.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to talk Lisa Frank.

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Speaker 1: Were you a big Lisa Frank fan back in the day?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so the way Lisa Frank folders, binders, trapper

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Speaker 3: keepers were a premium right like, they were not cheap.

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Speaker 3: So my mom would let me get like two Lisa

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Speaker 3: Frank things. So she was like, you gotta get these

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Speaker 3: regular ninety nine cent folders, but if you want one

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Speaker 3: Lisa Frank.

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Speaker 2: Folder and a Trapper keeper or two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of Frank folder, like, you could have two things maximum.

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Speaker 3: And I coveted them so bad. I typically went with

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Speaker 3: a dolphin or a snow leopard as they were topics

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Speaker 3: and yeah, so super cute to look at, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean adorable animals, cute psychedelic backgrounds. Very my lane

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Speaker 3: as a child, and you know, to be fair to today,

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Speaker 3: still love me alas a Frank.

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Speaker 1: They are very cool kid. I never actually bought this

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Speaker 1: stuff so much. I don't know why. I think, I

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Speaker 1: just it never occurred to me that I could do

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Speaker 1: such a thing. But I would passively stare at other

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Speaker 1: kids binders that had the least Frank designs on them.

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Speaker 1: I might have gotten like one or two things over

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Speaker 1: the years. I don't really remember, but I remember just

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Speaker 1: kind of like the making me hungry because everything looks

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Speaker 1: like it was made out of candy or something.

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Speaker 2: It was just so, it was.

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Speaker 1: So it was so they were just so glossy and

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Speaker 1: edible looking. I also just I thought I think I

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Speaker 1: found it very strange as a kid, this idea of

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Speaker 1: like mammals being brightly colored, because you know, you're used

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Speaker 1: to like maybe fish and even birds being colored, but

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Speaker 1: like mammals, it was a It was a weird concept

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Speaker 1: for there to be a rainbow colored like a leopard

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Speaker 2: It was not, as you might say, logical.

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Speaker 3: It's very illogical, yeah, coloring, But I think that's sort

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Speaker 3: of what I loved about it.

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Speaker 2: There's a.

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Speaker 3: Like hyperrealism, fantasy sort of element happening where why not

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Speaker 3: a taied die cheetah Here unicorns are very real and

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Speaker 3: they're gorgeous. I like that her unicorns were white, but

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Speaker 3: it was their tails and their mains that were tied.

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Speaker 2: Ie super bright colors.

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Speaker 3: I just think it's fun to look at and pretend

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Speaker 3: you're in a world where there are mega waterfalls and

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Speaker 3: aliens driving like what do you call those punch buggies.

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Speaker 2: Everything about Lisa S.

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Speaker 3: Frank's world was just gorgeous and peaceful and exuberantly vibrant,

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Speaker 3: and I appreciate that to this day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a really lovely art style. I

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Speaker 1: think when I was a kid back in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: No you had to either be a horse girl or

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Speaker 3: us wanting to be marine biologists. I don't know who

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Speaker 3: Black Beauty was obviously a staple for many of us

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Speaker 3: We were children and dolphins were doing dope tricks and

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Speaker 3: I didn't like the smell of horses. At first I

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Speaker 3: went to ride horse, says I said, it smells awful.

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Speaker 3: Also, they were really tall and I was scared to heights,

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Speaker 3: so horses were hard for me. My mom's a horse girl,

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Speaker 3: she was disappointed. But I came a dolphin girl very early.

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Speaker 3: And then Lisa Frank can introduce me to the snow leopard,

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Speaker 3: And I said, is there a more beautiful creature on

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Speaker 1: Fussy. Yeah, if I had to be in either horse

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Speaker 3: I know that we don't see that in our culture

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Speaker 3: very kind, loving, sweet creatures, whereas horses are temperamental creatures

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Speaker 1: kicking right I want to throw up. Anyways, it's horrible.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot that's horrible. It's so funny because I

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Speaker 1: and love for a weird, disgusting animal, spiders, snakes, everything.

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Speaker 1: And then you're like, it's like with horses, I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about horses. Man. I like them. I

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Speaker 1: like looking at them. I respect them. That's the thing

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Speaker 1: But yeah, dolphins are not as everyone knows like, They're

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Speaker 1: I remember there were always these beautiful multi colored dolphins,

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Speaker 1: sometimes like these pink dolphins that Lisa Frank would draw.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out that Lisa Frank was not making

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Speaker 1: this up. There indeed are pink dolphins. These are the

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Speaker 1: Amazon River dolphins found in where else but the Amazon River.

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Speaker 1: We have talked about these on the show before, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's worth repeating information about pink

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at how cute they are. Yes, they're

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Speaker 3: so adorable. I think popular media has really let us

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Speaker 2: You know, we see a.

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Speaker 3: Ton of I don't want to call them regular bottle

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Speaker 2: We see, yeah, the most your.

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Speaker 3: Typical blue, white bellied looking thing, and they're cute. Listen,

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Speaker 3: there's no dolphin shaming here. I'm just saying out in

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Speaker 3: the world, there's a light pink dolphin who constantly looks

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Speaker 3: are very small, and who it's precious. I would protect it.

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Speaker 3: It should be a mascot for several different teams. People

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Speaker 3: should be fighting over the rights to be like, no,

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Speaker 3: we're the pink dolphins. Look at how perfect they are.

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Speaker 2: It's away.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's so funny because we think of

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Speaker 1: pink as this soft, cute color, right, Like something that's

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Speaker 1: pink is sweet and cute, and of course with our culture,

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Speaker 1: something like in modern sort of like Western culture, pink

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Speaker 1: I think pink is everyone's color. Anyone can like. I don't.

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Speaker 1: you know, girls, pink, girls, pink. The thing is this

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Speaker 1: Boto river dolphins are a male characteristic. So the pink

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Speaker 1: because their tissue scar is very easily. This is an

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Speaker 1: evolutionary trait and it will turn pink from all of

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Speaker 1: this scarring. And so the brighter the pink from this

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Speaker 3: So I was right, they are the perfect mascot. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's a bright neon pink dolphin mascot to be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: we're ferocious, we'd be fighting all the time and the

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Speaker 3: Like, my god, if I was starting a sports team tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: This will be my mascot. Imagine the imagine the mascot

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing if anyone uses this dolphin as a mascot,

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I'm trademarking it right now, and Hollywood WNBA,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Indigenous communities do appreciate these dolphins. I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: You know, diabolically.

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Speaker 2: Right, I never understood the plot for Being John Malcovich.

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Speaker 2: They saw what happened to their cousins and they were like,

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Speaker 1: No, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Who am not conformed?

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Speaker 2: Weird human ways?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, free Willie, how about screw you? All Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: and the herd is moving. And then so for like,

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00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: that's one of the questions about why if tigers are

438
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: so brightly colored right there, orange and black, so to

439
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 1: us they just pop right out. We can see them

440
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: really easily, or even like a leopard right like, they're

441
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: so brightly colored. Wouldn't in their ambush predators, wouldn't their

442
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: prey see them. Well, that has to do with the

443
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: the way that the vision of most of their prey is,

444
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: which is they they won't see so much the difference

445
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: between oranges and greens, and so that orange and black

446
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: striped coloration or that orange and black kind of dotted

447
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: coloration will look like sort of a dappled light coming

448
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: in in the in the jungle or in the forest

449
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 1: and sort of like just light dappled greenery essentially, so

450
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: they blend in really well, but not to us humans,

451
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: which is good for us.

452
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 3: We can tell the difference between orange and green. We

453
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 3: can see it clear off. Yes, Okay, I definitely was

454
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 3: conflating multiple stories in there.

455
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: But they're all very interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you

456
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: were thinking that is correct, that that is the same

457
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: thing that I'm talking about. But yeah, speaking of sort

458
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: of brightly colored little little forest animals, this is technically

459
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: a bird, so it's not unusual for birds to be

460
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: brightly colored. But the reason I'm bringing this one up

461
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: is it's a pigeon, which we're so used to the drab,

462
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: boring pigeons of our cities. I actually love them, but

463
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people find them, you know, they're gray

464
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: so they're not usually that interesting.

465
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 2: But these arts of the sky we used to call

466
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: them in college.

467
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: Yes, the flying rats. I actually quite love pigeons, but

468
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: they are I wouldn't call them the most beautiful of birds.

469
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: We do actually get a lot of color variations here

470
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: because most city pigeons are actually descendants of domesticated pigeons,

471
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: and so you actually do get like brown and white

472
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 1: and you know, black, sort of like pigeons that have

473
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: been bred specifically for their colors and then they're released

474
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: into the wild and now are released out into the city,

475
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: and now you have this feral pigeon population that has

476
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: all these interesting colors. But this one looks like it's

477
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: a Lisa Frank pigeon. If Lisa Frank ever drew a pigeon,

478
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: which I don't think she did, but had she, it

479
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: would look like this. It is like, it's a pigeon

480
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: that looks like it's made out of sorbet. It's beautiful.

481
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: It does, it does, guys. It has bright, hot pink feet.

482
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 3: It does so its shoe game is on point. Also,

483
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: so many colors neck one color like front, breast area,

484
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: different color head, different multi colored wings and tail, vibrant sunning.

485
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 2: Send it to New York Fashion Week. It's ready for

486
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: its close up.

487
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: So these pigeons are related to our city pigeons. They

488
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: are found in Southeast Asia, and both males and females

489
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: are colorful, but more so the males, because females are

490
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: more just kind of variations of greens and yellows, whereas

491
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: males are a variety of color. Their faces are powder blue,

492
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: their neck is a lavender color, their chest is orange,

493
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: their belly is green, their back is olive green. Their

494
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: wings have these yellow stripes, and then under their tail

495
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: is orange and their feet are hot pink. They are incredible.

496
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: Truly a stunning bird.

497
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of competition for stunning birds, as

498
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: we just discussed with the regular pigeons. You know, they

499
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 3: look fine, Let's be real, they look fine. But when

500
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 3: we're talking about freaking peacocks, and yeah, I don't know

501
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: that whatever that one dancing bird in the Amazon is

502
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 3: a competition is stiff. This guy a class of his own,

503
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 3: truly unique. Have never seen a bird that looks anything

504
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: like this just from a color perspective, and it's strange,

505
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: I think, because it does just like a pigeon. I

506
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 3: has like, what kind of bird this is? I would

507
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: guess pigeon. It looks like a pigeon, but just like

508
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: a pigeon with incredible fashion sense.

509
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: It's very pigeon coded because it is one hundred percent

510
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: pigeon shaped, which is what's kind of interesting when you

511
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: look at the whole dove family, because pigeons and doves

512
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: are the same thing. Any you look at any dove,

513
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:59,479
Speaker 1: you look at any pigeon, rock, dove, roe, you know, pigeons, everything,

514
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: They all are essentially the same shape. Just that shape.

515
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 2: Does just have a better PR team.

516
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: Doves just have a better PR team. They're like, oh,

517
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: look at this pretty white dove. It's a symbol of peace.

518
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: And then get away from me, you dirty pigeon. You

519
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: can't have my fries. But yeah, this one is, this

520
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: one is so so pretty. It lives in mangrove forests

521
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: or in regular forests. But they are similar to pigeons

522
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: found in like the US, and I mean all throughout

523
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: America and then also in Europe because they are really

524
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: good at adapting to urban environments, so like in sort

525
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: of farms or human settlements or cities near where they live,

526
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,479
Speaker 1: they can exploit these, and they can find food on

527
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: farms and in people's gardens. They're frug of wars, so

528
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 1: they eat mostly fruit and most of their diet is

529
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: just figs. They love figs and they're really good for Okay,

530
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: who doesn't love a fig? Well, actually a lot of

531
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: people don't.

532
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, can't blame them. Those people are incorrect.

533
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: They are not to be judgmental.

534
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, when I was a kid, I didn't like

535
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: figs almost literally, but I changed my mind.

536
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 2: They're an adult taste for sure.

537
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: It's acquired taste.

538
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 3: Get somebody who didn't grow up with figs. Like, when

539
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: you first come across them, you're like, it's like a

540
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: brown fruit that looks kind of wrinkled and shriveled up,

541
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, maybe that. Typically the foods I

542
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 3: have had experience eating don't look like this, and so

543
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: it was definitely like a learning curve.

544
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: But once you.

545
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 3: Start mowing on them, oh my god, they're very so sweet,

546
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 3: so tasty, so getting so many different things.

547
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: They're also I remember learning when I was young that

548
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: like sometimes wasps would like go inside of figs and

549
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: completely their life cycle inside figs. So I was like

550
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of scared of eating them because I thought I

551
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: was just gonna find a giant wasp. I got older,

552
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: I learned that while this is true, there are wasps

553
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: that you know, lay their larva inside figs. They're tiny,

554
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: They're teeny tiny, itty bitty bitty bitty wasps, not scary

555
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: at all. So even even if the figs, it's just

556
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: free protein and they're like they're like ant sized or

557
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: even smaller. So like, once you get to that size

558
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: of an insect, if I eat it, I'm like, mmmm,

559
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: it's garnish. So yeah, So these birds love figs and

560
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: they're beautiful, and they're also very adaptable in situations such

561
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: as volcanic eruptions. They have survived their populations, maybe not

562
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: specific individuals have survived the eruption of Krakatoa in eighteen

563
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: eighty three. They were one of the only fruit eating

564
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: animals to quickly return and adapt to the post eruption islands. Essentially,

565
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: as long as there's some figs somewhere, they can They're fine,

566
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: like figs or some fruit there, they will go there

567
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: and they will make it work.

568
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 3: I know pigeons for such good flyers, Like obviously I

569
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: don't fly or whatever escaping a volcanos and the like

570
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 3: the loan survivors. That's some pretty serious slapping, which I

571
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 3: would not have thought could happen in a pigeon.

572
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, I don't know how well a

573
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: pigeon could outfly like pyroclastic flow. Probably not well, but

574
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: enough of them are gonna survive at eruption, right, like

575
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: get out of there in time that they are able

576
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: to re establish their population. But yeah, they are. They

577
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: are good flyers. They don't actually migrate so much, but

578
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: they're flying is used for locating figs and zeroing in

579
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: on those figs and then eating those figs.

580
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's gonna be such a big heavy episode,

581
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: but now I'm craving figs.

582
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: I know, right, I've kind of tucked myself into wanting figs,

583
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: you know, like you know how the inside of figs are,

584
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: like they have all those little nodules, like the little

585
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: I don't like just like it's a weird texture. It's

586
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: kind of like it's like a flower that's folded in

587
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: on itself, you know, like how like a daisy has

588
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: those little little nodules. I'm bad at plant biology, so

589
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: I forget what they're called, but it's like essentially like

590
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: that part of the daisy, that center part that's all

591
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: bumpy but folded in on itself, and it's a very

592
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: specific kind of fruit development, which is actually why wasps

593
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: use figs to do their reproduction, because there's like actually

594
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: these little nooks and crannies that these tiny wasps can

595
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: lay their larva in. So it's it's a you know,

596
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: figs are cool. Figs are very interesting, and the list.

597
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 3: They're rich in anti inflammatory and antioxidants, which I know

598
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: is not a real thing, but who cares. It's a

599
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: great excuse to eat more figs. They are so tasty

600
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 3: and sweet, y'all. If you have figs on a pizza, oh,

601
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: next level.

602
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: It's a I mean, those things are real. It's just

603
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: like you're not. There's not I don't really believe in

604
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: like the superfood kind of thing where it's like if

605
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: you just eat figs, you will never get cancer. That's

606
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: just not how it works. But they're healthy, right, Like

607
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: a fig is gonna be better for you than maybe

608
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: like a dorrito.

609
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 2: I bet they're beating the hell out of doritos.

610
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, not to single out dorito's. There's nothing wrong with

611
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: having a dorito. I'm just saying, if you could choose

612
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: between you think it's a bad food, it's well, it's

613
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: probably not the healthiest food of dorito. I don't know.

614
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what damn it dorito causes exactly to

615
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: the body, but I would say a fig is probably

616
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: on average better for you than a dorito. Food science

617
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: is wild, though, Like it's so it's very I have

618
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: a lot of problems with like food science studies because

619
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. Man, You'll get like a

620
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: study that's like, man, you should be drinking wine all

621
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: the time, and it turns out it's because like France

622
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 1: has a lower death rate, like lower cardiovascular death rate. Yeah,

623
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: well they drink a lot of wine, so maybe that's it.

624
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: It's like, guys, that's not that's not like, that's not

625
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: good to say science.

626
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 3: I just want y'all to know there are probably many

627
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 3: contributing factors. Yeah, I appreciate the excuse to drink wine.

628
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 3: What was the craziest when I saw yesterday, Oh they

629
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: were saying that staring at a woman's chest is how

630
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 3: fier than like drinking.

631
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: A bunch of water or something. I was like, that

632
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 2: cannot be true. That just.

633
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 3: Sometimes like what does it even mean? As it was

634
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 3: a German study, so maybe.

635
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: There there you go. No, I don't know. I'm joking.

636
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm up, but no, I mean it doesn't that doesn't

637
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: make any like obviously you can't just stare at a

638
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: woman's chest and not drink water for the rest of

639
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: your life. You will die. I don't understand what they're

640
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: trying to say, Like it like it's stick like maybe

641
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: it like helps you in the moment or something like

642
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: maybe it increases your heart rate in the moment if

643
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: you like boobs, which, let's be honest, you.

644
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 2: Does see what you're saying.

645
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like you're pretty great. They're they're they're good,

646
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: like you know, but like if I'm dying of thirst

647
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, would you like to see the best

648
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: boobs in the.

649
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: World versus a glass of.

650
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: Water, I'm still gonna have the glass of water.

651
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I don't understand these things. Fell

652
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: always something, but I.

653
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Speaker 1: Will Fellas is it? Uh is do you guys think

654
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: that you could not drink water? I shouldn't say just

655
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: fellas anyone of the sexual orientation to whom boobs is important?

656
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: Would you not drink water versus looking at boobs? Write

657
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: to me, don't write to me about that. I'm joking.

658
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't actually want to hear about this.

659
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 3: I will say I do save these studies when it's

660
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 3: like helpful to me, when they're like, drinking coffee can

661
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 3: save your life. Yeah, I'll keep that in my back pocket.

662
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: So anytime someone's like, are you sure you want a

663
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 3: third cup of coffee? I can be like, listen this study.

664
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 3: I don't care where it's from or if it's real

665
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 3: or not, but it says that I should be drinking

666
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 3: as much coffee as I can.

667
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna do it. I who am I to

668
00:38:58,600 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: a if.

669
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: It makes you feel good? That's I read something at

670
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: some point that said that dark chocolate's good for you,

671
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: And then like whenever it's like, oh, did you know

672
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: those studies are actually rad I don't want to hear it.

673
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: Dark chocolate good for you?

674
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: That study said it.

675
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,399
Speaker 1: Study said it. Yeah, no, I know. I read the

676
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: most unhelpful like article the other day that was just like,

677
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: coffee could either save your life or kill you. I'm like,

678
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: that's literally everything. That's literally anything.

679
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 3: We should definitely figure out which one of those is

680
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 3: the final answer. Right, that's not even a good hypothesis,

681
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 3: like a great scientist would be like, you need to

682
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 3: go back to the jar.

683
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 2: Right.

684
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: Water could either save your life or kill you. Man.

685
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: It's this the state of health report, health nutrition reporting

686
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: is we need we need help. Anyways, we're going to

687
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,959
Speaker 1: take a quick break and when we come back, we're

688
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: going to quickly shift the topic to mandrill butts. Oh

689
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: all right, so we're back in Joelle. We are talking

690
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: about man drill butts, which does sound like a pornographic title,

691
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: but it's it's this is it's animals. It's animals.

692
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 3: It's just okaynocent, not human males, no, no drills involved,

693
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 3: but lots of butts.

694
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not man drill butts, but mandrill butts. All right,

695
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: So man drills are these amazing primates found in rainforests

696
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: in west central Africa. They are the largest monkey in

697
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: the world. They're not apes. They are monkeys, even though

698
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: they have like a stubby tail. They're a short tailed monkey.

699
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Uh and they weigh over seventy pounds, so they're they're big.

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Speaker 2: They are big boy.

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00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think they are uh, you know on

702
00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: Lion King the guy refec Yeah, it's rafiki.

703
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 3: This is definitely rafiki. Blue and red nose, colorful.

704
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: Blue yes, and so are. They're all very striking, and

705
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: females are striking too. They have yellow beards, pink noses

706
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: in this kind of subtle blue blush along the grooves

707
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 1: in their face. But the males are the true beauty queens.

708
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: They have bright red noses, bright blue ridges along their

709
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: cheeks and noses. They have yellow beards and rainbow butts.

710
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: So females also have pink and blue coloration around their

711
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: butts and genitals, but the males just have really really

712
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: vibrant butts with pinks and blues and even like lavenders.

713
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: It's quite quite beautiful and stunning.

714
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 3: So okay, again, I was taught all color on animals

715
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: has some meeting or drive or purpose. This to my

716
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 3: human eyes looks like a target. But we've already discussed

717
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 3: animals c with the human eye view scope, So but

718
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 3: why a colorful ass.

719
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: In this case? You are correct that this is more

720
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: or less a target. There's a few functions for these

721
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: bright butts, social and practical. So socially, these bright colors

722
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: communicate things. They can even become more vibrant when the

723
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: individual is excited or agitated. It is attractive to females.

724
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: Females find a really vibrant butt on a male to

725
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: be attractive. It can also signal dominance, both in their

726
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: faces and their butts. The higher contrast between sort of

727
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: the red and the blue hues, the more respected, the

728
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: more attractive typically goes along with being more dominant, getting

729
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: more mates, and having a higher place on the social higherarchy.

730
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: But the practical reason that they have these bright butts

731
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: is that when they are walking in these sort of

732
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: dark dense forests, these butts will stand out to the

733
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: members of the troop behind them, so it's easier for

734
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: them to follow each other. And so it's kind of

735
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: like you know, when you're like on a tour guide

736
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: and the tour guide has like the flag that they're

737
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: waving and it's kind of a unique flag, so you

738
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: can see it and it's bright. It's like that but

739
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: a butt, but a butt a mandrel.

740
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 2: But okay, I'm not mad at it.

741
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 3: The butts good. It's giving psychedelic fair coat, which, as

742
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 3: we've already talked about, Lisa Frank. We love so psychedelics.

743
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: Lisa Frank should have done a mandrel.

744
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 2: But yes, the color scheme is very on brand for her.

745
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 3: Monkeys can be cute and sort of you know, visious

746
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 3: like a dolphin, but still a door Lisa Frank, if

747
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 3: you're out here looking for new ideas, the mandrel butt,

748
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 3: it's right there for you.

749
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: Like your audiences, all adults, now, we can handle a

750
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: mandrel butt. You know.

751
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 2: You've already tackled crocs, the ugliest thing known to man.

752
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 3: Mandrel butts will be Wait, there's there's Lisa Frank CrOx

753
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 3: like the shoe.

754
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

755
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So friend of this podcast, Jamie loftis over

756
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,439
Speaker 3: the holidays, so I went uh to be a part

757
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 3: of it.

758
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 2: And she came in with.

759
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 3: Platform crocs that were Lisa Frank branded, colorful leopard spots

760
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 3: all over them and they are fabulous.

761
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: Okay, I just found them online. Incredible. I'm speechless.

762
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's huge platform shoes.

763
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 3: They're like almost like high heels, except even across the

764
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 3: bright huge early to thousands chunky shoe.

765
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: Huge pink platform that also looks functional right like, it

766
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: looks like it's got a lot of grip, so I

767
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: could be like, I could be using those in sort

768
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: of a wet, slippery situation, but it's a hot pink

769
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, it's got this sort

770
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: of like classic croc thing but in those bright rainbow

771
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: Lisa Frank leopard spots and it looks like it's bejeweled

772
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: as well.

773
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 3: Crocs has these little chochkey things that you can write

774
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 3: in the holes that I can't remember was the lot,

775
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 3: but yes, and they come with little animals, so you

776
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 3: can get the classic leopard, which we love. I think

777
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 3: they also have the panda. And if you don't have

778
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 3: a dolphin, they should because least Frank dolphins. It's synonymous

779
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 3: with one another.

780
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: I mean, it's this is incredible. I just the human ingenuity, right,

781
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: but this is like, looks we did. We did not

782
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: evolve from mandrels. In fact, we're not very close relatives

783
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: to them. However, we are all primates and so you

784
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: can't tell me that these bright Lisa Frank crocs don't

785
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: serve a similar purpose to the mandril. But of establishing

786
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: social dominance.

787
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: I listen, and who would no one would dare call

788
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 3: Jamie loftus anything but dominate Okay, uh, you can get

789
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 3: a Lisa Frank five pack of gibbets. Is what the

790
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 3: little charms are called, gibbets. That's that's their choice. Yes,

791
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 3: they do have a dolphin.

792
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: I knew it.

793
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 3: They also had the Lisa Frank logo and the alien

794
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 3: in the punch buggy car, and a unicorn jumping over

795
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 3: a rainbow, and a shooting star and kitties.

796
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: Little kiddies. Oh man, these are so cute. I have

797
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 2: a problem. I don't even own these, but I'm considering

798
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 2: buying these gibbets.

799
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: Oh god, man.

800
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 2: You know, permanently establish my social dominance.

801
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: I just learned today what gibbets are. And to make

802
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: room in my brain, I've forgotten like another year of

803
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: high school math to make room for this new concept

804
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: of gibbets.

805
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: You'll never use it. This is much more valuable to you.

806
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

807
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: No, gibbets I think are gonna be. It's gonna probably

808
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: like if society collapses, we'll start using gibbets as currency.

809
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: Perfect well, Joel, Before we go, we got to play

810
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: the Mystery Animal sound game. Now we have this is

811
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: like the first Mystery Animal sound game of the year

812
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: because we came back from winter break and then we

813
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: had some listener questions episodes and we had an interview.

814
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: So like, this is the first like og style episode

815
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: since since December, so we are this is the first

816
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: mister Animal sound game of twenty twenty four. If you

817
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: guys remember the old Mystery animal sound from last year,

818
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: the hint was this, these are the best friends to

819
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: have in a gorilla style snowball site.

820
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 3: What are the little monkeys that live in the snow

821
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 3: and like, I want to say, japan Gee, it sounds

822
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 3: like when my dog was a puppy, and it's making

823
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 3: me very nostalgic. It's such a cube little sound. I

824
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 3: don't know what it is, but I already love it.

825
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:57,760
Speaker 3: Please be somewhere between.

826
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: It's somewhere between a dog in a snow monkey. Well

827
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: that is closer to the truth than you may have realized,

828
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: because this is actually an Arctic fox. Uh kind of

829
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: making this little this little like weird laughing sound as

830
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: a way to communicate congratulations to Danielle be forguessing correctly.

831
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: This is actually one I believe that was rescued. So

832
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: it is it lives with humans, and so when it's

833
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 1: human caretaker laughs. This little Arctic fox laughs as well,

834
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: but the laughter is more of a case of not

835
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 1: as much a case of the giggles as it is

836
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: a form of communication. But yeah, arctic fox's coats change.

837
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: So in the winter they have this beautiful white coat

838
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: that helps them blend in with the snow so that

839
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: they can ambush their prey and high from predators. So

840
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: you would never see them coming in a snowball fight.

841
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 2: What a good little fox. I would recruit them to

842
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 2: my team immediately.

843
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: So cute.

844
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 2: Also, they are adorable, adorable us.

845
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: The most fluffy little snow grimlins out there, and I

846
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: love that when they so they have an incredible sense

847
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: of hearings, so they can listen for like little little

848
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: mice and voles and mammals that are deep under the snow.

849
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: So you'll see them kind of on the surface of

850
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: the snow listening, sniffing around, and once they've located some

851
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: little mammal in their burrow, they'll hop up and then

852
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 1: jump and like basically just face plant directly into the snow,

853
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: like dive right in so that they can start digging

854
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: and digging up their prey. It is so cute. It's

855
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: the cutest form of carnivore predation that I've ever seen.

856
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 3: I really appreciate that they are that dedicated to getting

857
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 3: their meal. They said, we could hunt above ground, we

858
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 3: could stay in our burrows and just attack them as

859
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 3: the house. They said, no, We're gonna wait to watch

860
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 3: them go in and then just die like after them.

861
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's tough in the winter because either

862
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: a lot some predators will go into hibernation right and

863
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: sort of try to try to go into a state

864
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: where they're not using as much energy so that they

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Speaker 1: don't have to face this problem. But these guys have

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Speaker 1: developed an ability to hunt even in winter. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: so it is quite amazing. Alrighty, So now onto the

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Speaker 1: next mystery animal sound. The hint is this, these Canadians

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Speaker 1: think you're a hoser.

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Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, Well.

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Speaker 1: Alrighty, do you have any guesses?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Again, two very disparate guesses.

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Speaker 3: But first I was like, oh, it kind of sounds

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Speaker 3: like a Canadian goose. But then is like, I hear

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Speaker 3: like a lot of shuffling on the ground that sounds

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Speaker 3: like sticks and stowed. I'm like, is it like a

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Speaker 3: deer of some kind?

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Speaker 2: I know these are very far apart animals. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know all right? Well is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it a deer or somewhere in between. We'll find

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Speaker 1: out on next Creature Feature Joel, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today. Where can people find you?

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me back, Katie, This is

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Speaker 3: always a blast. I really appreciate you indulging my Lisa

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Speaker 3: Frank Love. Y'all can find me all over the internet

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Speaker 3: at tue money that's j O E l E mn.

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Speaker 1: IQ And thank you guys so much for listening. If

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Speaker 1: you think you know who is making the Mystery Animals sound,

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Speaker 1: you can write to me at Creature Featurepod at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can also write to me your questions.

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Speaker 1: I do answer listener questions uh. And I also appreciate

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Speaker 1: photos of your pets. Do not email me about that

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Speaker 1: question about whether you can stare at boobs instead of

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Speaker 1: drinking water. I don't want to know. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to know. Uh. And thank you to the Space Classics

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