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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan kel Kell and now

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Speaker 1: Here's Kel. An Ecologist Meredith root Bernstein at a zoo

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Speaker 1: in Paris recently observed Vissan warty pigs using tools during

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Speaker 1: their nesting process. The Visan warty pig is a critically

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Speaker 1: endangered native to six Vissan islands in the Philippines, although

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Speaker 1: due to habitat loss and hunting, the San warty pig

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Speaker 1: currently can only be found on two of the six

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Speaker 1: Yan islands. There are only an estimated two hundred left

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Speaker 1: in the wilds of the Philippines, but among those, they

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Speaker 1: have been observed rolling objects against electric fencing to see

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Speaker 1: if the fence is live or not. The pigs a

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Speaker 1: group of pigs is called a sounder by the way,

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Speaker 1: would roll rocks against the fence and listen for that

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Speaker 1: grounding on the rock. If the rock hit the fence

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Speaker 1: and it didn't make the tick tick tick sound, the

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Speaker 1: pigs would move through it. But if the fence ticked,

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Speaker 1: the pigs would move on, potentially saving their bacon from

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Speaker 1: a painful shock. If that observation is accurate and the

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Speaker 1: conclusion correct. It doesn't sound like a big stretch that

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Speaker 1: with the stick, which is what they've been observed doing.

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Speaker 1: Tool use and animals is always an interesting topic, as

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Speaker 1: the ability to use tools has long been considered a

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Speaker 1: part of what makes us human. Now, the sample set

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Speaker 1: that our ecologist observed is very small, and the tool

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Speaker 1: use was witnessed under the unnatural conditions of a zoo,

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Speaker 1: But this observed behavior may mean that we still don't

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Speaker 1: know all there is to know about an animal humans

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Speaker 1: domesticated some eleven thousand years ago, which I think is

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Speaker 1: pretty neat, not to mention the fact that an ecologist

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Speaker 1: with the name of Route found pigs using tools. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of year, I find it mighty helpful. This week, we've

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Speaker 1: got aliens and UFOs, spots, stripes, Avian allies, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my

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Speaker 1: week I'll start off by telling you that The New

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Speaker 1: York Times just published an article addressing recreation and wilderness.

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Speaker 1: Should our public places be sanctuaries or playgrounds? If you

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Speaker 1: are a listener to the Weekend Review, then you already

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Speaker 1: know our public lands and the management thereof is a

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Speaker 1: lot more complicated than that. This article also touches on

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Speaker 1: and their effects on wildlife compared to hiking. I'll just

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Speaker 1: let you know I don't think it is a great article,

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Speaker 1: meta analysis of recreation effects on vertebrate species richness and abundance.

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Speaker 1: This paper was published in August of two thousand nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and it's a good one, well done. I encourage everyone

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Speaker 1: to look it up and read it. People have an

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Speaker 1: effect on wildlife just by being out in the woods

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Speaker 1: where wildlife live, no different than if a mouse walks

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Speaker 1: through your living room. The mouse has an effect on

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Speaker 1: you where you live. I also had a minute to

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Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen issue of Bicycling Magazine. This article outlines

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Speaker 1: the use of Strava, an app that bikers used to

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Speaker 1: outcompete each other as well as just outcompete themselves. This

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Speaker 1: data has been used against biking in some cases by

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Speaker 1: proving the occasional point of other trail users that bikes

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Speaker 1: The point of bringing up this article is not to

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Speaker 1: show off my quote myopic perspective on use of lions

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Speaker 1: belonging to everyone, not just US hunters. End quote. That

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Speaker 1: but not that I am pulling the article. Your strata

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Speaker 1: data could be used to ban cyclists from trails. California

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Speaker 1: is a worthy read regardless of your outdoor pursuit of choice.

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Speaker 1: Dig it up, go read it. Meat Eater Season eight

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Speaker 1: will be releasing on Netflix October eighteenth. Considering it as fall.

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Speaker 1: Don't binge watch this fantastic, inspiring educational content. Go outside,

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Speaker 1: breathe the fresh air, and when eventually you become exhausted,

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Speaker 1: good buddy whom I love like a brother, Stephen Ronnella

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of other folks, eat good food, travel

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Speaker 1: amazing places, and learn right along with yourselves. Meat Eater

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Speaker 1: Season eight October eighteenth, only on Netflix. And finally to

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Speaker 1: wrap up the housekeeping. Thank you so much to everyone

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Speaker 1: that read the story about my new Mexico l hunt,

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Speaker 1: love and loss at the meat Eater dot com. Many

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Speaker 1: ask cal at the meat Eater dot com to tell

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Speaker 1: me about your own experiences and how those experiences have

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Speaker 1: shaped you as hunters, conservationists, and people. Really good stuff,

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Speaker 1: So thank you. I appreciate it more. And you know,

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Speaker 1: and messages. If you have no clue what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: I lost all the meat from my elk on a

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Speaker 1: that experience is a terrible and tragic thing. One angle

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Speaker 1: turning is a real head scratcher and and has to

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Speaker 1: do with food waste. According to the Natural Resources Defense Counsel,

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