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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Future production of I Heart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology

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Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the cuts most adorable animals who love to murder.

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Speaker 1: I think so many animals are cute, so I've had

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Speaker 1: to really imagine, like, what is objectively speaking, the cutest

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Speaker 1: animals out there who also just love to kill. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about murderers with big old puppy eyes, murderers who

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Speaker 1: look like cute little bunny rabbits mixed, which Huah was,

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Speaker 1: and murderers who look completely inconspicuous, like something that snow

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Speaker 1: white would have land on her hand and then impale

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Speaker 1: her on a steak. Joining me today to talk about

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Speaker 1: this is producer, director, podcast host of Shooting Threes, and

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Speaker 1: my friend Jack Greenberg. Welcome, Hey, thank you for having

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Speaker 1: me talking about some cutie. Yes, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about some cuties. The inspiration for this is that you

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Speaker 1: mentioned to me that you love the blackfooted cat. I

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Speaker 1: love that little murderer. Yeah, we have talked about him

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Speaker 1: recently on the show, so I didn't want to do

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Speaker 1: a whole episode, uh with a minute, but I do

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Speaker 1: want to briefly go over, like, what do you find

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Speaker 1: so appealing about the black footed cat? As if I

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Speaker 1: need to ask? I mean, come on, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's obvious look at the little thing. But I've

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Speaker 1: been I've been spreading the gospel about this cat before

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Speaker 1: for for years now. I came out, I came across it,

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Speaker 1: up recently, and I'm proud of him. I too, have

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Speaker 1: been talking about this little guy for years. So I

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Speaker 1: also feel like I like the blackfooted cat before he

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Speaker 1: was cool, but no gate keeping here. I loved that

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Speaker 1: now a big thing. No, no, I I think for

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Speaker 1: me it was Uh. There is a picture of him

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Speaker 1: looking real angry with just mutilated bird. Oh, I love,

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Speaker 1: that's my favorite one. I know exactly which photo you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. He's got like a birdie stuffed right in

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Speaker 1: his mouth and just in the body of a little

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Speaker 1: tiny cat who's like it's a wildcat, but it's like

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's truly like kidens yes and looking and

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Speaker 1: it's it's the cutest thing. And I think I just

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Speaker 1: you know, don't count these guys, right, they're athletes. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're incredibly uh savvy, and they're dangerous. But also I

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Speaker 1: want one. Bridget is saying that she is dangerous and

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Speaker 1: loves murder. Dangerous. Yeah, I am not to be reckoned

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Speaker 1: with small people can be killers too. Don't judge a

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Speaker 1: book by Yeah, I'm really sick of people discounting me

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Speaker 1: and what I'm capable of. Uh. And it's and it's

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Speaker 1: extreme violence. Well, if it makes you feel better, I've

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Speaker 1: always kept one eye open with you around, Bridget, like

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Speaker 1: someone who has no business uh and yells a lot

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Speaker 1: that I will fight people. Yeah, you've got a glint,

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Speaker 1: You've got you've got the glint in your eye, you know,

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Speaker 1: the one that the blackfooted cat has in that photo

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Speaker 1: with the bird stuffed in its mouth, that sort of murderous.

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Speaker 1: But you have that. Now, I don't think you would

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Speaker 1: that would benefit you know, And uh, I've truly have

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Speaker 1: I'm proudly a whimp. I'll just say it right there.

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Speaker 1: it by running away. I'm the kind of person. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we are we are not talking about the blackfooted

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Speaker 1: cat as my which as I love them. We have

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Speaker 1: the pot. The title is like when the it's about

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Speaker 1: cat play. It's like when the cats play, when the

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Speaker 1: I've got a cat expert on. We talked about cats.

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Speaker 1: I bring up the blackfooted cat. We talk about cat evolution.

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Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Check that out if you want to

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Speaker 1: hear more about the blackfooted cat. But we are talking

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Speaker 1: about some equally adorable animals who also just are absolutely

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Speaker 1: bloodthirsty and love killing. The first one is one of

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Speaker 1: my I say this so much, but it's always true.

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Speaker 1: they look like aliens. They yes, they have you know,

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Speaker 1: that was really where Steven Mr. Spielberg went wrong. But

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Speaker 1: So yes, depending on your perspective, Tarsiers are one of

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Speaker 1: that did a bunch of molly. They're raging right now.

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Speaker 1: And for our younger listeners, Molly is just a nice

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Speaker 1: paper clips. It's a little Yeah. I've got this picture

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Speaker 1: He doesn't look particularly happy to be held. They don't

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Speaker 1: that rage later. But like, yes, they don't like to

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Speaker 1: the cutest, most harmless of the primates, they are the

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Speaker 1: only living species of primate that is entirely carnivorous. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are carnivorous, little tiny teeth. So other primates tend

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Speaker 1: anyway you want to say, you know, however, I'm feelings.

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Speaker 1: But the tar Seer family are nocturnal predators, killers who

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Speaker 1: really do with their cute little foxy face. Uh, it works,

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00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: it just works, it off. It's a good fit. And yeah,

418
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: so like they have um these also little fuzzy tufted footsies, tootsies,

419
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: little people that protect their blue paws from the hot

420
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: desert sand. Just like just absolute cuteness. Yeah, I they are.

421
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: It's like you don't remember the Avatar animal this series,

422
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: Not the Blue Blue People Avatar, but the yeah you know, yeah,

423
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: the Airbender Avatar. They had that little that little thing

424
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: Momo with a huge ears kind of like I don't know,

425
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: kind of similar vibes, not quite. I guess Momo was

426
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: more of a lemur thing. But these got just the

427
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: big the big ears are so big ears and on

428
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: and on any pet. The ears are one of my

429
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: favorite things to play. Yes, yes, uh, and I think

430
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I bet they're real soft. You

431
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: should probably shouldn't touch them, but I bet they have

432
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: the softest ear I would imagine, yes, yeah, my dog,

433
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: like I really yeah, get getting the scratches on my

434
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: dog ear my dog's ears. It's like these ears are

435
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: just like little cuddle zones. I love them. I love them.

436
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: I wonder what these guys look like wet well, I

437
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: can tell you bridget they should not get what they

438
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: would hate it because yeah, they live in a desert.

439
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: They do not love water. They don't swim really, they

440
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: do not want to really be around bodies of water.

441
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: In fact, they don't even really need to drink that

442
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: much water. Most of the hydration they get is from

443
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: the juices of their victims, so they love killing. They

444
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: will eat small mammals, lizards, birds, get gos. But they'll

445
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: also eat eggs. They'll even eat root vegetables, so they're

446
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: quasi omnivorous. But they but they absolutely love to kill stuff.

447
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, because water is so scarce in their

448
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: desert environment, they all most of their hydration comes from

449
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: the blood and the guts of the things they kill. Yeh,

450
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: good for them, Just straight lizard gatorade, right, yeah, cool

451
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: and refreshing. Can you imagine like a little coach one

452
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: of these fedix foxes as a coach and then like

453
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: wins the game and they just put dump a big,

454
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: like frothy thing of like lizard guts on lizards. Yeah, alright,

455
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: let's take a break. Everyone gets some lizard guts, So

456
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: let's let's go back to those ears for a minute, though,

457
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: those what are those massive ears doing? Are they flying

458
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: around like planes? I wish so ears actually served two functions.

459
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: One is to actually keep them cool in the desert heat,

460
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: and the other is to stock and locate victims no

461
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: matter where they try to hide. So the obvious use

462
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: of these ears is being sensitive to hearing prey. So

463
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: they can hear arthropods or rodents moving under the sand,

464
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: like buried under the sand, and once they've pinpointed their prey,

465
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: they will find exactly where they are under that stand

466
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: rapid you dig them up and then before they've known it,

467
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: it's it's a murder. I would love to watch it

468
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: dig I bet it's really cute watching them just digging

469
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: the sand, uh, for murdering purposes. But it was a

470
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: little pause, just like here I go, I'm gonna murder.

471
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: That would drive me crazy. Like imagine hearing everything moving

472
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: underneath the ground. It's good for them, but like if

473
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: it's I think even if it's all food, like imagine

474
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: being like full and being like still here, I mean

475
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: my food moving. That's the thing though, when you're in this,

476
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: when you're a little guy, you gotta wrapid metabolism and

477
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: you live in this desert environment, like you, you were

478
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: always hungry, always hungry for murder. So yeah, yeah, so

479
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: they be paranoid. So yeah, but yeah, imagine if you

480
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: could hear, like just to hear a burger scuttle around

481
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm gonna get that burger. Yeah. So,

482
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: large ears also means a large surface area where blood

483
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: vessels can spread out and meet the air, which cools

484
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: down the blood as it circulates into the body, so

485
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: it's actually a built in blood conditioner. This is a

486
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: common technique that animals will use to cool down in

487
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: hot environments. So like Gerboa's, which are adorable little like mice.

488
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: They look like little mice that have like kangaroo legs

489
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: and giant ears. They're so cute. African hairs also have

490
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: just gigantic ears. And even when you think about it,

491
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: elephants like those big ears. In addition to being able

492
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: to kind of fan them around, like, that surface area

493
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: allows the blood to cool and get recirculated back into

494
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: the elephants, so it helps keep them cool. That is

495
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: so yeah. I mean, it never fails to like amaze

496
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: me how smart evolution is and the body is and

497
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: like these little tricks. Um, it's like all improv babies play,

498
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: like what if we made Yeah, what if we just

499
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: like really stretched out the ears so they can feel

500
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: the breeze. Yeah, it's it's not even that though. You

501
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: just get a you get a dumbo born one generation

502
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: and then like dumbos like huh, I feel actually really good,

503
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: really cool, and he makes more dumbos and the ladies. Yeah,

504
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: I mean it makes Yeah, I mean it makes sense

505
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: because like I guess, like when you're hot and you're

506
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: just like starfish in bed spread out. Yes, these guys

507
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: are smart. Ears. Squirrels do that sometimes too, to like

508
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: dissipate heat, like where they kind of spread out, and

509
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I've seen. It's got an actual name. You

510
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: want to know what it is? What is it called spouting?

511
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: No way? Yeah, I remember the Yeah. The first time

512
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: I was amazed. I I saw a squirrel just like

513
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: fully lying on the top of a park bench in

514
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: the middle of the summer, and it was the first

515
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: time I had ever seen anything like that, and I

516
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: was like, are you okay, little buddy. He's like, just

517
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: own business. Just sluten leave melt, leave me alone. Splutin off.

518
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: I can't believe that that really feels like something the

519
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: Internet came up with it, so wild gluten ears so

520
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 1: Fannick foxes are also pretty cute in their social lives.

521
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 1: They live in family groups in the den uh and

522
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: that is adorable. They do actually hunt alone though, like

523
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: when when they're out murdering, they do it on their own. Um,

524
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: they don't want their family to see it, right, you're

525
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: too young to see this, junior and then just ripping

526
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,720
Speaker 1: the head off of something. But you know, they actually

527
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: will take on prey larger than themselves. They are that

528
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: for the dedicated to the cause of murdering things. So

529
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: they will sometimes like pick out a rabbit and rabbits

530
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: can actually be larger than them. These like hairs will

531
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: be bigger than the Finnic fox and they're like, I

532
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: could eat it. I could do that. That's that's a

533
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: family dinner. That's that's smart. They know a rabbit probably

534
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have like can't hurt them. It's bigger than them,

535
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: but it probably can't hurt them. Well, it's not necessarily true, though,

536
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: rabbits and hairs will viciously fight back if they can,

537
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: like they have massive hind legs that can really like

538
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: actually shred and tear. Um. So like they are just

539
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: they will defend themselves. I just had an image, yeah, fair,

540
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: I just had an image of like a rabbit trying

541
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: to like back kick one of these things, just like

542
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: flying through the air. Yeah, so truly, Like it sounds

543
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: like fighting a rabbit. That's like that's punching down. But

544
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: I could fight a rabbit a rabbit. I can fight

545
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: a rabbit two rabbits. Yeah, But you know I love

546
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: the toughness, Yes, I love I Yeah, I love that

547
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 1: size doesn't matter that there. Yeah, these are tough little guys. Yeah,

548
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: they've got like they've got like big big guy energy,

549
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: but in a little guy. And that's what we love

550
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: to say, that's what we love. So unfortunately, because they

551
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 1: are so cute, people do try to keep them as pets. Um. Yeah,

552
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: so I get it. I definitely sympathize with wanting one

553
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: of these as a pet because, like I mean, cute,

554
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: so cute. Look at it, look at it. It's so cute.

555
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: I want to want I don't know, I want to

556
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: scratch its little ears. I want to carry it around

557
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: the house making airplane noises, going you're like, but I

558
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: don't do that with why the animals. Let me present

559
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: to you just a case against keeping them as pets.

560
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: Here's a few reasons. First one is they smell like

561
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: Satan's butthole. They're peace highly highly potent. They have very

562
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: stinky concentrated urine because they use that in the wild

563
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: to mark their territory. And in addition, and also they're

564
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: not drinking a lot of water, right, it's very concentrated,

565
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: very stinky. Good point. Also, they like to roll around

566
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: in their own piss, so you also we mentioned earlier

567
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: they don't like water, so they roll around in their

568
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: own piss. And it's really not recommended that you give

569
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: them baths because they get very stressed out. So you're

570
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: gonna have like this piss covered reeking animal who if

571
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: you try to bathe can give them like a panic

572
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: attack and can be dangerous. So like, ah, yeah, it's

573
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: not a great situation. It's like a newborn baby, I imagine,

574
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: slightly less hard than a newborn baby. Yes, so they

575
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: are not demn yes yeah um, and hopefully your newborn

576
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: baby is not rolling around in its own piss for

577
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: very long h Yeah, it seems unavoidable at a certain age.

578
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: But right right on this show, we're strongly anti child neglect.

579
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Finnic foxes are not domesticated. They love hunting.

580
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: They have an omnivorous diet that is very difficult to

581
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: replicate um dogs and cats. Like you may be thinking, like, well,

582
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: they're carnivores. Well, they have lived with us for thousands

583
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: and thousands of years to the point where their metabolism

584
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: has evolved to be able to eat much more of

585
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: our human food such that we can make these like

586
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: kibble formulations, like we've figured out the diet for well

587
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: maybe not a percent figured out, but like, uh, you know, dogs,

588
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,879
Speaker 1: for instance, have gained the ability to digest grain, which

589
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: their ancestors lacked, so and they can have a little

590
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: piece as a treat. They can have a little piece

591
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: of salami, but only as a treat, and they can

592
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 1: you know, they can eat some grain. They are still

593
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: they still require meat and proteins. Same with cats, like

594
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: cats need meat and protein, but dogs especially have developed

595
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: the ability to digest more grain than their ancestors. Cats

596
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: are a little less. Cats didn't really change that much

597
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: in terms of their dietary needs compared to the untapable,

598
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: but dogs definitely have. Uh. Finnic foxes have not been

599
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: domesticated at all, so they're metabolism has not adapted to

600
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: any aspect of a human diet. So you need to

601
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: feed it live insects, live rodents. Uh. You also need

602
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: to do like vegetables. I've like looked at like some

603
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: of these things where like people recommend you feed them

604
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: live baby birds. First of all, I don't know how

605
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: you source that. I don't know where you get them. Um, yeah,

606
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 1: you gotta trapper and also blood everywhere, but everywhere. Again

607
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: they love murdering. Um, so yeah, you wouldn't have to

608
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: be cool with like having your pet like do a

609
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: murder spree every day and like with a side of salad.

610
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: Like that's like that's what your diet is, with a

611
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: nice little yeah, with a nice little house salad. Right,

612
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: I'll have the grotesque murder rip a baby bird's head

613
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 1: clean off its shoulders. Um, and like could I could

614
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: I get some rugula just on the side, right? I

615
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: I just imagine like these people like they're like, oh,

616
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: I gotta leave my house for two hours a day,

617
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: said a little bird free in my house? Leave for

618
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: two hours come back to crime scene, right right. I

619
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: don't ask questions. I just let it happen. Yeah, I

620
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: just let a bird loosen my house and see what happens. Also,

621
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: if you have one of these guys, you should really

622
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: fill your house with sand. Uh. They love burrowing, I

623
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: love scrap digging up sand. So really, to give it

624
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: its best life, you would want to fill room with sand,

625
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: put some live insects in there, maybe some scorpions, baby birds, tubers, lamps. Yes,

626
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: and deal with an animal that smells like super piss

627
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: poops in the house and who screams constantly like this

628
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: is what they sound like. Oh wow, so imagine that, don't. Yeah,

629
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 1: leave these guys alone. The potent odor of the pungent

630
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: and potent odor of piss, rewear, dead animals, poop um.

631
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: Not a pet, I'm gonna that's my verdict. Not no,

632
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: not a pet. Looks like a pet. Not a pet.

633
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: Not a pet, which is which is the hardest thing

634
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: for people to wrap their head around. Hard. I get it.

635
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: I want to. I get it too. I want to.

636
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: I want to, I really want to cuddle it. Yet

637
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: I want to give one of these guys a nice poop,

638
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: right like I want to dress in little sweaters and

639
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: called Benjamin and be like, come on, come, Benjamin, we

640
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: we must go to the market for your fresh baby birds.

641
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: They definitely are the kind of like pet where they

642
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: don't you know, if it's names Chris, it goes by Christopher.

643
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: They go by the full Yeah, they go by the

644
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: full name. They're distinguished. Imagine it in a bow type

645
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: but don't. Yeah, well you can imagine. I'm not gonna

646
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: you can imagine it, just just yeah, imagine it. Don't

647
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: put it in a bow tie. I'm not the tyrant

648
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: of your imagination. I encourage you to imagine it in

649
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: a time, but if you try to make that a reality,

650
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you know, kind of imagine you'll lose

651
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: a finger. Yeah, and apparently their teeth are super super sharp.

652
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: They're like little razors, so like you know how like

653
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: puppy teeth are actually weirdly sharper than Yeah, it's like that,

654
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: but even worse. So like they there bots are apparently

655
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: very bloody and painful. So you know, let's just let's

656
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: seems like a bad pete. Yeah, let's have like an

657
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: imaginary one as our pet, like and imagine it and

658
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: put a little bit of stuffed animal. Yeah, look at

659
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: some pictures and get a stuff. Imagine the smell of concentrated,

660
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: dehydrated piss like in your in your mind. Oh, you

661
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: can tell. These guys look like stinky, little stinkers. They're

662
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: a little stink guys and they love it. You can

663
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: tell they love it, the little around in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

664
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: you just gotta let them be them. We gotta see them.

665
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: They're so I'm assuming their ears like moved back and

666
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: forth and they don't really like down. Yeah, they don't

667
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: get Yeah. Yeah, it's the full it's it's it's the

668
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: full range of cute and horrible grimlin goblin mode. Like yeah,

669
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: absolutely definition of goblin mode. It would kill me to

670
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: see them have like sad, floppy ears, you know. Well, yeah,

671
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: I saw I saw a video of one getting bathed

672
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 1: and it had like its ears were like pinned back

673
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: and it looked miserable, and it's like, don't bathem little

674
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: be stinky. He doesn't bathe them wild if you like,

675
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: that's the thing. If you're going to get one of

676
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: these as a pet, you've got to commit to the

677
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: stinky lifestyle. The goblin mode you got to commit to

678
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: stink life. Yeah, and you're also gonna stinky. You're gonna

679
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: smell like your house is gonna smell. Yeah. Yeah, I

680
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: don't think I I don't you know, these guys can

681
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: commit distinct life. I don't think humans should, right, right,

682
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: But if like again, like you, you will smell like

683
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: piss and you should accept that. Yeah, what a good message. Yeah,

684
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: leave these guys alone, m smell like yeah, yeah, let

685
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: him smell like piss. Let them let them fight bigger animals.

686
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: Uh and and and stay in their families and screen

687
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: and like juice box a lizard, suck a lizard up

688
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, exactly, just full caprice, crush it like

689
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: a gatorade bottle and wease all those guts in there.

690
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: I love them, I love I love its little tail,

691
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: and it's big ears and it's cute little nose. Bridget.

692
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: We are onto perhaps the most Stevia say animal in

693
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: the world. It is. Yeah, what a little ball. Yeah.

694
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: I think I may have talked about these dudes on

695
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: the show before, but let's talk about them again because

696
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: it's been quite a while, and holy moly, they're the

697
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: most insidious, demented Jigsaw killer level murderers out there, and

698
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: they are adorable. So the sweet little birdie bird, can

699
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,479
Speaker 1: you describe it, Bridget, Yeah, I mean I can kind

700
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: of tell there's some evil behind those eyes. Um and

701
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it's it's like a pigeon. But if

702
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: a pigeon was like a cute little ball, tiny little

703
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: ball pigeon with a very erroow dynamic looking tail, which

704
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: I imagine helps them. But the thing, they're very cute,

705
00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:00,479
Speaker 1: They're tiny. It's like a little bird ball, a little

706
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: bird ball. But I immediately do not trust it because

707
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: and I have a I have a feeling this is

708
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: going to come up. It does have a beak that

709
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: comes around, uh into like a very sharp point. Uh

710
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: and that Yeah, it has like this weird little curved beak,

711
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: the tiniest all curved beak you've ever seen. Maybe that's

712
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: just for like, maybe that's just for punching a hole

713
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: in your compute son, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,

714
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it's just for snacks, just for snacks,

715
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: just just for tearing open like a cutie orange, which

716
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 1: is about the same size and shape of this guy.

717
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: So these are shrikes. So shrikes are a family of

718
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: medium to small birds who are mainly found in Africa

719
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: and Eurasia, although there are also a couple of species

720
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: found in North America, including the loggerhead and northern shrike.

721
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: And I think most of these pictures I've shown you

722
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: are the longer head shrike, so they are to look

723
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: familiar to me. But also yeah, also yeah, birds can

724
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: be hard to identify for me that not a birder

725
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: and wild, but I mean I've done birding and it's hard,

726
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: even like some experience, it's difficult. So they are typically

727
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 1: gray brown and white in coloration with a black beak,

728
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: and they've got a little bandit mask over their eyes.

729
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: They've got the racing, so you know, that's kind of

730
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: what makes yeah, you know they're up to something, these

731
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: little zoros Like it's uh, you know it is. I

732
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: feel like it's a weird kind of stereotyping with the

733
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: bandit mask, but it's like almost always like in nature

734
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: when you got someone with a bandit masks, like you're

735
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: up to something, because raccoons are all that stuff. Yeah

736
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: you're yeah, your eyes are dark. I don't I can't

737
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: fully trust you, but it is it's a cool look.

738
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: It's very cute. I mean it's sleek. It's these guys

739
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: are sleek as hell. I like their tails. Yeah, they

740
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: look like they're fast, they look like they can dive.

741
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: They look like a little crime and I do like that,

742
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: they really do. Yeah. Yeah that that first picture you have,

743
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: it looks like a little tony soprano bird, which which

744
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: you think you think you you come to come to

745
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: my Egg's wedding and you you don't even don't you

746
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: don't bring a Google Google Gobba. We'll work on that one. Yeah.

747
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: Did you know that um is actually from Capacola and

748
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: it got bastardized into Gobba goo? Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah,

749
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: it's the same meat. It's Capacola. It's just like yeah,

750
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: it's just like slang or it was like Italian slang

751
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: for Capacola. Well, it's like which is one of our

752
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: best words, right because in southern Italy um capitul, like

753
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: people sometimes drop the last vowel in words. So Capacola

754
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: turned into capacol somehow like got like from the transatlantic

755
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: trip from Italy to the US, like it turned into

756
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: like Gabba Google or something, and it's like became like

757
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: Gabba goole which is one of our best words. So

758
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: it really is in this great melting pots definitely look

759
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: like they're complaining about gabba gool um. Yeah and do

760
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there's there's a line and I in a

761
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: toy story three, I want to say where Miss potato

762
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: Head is packing up Mr potato Head for a trip,

763
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: and she says, I'm packing your angry eyes just in case.

764
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: And these guys definitely have their angry eyes. That's right. Yes,

765
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: despite looking just like this little bird that is also

766
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: perhaps as mischievous, they are known as the butcher bird

767
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: for good reason. So shrikes are carnivores. They love meat.

768
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: They not only love to eat meat, they love collecting

769
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: meat and saving it for later. So how do you

770
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 1: do that when you don't have a fridge or a pantry.

771
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: Well ya, shish kebab your victims on spikes? So what?

772
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, their little psychopaths. Yes, so they will catch insects, reptiles,

773
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: small mammals, and even other birds and impale them on

774
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: spikes wherever they can find spikes, so that could be thorn,

775
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: branches or even man made structures like barbed wire. Wow,

776
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: they have like little meat lockers. They're like their leather

777
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: face essentially, yeah, killers. Yes, so some species do make

778
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: sure to kill their ms before impaling them, such as

779
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: the loggerhead strike, and they will grab their victim by

780
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: the neck inflict a precise bite to the neck, paralyzing them.

781
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: And once they're victim has gone limped with the praise

782
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: neck still in their beaks, they will shake them violently

783
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 1: until their next snaps. And these strikes these little birds

784
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: subject them to a g force similar to a roller coaster. Wow. Horrified, Yeah,

785
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: also methodical, but also violent. Yeah, I guess I respected.

786
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm terrified. Yeah, this tiny bird, Yes, that's cute, tiny

787
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: bird that I want to hold in my hand right now.

788
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: I really don't. I feel like I would be very

789
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 1: like I would if they were like a crime boss,

790
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: despite them being this little and small, I'd be like, yeah,

791
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: whatever you say, boss, Like I would respect them. Oh yeah, no,

792
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: even more now. The Tony Soprano of birds right exactly,

793
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: you know, like you gotta make a quick you got yeah,

794
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: you can got a bow right in the neck. And

795
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: and much like Tony Soprano, there's something lovable about it,

796
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: but also you know there's an inherent evil they Yeah,

797
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: they will kill you if you present them with a complication. Yeah,

798
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: in a pretty violent way. Complication is such as being

799
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: around when they are hungry. Right, So, uh, then once

800
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: they have killed their prey dead in this horribly violent way,

801
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: they will impale them on a spike. So the use

802
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: of this like meat locker um helps them eat larger

803
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 1: prey by like methodically stripping bits of flesh off them,

804
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: and also to save the food for later if they're like,

805
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: you know, not so hungry anymore, just like you know, leftovers.

806
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: And it's like a half eaten freaking lizard on a

807
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: spike with its face just in. It's locked in to

808
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: what it looked like when it was violently assaulted. It's

809
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: good stuff. Uh. And the doc I sent you I said,

810
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 1: don't scroll down, but now you can absolutely scroll down

811
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: now because you know, yeah, I've got pictures of this business.

812
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: And it's it's oh yeah, uh oh my god. Oh

813
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: this is horrifying. This is gruesome. This is a crime scene.

814
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,359
Speaker 1: These are crime scene photos. It's like from Hannibal. Yeah,

815
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: it looks premeditated, I mean it is yeah, yeah, wow,

816
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: oh this is uh yeah, this is these are these

817
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: are some violent pictures of the small rodents and other birds,

818
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: which is just like yeah, just through the head. Yeah

819
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's like a I think it's

820
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: some kind of mouth or rat and the spike is

821
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: going just right through the right through this. Yeah, they

822
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: really uh, I especially this one, the first one. I

823
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: how they angled it to impale it and like they're

824
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: doing art now. They're like they're it's like an arrangement,

825
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, like edible bouquets arranged food. But it's like that,

826
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: but like, hey, check out how I've art now, so

827
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to skelet tonight. Is It's also like I

828
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: understand they're the branches can be the sharp, but it

829
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: feels like they had to sharpen some of these. I

830
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: mean this is like they usually pick out really thorny

831
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:15,240
Speaker 1: trees like these are that one that's like a thorn?

832
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: So that that is sharp? Yeah? That that's yeah, Like

833
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, definitely, I don't know of them actually

834
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: like sharpening branches. They tend to just like to use

835
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: the available spiky things. That's why they they will absolutely

836
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: use barbed wire and just like yeah, the barbed that one. Uh.

837
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just this type of that looks barbecued. Yeah, so,

838
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: I mean it's a horned lizard, so it already looks

839
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: kind of dried out. Um, but yeah, I mean it

840
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: could have been there for a few days and for

841
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: a while to become a file a little bit. Actually,

842
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, they will do food preparation, so like they

843
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: they will take something that is normally toxic, like a

844
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: toxic insects such as the lubber grasshopper, that if they

845
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: ate it immediately it would make them sick. So they

846
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: will impale these grasshoppers, leave them dead and impaled for

847
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: around three days while the toxin degrades, and then eat

848
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: them once they're ripe, essentially once the toxin has degraded

849
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: enough during the decomposition, and then like eat them and

850
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: they're safe then. So yeah, it's like kind of a yeah,

851
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you know, like letting your wine age,

852
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: except it's a dead grasshopper. Yeah, dead poisonous grasshopper. Do

853
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: they like I have to feel like their food gets

854
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: poached a lot, or do they like hang out they

855
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: protect it. I mean, yeah, it's an interesting question, I

856
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: think because they're like high up in like usually these

857
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: thorny things are sort of like high up so like

858
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: a typical predator isn't gonna be up there. Um it

859
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: maybe get poached by other like predatory birds or other

860
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: strikes potentially, Um, but yeah, I mean I think they

861
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: will eat it's they will like once they've killed it,

862
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: they will eat it like uh immediately. They will eat

863
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: as much as they want until they're full, and then

864
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: like they'll stop eating, go go off do their business

865
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: and then come back. And I'm sure sometimes it gets poached,

866
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, but I but you don't want

867
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: to mess with these You don't want to coach one

868
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: of these guys. Yeah, like you don't want to go

869
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: have your head on a spice. Literally, it's it's it's

870
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 1: truly a crime scene. Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny because

871
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: they will impale anything they catch, so like from a

872
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: little bee, which there's something cute and sad about that,

873
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: just like this bee that they've been paled um or

874
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: to like a large rodent or even a bird nearly

875
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: their own sides. Like they will take on birds that

876
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: are almost like the same size as them and like

877
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: thrash the um and then it's just it's just it's

878
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: it's incredible, like just they are they are the hannibal

879
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: Hannibals of of the bird world. Yeah, these guys are

880
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: maybe the scariest. They they're I saved them most terrifying

881
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: for last, because yeah, they they're. I mean it is

882
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: like it's like hell. It's like things and paled on spikes.

883
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,479
Speaker 1: These are hell birds and they just look so proud

884
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: of their killing too, just like yeah, I did it.

885
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: They're not. They're not even like trying to shirk responsibility,

886
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: like yeah, I did it, I did this, I did this.

887
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: Mess with me. It's like if O. J. Simpson had

888
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: written a book that said I did it instead of

889
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: if I did Yeah, and with him on the cover

890
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: next to his right, like next to the order scene. Yeah,

891
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: this is yeah. These are yeah, truly crime scene photos.

892
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: It really is. I've got them in the show notes,

893
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: you know. It's like check them out, check them out

894
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: if you want. Like, they're not I don't find I

895
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: don't find their gory, but I think just emotionally there

896
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: it's the punch is not the gore. It's not really good.

897
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: It's just shocking. It's the emotional gut punch of seeing

898
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: this bird proudly standing next to like one of them

899
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: is European robin, which is one of my favorite birds.

900
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: I think they're the cutest birds in the world. It's

901
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: just this poor little European robin impaled on a spike

902
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: with this like innocent looking bird just being like, yeah

903
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: I did that. That was me. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna

904
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: eat it. I'm gonna eat half of it now and

905
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: save half of it for later later. Yeah. No, there's yeah,

906
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: they're smart, uh they ration you know. Yeah, no, yeah,

907
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a gor thing. It's just

908
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: it's shocking to see in the animal king to Yeah,

909
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: it's it's something that seems so premeditated. Yeah, yeah, Like

910
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, I feel maybe because you know, I feel

911
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: like our culture has a somewhat unhealthy obsession with true

912
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: crime these days, like the whole Thomber obsession, and it's

913
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: a little bit it's a little ghosh, it's a little unhealthy.

914
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: So maybe we could just educate ourselves about nature and

915
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: then get our sick kicks that way, because there's a

916
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: lot of serial killers. Yeah, it seems like it, and

917
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: like in like in real life, the last people you

918
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 1: would expect, Yes, exactly. You know, I couldn't have said

919
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: it better myself, bridget um, which is why again I'm

920
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: always keeping one open around you, because like you look

921
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: very innocent, sweet, right, but there's something, you know, there's

922
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: something behind the eyes of all. Yeah, exactly, I'm gonna

923
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: group myself in with them adorable little sweeties. I have

924
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: seen you like at because we used to work together

925
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: and there was like a shoot and I remember like

926
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 1: you would put up signs like be quiet in this

927
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: hallway and people would walk on, walk on by, having

928
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: loud conversations. And here comes Bridget again, like she's like

929
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: the tarsier of the human world, you know, like it

930
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: looks very sweet, very innocent, and then just like destroys

931
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: these people literally drift their head off, you know, and

932
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: pale them onto bikes. Yeah, if you're talking on one

933
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,959
Speaker 1: of my sets, uh, you know, it goes quiet pretty

934
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: quickly out of the room and then everything is silent, right,

935
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, head and pale. It happened, hey, yeah, yeah,

936
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: send a p a to clean it up, right, save

937
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: it for later, yeah, shave it for for for for

938
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:24,919
Speaker 1: the for the craft table. Yeah, just just a bunch

939
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: of little birds. Well, Bridget, Before we go, we have

940
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: to switch gears and play a little game I like

941
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: to call guess who's squawking? The mry animal sound game.

942
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: Every week I play a mry animal sound and you

943
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: the listener, and you the guests. So are you ready

944
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: to do it? Are you ready? So? Last week's mr

945
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 1: Animal sound hint was this? This alarm call is no

946
01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: laughing matter. Wow, that sounds like a Is it a

947
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: rubber duck? That's that's right, it's a it's a literal

948
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: rubber duck. It's a it's a rubber ducky gig, give me,

949
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: give me the hint one more time. This alarm call

950
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: is no laughing matter. Laughing matter makes me want to

951
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: say hyena. But that definitely sounds like some sort of

952
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: bird that noise comes out of a beak I want

953
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 1: to imagine. Um uh oh man, this is another another

954
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: just like wrong guess, but I'm gonna go with some

955
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: sort of loon. Interesting it is a wrong guess. I

956
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:53,959
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Nonethe last, but this is the alarm call

957
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: of a lama. It's a lama. You got lama. You

958
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: got lama, fredge you got the I mean, I have

959
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: never trusted lamas. Uh, They're tricky. That truly sounds like

960
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: it comes out of a beak, it does it does?

961
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: Or a horn. It's it's an odd Yeah, it's an

962
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: odd yeah sound but yeah, I guess lamas squeak or

963
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: squawk orrel Yeah. So. Lamas are social animals, and they

964
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: live with a herd in the wild and in captivity.

965
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: They will consider those who live with them as part

966
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: of their herd, regardless of species, So similar to donkeys,

967
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: they can be used as livestock guards who will issue

968
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: alarm calls and attack predators who try to attack it's herd,

969
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: which could be a group of sheep or other livestock

970
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: that the lama has now adopted and believes it must

971
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: protect with the incredible alarm call and with a righteous aggression.

972
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: I love llamas as like old timey centuries bodyguard century guards.

973
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:18,919
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, they're lovely. I love them. Yeah, they're

974
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: They're a strange animal and that seems like a good

975
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:26,439
Speaker 1: job for them. Yes, onto this week's Mr Animals. Sound

976
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: here is the hint. As a fellow introverted redhead, I

977
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: sympathize with sometimes wanting personal space. He alright, Bridget, can

978
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: you guess who's squawking? And if you gives correctly. I'm

979
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to bleep you out so everyone else can

980
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: have a chance, but people will know if you got

981
01:06:55,120 --> 01:07:01,439
Speaker 1: it right. I feel like that's right. You are absolutely correct. Yes,

982
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 1: Ah that feels good, but it does. I'll quack you out,

983
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: but everyone for the record, Bridget has givest it correctly,

984
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 1: and don't you forget it. Don't you forget it, or

985
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 1: she's gonna impale you on a spike on a spike.

986
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, that's also the way of Bridgets. Not

987
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: not in this podcast, but yes, so very good gifts. Bridget.

988
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being on the show today.

989
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Ah, thanks so much for

990
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: having me. It's so fun to talk about animals. I

991
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: love them. Uh, you guys can find me on the

992
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: Small Beans network. I have a couple of different podcasts there,

993
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: as Katie mentioned, shooting threes right now where me and

994
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: Sarah Griffith are going over movie trilogies. Rough stuff will

995
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: be back soon. Uh, and you know, whenever Fast and

996
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: Furious comes out, we're gonna be talking about that. And uh,

997
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: you can you can keep up to date with all

998
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: the the movie stuff, producing, writing, directing stuff. I've been

999
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: doing over on Twitter at bridget tweets for you know. However,

1000
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: long still kicking. I'm curious about the New Past and

1001
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: Furious because like I think they were filming it here

1002
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 1: actually in turn and like parts of it. Probably they're

1003
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: gonna say it's Rome or something, which sucks because like,

1004
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: come on, um, but yeah, there was like a helicopter

1005
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: going around, like making it impossible to podcast where. Yeah,

1006
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: when you're in the vicinity of a fast and furious

1007
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 1: movie shooting, you know it, and it disrupted disturb everything.

1008
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 1: It's very disruptive, but for for good costs. So I'm

1009
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Yeah, you'll see Katie like poking

1010
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: out a window, like shaking her fist on what's the

1011
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 1: matter with you? Yeah? Uh yeah, Well, thank you so

1012
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: much for joining me today, and hey, thank you for

1013
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. You're ears are doing great work there.

1014
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Uh. If you're enjoying the show and

1015
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: you leave a rating or review, I deeply appreciated it.

1016
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 1: I literally read every single review and they mean a

1017
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 1: lot to me. I really appreciate getting that feedback. And again,

1018
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 1: like if you think you know who's squawking or you

1019
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: got a question you can heal me. Email me at

1020
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: Creature feature pod at gmail dot com, and make so

1021
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: much to the Space Classics for their super awesome song

1022
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 1: Exo Lumina. Creature features a production of I Heart Radio.

1023
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,320
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1025
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,639
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1026
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: judge you. Come on, come on, It's fine wherever. See

1027
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Speaker 1: you next Wednesday.