1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. In 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: April of two thousand twenty one, Yes, that's how long 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: it takes news to get up here, a thirty year 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: old Brazilian fisherman outside of brass Landia de Minas, drowned 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: in a farm pond while escaping a swarm of bees. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: When his body was recovered, his face and other presumably 10 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 1: exposed parts were found to be eaten by piranha. Authorities 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: are not sure if the water or the piranha killed 12 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: the fisherman first, it is safe to assume he wasn't 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: a buzz kill. The deceased man's two fishing partners were 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: tight lipped. He can't do the well he just did. Yes, 15 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: those are morbid puns, but please don't think that they 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: are aimed at anyone's back. Everyone here has full rights 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: to do the same to me if I am fortunate 18 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: enough to go out while fishing. The listener that sent 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: that one in, says their second guessing future trips to 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: South America. This week we've got immaculate condorception, the crime desk, 21 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: and ask cal emails. But first, I'm gonna tell you 22 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: about my week. In my week, well you know, the 23 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: highlights are one big pheasant. Pheasants are harder and harder 24 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: to kill the later in the season it gets, which 25 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: makes them even more precious. Killing pressured pheasants takes athleticism, stamina, look, 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: and some outside of the box thinking snort. Is I 27 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: believe or I want to believe? A real pheasant oriented dog? 28 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: She is starting to think about outsmarting birds versus just 29 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: thinking that she'll randomly bump into them. Watching her work 30 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: bird scent is incredibly fun, just a serious highlight. She 31 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: will run her nose tight to the ground or prance 32 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: up on the tips of her toes with her nose 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 1: in the air. She won't work only one direction. She's 34 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: able to second guess herself. She'll hit the back trail 35 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: long enough to determine it is indeed a back trail van. 36 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: She'll turn around and give me this look that says 37 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna find this one. You better keep up. We're 38 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: still averaging about nine and a half miles a walk, 39 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: and my shooting hot streak is back to lukewarm. Other 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: than that brief snort report, the week was largely dominated 41 00:02:48,080 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: by corn to goose. Corn is a reference to a 42 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: possible unit of measure for salt. To corn something is 43 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: to cure it in salt. But what I want from 44 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: corning something, what I have been lusting after, is corned beef. 45 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: I am and always have been a lover of corned 46 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: beef briskets simmered for hours, served with potatoes and cabbage, 47 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: healthy bit of butter and vinegar on top of the 48 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: whole mess. Oh mama, Then of course you take that brisket, 49 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: you cut it real thin, you layer it with great 50 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: attention to detail, on rye bread with Sauer Kraut, Thousand 51 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: Island dressing, yellow mustard, and Swiss cheese. My Grandma Nancy 52 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: used to fuel my hunting excursions with bread sacks full 53 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: of ruben sandwiches. That is what I want when I 54 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: corn something. And with help from my friends at the 55 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: wagon Wheel in Araville, California, I have achieved corned beef 56 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: with goose, texture, flavor, overall sandwich ability. It is just 57 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: best thing going. And if you feel like I'm full 58 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: of it, and you want to question myself and the method, 59 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lay the gauntlet down for you and 60 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: tell you that I have consumed three Canada goose breasts 61 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: this week. You can look forward to the article and 62 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: the how to in the near future at the mediator 63 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: dot com, which is coincidentally something to keep in mind 64 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: if you are from Ohio. But we'll get to that later. 65 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: First off, some listener emails. We just got a letter 66 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: wonder what's fun? Trevor writes in, My dad drew a 67 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: rifle bull elk here in Idaho this last season and 68 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: we were successful. While cutting one of the backstraps, we 69 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: noticed pockets a pus surrounding an arrow that had been 70 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: in his back a long time. Turns out that arrow 71 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: was tipped with a mechanical broadhead, which is illegal in 72 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: the state Idaho. First question from Trevor is what do 73 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: you shoot? Response Trevor, what are you getting at, dude? Secondly, 74 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: he asked what is more ethical? A mechanical broadhead with 75 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: the possibility of a better wound channel or something that 76 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,799 Speaker 1: the animal can remove if a bad shot is made. 77 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:20,239 Speaker 1: So barbed broadheads are illegal just about everywhere. A barbed 78 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: broadhead is really like the thing that an animal can't remove. 79 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: Mechanical broadheads are supposed to collapse on themselves after opening up, 80 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: so they can be removed. If you ever shoot a 81 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: mechanical broadhead into a field target, it should show you 82 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: that I prefer fixed blade broadheads. I have killed some 83 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: animals in the past with mechanical broadheads, almost without exception, 84 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: there would be something broken on the broadhead, and I 85 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: just didn't like that. The animal would be dead. That's great, 86 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: that's the whole point. The broadhead did its job, but 87 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: I just didn't like that. I always found like a 88 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: broken blade in the animal or something weird. Anyway, I'm 89 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: a big believer in fixed blade broadheads, really like the 90 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: two bladers. Maybe throw some bleeder veins on there if 91 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: you want to get crazy, but that is my preference. 92 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: Donnie writes in what's your system for caring for birds? 93 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: When you're traveling on hunting trips? Coolers, gutting, plucking storage, 94 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: especially for birds you intend to pluck in wax when 95 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: you get home. I've lost a couple of nice birds 96 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: recently to spoilage. Went on multiday hunting trips. I need 97 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: a better way, Donnie, here's the deal man. You need 98 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: air circulation and a continual drop in temperature until you 99 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: get to like that relatively food safe zone. All the 100 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: feathers on birds are excellent, excellent insulators. So if you 101 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: want to be serious and very legal according to our 102 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: federal Migratory Bird regulation, this is what you should do. 103 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: This is the method that I use. Right, So, in 104 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: order to legally transport migratory birds, you have to leave 105 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: on a fully feathered wing or a fully feathered head, 106 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: no exceptions. This conundrum makes it hard to stack up 107 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: a ton of birds if you don't have a ton 108 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: of space, so keep that in mind. Almost without question, 109 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do is take a pair of 110 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: pruning shears, split the bird all the way up the back, 111 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: crunching right through the spinal bone. Right. I use steel 112 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: pruning shears. They're awesome, taking with me everywhere I go, 113 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: Super easy to clean, do a great job on birds. 114 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: You crack that bird open and you can dump all 115 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: the guts out, saving the heart and gizzard of course, 116 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: and then your birds instantly cooling. The next best thing 117 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: to do, and this is where it gets tough, is 118 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: you really should pluck the bird. Okay. If you can't 119 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: pluck the bird, get it hanging so it's got full 120 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: air circulation. That will aid in the cooling down process. 121 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: And then when you go to packaging, you need to 122 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: assure that those birds are not sitting in a bunch 123 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: of water. Okay, you want to maintain that air circulation 124 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: and cooling. And you need to label your birds. Okay. 125 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: You can't be like over the top with this stuff. 126 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: So if you have a big cooler and you have 127 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: all your birds in a cooler, you need to identify 128 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: how many birds are in this cooler per species, the 129 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: date that they were shot, and it needs to have 130 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: your license number, your address, phone number, and name on there. 131 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: And then if you individually package those birds within that cooler, okay, 132 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: you need to individually label them with that same information. Okay, 133 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: and every bird on there in there has to have 134 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: a fully feathered wing or a fully feathered head attached 135 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: to the meat. So you can get fancy and you 136 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: can break birds down and just leave the skin attached 137 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: to either the head or the wing, and that will 138 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: reduce your overall weight. Right. But if you want to 139 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: do like major packaging, when you get home for the 140 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: long haul, like the last birds of the season type 141 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: of thing. You really just need to pluck them where 142 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: you are. There's no way around it. Bring a vacuum seeler, 143 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: bring butcher's paper, and just be prepared to process on 144 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: the road. But keep in mind if you individually package 145 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: for home, each individual package while you are traveling, while 146 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: you're not at your primary residence on which you are 147 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: taxed and you receive mail and your vehicle is registered 148 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: to that primary residence if you're not there, each one 149 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: of those birds has to have a fully feathered wing 150 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: or a fully feathered head, and it needs to have 151 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: the species on like a nice little card, and you 152 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: can like self eliminate with packing tape the date it 153 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: was shot, your license number, and your personal info residents 154 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: phone number attached to every bird. If you're going to 155 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: individually package, That's just the way it is with migratory birds. 156 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: It's a lot of processing, and I mean it's it's 157 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: just a significant portion of the day, but it's good meat. 158 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: It's worth it. I'm planning another trip right now. Our 159 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: tripp to North Dakota a few weeks ago, Man, we 160 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: spent as much time processing as probably half the time 161 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: we were hunting easily. That's all I got for you, Donnie. 162 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: All right. Last up, Checkamaugan Nicolette National Forest, or as 163 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: they call it, Schwamegun, possibly Schwamagan, Swimming Summon, Simmons, Swans, Swinson, Swanson. 164 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: Maybe it's on the briefcase looking. Oh yeah, it's right here. 165 00:10:54,960 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: Samson Night was way off c h E qu A 166 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: M E g O N Schwamogan. My good friend Jim 167 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: Heffelfinger sent me in a i would say satirical peer 168 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: reviewed paper that states out of state recreationalists mispronounced schwamogan 169 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: in seventy of cases. Wisconsin residents mispronounced the word in 170 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: sixty of cases, mainly due to alcohol induced slurring that 171 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: falls in the correction category. Next up, cranes. Okay, I've 172 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: been talking a lot about cranes. Sandhill cranes are awesome, 173 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: very cool animals have been around for at least two 174 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: and a half million years in the form that we 175 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: know them as. They're very tasty. Like I said, super 176 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: cool animals, and Lacy of the International Crane Foundation, located 177 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: in Baraboo, Wisconsin, got a hold of me in regards 178 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: to the last week's podcast and sent me straight on 179 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: a couple of things that I messed up. One of 180 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: these things I knew I was messing up. The population 181 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: of sandhill cranes is not five hundred thousand birds. The 182 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: eastern population is separate from the Central flyway. The eastern 183 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: population is about ninety five thousand birds. Furthermore, on behalf 184 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: of the International Crane Foundation, which sounds like a super 185 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 1: cool nonprofit to get behind. If you're out in that 186 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: neck of the woods or anywhere for that matter. They 187 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: are migratory, they go everywhere. Would like to kind of 188 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: set the record straight on slow to mature and low productivity. 189 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: All right, so we've talked a lot about this and 190 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: tons of shark species, turtles, all sorts of things that 191 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: are really going extinct. The combination of slow to mature 192 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: and low productivity makes species very very hard to manage 193 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: and easy to wipe out. Your sandhill cranes can generally 194 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: be put in a few categories, all right. One to 195 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: three years of age, they're non breeding. Three plus years 196 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: of age, they're capable of breeding technically, but they also 197 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: need to find a mate. They need to pair up, 198 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: and they need to find territory, and they just need 199 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: to get good at the act of mating and rearing young. 200 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: That's impossible even for a computer. It's not impossible in stables. 201 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: I want breads in my T six team back home. 202 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: On average, they're going to produce two eggs, one or 203 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: none actually make it to the fledgling state. On top 204 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: of that, these birds need a huge territory because their 205 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: reproduction is based on a territory. So even if they're 206 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: paired up, they're sexually mature, they need to find the 207 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: space to nest. A lot of this space is you 208 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: gotta fight for it, red. It's in high competition. So 209 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: this is a very brief synopsis. I'd encourage you to 210 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: check out the International Crane Foundation. From the hunt Tink perspective, 211 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: I still feel like we can hunt and we can 212 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: figure this out with our big brains. I think it 213 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: would be absolutely asinine to throw this information by the wayside. 214 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: It's taken a long time to recover this species. And 215 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: recover is you know, a moving target type of word, 216 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: slow to mature, low productivity. Proceed with caution. Thank you 217 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: very much for writing in and pleasure talking to you 218 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: as well. Okay, moving on to the law enforcement desk. 219 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: In Ohio, the Department of Natural Resources busted a wild 220 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: game processing outfit that was selling venison from poach deer 221 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: and stealing venison from hunters who paid to have game processed. 222 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: In total, A and E Processing is alleged to have 223 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: poached thirty white tailed deer in Ohio and stolen over 224 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: seven pounds of meat from hunters. If this isn't an 225 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: argument for processing your own meat. Eight people connected to 226 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: the poaching ring were charged in the investigation for crimes 227 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: ranging from illegal sale of wild animal parts, to money laundering, 228 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: to telecommunications fraud to hunting with illegal equipment. In total, 229 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: the Ohio Attorney General's Office is doling out ninety one 230 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: criminal counts. The a g S Office. That's Attorney General 231 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: also told meat eaters Travis Hall that the charges include 232 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: five people who worked for any processing and three who 233 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: were supplying the company with wild game meat via poaching deer. 234 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: Hunting is a deep rooted tradition in Ohio, with generations 235 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: having been taught the values of conservation, responsibility, and discipline, 236 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: said Ohio Attorney General David Yost. Additionally said this level 237 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: of corruption violates those tenants and protecting and preserving this 238 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: part of our heritage are important to all sportsmen and women. 239 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: But the AG's office wouldn't tell us much more about 240 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: this case since the investigation is ongoing, but all eight 241 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: individuals have been indicted by a grand jury, which means 242 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: there's at least enough evidence to go to trial. Since 243 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: many of these crimes are felonies, prison time is definitely 244 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: on the table. According to a Facebook post from September seventeen, 245 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: Any Processing charged a very reasonable fifty five dollar fee 246 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: to process and package a white tail seventy five dollars 247 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: if you want a vacuum sealed. They also offered Ohio 248 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: capes for ten dollars and out of state capes for 249 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: thirty five dollars. The Ohio a G wouldn't say how 250 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: long Any Processing had been stealing meat, but a little 251 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: back of the napkin mass suggest they cheated a lot 252 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: of hunters for a little, or a few hunters for 253 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: a lot. If an average white tail yields sixty pounds 254 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: of meat, a processor could expect to skim I don't know, 255 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: let's say five pounds off the hunter. If any processing 256 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: stole seven hundred pounds of meat they likely took venison 257 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: from let's say a hundred forty. That example is a 258 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: healthy dose of speculation, but it's enough to say that 259 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: anyone who used any processing should probably think they got 260 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: Pilford a little bit. And anyone who hunts in Ohio 261 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: should take note of the thirty deer poached out of 262 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: season by illegal means. There are many reputable butcher shops, 263 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: and I will guarantee that all of them have stories 264 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: of people leaving game meat no showing skipping out on 265 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: the butcher's bill. This is the case of a bad 266 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: butcher's shop. And I need to point out that in 267 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: order to make a sale, you also need a willing buyer, 268 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: not just a willing seller. There is no such thing 269 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: as quote wild deer for sale in the USA outside 270 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: of Maui Nui venison, which is strictly access Dear, So 271 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: the next time you're well meaning neighbor says, hey, I 272 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: love l your dear ducks, let me buy some off you, 273 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 1: don't just say no and give them a package. Say no, 274 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: they can't buy it off you and tell them why. 275 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: And if you want to see firsthand what folks pay 276 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: a processor to do, well I happen to know a 277 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: website that can help you out with processing your own game. 278 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: Meet next up. Officers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, had their hands 279 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: full when a cal moves burst through a window at 280 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: Sylvia Fedrick School. Sylvia Fedoric was, of course, the seventeenth 281 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, don't you know. But wait, there's more. Fedric, 282 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, also has her name on the 283 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: Silvia Fedoric Center for Nuclear Radiation. Thankfully, no moose broke 284 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: into anything there. It is also possible that to break 285 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: into Sylvia Fedoric School, which is located in the community 286 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: of Evergreen, Saskatoon, the moose had to travel down Sylvia 287 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: Fedoric Drive, then head south to uh, you know, perform 288 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: the breaking and entering or be an e which is 289 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: a much cooler way of saying it. I'm gonna give 290 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: you to the count of tend to get your ugly 291 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: yellow no good keys throughout my property before I pump 292 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: your cuts full of lead. But we're not done with Sylvia, 293 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: who is a two time Hall of Famer, once for medicine. 294 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: For Doric's work on studying radiation depth and penetration was 295 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: critical to treating cancer through Cobalt sixty radiation therapy and 296 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: more Canadian lee. Her second Hall of Fame nod was, 297 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: of course, for curling. Fedric was inducted into the Canadian 298 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: Curling Hall of Fame. Now you may be asking yourself, 299 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: what about the moose. Well, according to Radio two point nine, 300 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: the ball, the cops tranquilized it in the community room, 301 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: got it out of the school and nobody was hurt, 302 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 1: and they're gonna set it free. But here's the better question. 303 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: The next time someone asked, what's bigger than a moose, 304 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: I think you should say, Sylvia Federic, holy cow, moose 305 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: only in Canada. I'll tell you you know, now that 306 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: I say that out loud, the bigger than a moose part, 307 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: I can see how folks may not think that's a compliment. 308 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: This lady that I just learned about, she's very impressive. 309 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: Moving on, two hunters were busted trespassing on a secluded 310 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: private island owned by hedge fund titan Louis Bacon near 311 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: the Uber exclusive area of New York Southampton. After one 312 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: of the caretakers on Robin's Island spotted an unfamiliar trail camp. 313 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: He searched the vicinity and discovered Scott Russell and Kurt 314 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: Jorgensen mid hunt, one of them up in a tree stand, 315 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: the other prone on the ground, presumably trying to disappear. 316 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: Investigators later turned up a mountain of hunting gear, a 317 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: twelve ft aluminum boat with a battery powered motor, several 318 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: tree stands, as well as a tethered saddle hunting set up, 319 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: a half dozen trail cams, compound bows, crossbows with missing bolts, tents, 320 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: bags of food and jugs of water, commercial dear year 321 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: and attractant, and the standard gear for processing game. Once 322 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: the deal is done, local hunters might wonder why Russell 323 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: and Jorgensen had gone to so much trouble, as deer 324 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: all over the Hampton's are thicker than mosquitoes. Well, the 325 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: island's owner, Louis Bacon, granted a conservation easement over the 326 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: entire property to the Nature Conservancy, and since then it 327 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: has been managed as a private game preserve. Therefore, according 328 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: to New York Newsday, the island is home to at 329 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: least a dozen rare albino deer, as well as several 330 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: twenty five point bucks. So you know, I condemned trust. 331 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: Passing and poaching in the strongest possible terms, but sneaking 332 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: onto a private island a couple hundred yards off the 333 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: mainland to bag a pointer, I can see the draw. 334 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: Bacon is a pretty interesting guy. He bought the island 335 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: at a bankruptcy auction and for eleven million dollars, and 336 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: local real estate pros estimate that today it would sell 337 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: for at least five hundred million. Man. I bet you'd 338 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: wished you had been that prudent the last time you 339 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: had eleven million bucks lying around. Huh. I can't go 340 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: back in time. In addition to putting Robin's Island into trust, 341 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: Bacon also donated more than half of his one d 342 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: eighty thousand acre Colorado ranch to the same Grade A 343 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: Cristo Conservation Area, the single largest conservation easement grant in 344 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 1: US fish and wildlife history. And going a bit off 345 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: topic for the Week and Review, Bacon has also been 346 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: locked in a year's long feud with his neighbor in 347 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: the Bahamas, the very flamboyant clothing magnate Peter Nyagard, who 348 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: has been accused of sexual misconduct as many times as 349 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: most people brush their teeth, it would take an hour 350 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: to go through all the parts of that story, but 351 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: suffice it to say that at one particularly contentious point 352 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: of the battle, Niagard hired a crowd to march through 353 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: the streets of Nassau with signs accusing Bacon of being 354 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: in the KKK. If you're into stories of rich egomaniacs 355 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: going completely off the rails, google Lewis Bacon versus Peter 356 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: Nygard and and Joy. But back to our bread and 357 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: butter of hunters breaking the law. Russell and Jorgensen have 358 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: been charged with poaching and trespassing violations, and I would 359 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: bet that having a litigious billionaire after them is going 360 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: to make the next couple of years pretty steep. We 361 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: will be there to bring you any further developments. And finally, 362 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: over to Tennessee, the t w r A or Tennessee 363 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: Wildlife Resource Agency caught a man in possession of seventy 364 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: four doves. It was determined that he had been shooting 365 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: doves over bait and speaking of over, fifteen is the 366 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: daily bag limit for morning doves in Tennessee, and the 367 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: possession limit is three times the daily bag limit. Although 368 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,959 Speaker 1: I could not find an actual definition of what possession 369 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: means in Tennessee because that definition does vary from state 370 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: to state, and doubs are federally regulated migratory birds and 371 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: the federal REGs say do not exceed the possession limit 372 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: while in the field or on your way from the field. 373 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: So it is likely that this bait station shooter was 374 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: over his possession limit as well as shooting over bait. 375 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: Another interesting thing, the state of Tennessee does state that 376 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: on opening day, a hunter's possession limit is fifteen, which 377 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: is the daily bag limit. On the second day of 378 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: the season, a hunter's possession limit is twice the daily 379 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: bag limit, which would be thirty keeping up, and on 380 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: the third day of the season it is three times 381 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: the daily bag limit, which is forty five, which implies 382 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 1: that you better not have any dove in the freezer 383 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: come opening day. This overage and baiting earned the shooter 384 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: five dollars in fines and fees and a loss of 385 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: hunting privileges for one year. Here's a fun fact for you. 386 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: The most hunted migratory bird is dove. In Tennessee. Roughly 387 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: sixteen thousand doub hunters harvest two d and fifty thousand 388 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: doves in a season. Nationwide, forty two states have a 389 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: morning dove season, and some twenty million doves are harvested annually, 390 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: making them the most taken game in the United States. 391 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: What's more, the morning dove population continues to grow, and 392 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: I did not beg a single dove this year. Moving on, 393 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: big surprises over at the condor desk, or what I'd 394 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 1: like to call immaculate condorception. Scientists with the San Diego 395 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: Zoo recently discovered to California condors who had been born 396 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: through a sexual reproduction or parthenogenesis, meaning these birds had 397 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: a mom, but mom was a solo flyer, so to speak, 398 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: real get things done on our own type, no males required. 399 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 1: We've talked about parthenogenesis before, but never explained the term itself. 400 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: Well we probably have, but listen anyway. The ancient Greek 401 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: word parthenos means virgin and genesis means creation, so together 402 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: the word means birth of offspring from an animal who 403 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 1: hasn't had sex. Literally, it means virgin creation, but in 404 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: the world of science the translation is off spraying without sex. 405 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: When you hear parthenogenesis, you might hear a similarity to 406 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: the name of the famous ancient temple in Athens, Greece, 407 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: the Parthenon, and that's not by accident. The Greek goddess 408 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: Athena was known as the virgin goddess. Parthenon literally means 409 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: temple of the Virgin. I bet you didn't expect to 410 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 1: tune in this week and hear about condors and ancient 411 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: Greek gods in the same segment. But those are the 412 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: quality we can review, juxtapositions you've come to know and love, 413 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: right you love them. A sexual reproduction is almost always 414 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: a matter of necessity. For example, a population of female 415 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: komodo dragons or bonnet head sharks gets isolated from males, 416 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: they develop an egg that hasn't been fertilized, and that 417 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: egg becomes a viable offspring with genes only from the mother. 418 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: But in this case, both of these female condors were 419 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: in captivity and housed with fertile males, and both of 420 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: these female condors had bread with males in the past, 421 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: but not this time, So this is one of the 422 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: only examples of perthenogenesis in the presence of viable male mates, 423 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: which if you're one of those male condors, you've got 424 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: to be pretty bummed, right sort of one, even if 425 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: you were the last man on Earth kind of scenario. 426 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: A classic viable don't mean desirable scenario. That's when you 427 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: in cells get as you may have guessed, with two 428 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: viable males in with females. This discovery was by accident. 429 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: They weren't studying reproduction and testing every hatchling. In fact, 430 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: the hatchlings the two condors created a sexually known as 431 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: Partha notes by the way, were born in two thousand 432 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: one and two thousand eleven, and both of them died 433 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: a few years later without ever reproducing. Instead, scientists discovered 434 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 1: these two because they've been putting together a complete picture 435 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: of the genetics of every California condor in existence, and 436 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,959 Speaker 1: in the course of this mapping project, they came across 437 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: these two individuals. We had jenes lo and behold only 438 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: from their dams, which is the name for a mother bird. 439 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: We don't have this kind of full genetic picture for 440 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: many other species on Earth, and it was only made 441 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: possible because of how endangered condors are. Easter Sunday, the 442 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: last wild condor was captured, one of only twenty two 443 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: remaining in existence. Those survivors were bread and Captivity and 444 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: beginning in the early nineties, they were reintroduced in the wild. 445 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: By two thousand nineteen, there were two hundred nineteen condors 446 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: in captivity and three hundred and six flying free in California, Arizona, 447 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: and Utah. Scientists have therefore been able to study this 448 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: remaining limited population extremely closely, and they've managed to take 449 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: samples of tissue from a very large percentage of these birds. 450 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: That genetic information has guided condor recovery, telling scientists which 451 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: pairs might be bred successfully, which populations might be in 452 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: danger of inbreeding, and so on. Of course, the damns 453 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: that we've been talking about said, back off, Doc will 454 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: take it from here. Over thirty five million dollars have 455 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: been spent on condor research in the lab and in 456 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: the field. Extraordinary measures have been taken to get this 457 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: species up and stable again, and as you likely know, 458 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: the banning of lead bullets across the range of the 459 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: condor in California in an effort to end one singular 460 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: cause of condor mortality, which is ingesting lead when the 461 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: birds feed on carrion leftover from animals that hunters have killed. 462 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: Is a great example of how animals on the endangered 463 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: species list can affect even those folks who don't care 464 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: about a species success. We need to work hard to 465 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: keep these animals from ever getting on the endangered species list. Now, 466 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: one of the coolest parts of this recent discovery is 467 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: the possibility that maybe parthenogenesis isn't so rare amongst species 468 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: after all. Maybe it's just that we have a comparatively 469 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: tiny amount of DNA information on all the other species 470 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: on Earth. Maybe if we could see into the full 471 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: genetic picture of rattlesnakes and zebras and butterflies and deep 472 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: sea angler fish and lonely old dudes up in the 473 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: Arctic Circle or something, we would see that parthenogenesis is 474 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: all over the place. Think about that the next time 475 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: you hear the term d I Y. That's all I've 476 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: got for you this week. Thank you so much for 477 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: listening as per usual. Let me know what I got 478 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: right or wrong, or tell me what's going on in 479 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: your neck of the woods by writing in to a 480 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: s K C. A L. That's asked cal at the 481 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: Meat Eater dot com. And it's starting to get cold, 482 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: If your would supply is in short supply, get your 483 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: butt down to the nearest steel dealer. You can find 484 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: a local, knowledgeable, helpful steel dealer near you by going 485 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: to www. Dot steel dealers dot com. 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