1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. And 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 1: I know what everyone has been thinking, especially following the 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: the episode we did about slug reproduction. When is the 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: episode on vomit coming? Because because I know I wanted 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: to vomit during the research for that one. Uh, And 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: so this episode is about vomit, but not just about 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: the human vomit, because that's kind of boring. It's about 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: what happens when you look beyond human vomit and when 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: you we re reexamine regurgitation from a larger and it's 12 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: many merits from a larger biological viewpoint. We're gonna look 13 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: at regurgitation the way God looks at regurgitation. It's what 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying, all right, So let's let's get into regurgitation. 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: But before we look at the animal world for some 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: wonderful examples of it. I can't help but to to 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: look at us as humans here and the ways in 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: which we were regurgitate and why we do it. Um, 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: you know, certainly it helps when we have eaten something 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: that's rancid, and our stomach needs to get rid of 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: it as soon as possible, because that's ultimately the main 22 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: reason the humans vomit is because there's something that we 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: we ingested it then we need to get out. And 24 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: it's a good thing to have. Not all animals can 25 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: can do this. Um, some animals that eat something bad, 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: it's just kind of it's in there, you know, and 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to roll with it. But with humans, 28 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: we eat something that's good, that's noxious and and potentially dangerous, 29 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: we can vomit it back up and then reevaluate it 30 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: and like many animals, eat it again if it deserves 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: re eating. If it deserves re eating, well, that meat 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: left was so good. And now ask your dog about 33 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: this one, and I'm sure they'll explain, all right, So 34 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: that we hate doing it. It's the thing most of 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: the and in many cases, I mean, I can think 36 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: of a few times in my life where I really 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: needed to vomit, and and a good doubt of vomiting 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: would have really been beneficial to my well being. Open 39 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: up to us, tell us when why I don't remember 40 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: the day I didn't market on the calendar, But you know, 41 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: maybe you've you're a little under the weather, or you ingested, uh, 42 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: something you shouldn't have that night before, and then you're 43 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: you're ill and you don't want to vomit because it's 44 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: it is a stressful experience. It's like you're it kind 45 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: of blows you up. You're you're suddenly you're you're you're 46 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: just rattling. Your body's rattling, and your your your high energy, 47 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: and it's, uh, it's an unpleasant experience for this stuff 48 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: to come out of your mouth and it tastes bad. 49 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: I mean, anyone, everyone I think is probably vomited this 50 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. If you haven't, I would love 51 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: to hear why that is the case. But everyone is vomited. 52 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: You know. It's unpleasant and a lot of times we 53 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: avoid doing it even when we should. Well, you know what, 54 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 1: if if you ever need to vomit, I'm just here 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: to tell you that I will hold your hair back 56 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: for you. Well, thank you, sure, But here's something I 57 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: will never do. I will never premasticate something for you. Okay, 58 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: So when I'm talking about promostication here, when I'm talking 59 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: about I'm talking about chewing up food, coating it with 60 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: my lovely saliva and then depositing it into probably an 61 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: infant's mouth, because that's generally how it's been done with humans. Yeah, 62 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: birds do it, we'll discuss Mice have also been observed 63 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: to do this, and intimate makes sense for humans to 64 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: do it. And granted, this is not food that has 65 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: been swallowed and then properly like regurgitated from the gut. Yeah, 66 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: there's no bial in it, right, but it has been 67 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: it has been chewed up. And think of what baby 68 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: food is. What is baby food but pre chewed food. 69 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: You're just you just want a robot to show it 70 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: instead of a human. Yeah, and it seems kind of gross, 71 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: but really, I mean this has been done since time immemorial, right, 72 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: I mean, if you didn't have a blender, pre blender days, 73 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: you didn't have a grinder, this is what you did. 74 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: And it actually makes sense because saliva is enzyme rich 75 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: and this helps to break down food and it also 76 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: contains antibodies which might coat food proteins, making them less allergenic. 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: And this is really important because I just read a 78 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: really interesting article in the New York or it's called 79 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: the peanut Puzzle, and it looks at the extreme uptick 80 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: in peanut allergies and kids, and and allergies in general 81 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: and children. And some of the idea is that um 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: in undeveloped countries you see far less instances of food 83 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: allergies and kids, and it may because of this premastication 84 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: with infants. So if you've got a six month old, 85 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: they're being exposed to some of these more allergenic foods, 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: but they they're coated so it doesn't really take effect 87 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: in their bodies. Wow, that that is that's a really 88 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: fascinating idea. I mean, that really kind of blew my 89 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: mind a bit because I guess I wasn't really familiar 90 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: with the with the longstanding traditions of of chewing food 91 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: for a human child, though of course I've seen footage 92 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: of it, you know, now that I think about it, 93 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: I've seen like clips of of like a mother in Africa, 94 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: like chewing a bit on something and then and giving 95 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: that food to the kid, you know, not a straight up, 96 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: you know, bird mouth kind of situation. Because I think 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: that's the that's the vision that that we think of 98 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: when we instantly hear about this. We think of one bird, 99 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: you know, just wretching into another bird's mouth, And I've 100 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: seen it played for laughs for disgusting laughs on like 101 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: an episode of Saturday Night Live once where somebody's food 102 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: was being chewed for them and spit and do another 103 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,119 Speaker 1: person's mouth, and you know, everyone just loses it because 104 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: that's so gross. But as you explained, I mean, it's 105 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: it's part of our biological heritage. Yeah, it's just probably 106 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: not something that you're going to see in America, like 107 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: you know, in shopping malls, mother's premascating food and then 108 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: spitting it into the chilren's mouth, unless you are Alicia Silverstone, right, 109 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: because this happened last year. She was caught on video 110 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: doing this with her child. People freaked out, but you 111 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: know there are merits to doing that. Well, they freak 112 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: out over over breastfeeding. I think it was was it 113 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: it was either Covington, Georgia or Conyers, Georgia. Somewhere out there, 114 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: just outside of Atlanta, a woman was is breastfaiting a 115 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: child at one of the bigger chain restaurants. I forget which, 116 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: and I probably shouldn't say it if I did remember, 117 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: but somebody called the police. Well, I mean, which is insane. Yes, 118 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: that is an armed breasts going to get you what 119 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: if she had been if she'd been chewing her food 120 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: for the kid, I mean, goodness knows that would that 121 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: would have been just instant police call right there. Well, 122 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: what I'd like to think is that some people would 123 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: be so horrified that they began puking, and then other 124 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: people would begin people sypathetic vomiting. Synthetic vomiting, yes, um okay, 125 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 1: So so we've seen, you know, the rigurgitation and humans, 126 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: and then of course when we over eat, over consume, 127 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: or we eat something rancid, we vomit um. But what 128 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: about people who vomit for their art? Ah? Yes, the 129 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: professional regurgitator, the performance vomitter. This was and this is 130 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: that we've we've briefly mentioned, um, the what were they 131 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: called the performance um flags, the flashuns, the flatwists or yeah, 132 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: the flats flat you artists. Yeah, because he would have 133 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: this in the in the old circus environment. People were 134 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: getting up there and they're using their skill to the 135 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: entertainment of everyone. Everyone finds farting hilarious in the right 136 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: circumstances and do varying degrees. And then likewise, like I said, 137 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: vomiting is gross and it's shocking, and like everything that 138 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,559 Speaker 1: is gross and shocking, it has a tendency to elicit laughter. Well, 139 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: Millie Brown is the regurgitation regurgitation artist in question here, 140 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: and she has one piece that she's done. She's done 141 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: several apparently, but this one is a contemporary artist. Yeah. Oh, 142 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with her. I'm more familiar with the 143 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: older like you know, the old photos of Carney Carney regurgitators. No, 144 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: I mean she does it up. I mean it's pretty 145 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: much performance artist type of work, although she does use 146 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: a canvas. So let me just explain this video to 147 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: you really quickly because we really don't need to spend 148 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: a lot of time on this, but it is kind 149 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: of interesting. Um. She has basically these glasses of different 150 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: colored liquids. It's the rainbow of colors, and so she 151 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: takes yellow, she she drinks it, she lets it settle, 152 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: and then she regurgitates that onto the campus, onto a 153 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: white campus. No, you think that's you know, odd. She 154 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: also has two opera singers in the background clad in 155 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: all white. Um, and they are seeing my favorite aria 156 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: by the way, don't pa, And it's you know, this 157 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: beautiful opera song in this aria, and and and of 158 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: course she's regurgitating onto the campus. This video is definitely 159 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: going to go up on the block post that accompanies 160 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: this episode. So I mean, you know what, I appreciated 161 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: it because she did put some thought into the colors 162 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: she used. It is a rainbow of colors. It's not 163 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: just brown vomit on a campus, and it's that's thoughtful. Yeah, yeah, 164 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: that's some color too, because the color makes all the difference. 165 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: I found that when I recolored an image of the slug, 166 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: it repulsed me less. So you can sep colorful vomit 167 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: would would have the same thing. Yeah you don't know this, 168 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: but but Robert is still kind of working through the 169 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: issues with slugs and and finding ways to deal with 170 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: them because you've been posting on the on slugs a 171 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: lot and stuff and having to deal with the imagery, 172 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: and it helped a little bit. I think I do 173 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: respect them more as his organisms, especially after I read 174 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: some and look at I did a post about the 175 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 1: question deuced slugs trip on psilocybin when they eat psilocybin mushrooms, 176 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: and uh, I found all this I didn't find really 177 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: a definitive definitive advance a on that. But I end 178 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: up finding some really cool stuff about slug intelligence. And 179 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: there's some arguments that say that their cognitive abilities are 180 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: really not that far off from like a rat or 181 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: a pigeon. So so if you don't know for sure 182 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: whether or nothing good, who listen it? But if you 183 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: look at their their cognitive abilities, yeah, there are a 184 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: lot smarter than than I gave them credit for. And 185 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: I'm not sure just how how much how it makes 186 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: me feel better or if it makes me work. Lets 187 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: take over the world, Robert Lamb. But we're but back 188 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: to vonit back to the issue at hand. All right, 189 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: let's look at some instances of regurgitation in the insect world. Yes, 190 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: the insect world, and and the and the world of 191 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: iractnets UM offers some excellent examples. UM. For instance, spiders 192 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: arachnets regurgitate this enzyme rich bath of caustic goo. Uh. 193 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: They either regurgitated onto their prey, and this is in 194 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: cases where they sort of shred the meat a little 195 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: They shred it up a little bit and then they 196 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: vomit onto it and the enzymes break it down, or 197 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: they regurgitate into uh, their prey. For instance, the widow 198 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: spider and many crab spiders forced these enzymes, forced this 199 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: vomit into a hole that they make in the prey, 200 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: and then they suck it all back out like a slurpie. 201 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: So they apply the the the grotesque costic chemical, let 202 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: it break down and turn everything into this uh, this 203 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: this meat smoothie, and then they slurp all of it 204 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: back up. Yeah, And it's really brilliant the way that 205 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: they do this because they get this ball is going 206 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: of ball us is basically a ball of insects, and 207 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: then uh, you know, they've got to get all the 208 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: crunchy parts down because they can't spend a lot of 209 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: energy trying to break this down, so they are vomiting 210 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: on it and essentially making it a protein shake for themselves, 211 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: is slurping it back up. Um. But it's it is 212 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: a very I think it's a very cool problems they're 213 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: kind of using. It's a form of external digestion. And 214 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: you see the same thing with the house fly, of course, 215 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: and a lot of people are going to be familiar 216 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: with this from David Cronenberg's adaptation of the fly, which 217 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: which is of course a marvelous R rated horror film 218 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: that manages to discussed on of this real level, but 219 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: also it gets you thinking and and has you know, 220 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: various cultural overtones as well. One of my favorite films. 221 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 1: But one of the traits that the scientist Brundle played 222 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: by Jeff Jeff goldbluin to fantastic effect. One of the 223 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: traits he he gets from the fly is this a 224 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: feeding uh ability to vomit forth these ensigns onto something 225 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: he wants to eat. I think he does it onto 226 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: like some twinkies for this, for this video he's making 227 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: for his employers, or kind of his diary. Uh vombits 228 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: under the twinkies. Let's it sort of set for a 229 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: second and then sucks it all back up. Okay, So 230 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: when we describe to you what the houseflay does, I 231 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: want you to just keep his image in your brain, 232 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: Like put Jeff Goldbloom's face on this housefly that we 233 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: talk about. Okay, because consider the housefly. It's flying around 234 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: your house in your kitchen, driving you nuts. It lands 235 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: on a piece of food, maybe a little morsel of sugar, 236 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: and it's got to break it down, so it scrubs 237 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: the dry food substance with the bristles on the end 238 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,719 Speaker 1: of its probostis um. This frees up the food particles 239 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: shreds it up. Yea. And then the second step is 240 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: a little bit like when you add hot water to 241 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: instant oatmeal, only instead of hot water, the housefly adds 242 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: a mixture of its saliva and digestive juices. Sounds delicious, 243 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: and that's when it vomits the saliva and digestive material 244 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: onto its meal. In a few seconds pass where it 245 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: all the breakdown and then yeah, deffical bloom sex at 246 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: all back up. Yeah, I mean it's it's the shredding 247 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: and the is key here too, because I mean think 248 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: of think like when you make a smoothie in the morning, Um, 249 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: you want like small bits. You add a protein powder, 250 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: not a protein chunk. So that's right, because Unlis, your 251 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: blade is like a super blade, right, I can really 252 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: break that down. Um. So then the fly, uh, if 253 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: it can't adequately break down food enough or to pass 254 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: through a tube that leads into its stomach, the fly 255 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: it sense it's food down a different tube to an 256 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: intersect called the crop, and then the fly may pass 257 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: the bubble dissolving food multiple times between the crop and 258 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: the mouth, back and forth, back and forth, regularly applying 259 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: fresh saliva, so eventually all of that gets liquefied. It's delightful. 260 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's disgusting from a human point 261 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: of view, but it makes perfect sense for these these 262 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: creatures because they're not gonna You look at an animal 263 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: that's not going to be able to necessarily, you know, 264 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: chew its food up. It needs to do these things externally, 265 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: in the same way that we've ternalized a lot of 266 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: our process eating processes through cooking. Well, I can't cook well, 267 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: I can't use the kitchen, so fly is gonna depend 268 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: on it's uh, it's time honored method of external digestion. 269 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: You know, there's a part in Charlotte's Web when Um 270 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: Wilbur the pig meets Charlotte and he's completely disgusted by 271 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: seeing her knock out her prey and is judging her. 272 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: And it's really funny because she has this whole exchange 273 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: with him like you are. So you know, um, living 274 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: in the rarefied airs over there with your food brought 275 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: to you. I have to work from my food, and 276 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: I'm genetically programmed to do this. So that's awesome. I 277 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: had either I'd forgotten about that, or maybe I maybe 278 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: I haven't read Charlotte's Web and I've only seen the movie, 279 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: and maybe that didn't make it into the movie. I 280 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: don't remember. It was a nice little exchange. I liked it. 281 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: My daughter's reading it right now, so um, knee deep 282 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: in it? All right? So should we take a break 283 00:14:51,520 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: here and and then get to more vomit afterwards? All right, 284 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: we're back discussing regurgitation. We just talked about our friends 285 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: the fly, a friend, the spider of the way Charlotte 286 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: and Brundle take care of their their their lunches. So 287 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: now we're gonna talk about a few other animals of 288 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: note and Pico. We're going to talk about the probosis monkey. Well, 289 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: the probosis meaning nose. This is the guy with the 290 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: big nose. Yeah. You've probably seen these monkeys before. Uh. 291 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: They of course use regurgitation. Yeah, and it's interesting because 292 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: their use of their up chuck, which they basically they do, 293 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: consort of a cut chewing kind of a thing. They 294 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: they vomited it back up into their mouth. They reach 295 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: you it around a little bit and then they swallow 296 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: it um and for most like guerrillas, humans, you know, 297 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: other primates, if this is done on a semi regular basis, 298 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: it's considered pathological. It's not natural, and it's pinitually harmful 299 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: because you're you're just not you don't have the plumbing 300 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: to really handle that much caustic stuff moving around all 301 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: the time. Ye I mean, think about us humans, The 302 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: enamel will just wear off of our teeth if we 303 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: were always vomiting exactly. But researchers found and this from 304 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: a paper that appeared in the Royal Society Biology Letters, 305 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: they found it that the digestive track of this particular 306 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: monkey is drastically different from that of humans and gray apes. 307 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: So what you have when you look inside the the 308 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: proboscis monkey's mouth, you find a distinct chambered for stomach 309 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: where bacterial digestion occurs prior to the glandular stomach. So 310 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: you end up, you know, having more of this, uh 311 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: really more what you end up thinking about in terms 312 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: of the digestion system of a cow. What I really 313 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: like about this study is is is how it was conducted. Um. 314 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: The scientists were actually in a boat and they were 315 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: on the Kimbot Kenna botanag And River in Malaysia. And 316 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: so they're sitting there watching these these monkeys from a 317 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: distance during the early morning the late afternoon for three 318 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: months vomiting. And they concentrated on twenty three different monkeys 319 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: that were videotaped regurgitating and re chewing. And then when 320 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: this happened, the monkey's abdomen would contract and the primate 321 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: would stick its tongue outside its person mouth, which I 322 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: think it's just you know, that's got to be one 323 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: of those points in your job where you're kind of like, Okay, 324 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: I'm on a boat watching regurgitating probostis monkey. Yeah. I 325 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: mean they already look kind of like Jimmy Duranny anyway, 326 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: so they you know, they're they're already amusing to watch, 327 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: and then they have this peculiar way of going about 328 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: the meal. Yeah, just vomiting on the banks the river. 329 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 1: So this brings us around to my favorite vomiting animal 330 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: really at the moment, because a lot of this is 331 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: new to me is the is the vulture the turkey vulture. Well, 332 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: they're kind of like the Ninja's the experts at vomiting. Yeah, 333 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: and it's it's really fast. We have an article and 334 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: how stif works about it, and you should you should 335 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: definitely check that out if you're you're into this as 336 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: a topic. But let's let's set the stage. The Turkey vulture, 337 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: if you're not familiar, is, of course a scavenger haunts 338 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: the sky, eyes wheeling around and big big circles, uh, 339 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: looking for some dead prey to go feast stone. They 340 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: find a carcass and then it's on. It's time for 341 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: the meal land and to start tearing apart this rancid 342 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: thing and eating it. So what do you need in 343 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: order to live your life on a diet of rancid flesh? Well, 344 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: first of all, you don't want a lot of feathers 345 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: around your face getting mucked up, right, and you needed 346 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 1: kind of surgically clean up there. Yeah. Um. Second of all, 347 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: you probably want some like great a stomach acid. Yeah, 348 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: I mean think of if you're you're like me, say, 349 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: I'm not really used to eating certain types of like 350 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: junk food, I guess, uh, and probably not used to 351 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: eating a lot of meat. But so if I'm in 352 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: a situation where I end up really eating more than 353 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: I should and really choweling down, on on on, just 354 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: too much redneat. I start feeling a little ill, like 355 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: my stomach cannot handle it. I don't have the cast 356 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: iron stomach that some people have, and the vulture really does. 357 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: And since have a cast iron stomach, I mean, this 358 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: animal has evolved to thrive on rancid uh meat that 359 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: would just sicken and maybe even kill another animal. I 360 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: mean they've actually shown that the uh, the the enzymes 361 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: in the vultures gut are capable of handling some pretty 362 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: horrible pathogens because they have to be, because that's the 363 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,239 Speaker 1: nature of what they eat. You're talking about anthrax too, right. 364 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: They they have found scores of anthrax in their feces. Yeah, 365 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: the evidence that it passed through um. So yeah. I mean, 366 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: their their guts, their their acids are so effective that 367 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: they can break down some of these virus bacteria in 368 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: the same way that I have. Alina Um can poop 369 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 1: the prickly pair pins right out without any problem. I mean, 370 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: the same way the vulture can poop out the these 371 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: anthrax spores that would be problematic to another creature. Christ 372 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: and conger Um, the one of the co hosts for 373 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: Stuff Mom Never Told You, has an article about vultures, 374 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: and in it, she says in a study on white 375 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: back vultures that pH levels and their stomachs were between 376 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: A one and a two. That measurement is comparable to 377 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: gastric and hydrochloric acid from the human stomach, and it's 378 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: far more corrosive than acid rain, which has a pH 379 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: between four and five. It was also more acidic than 380 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: the stomach contents of other conniverse birds, including carons and 381 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: barn owls and barne owls. By the way, we've talked 382 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: about their pellets before. Yes, um, you know they can't 383 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: really break down the bones or the teeth of what 384 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: they eat, so they have to regurgitate it into these 385 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: little pellets. Yeah, quite lovely. Didn't you get some for 386 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: for the holidays? Oh? No, I was thinking about it. 387 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: I was thinking about at one point, and then we 388 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: did a podcast where I accidentally referred to the pellets 389 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: as poop, and then I heard from all the owls 390 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: who are the fan. Yeah, the pellets at the fan, 391 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: and the owls are rightfully upset with me over that one. 392 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: But but I'm hoping to please the vultures in this podcast. 393 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: I think we're getting everything more or less. Right, Um, So, 394 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: the thing about their vomiting, when when a vulture does vomit, 395 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: and again, as we've estab pushed, animals vomit, so the 396 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: fact that a vulture vomits is not that big of 397 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: a of a deal. But but there's a there's a 398 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: lot of there's been a fair amount of thinking about 399 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: why they do it, because they'll do it when they're threatened, 400 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: right when they're threatened, and and they want to do 401 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: a little bit of defensive vomiting. Now, one thing to 402 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: keep in mind when a when a when a buzzard, 403 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: when a turkey vulture is is threatened, it's probably in 404 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: a situation where it's it's hanging around this dead body. 405 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: It's hanging around this body, eating and eating and eating 406 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: its heavy. Yeah, and then suddenly some humans are poking around, 407 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: or maybe it's a lion, maybe it's some other birds, 408 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: it's an eagle, something else is suddenly intruding on them, 409 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: and it's an issue. So what does the vulture do? 410 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: The vulture vomits. Now, there are a few different interpretations 411 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: to take care. One of them is that it's a 412 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: purely defensive measure. They have all this awful stuff in 413 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 1: their gut, all of this uh this ranted meat and 414 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: just and caustic enzymes. Somebody's messing with you. Spit up 415 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: hawk of the stuff, Adam, and see what happened, and 416 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: see how they take it. You know, don't make me 417 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: vomit acid on you. That's kind of the proposition here. 418 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: That's my bumper, bumper sticker on my car back. Another 419 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: idea is that it empty empty systomach chamber so they 420 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: can take off because otherwise they're just weighed down with 421 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: all of that nasty carre. Yeah, because they've been gorging themselves. 422 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,479 Speaker 1: Meals maybe few and far between for a vulture, so 423 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: when it's available, they eat and eat and eat. And 424 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: if you've got to take off in a hurry, you 425 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: may have to lighten the lobe. So that's another theory. 426 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: But the third theory is the grossest and and and 427 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: really the most magnificent, and that is the situation where 428 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: all right, I'm a buzzard, I'm just stuffing myself and 429 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: all this meat, and so suddenly there's just like this 430 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: eagle showing up, or there's a or there's a coyote 431 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 1: or something getting a little too close to my business. 432 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: And uh, I'm I'm a bird, so I know that 433 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: other animals may want to eat me. I'm I'm a 434 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: prey animal too many. Uh so what can I do 435 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: to save myself? Well? Sure, okay, maybe I could spit 436 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: some half it on them, all right, that might work. 437 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 1: It's pretty vile stuff. Or I could just lighten the 438 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: load and try to get away. But vultures can be 439 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: kind of gaky, you know. It's not like there, it's 440 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: not like they're able to just instantly just shoot off 441 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: like a rocket. So the theory here is that when 442 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: they vomited forth this this ransomness, they're actually providing a bribe. 443 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: They're saying, don't eat me. Who eat this? And and 444 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: certainly like it was in one of the sources I 445 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: was looking at, I believe this was on the Turkey 446 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: vulture website, the Vulture Vulture Society dot homestead dot com. 447 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: They have a lot of cool facts about them. They 448 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: pointed out the eagles eat it right up. The eagles 449 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: presented with some vulture vomit. Doubere like, yeah, that looks 450 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: great that thanks for preparing that for me. Maybe that's 451 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: like fog off to them. They're like, oh, delicacy. Yeah maybe, 452 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: so I'd like to imagine the turkey buzzard saying though, like, 453 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: if you keep me alive, I can regurgitate ten meals 454 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: as many as you want. If you kill me, you 455 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: only get one. Yeah, I mean it's also like, if 456 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: you you know, here is something here, go ahead and 457 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: eat this. You can eat this, or you can try 458 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: and fight me to the death. And I have claws 459 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: and I have a beak, and I might not be 460 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: the most furious creature on on the planet, but I'm 461 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: a harder meal. Here's the easy meal. So why not yet? 462 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: Why don't you have it? I know it's already digested 463 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, already toted. Yeah, I don't know. That's 464 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: a nice little peace offering. Um, so you know what 465 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: we have not thrown into the mix. Here's urine. Oh yeah, 466 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: and uh, this just would not be a complete podcast 467 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: talking about vultures in volment without the urine. It's just 468 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: like a bonus that you get to have your end 469 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: in this podcast as well. And this is uh, you know, 470 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: we talked about how you don't want feathers generally around 471 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: the head because it needs to sort of remain surgically clear. 472 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: So they can go in after some meat and get 473 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: it all dirty. But of course they're also going to 474 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: be stepping through some pretty rancid stuff as well. So 475 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: to disinfect their legs, they'll urinate down their legs and 476 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,959 Speaker 1: uh and and and I find that there's a certain 477 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: gross but that admirable um economy to that. It's incredibly practical, right, 478 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: because you're getting rid of some of the lingering pathogens 479 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: that that you've been trumping along with. I like to 480 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: think of that. Somewhere out there there is a performance 481 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: artist who that does some sort of vulture urinating canvas. 482 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, you expect all this from 483 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: a vulture, right, because they're not very cute looking. They're 484 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: sort of dastardly looking. You expect that they urinate themselves 485 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: and they vomit up piece meals. But there are other 486 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: creatures out there that have some pretty smooth moves themselves. Yeah, 487 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: and they don't necessarily look the part at first glance. 488 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: For instance, the fulmer, which means foul goal because it 489 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: essentially looks like a seagull and it's one of these 490 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: these these the type of birds that makes its home. 491 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 1: And you know, Rocky little purchases that they find on 492 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: cliff sides, and if something comes and messes with them 493 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: and poses a threat, they will projectile vomit at their 494 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: at at the intruder. And this is a straight up 495 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: there's no if hands and butts about it. They're projectile 496 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: vomiting to cause a distress to their attacker. You know, 497 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: I kind of thought about them as the kittens of 498 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: the bird world because they are white feathered and there. 499 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: They're cute looking, I will say it, and you just 500 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: don't expect this sort of filth that comes projectile vomiting 501 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: from their mouth. Yeah, it's orange, It stinks of rotten fish, 502 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: and it's like really oily and sticky, Like it didn't 503 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: come off all that easy, uh Like for a human. 504 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: If you're climbing up there checking out birds and you 505 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,959 Speaker 1: get vomited on, you're gonna have to go home and 506 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: you know, really shower and scribe to get it off. 507 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: If you're a bird and you're messing with a former, 508 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: then you've got this awful stuff on your on your feathers, 509 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: and you can actually interfere with your ability to fly. 510 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: So not only annoying, but potentially lethal weapon in that 511 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: regard and if you were a bird and you recovered this, 512 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: and you should take to the water. The gut oil 513 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: of the full more chick causes the birds to lose 514 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: their buoyancy and they drown. So it's kind of like 515 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: death vomit. Yea death vomit orange death vomit from the 516 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: foul goals that look like kitten birds. Yeah, now that's 517 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: speaking of kittens that we we should bring it back 518 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: around though to two again, to humans and uh and 519 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 1: our expectations of vomit versus animal expectations and even children 520 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: because as adult humans we end up with this idea 521 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: that you know, vomit is to be avoided at all costs. 522 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: Then you invite a dog into your house and the 523 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: dog is vomiting and eating its own vomit, or you 524 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 1: bring in a cat which just goes off like a 525 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: time bomb all the time. Just vomit becomes a part 526 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 1: of your your daily life. And then if you have 527 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: a child, then even more so, they're just constantly vomiting. 528 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: It's true. I've been vomitated on in spectacular ways. I 529 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: have to say. Yeah, my my mom is a kindergarten 530 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: teacher and and she I once mentioned it to her 531 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: about children vomiting, because we have My nephew vomited in 532 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,479 Speaker 1: the back of the car when we were taking them 533 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: somewhere and just happened all of a sudden. The other one, 534 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: uh my, the niece, she was complaining of stomach problems, 535 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: but then he vomited and it was a huge mess. 536 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: And I mentioned to my mom and she's like, oh, yeah, kids, 537 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: those age you know, like kindergarten age, kids, first grade, 538 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: they just vomit all the time. They'll just be doing something, 539 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: They'll be coloring and then just vomit. It's true, and 540 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: they just keep going. They just pop a breath mat 541 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: and keep going. And then eventually they get a little 542 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: older and they begin to believe this, this lie that 543 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: vomiting isn't the part of who we are, and boy 544 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: are they wrong. So there you have it, vomit Um. 545 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: We would love to hear your stories on vomit if 546 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: you are things that you would like to share with us, um, 547 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: your encounters with vomit in the Alien Kingdom, preferably not 548 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: just that time that you objected and it was spectacular, 549 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: but but more of it. 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