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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm MC Josh,

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's ch ch Chuck Bryant, and then Jerry's

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Speaker 1: the DJ on the wheels and steel of Stuff you

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Speaker 1: Should Know the podcast. And that has nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with what we're talking about today. What, No, it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't even faint surprise. I know it has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with it. I was just being silly. You

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Speaker 1: like it? I love it. Silly Josh is one of

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Speaker 1: my top five favorite Josh is is it? I thought so.

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Speaker 1: I guess you're feeling pretty good today, Jerry, you are too, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she says, yeah everybody. Um, well, the reason we're feeling

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Speaker 1: good is because there are a fewer just simple pleasures

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Speaker 1: in life then researching and talking about animals. Agreed. It's

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite s Y s K episode categories

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Speaker 1: as animal ones. Yeah, and it sort of don I

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Speaker 1: picked this one out and it sort of dawned on me.

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Speaker 1: It had been a minute, and um. Sometimes these are

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Speaker 1: some of our lighter lifts because we have some really

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Speaker 1: great house to works articles on animals and insects, so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't require like, you know, another twenty hours of

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Speaker 1: research on stuff. Uh, and we needed a lighter lift

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Speaker 1: this week. And I was like, hey, it's been a while.

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Speaker 1: I was perusing I saw walrus Is and they're so

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Speaker 1: darn cute and been lovable. I thought, all right, well

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Speaker 1: we got to get in there on this. Yeah. Plus

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Speaker 1: is a Jennifer Horton joint. And remember she used to

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Speaker 1: be like the in house animal writer. Oh was it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: She she doesn't remember. Yeah, what would happen to her?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but she left behind a legacy that

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Speaker 1: includes an article on walrus Is. Yeah. And I will

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Speaker 1: go and say up front, this is now in the

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Speaker 1: running for me with a little competition between the octopus

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Speaker 1: and the jellyfish. Okay, well then this is what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna go, um, but that's all I

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Speaker 1: can think of when um, when a fact comes up

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Speaker 1: they're in competition. Okay, okay, all right. Oh and before

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Speaker 1: we get started. Also before we get started, sorry, um,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give a big shout out to our

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Speaker 1: pals at The Daily Zeitgeist, one of our sister podcasts.

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Speaker 1: They had me on yesterday. I know, I haven't listened

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Speaker 1: to it yet. How was it? It was pretty great?

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Speaker 1: Like they make it really easy on you. Um, They're like, here,

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Speaker 1: read all these articles that were potentially going to talk

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Speaker 1: about and study them for five hours, just like you

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Speaker 1: do stuff you should know, and then we're not going

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Speaker 1: to talk about any of those not a single article

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Speaker 1: that I researched. Dude, we talk about. But I've managed

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Speaker 1: to keep up anyway. That's how easy those guys make it.

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Speaker 1: So thank you to Jack and Miles and Anna for

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Speaker 1: for having me. And I guess when you're hearing this

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Speaker 1: by yesterday, I mean March five, So go back and

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Speaker 1: listen to the March fifth episode of Daily's Like Guys,

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Speaker 1: and then listen to all the episodes of Daily's Like Guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saw that they had a cutout, cardboard cutout of

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Speaker 1: it is funny. But then I'm like, well, what are

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Speaker 1: Probably made it right, I guess, but I didn't. That's

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Speaker 1: they got a big budget. Then we don't have a

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Speaker 1: budget for cardboard cutouts. No, But I'm glad you gave

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Speaker 1: me the inside skinny because I'm gonna be on at

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Speaker 1: some point. And now I'm gonna say, hey, don't don't

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Speaker 1: do that crap you did with Josh. I'm not reading

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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff unless we're doing it. Yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 1: just show up to show up relaxed and prepared to talk,

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Speaker 1: and you will be great. Uh So, the other thing

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Speaker 1: on the Great Movie Predictor or just Life predictor, uh, Pixar,

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Speaker 1: get on it, because if you don't do a lovable

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Speaker 1: story about a family of walrus is at some point,

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Speaker 1: then someone else is gonna beat you to the punch,

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Speaker 1: maybe us, and it's gonna be great because there's nothing cuter.

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Speaker 1: Just look up on your on your favorite image search

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Speaker 1: them live in captivity. That's how cute those things that

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Speaker 1: of the United States, that's forty five born. Yes, so

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Speaker 1: a mother a cow, walrus cow. She's hoping for a

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Speaker 1: all calf and they're all water bursts. Though no, there're

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Speaker 1: We're getting ahead of ourselves. I'm getting excited. All right,

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Speaker 1: we should go back to the beginning. Who invented walters?

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Speaker 1: Is they were invented by the guy who invented sea monkeys, uh,

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Speaker 1: It was alright, So should we go to uh by beginning,

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Speaker 1: we just mean we're going to talk about walters is Well,

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Speaker 1: how about this, we could talk about where they came

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Speaker 1: from because um walrace has lived and they're very very

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Speaker 1: they're geographically isolated, so they're they're technically two different species.

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Speaker 1: She just says that they're um reproductively isolated, which means

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Speaker 1: They think they diverged as recently as like half a

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Speaker 1: used to be a lot of different walrus species. Now

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Speaker 1: does he have the walrus mustache? Yeah? Are yosemboite Sam? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And that. Then there was the professional golfer Craig Stadler.

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Speaker 1: There are walrus is in the north of the Pacific

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Speaker 1: and there's the Pacific walruses, and then the Atlantic walruses. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Pacific. The differentiation here that the males are generally bigger,

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Speaker 1: And they're all they're all members of the order Pinapedia,

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Speaker 1: That's great. And the name walrus too, by the way,

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Speaker 1: to establish dominance. Yeah, that's that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: good word, their menace. They don't try and kill one

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Speaker 1: another with their tusks. Uh. They like to jab at

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Speaker 1: got bigger tusks, some larger than you. But they're not.

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Speaker 1: First of all, they're protected. They have this really thick

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Speaker 1: skin around their neck and shoulders, so they're they're protected

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Speaker 1: in a sense, and they're not getting to kill one

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Speaker 1: another either, right, but they do, I mean, they do

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Speaker 1: draw blood when they jab each other, so they have

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Speaker 1: they'll draw a little blood and they'll even like leave scars.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, their necks are so protected with blubber.

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Speaker 1: they also will use their tusks sometimes to break through

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Speaker 1: up a notch if I put a couple of clams

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00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, not in the shell, but just like

420
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: pick the meat out. Well, yeah, live have them like

421
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: living there for a little while. East of that vodka.

422
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: They do live up by Russia. I bet there's been

423
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: more than one beach bar called the Drunken Clam. There's

424
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: got me in there, like I think that's the that's

425
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: the bar and the family guy. Oh is it? I'm

426
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Oh, we're gonna find out if it's not.

427
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I feel like we've gone a

428
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: little off the rails. Did we take a break or

429
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 1: can we pull it back without it? Uh? Well, quickly,

430
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: let's talk about the third potential breed um. There is

431
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: another subspecies that is not officially a subspecies Um that

432
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: lives in the Laptev Sa near Siberia, called the Laptev walrus,

433
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: and apparently their skull and body size is pretty similar

434
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: to the Atlantic and the Pacific um. And I'm not

435
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: sure why it wants its own distinction, but they haven't

436
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 1: been recognized as such. Yeah, I mean there must be

437
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: different enough in some way. Yeah, I saw. Some people

438
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: see them is a different species. Other people just do not.

439
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the deal is. Maybe they're isolated themselves.

440
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know either. Now you want

441
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: to take a break, Okay, all right, So one of

442
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 1: the other things that I love insert whatever sound effect

443
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: is in your head, listener. Uh, is that they are

444
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 1: very and this is the same deal with the elephant.

445
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: In any creature that's very sensitive and caring to one another. Uh,

446
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 1: they will watch over their injured friends. Um. If one

447
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: of them dies, they will push them off the ice

448
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: if hunters are nearby so they can't get them. Um,

449
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: the ladies, well this is so sad, but the ladies

450
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: will carry their dead young away from hunters. And if

451
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: they sense that they're dudes nearby, these hunter men nearby, Um,

452
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: they can hack away at ice to break it away

453
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: and free uh, like a calf that might be stuck

454
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, they could really take care of each other.

455
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: It's been documented. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They're very sensitive creatures.

456
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: It turns out, so, Um, I don't think we could

457
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: talk about walrus is if we didn't talk about blubber, right, Yes,

458
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: so you said that, Um, it's pretty thick. I think

459
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: that's an understatement, Chuck. The the blubber layer on a

460
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: walrus is something like about almost four inches ten centimeters thick,

461
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: and during the winter, when they're at their blubberyest, it's

462
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: about a third of their body weight, So they might

463
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: have like a thousand pounds of fat in in their

464
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: body at any given point in time, which is is

465
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: pretty you gotta tip your hat to that. Well. Yeah,

466
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: and this you know, of course, this is an adaptation

467
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: to deal with the temperatures where they live. Keeps them warm.

468
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: Apparently they lose heat twenty seven times faster and water,

469
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: and they are in water, what is it, like two

470
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: thirds of their life or something like that. Yeah, so

471
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: they have this remarkable blubber to keep that body temperature

472
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: at about ninety eight degrees ninety seven point nine degrees

473
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: pretty consistently. Right, So you were saying, you were alluding

474
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: earlier to how they can change color. Here's how you're ready. Yes,

475
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: when they're in the water for a while or when

476
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: they're exposed to really really cold temperatures, their um their

477
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: their body pumps blood away from their skin and sends

478
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: it to their core to keep their internal organs warm

479
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: because the skin doesn't need to be as warm as say,

480
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: the internal organs is survival mechanism, right, And then once

481
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: they start to warm up, and when that happens, they

482
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: turn kind of white, like like a white worm, kind

483
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: of thing going on. Did you ever see that movie

484
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: The Layer of the White Worm. No, but that sounds familiar.

485
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: It was an early Hugh Grant movie where like there's

486
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: this group in uh in England that like worship this

487
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: white worm that comes out like every century or something

488
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: like that. It's like a weird English horror movie that

489
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: is also kind of funny in some ways. It's a

490
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: good one. But anyway, that's what a walrus looks like

491
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: when it's really really cool, like you Grant, Yeah, but white,

492
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: super white. He's about as white as it gets. These

493
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: guys get even whiter because they're very, very cold, that's right.

494
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: And then once they get back to like where the

495
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: sun is shining, or maybe back on the ice where

496
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: it's ironically slightly warmer um, their color can come back

497
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: there they're still brown that they can get a little

498
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: bit more of a pinky look to them. They can

499
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: with that blubber. They can handle water that's like down

500
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: to negative four degrees ferret height. It's just something like

501
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: negative twenty celsius. And they I mean, like you said,

502
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: they spend two thirds of their life and water this cold.

503
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: They live in the Arctic, so they're pretty well suited

504
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: for it. Well, negative four is the low end. It

505
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: can go all the way down to negative fifty nine.

506
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: That's nuttie. Uh. And they do have little hairs, uh

507
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: that they shed in the summer. But it's pretty much

508
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: everyone is in agreement that it doesn't really do much

509
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 1: to keep them warm. It's left over from when they

510
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: were bears. That's my theory. It probably is. Yeah. Uh,

511
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: so they have another cool adaptation. Um, they can go

512
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: a long time without oxygen. And this is all has

513
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: to do with how they circulate oxygen and their blood.

514
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: So uh, when they dive, they actually slow their heart

515
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: rate down and then that blood again goes to those

516
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: organs because they need oxygen and warmth. And uh. They

517
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: also have a special protein in their blood called myoglobin

518
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: that binds with the oxygen and then actually stores it

519
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: in the muscles. Right, so they have plenty of oxygen

520
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: whenever they're they're diving. How how deep do they dive?

521
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: I can't remember it said they feed I think from

522
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: between like thirty something and a hundred ft, but they

523
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: they prefer a little shallower because one of the worries

524
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: with global warming is the sea ice is retreating and

525
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: going away so they're having to go further and further

526
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: north to get to the sea ice, which means that

527
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: the waters are deeper. So they're having to learn how

528
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: to how to dive deeper to feed and um, you know,

529
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: there's just one of the effects of global warming is

530
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: sometimes the moms will get separated from their calves because

531
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: it's such a long journey and they don't know, like

532
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: are they going to be able to adapt and learn

533
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: to dive that deep to hunt for food? Right, And

534
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, it's not just um where they where

535
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: they hunt for food from, like these are it's kind

536
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: of like their little base, right, So when when they're

537
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: on ice or an ice flow, they'll dive for food,

538
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: they'll come back up, they'll rest. That's where they sleep. Um,

539
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: that's where moms and their calves rest. Sometimes they nurse there.

540
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: It's where um cows give birth to calves. There's like

541
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: ice plays a very very important role in the walrus

542
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: is life, so much so that in the Pacific walrus,

543
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: the females basically just follow the edge of the ice

544
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: north in the summer and then come back down south

545
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: in the winter. Is the ice kind of like ebbs

546
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: and flows right towards the north pole um and and

547
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: as it doesn't retreat as far down. It's just it's

548
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: messing with the program a little bit, Like you said,

549
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: not just with food, but also with just typical regular behavior. Yeah,

550
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: I've been in a lot of these cases too. There's

551
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: got to be just some like confusion, you know. Yeah,

552
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: Like if you're for however many millions of years, you've

553
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: been used to the same thing, and if all of

554
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: a sudden you're like, wait a minute, like where are

555
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: we going now, They're like, I'm just a walrus. Your

556
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: your world frightens and confuses me. What happened to the accent? Uh? That? Well,

557
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: this is a different wal risk, This is ted the walrus.

558
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: Also that pharyngeal muscle that you were talking about, which

559
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: can they can puff up to kind of buy them.

560
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: They also will puff that up to close off water

561
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: from entering their lungs when they dive. Let's talk about

562
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: those pharyngeal sacks, because there they are pretty amazing. There's

563
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff they can do with those. First

564
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: of all, walruses make some of the coolest sounds of

565
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: any animal I've ever heard. There's a clip on YouTube

566
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: just type in walrus sounds, and there's one that comes up,

567
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: and it's just a static picture of a big, old,

568
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: gigantic walrus. Um, what do they call them? Are they

569
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: called bowls? Well, they call them cows and calves, that probably,

570
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: but I didn't see bulls anywhere. A dude walrus, right,

571
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: just a big boy and um, it's about two and

572
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: a half minutes of just the best walrus sounds. And

573
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: it's actually in a really weird way, kind of soothing,

574
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: like you can have it on in the background. I

575
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 1: noticed I retained twelve percent more information while it was playing,

576
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: and I did when I wasn't listening to her, Right,

577
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: it just made that statistic upture. But you get the point.

578
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: And well, can we play some of it? Yeah? Can

579
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: we do that? Sure we can't. Jerry's nodding and she

580
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: rolled her eyes. Well, here's like seconds is some some

581
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: good walrus sounds? Halla, so ten twenty seconds? Who knows

582
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 1: what it be? Well, we can only use ten because

583
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: of the rights issues. Okay, get sued by the Walrus Association,

584
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: right exactly, I'm ted walrus and I've had enough of

585
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: this getting pushed around. So um, the way that the

586
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: walrus are one of the ways the walrus makes so

587
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: many different times. It's because these faaryngeal sacks that they

588
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: used to buoy themselves with, they use it also as

589
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: an amplifier, and they make all these sounds when they're

590
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: mating with women. That's right. So you remember how the

591
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: females in the Pacific go north in the summer and

592
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: then come back in the winter. On their way back,

593
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: they meet up with the guys who generally stay south

594
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: in the Bearing Sea the whole whole year. Um, And

595
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: that's just s Pacific the Atlantic ones. They put year around,

596
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: both males and females. But as the Pacific females are

597
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: coming back mating season as time perfectly with that, and

598
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 1: they will sit in groups of about twenty or twenty

599
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: three on a big chunk of ice and say, dudes,

600
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: let's see what you got. And then the little Gilligan's

601
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: Island Talent show starts and they literally line up out

602
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: there give each other a little space. They fight for

603
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: that prime spot. Yeah, they'll tusk. Yeah, that's when they

604
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: get a little aggressive. And the poor always feel bad

605
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: for the guys like in the back row or whatever

606
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: like it. He's got to really ramp up his vocalization.

607
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: I us and he's like my tusk broke. But he's

608
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: probably got a lady out there who likes that. But

609
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: they do they they kind of perform for them. They

610
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: do a little routine and the ladies are like, you, um,

611
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: sexually mature man, who I think, Uh, they reached. The

612
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: male reaches sexual maturity about eight to ten, females five

613
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: to six. But this is adorable. They still don't hug

614
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: and kiss until a few years after, just because they just,

615
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, they want to do it the right way.

616
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: I think that um, that we don't have to take

617
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: our clothes off. Song is one of the Walrus's favorite

618
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: songs of all time. They're really big into promise rings,

619
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: but friendship bracelets first. Uh. So the female has a

620
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: gestation period about fifteen months, so this is a big deal. Um,

621
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're pregnant for a long time, so

622
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: they want to hook up with the right dude, uh

623
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: to get them pregnant. Depending on it falls, depending on

624
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: when it falls in the cycle. They may even sit

625
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: that out if they're pregnant, you know, like they may

626
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: take a year off. Yeah, they're like, I'm good I'm covered,

627
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: but that is it's a thing like if if a

628
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: if a cow is pregnant come next mating season, like

629
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: you said, she's gonna kind of hang off to the

630
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: side and wait for her friends to be done so

631
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: they can keep going south. Um, but that actually is

632
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: going to have an impact on her calf because she's

633
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: gonna spend more time raising it and nursing it. Yeah,

634
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: which is really great. Like if if that happens in

635
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: the timing works out, they can they can be with

636
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: their young for up to a couple of years. Yeah,

637
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: so I think like a male calf, So remember males

638
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: and females they separate. They only come together during mating season.

639
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: And then if you're a male calf that's born, you're

640
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 1: hanging out with your mom for a year or two years,

641
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: depending on the timing of her pregnancy. And then you

642
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: go off with the mail hurt and say what up, boys,

643
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm here, it's party, and they said get at the

644
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: back of the line. Yeah, I saw that. It's just

645
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: sounds so adorable that very young um walrus calves boys

646
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: will practice that tusking thing even before their tusks are

647
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: grown out. So they mess around with each other like

648
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tusk you when my tests come in. Look,

649
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: i'd love to see that. It's like little goats before

650
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: they get their horns. Yeah, they can do the same

651
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: thing when they just have those little nubs. They just

652
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: walk around with headaches all the time. I have goats

653
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: to live across the street from me. I don't think

654
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: I've told you that Satanic goats are cute goats, no

655
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: cutest good Christian goats. Yeah, uh yeah, they're great. They

656
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the pat My neighbor across the

657
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: street had like seven or eight of them last year

658
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: and they went away for the winner. And now she

659
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: has a new batch. And she's jim No, no, no,

660
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: she's Jamaican. And I think what someone said in the

661
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: neighborhood is that she's keeps his oats around and then

662
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: raises them and then has them shipped to Jamaica as

663
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: like a charitable thing. What you're right where they're eating.

664
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're eating. I'm pretty sure. I'm

665
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: not sure. But this is a new batch of goats.

666
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: And of course, you know, my kid loves it. Yeah,

667
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: I love goats too, Little baby goats, baby lambs. I saw, Um,

668
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: you mean, I watched this documentary called The Secret Life

669
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: of Dogs. Have you seen it? It's from two thousand thirteen.

670
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: I think BBC originally made it. If you get a

671
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: membership with Curiosity, a subscription on Curiosity on Amazon Prime.

672
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: It's on there. That's the only place I've found it.

673
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: I think, is it a sub thing I have to

674
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: join because I'm already on the Prime. Yes, it is.

675
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: It's an extra subscription, but it's like a seven day

676
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: trial or something like that. Really curious. You will pay

677
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: for it, right, so they they have the secret Just

678
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: check it out. Check You're going to love it. Um.

679
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,479
Speaker 1: It's just a really well made documentary. But in part

680
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: of it, there's this this herding dog, some sort of

681
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: shepherd um that bottle feeds a baby lamb holding a

682
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: bottle in her mouth. This little lamb is nursing off

683
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: of the bottle. It's one of the most adorable things

684
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: you'll ever see in your entire life. Well, I think

685
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: we've agreed in the past that inter animal mingling and

686
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 1: coupling and friendship is the best thing in the world.

687
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: Maybe not coupling, but the rest of it. Well, I

688
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: don't mean like, I just mean in a friendly way.

689
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: Do you one of the other I love? There's just

690
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: one more thing about this. The the woman who owns

691
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: the dog, or who I should say is best friends

692
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: with this dog, said, I didn't teach her this. She

693
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: picked this up herself. Yeah, and I just dropped the mic.

694
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: As you can see, I probably watched twenty five minutes

695
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: the other day of um of baby pigs playing with puppies.

696
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: Oh that's adorable. It's it's pretty great man. Okay, So

697
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: so back to the wall, Yeah, back to reproduction. UM,

698
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: this is kind of really cool. Actually, for the first

699
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: up to five months of gestation, the eggs aren't even

700
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: in planting yet, so they just float around in the

701
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: uterus for up to five months and then eventually will

702
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: implant on the uterine wall. And they think this is

703
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: all done on purpose so that the calf is born

704
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: at the right time in the best environment possible. Yeah.

705
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: I just I thought that was a weird adaptation, like

706
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: why not just have a shorter gestation time? But I

707
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: guess they got figured out. I'm not gonna I'm not

708
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 1: gonna pry so the so again, it's fifteen months gest

709
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: station period, and the calves are born usually on ice,

710
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: which again melting ice is a problem for him um.

711
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: And then they stick around for a year or two,

712
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: go off to the male herd, and then you've got

713
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: the males and the females, and the females migrate in

714
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: the Pacific. The males generally stay around the same area,

715
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: which means that they moved to land when the ice recedes.

716
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: And there's actually this island in Alaska called Round Island

717
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: that's very famous for being a walrus summering area where

718
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: for a couple of a couple of weeks I think,

719
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: every summer, and for reasons no one knows, the walters

720
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: males all just come to this one island and they'll

721
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: be like twelve thousand of them just on top of

722
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: one another, hanging out, um, just basically being social, having

723
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: a having a boy's week. That's great. And it's so

724
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: like dense with walrus. Is it's wall the wall walrus.

725
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: You can't see the sand or not the sand? But

726
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: is there sand or is it just ice? It is

727
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: sand or no, it's I'm sorry, it's if I read

728
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: that it's rocky, I haven't actually seen it myself, but

729
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't see anything beneath the waters. Is

730
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: it's just walters flesh and blubber. Yeah, there's this one,

731
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: uh if you ever drive it the coast of California.

732
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna butcher this because I don't remember what the

733
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: animal was. If it's a uh, a manatee, it's probably

734
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: not a manatee. I think it's Sea lions of its

735
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: seas to California. Yeah, but there's something near the the house,

736
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: the Hurst Castle. There's a beach that Emily and I

737
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: drove by that was wall the wall, I guess at

738
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: Sea Lions when we went, and it's got to be

739
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: a certain time of year, maybe time of day. I

740
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: have no idea, but we didn't even know. We just

741
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: sort of looked upon it and saw a bunch of

742
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: cars pulled over with mouths agape, and sure enough, the

743
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: whole thing and the sound was amazing. It was just

744
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of But imagine one thing going and then

745
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: imagine a thousand things doing that, like the sweat hogs.

746
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: Mr Kat very nice on cue. Thank you all right, Chuck.

747
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: So what we said, um, there's three basically three predators

748
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: for the walrus, the polar bear, which, by the way,

749
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: I saw that a walrus can fend off a polar

750
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: air with its tusks one on one. The way that

751
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: polar bears hunt walruses is they cause a stampede and

752
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: walruss try to get away from the polar bear and

753
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: they will trample some a few unfortunate walruses, and the

754
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: polar bear comes up and says, hey, thanks for the

755
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: free meal. That's how they hunt walruses. The same thing

756
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: happens when humans get too close, say like in a

757
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: low flying plane or um just basically spook the walruses.

758
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: But they are hunted um but very very very narrowly

759
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: by a very small group of people. UM that in

760
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: Upiak and the u Pick natives of the Arctic area.

761
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: UM in the US, Canada and Russia are basically the

762
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: only human beings allowed to hunt a walrus. And the

763
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: reason why is because it's part of their um cultural

764
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: tradition to hunt walruses. And when they were forced to

765
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: stop for about thirty years from the sixties to the nineties,

766
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: their culture really started to suffer a decline as a result. Yeah,

767
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: and you know that they are protected as such. Now.

768
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: Over the years there have been. Um. I mean they've

769
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: been hunting walrus, as it says here since the ninth century.

770
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: These are oil the ivory of course for art their skin. Uh.

771
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: And for many years that you know, they were being

772
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: depleted because of the oil mainly that they would use

773
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: for you know, soap or lamps or it says here

774
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: even machine lubricant. But we have gotten on board with

775
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: protecting them along with like you said, Canada and Russia,

776
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: and uh, they're they're doing pretty good now. Yeah, apparently

777
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: the population is stable. They're they're um listed as vulnerable.

778
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: I didn't see why, um, because they are almost universally

779
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: protected by Arctic nations. Um, so there's not a ton

780
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,280
Speaker 1: of poaching a little bit, but it's not like poaching

781
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: in Africa, right for their ivory typically right. So I

782
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: think for the reason why it might be climate change,

783
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: then that would be the only thing I can see

784
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: because they're pretty well protected, um reproductive, they're doing top

785
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: notch ah and that's it. I wonder if when a

786
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: polar bears eating a walrus, if they get in there

787
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, Phil, he's got like two thousand

788
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: clams in them too. Both ponents H and I've read

789
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: actually that their um, their meat is like hard, kind

790
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: of tough, but it's also very lean and supposedly very

791
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: tasty as well. Really. Yeah, And one of the things

792
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: that Upak and the U Picks are known for is

793
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: using of the walrus, is that they kill. Yeah. I

794
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: think a lot of times, almost all the time, with

795
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: indigenous people's they understand the value of a creature in

796
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: respect that animal, and part of that respect is I'm

797
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: just gonna take these tusks and kick it back in

798
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: the water. It's using everything from uh, it's the stomach

799
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: for a drum to the skin to cover your boat,

800
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: the raincoats. Apparently they used to use their um what

801
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: was it, the intestines for raincoats. Yeah, it's pretty pretty sharp.

802
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: And apparently these villages too were um they were early environmentalists.

803
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: The would set their own standards for hunting because they

804
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: knew the value of making sure they thrived. Yeah. I've

805
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: read this really interesting article, I think on a site

806
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: called like Cultural Survival or something, and it detailed how

807
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: the the I think, the U Picks and the US

808
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: government in Alaska, over like thirty years, came to an

809
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: agreement finally about hunting on Round Island. Um, but it

810
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting. I was like, wow, that government really

811
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: has taken this seriously. This protection they they just wouldn't

812
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: give at all on any of it. And then finally

813
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: the U picks were like, we have to do this

814
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: culturally like this, this is not just us being Yahoo's

815
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: doing this for fun, like we have to do this.

816
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: We're losing like this cultural tradition. So they came to

817
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: an understanding that apparently is doing quite well. Nice just

818
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: like the Walrus is right. If you want to know

819
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: more about walruses, check out walrus is on how stuff

820
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: works dot com. There's a good article on there. And

821
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: since I say how stuff works, is time for listener mail?

822
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna call this wonderful email from an

823
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 1: eleven year old kid. We always love these. Hey, Josh

824
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: and Chuck, I love listening to your podcast and it

825
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: brings me great joy every day. I'm eleven years old,

826
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,160
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827
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: and is very informative. I'm learning so many new things.

828
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Speaker 1: My mom is even surprised. I just wanted to let

829
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: you guys know how happy you make me and how

830
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: much fun I have listening to you, man. Nice, isn't

831
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: that nice? I tell people all kinds of things they

832
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: never know, and they're like, wow, how did you know that?

833
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: And I say, I listen to how stuff works? Uh,

834
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: thanks for your time, and stay awesome. That is Lucas, Lucas.

835
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: You stay awesome. You stay awesome, and you start saying

836
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: stuff you should know instead of how stuff works. But

837
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: that's okay, it's close. It's close. The people might eventually

838
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: find us if he steers them the how stuff works.

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