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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied

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Speaker 1: psychology and evolutionary biology, and did you know I'm a

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Speaker 1: world class champion at doing giraffe calls? Here we go, ready, hmm,

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Speaker 1: here it comes, April, fools. Giraffes don't really have a call. Well,

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Speaker 1: researchers think they hum, but at a frequency that's pretty

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Speaker 1: low and hard to hear as humans. But today on

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Speaker 1: the show, we're going to listen to some animal sounds.

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Speaker 1: These creatures have some of the most distinctive voices on

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Speaker 1: the planet. We'll look at some lyrical links. Is possessive porcupines,

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Speaker 1: chirping cheetahs, whistling walruses, and other very vocal critters. Discover

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Speaker 1: this and more as we answer the age old question

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Speaker 1: our this is mocking us. A lot of us are

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Speaker 1: staying indoors right now, so I thought it'd be a

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Speaker 1: great time to take some nature and put it inside

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Speaker 1: your ear holes. Animals communicate for a whole variety of reasons,

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Speaker 1: to find a mate, to call their young, to warn

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Speaker 1: their peers, or to express happiness. But sometimes they're just

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Speaker 1: plain old grumpy, and they aren't shy about letting you

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Speaker 1: know it. Later in the show we'll cover some cuter

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Speaker 1: and quirkier noises too, But for now, let's hear these

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Speaker 1: animals who have a very unusual way of complaining. Joining

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Speaker 1: me today to listen to some very opinionated animals as

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Speaker 1: co host of game Fully Unemployed David Bell, Hello, hey, Dave,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me again. Animals he does for having me.

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Speaker 1: I think last time we talked about turkeys, is that right? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was great, great time we saw some really fluffy,

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Speaker 1: really fluffy turkeys, unbelievably fluffy, like you can't handle it.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't handle it, Dave. Dave had to take a

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Speaker 1: break from the podcast for a while because he couldn't

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Speaker 1: handle it. It was like a forty minute uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: where I had to sit and just breathe out in

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Speaker 1: the balcony, deep breathing, and he was just like, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, they're so fluffy. My whole life changed. Had

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Speaker 1: to reassess everything. Have you been watching Tiger King, the

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Speaker 1: Netflix series? No, you're the tenth person to bring it up. No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't. I guess I should watch it. Sorry, every everybody,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things where, like everything I hear

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Speaker 1: about it, it's like, that doesn't sound fun. Nobody sounds

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Speaker 1: like a good person in the documentary. Nobody is a

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Speaker 1: good person. Well, it's hard to tell. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know if the documentarians are good people. It's I watched

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Speaker 1: it because it seemed relevant and people were talking about it,

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Speaker 1: and it it's about people who own big cats as

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Speaker 1: I guess pets and as an attraction like these private zoos.

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Speaker 1: And then another person who has a big cat rescue.

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Speaker 1: But then she's got I guess some skeletons in her

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Speaker 1: closet too. But the takeaway thing I think that I

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Speaker 1: learned from watching it is definitely a tiger will eat

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Speaker 1: your arm, and you know, so don't keep them as pets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you shouldn't keep them as pets because it's

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Speaker 1: not nice to the tigers. They need much more life

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Speaker 1: than being stuck in a cage and being paraded around

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Speaker 1: for your entertainment. But for sure, they're going to eat

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Speaker 1: your arm. And at that point I gotta say, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't be surprised. No, no, don't don't hang out

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Speaker 1: with tigers, right right? They don't like you, have you

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Speaker 1: seen the movie Roar, No, I haven't. It's um. It

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Speaker 1: was directed by Noel Marshall and it's it's about like

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Speaker 1: a family living with um with lions on a preserve

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Speaker 1: and they just filmed it with lions and it is

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Speaker 1: a terrifying film because the lions do not cooperate. The

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Speaker 1: them get hurt. Yeah, filming with lions. Just don't go

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Speaker 1: near lions, don't. Lions do want to chomp you. That

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Speaker 1: they still want to chomp you sometimes. Right, I think

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Speaker 1: any friendship with a lion there like I like this human,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a lot of fun with it until

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Speaker 1: I eat it, right. I mean it's like your cat.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what your cat thinks too. It's just they're

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Speaker 1: so tiny and small they can't actually eat you. But

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Speaker 1: want to talk first about lynxes because they are a

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Speaker 1: are several species, and this includes the Canada lynx and

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Speaker 1: bob cats are also in the Lynx genus. Uh. They're

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Speaker 1: their other Lynx cousins. So all lynxes are carnivores and

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Speaker 1: because they're highly territorial. So when male Canada lynxes fight

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Speaker 1: me give me them lynxes? Hm? Okay, that that really

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Speaker 1: they're screaming at each other, you know, in classic YouTube

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Speaker 1: have you seen the the c g I Lion king? H? No,

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Speaker 1: when uh spoilers, Scar kills um Mufasa, Uh, he falls

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Speaker 1: noise to come out of a bobcat. Well, it does

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Speaker 1: like the cat, the cat that sounds like he's going

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Speaker 1: You don't expect a Bobcat to sound like someone screaming

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Speaker 1: Gotfreed like getting really mad at you. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: like if all like all Bobcats are voiced by Gilbert

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Speaker 1: Gotfreed and it's freaking me out. And imagine being attacked

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Speaker 1: I I've seen those before. You know, it screamed. It

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Speaker 1: I love It's a It's basically every aging punk rocker

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Speaker 1: This all makes sense very much. Uh. The white bellied

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Speaker 1: white bellied go away bird. At the Houston Zoo. I

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Speaker 1: prey on anteloe uh and the way they do this

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Speaker 1: is by outrunning and exhausting them, tripping them over, and

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Speaker 1: then biting their necks to suffocate them. But I also

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Speaker 1: like the idea this is not what happens. But if like,

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Speaker 1: a cheetah is chasing an antelope and another cheetah is

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Speaker 1: nearby with its paw stuck out, so the antelope like

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Speaker 1: trips over its paw and then they kill it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the cheetahs like leaning against a locker, looking real, looking, real, casual,

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Speaker 1: and just exactly like exactly. They actually don't always hunt together,

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Speaker 1: so unlike lions and some other big cats that are

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Speaker 1: more social hunters, cheetahs tend to be somewhat solitary, although

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Speaker 1: they do form mother offspring groups that will hunt together,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes males will form little boy bands that hunt together.

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Speaker 1: And there they're these small coalitions and they work together

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Speaker 1: because life. Life can be pretty tough for a cheetah.

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Speaker 1: And despite being ferocious killers of antelope, they're pretty kind

435
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Speaker 1: of a lightweight and they have some adorable vocalizations. So

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Speaker 1: a couple of reasons to love a cheetah is there's

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Speaker 1: no records of cheetah's ever killing humans, and they're also

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Speaker 1: victims of bullying by other animals, so lions, leopards, hyenas,

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Speaker 1: and wild dogs will often steal their kills and even

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Speaker 1: kill their cubs, So cheetahs are real underdogs. Now, I

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Speaker 1: do want to point out to the listener that Dave

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Speaker 1: has just been joined by another guest of the show,

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Speaker 1: uh cat named Kitty little cat. What's her name? Kitten?

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Speaker 1: There we go, that's the right. Yeah, she came up,

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Speaker 1: she sniffed the microphone. She decided she wasn't interested and

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Speaker 1: please please leave a rating though, kitten. Please? Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: try if she comes back, I'll try to get her

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Speaker 1: to me now in the microphone. She's not gonna I

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Speaker 1: don't think she's going to leave me a rating or

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Speaker 1: review or stars or subscribe. But unlike Kitten, you can

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00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: leave a rating, review or subscribe and download, and that

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Speaker 1: actually really helps me. Don't be like kitten and and

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Speaker 1: review review it. So like like a kiddy cat or

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Speaker 1: like a house cat, Cheetahs can purr when they're content.

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Speaker 1: So here's a cheetah purring. It's a good kitty cat.

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Speaker 1: And they make a lot of interesting noises, so they

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Speaker 1: do growl, but they can't roar. Roaring and purring are

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Speaker 1: actually mutually exclusive, so lions can't really purr because they

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Speaker 1: can roar. But cheetahs bleat when they're in distress. So

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Speaker 1: here is a bleeding cheetah. Not bleeding, but bleat like

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Speaker 1: a goat. Yeah, taken out of the cage. K. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's in a trap set up by conservationists to

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Speaker 1: relocate him so that he can be dispersed into another

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Speaker 1: territory without being threatened by humans and to prevent inbreeding.

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Speaker 1: So it's they're actually doing a nice thing, but he's

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Speaker 1: kind of upset about it, so he's letting it, letting

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Speaker 1: them know by these really cute little little little hm katy,

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Speaker 1: I want you to know that my cat started pawing

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Speaker 1: on your face my monitor, that she's trying to she's

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Speaker 1: trying to write, she's trying to subscribe. She's subscribing to

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Speaker 1: my face. I think she's interested in these cheetah sounds,

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Speaker 1: to be honest. So here's one that that your kitten

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Speaker 1: is gonna like. So cheetahs also chirp. So here's a

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Speaker 1: cheetah chirping. It sounds unbelievable. Yeah, my cat does this too. Um,

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Speaker 1: the cats do more like the clicking like and they

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Speaker 1: see something they want. Yea, cheetahs sound like they're basically

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Speaker 1: the biggest house cat, like in terms of their anatomy,

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Speaker 1: Like you said, the purring roar and the chirping they sound.

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Speaker 1: But they sound even more like like bird chirps than

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Speaker 1: I've ever because, like I had a cat who would

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Speaker 1: do the little chirpy thing like we did see a

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Speaker 1: burden do that little sound. But cheetahs just straight up

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Speaker 1: bird tweet chirp like it's it's adorable and well, they

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Speaker 1: chirped like that to locate each other, like a mother

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Speaker 1: calling her young or a cub calling for its mother.

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Speaker 1: So here's here's a cub calling for its mother. It

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Speaker 1: just it sounds like a bird call. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: a juvenile it's like a teenager calling for its mom,

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Speaker 1: and it just sounds like it's chirping. And they also

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Speaker 1: sometimes will bark like a puppy to find mates or

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Speaker 1: to locate their young or their family. Mhm m that's cute.

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Speaker 1: And why don't you do that? My cat has completely

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Speaker 1: taken over my work area right now. She does this

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Speaker 1: thing where she walks over the keyboard constantly like am

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Speaker 1: I gonna step on a key and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: stop everything. She's really interested in these cheetah noises. Yea,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it sounds remember those little toy dogs

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Speaker 1: you'd get, like at the mall where they would go

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Speaker 1: like and then like it's flipping a little black backflip.

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Speaker 1: That's what they sound like. Um. They also just do

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00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: a straight up meal. So here's here's the meal. H

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Speaker 1: h h yeah, and it kind of sounds like a

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Speaker 1: person pretending to be a cat and mewing like it

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00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: doesn't quite sound like a domestic or a house cat's meal.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it just sounds like sound going yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's it's I don't believe them. I don't believe you cheetah.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it sounds like a jungle cat trying

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Speaker 1: to convince a human to get close to it so

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Speaker 1: it can eat it. Like, I feel like cheetahs would

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Speaker 1: have a good racket going if they just slowly approached

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Speaker 1: humans and what yeah, we would, I would pett it.

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Speaker 1: I mean they are interesting because they there aren't any

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00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: records of cheetah's killing humans. But maybe it's just because

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Speaker 1: they get away with it so easily. They're just so cute.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, they're all like you know those stories

516
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Speaker 1: when people jump in the like the zoo fences. I'm

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Speaker 1: that person. I know. I'm that person. I'm the person

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Speaker 1: who sees a lion and I think like it'll like

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Speaker 1: me though, like you know, it'll make an exception, it'll

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Speaker 1: absolutely it'll absolutely like you, especially like how your flesh tastes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but cheetahs. Cheetahs aren't man eaters. They're kind of they

522
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Speaker 1: are like I would say, sort of the whimps of

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Speaker 1: the big cats. They're pretty pretty, just like little scrawny,

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00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: nerdy ones and chirping around and doing little puppy barks.

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Speaker 1: And it's no wonder they get bullied by almost every

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Speaker 1: other predator that shares their region. I've seen the videos

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Speaker 1: of them getting like Golden retrievers to hang out with

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Speaker 1: emotional support. Yeah, at Zeus they need they need a

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Speaker 1: dog for emotional support because they really struggle. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to house cheetahs together again because they are often solitary,

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Speaker 1: and even though they do sometimes form these groups, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to simulate that because they have these smaller territories

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Speaker 1: in zoos, and so to keep them occupied and to

534
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Speaker 1: keep them calm, they have Golden retrievers or other dogs

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00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: raised with them and hang out with them at Zeus.

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Speaker 1: And they don't eat them. They I don't think a

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Speaker 1: cheetah could eat. Well, maybe they could, but I doubt it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like they really do. It's mostly like like

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00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: little antelopes that they again, they have to trip them

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Speaker 1: over in order to get the upper hand. I remember

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Speaker 1: there was there was a news story that I only

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Speaker 1: followed in headlines and it was the first one was

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Speaker 1: something I'm are we going to mess it up? But

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Speaker 1: I know the general idea. It was like local lion

545
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: at zoo befriends pig and then like and then like

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Speaker 1: there was a couple more like watch this video of

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Speaker 1: the lion hanging out with the pig and then the

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00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: final headline like a week later, it was like, sad

549
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: turn for the lion. I wonder what what was it was?

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Speaker 1: Did the pig break up with the lion? I assume

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. Again, I never I never clicked

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Speaker 1: on it, and it's like, yeah, that's I wonder what

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00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: that is. That does happen a lot when they're these

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00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: stories of like lion adopts an antelope as its pet

555
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: and then it's like sad turn of event for antelope

556
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: adopted by lion. But these do legit seem to like

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Speaker 1: their little doggie friends. No, yeah, they don't. Cheetahs Again,

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Speaker 1: they're not. They are predators. And again I would never

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Speaker 1: suggested cheetah as a pet, mostly for the cheetah's sake.

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00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: It will, it can mal it has malden people. It

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Speaker 1: just doesn't typically kill them. But yeah, it's it's not

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00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: a good pet, but it is not. It's a Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a in a way, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a delicate animal. And you know, the probably they feel

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Speaker 1: safer with the dog around, and I don't think that

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Speaker 1: they would want to attack the dog. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: even sure, like if it's a big golden retriever, Like

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Speaker 1: the golden retriever is going to be able to hold

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Speaker 1: its own with thee always. I feel like the if

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Speaker 1: I were a domesticated cheetah, seeing a golden Retriever would

571
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Speaker 1: not make me feel better because you're seeing like the

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Speaker 1: end result of domestigation happened. What have they done to you? Wolf? Oh? No,

573
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Speaker 1: am I going to turn into this high like tenose balls?

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Speaker 1: What have they done to you? Okay, so Dave, now

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about rhinos. So what

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Speaker 1: kind of noise do you think rhinos make? Like the

577
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 1: rhino rhino like Pokemon rules just say your own name,

578
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: or like some sort of you know, rall like a

579
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: dinosaur noise right like raw? Yeah? Yeah that's what I

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00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: thought too. Um did you think it would sound like

581
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: air being lit out of a balloon though, like like

582
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,959
Speaker 1: slowly lit out like an elephant trunk a little bit?

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Speaker 1: So if you, if you uh, take a look, see

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Speaker 1: at this this treat I gave you, Is this what

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00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: you hear when they're charging? Well? So these are baby

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00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: white rhinos that are being taken care of by a

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Speaker 1: wildlife veterinarian in South Africa and they're really really peeved

588
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Speaker 1: that they haven't been fed yet, so they are squeaking, squeaking,

589
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: some real mad squeaks there. While rhinos are dangerous to

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Speaker 1: animals or people who threaten them, they are much more

591
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Speaker 1: chilled than they're given credit for, especially white rhinos. So

592
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Speaker 1: here's some some quick rhino facts. Females and young males

593
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Speaker 1: will live in small herds of up to about fifteen individuals.

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Speaker 1: Adult males are the ones that are the most aggressive.

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Speaker 1: They're typically solitary and they defend their territory and they're

596
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: not actually excessively violent, but they will charge at you

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Speaker 1: if they since that you are encroaching on their territory,

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Speaker 1: and it's usually a warning charge, but they can do

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Speaker 1: serious damage if you don't get out of the way,

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Speaker 1: and they will demarcate their territory with dung and urine

601
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: of course, just like we all do, right like as

602
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Speaker 1: as soon as we had to, like are like self quarantining.

603
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: It was like peeing on it all the things that

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00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: I wanted to keep for myself. Oh yeah, well, my

605
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: maintaining eye contact with my cat exactly. So they are

606
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Speaker 1: a lot more swift and agile than you might think

607
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: they can run up to forty miles per hour, and

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Speaker 1: if they feel sufficiently threatened, they can definitely kill with

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Speaker 1: that horn. But white rhinos, compared to other rhino species,

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Speaker 1: are actually the most socially gregarious and they have the

611
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: most diverse calls. One reason that they're so vocal with

612
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: each other is that their eyesight isn't great, so having

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00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: a wide range of calls helps them communicate. And a

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Speaker 1: recent study found that they can actually tell the sex,

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Speaker 1: social status, and age of another rhino just based on

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Speaker 1: their call. And that little squeaky wine is characteristic of

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Speaker 1: young white rhinos who want to let their mom know

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Speaker 1: that their hungry and they want milk, and they want

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Speaker 1: it now, and they're not going to stop until you

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00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: pull over and give them some milk. Um. So adults

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Speaker 1: will kind of use grunts and huffs to communicate, and

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Speaker 1: so to demonstrate this, here's a video of a baby

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Speaker 1: whining and then then adult, probably small, sort of like

624
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: grunting back. And it's really funny. Give it what it wants.

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Speaker 1: I just imagine that conversation being like, but man shut up,

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00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: but man shut up foraging squeak. That sounds a lot

627
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: like my cat. I feel like everything we've talked about

628
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: sounds like your cat, well, high pitched squeak. That's that's

629
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: what it is. She's got that real high pitched yeah,

630
00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: so like that. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's

631
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: probably for a similar purpose. She's trying to get you

632
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: to feed her milk. Milk. Yeah, she wants my milk,

633
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: your dave milk, fresh from the day. Weird, That got weird.

634
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: Well that's what these rhinos are doing. They want they

635
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: want fresh mall milk. Yeah that's fair. Uh So here's

636
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: an animal that I think we all expect it to

637
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: sound this cute because I'm going to talk about baby seals.

638
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: Welcome to Baby Seal Corner. Everybody, come on in, get all,

639
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: get all settled in, because we're about to listen to

640
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: some baby seals and it's gonna make you happy. So, uh, Dave,

641
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: do you want to explode from just sheer delight? Okay,

642
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: here we go. It's got that puppy dog face staring

643
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: right at me, beady little eyes. Oh it's blinking, the

644
00:43:54,719 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: little blinking oh little squeaks. Oh. I want it. I

645
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: want it in my house. Yeah, I want to hold it.

646
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: I want to hold it. I want to like a baby.

647
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: It's not gonna it's not gonna be good for anyone

648
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: to keep this as a pet, but you know I do,

649
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: I do want to hold it. I want good for

650
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: us to keep it. You know, like, yeah, you have

651
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: a you'd have like a day of really enjoying it

652
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: until you realize you don't know how to feed it,

653
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: and like you don't even know who to call to

654
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: like get it out of your house. It'd be a solid,

655
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: it would be a solid, good hour until the reality

656
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: sets in that you have an actual seal in your house. Yeah,

657
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: and then it's a real problem. Have you seen that

658
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: a video of the fisherman waking up in his boat

659
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: to a seal curled up like a dog at his feet. Yeah,

660
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: he has to chase it off the boat. But it

661
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: made me think because there's also those videos of seals

662
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: getting chased by the sharks and they jump on the

663
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: boat and they're just like, everybody, be cool, all right,

664
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: just let me sit here a little bit, don't guys,

665
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 1: don't knark on a seal. Come. It makes me feel

666
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: like seals are ready, they're ready for our love and

667
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: to be domesticated, Like they're like please, it sucks in

668
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: the ocean. I think they're What they're most ready for

669
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: is for us to like not freaking tell on them

670
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: to a shark that wants to eat them. I mean,

671
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: come on, um, So that seal that you watched is

672
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: a baby harp seal and those are those adorable fluffy

673
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: white little balls of flufe and they grow up into

674
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: those gray, chunky adults that are they look like little

675
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: orbs with maybe a couple of flippers. And they live

676
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 1: in the Northern Atlantic an Arctic ocean. And the sounds

677
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: that you were hearing it make were it calling for

678
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 1: it's mommy. But they also make cute noises when they're playing.

679
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: They do kind of a mumbling, so even when mom's nearby,

680
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: they kind of will mumble to themselves and just like

681
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: roll around in the snow and have a good time.

682
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: M this is getting my cat's attention. She's looking over

683
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: at me like what are you doing. I feel like

684
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: listeners who have cats, you should play this without headphones

685
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,240
Speaker 1: on and see how your cat enjoys it. It's so moby.

686
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: It's such a moby little stamp. Well, so while these

687
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: baby calls are adorable, seals have even more complex vocalizations underwater.

688
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: So harp seal adults have over nineteen different calls underwater

689
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: for mating and courtship. And it sounds completely crazy. It

690
00:46:49,040 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: sounds like a synthesizer. Those are some sick beats. It

691
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: sounds like a synthesizer, right, sounds like sounds like some scrillics. Yeah,

692
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: it sounds it's got like spaceship sounds spaceship. Yeah, like

693
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: a like a Moog synthesizer. Water synthesizers. What are they

694
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: doing down there? They're they're jaming, They're they're doing those

695
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: scynth beats. You are, Yeah, you are waiting because you

696
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: hear like it's you're waiting for the like and like

697
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: maybe the ice some like strobe like colored lights to

698
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: start like like y these mysterious lights. We we always

699
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: thought the Aurora borealis was a natural phenomenon. It's actually

700
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: seal raves seals, Oh, seals just odeon in the bathrooms.

701
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: So harbor seals are a related seal that also live

702
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: in the North Atlantic Arctic Ocean, but on more temperate coastlines,

703
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: and their pups are gray to blend in with gray rocks.

704
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: And there here is a video of a harbor seal

705
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: being cared for by that veterinarians, and he really strongly

706
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: objects to having having to get his shot of medicines.

707
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: Poor a little guy. Oh my god, what a little

708
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: Oh what a little nugget. Oh my god, it's delicious too.

709
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: Oh my god. They're first so velvety and smooth. I

710
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: just want to rub it now, the first little when

711
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: when it's the first sound of me, Oh my god,

712
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't imagine being the doctor and having

713
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: to give this little guy a shot. I think I

714
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: would just melt. Yeah, I would fall to my knees. Yeah,

715
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: that sounds just like. You're right, seal. You're right. You

716
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: don't need a shop. I'm sorry. So, just to cap

717
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: this section off, I want to quickly visit the difference

718
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: between a seal and a sea lion. So here is

719
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: the scientific difference. Seals are little blobs with almost no

720
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: neck and have to flop around on land and kind

721
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: of do the worm, whereas sea lions have longer necks,

722
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: ear flaps, and can walk on land by rotating their

723
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: limbs under them. So seal is little blourb sea lion

724
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: is like ocean. Ocean labradors is the scientific term for it.

725
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: And the sea lions are like, you've got to be

726
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: a seal or a sea lion bro, and they like

727
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: give motivational speeches like seminars. Sea lions are definitely the

728
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: frat bros. And the seals are like the little little

729
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: d and d nerds are like, I have a level

730
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: chevity night elf though nerd seal nerd they ducked their

731
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: heads and water. But doesn't really it's not really affective. Yeah,

732
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: doing swirlies. I don't think works on sales. Can the

733
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: sounds of nature actually help our bodies? Researchers at Brighton

734
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: and Sussex Medical School conducted a very relaxing study. They

735
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: had participants listened to nature sounds while measuring their heart

736
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: rate and their brains response with an m r I.

737
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: They compared these results to a control group who listened

738
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: to artificial sounds. The researchers found that nature sounds caused

739
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: outward directed brain activity, that is the brain focusing on

740
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: external stimuli, whereas the artificial sounds caused in word directed attention,

741
00:50:55,320 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: which is often associated with anxiety and stress disorders. And distingly,

742
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: the nature sounds caused relaxation of the autonomic nervous system

743
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: for participants who started out stressed, but for those who

744
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: were already relaxed just chilling out in the m r I,

745
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: the nature sounds slightly stimulated their bodily response. So here,

746
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: why don't you try it for yourself. I'm going to

747
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: play some nature sounds for the next twenty seconds right

748
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: before the ad break, and when we returned, after you've

749
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: had a chance to relax, we'll talk about some goofy

750
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: animals who are clearly mocking us. Will be right back well.

751
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Nature sounds can help relax us. Cubans sounds seemed to

752
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: have the opposite effects on some animals, even those whom

753
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: we might consider to be fearsome beasts. You see Santa

754
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: Cruz study found that human speech was enough to frighten

755
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: mountain lions, making them avoid areas where they've heard human voices,

756
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: or at least to tread more cautiously. This was a

757
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: great benefit to the mice and small rodents. He used

758
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: the opportunity to be more active. Of course, I'm not

759
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: saying it's a good thing that we played these human voices.

760
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: The balance between predator and prey is very delicate, and

761
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: the fact that our voices alone can have such a

762
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: dramatic impact on the environment is a bit alarming. So

763
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: maybe we deserve a bit of mockery from the animal kingdom,

764
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: like from these animals, who, if I didn't know any better,

765
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: I would say, are making fun of us. So, Dave,

766
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 1: have you ever heard oh walrus whistle? No? I don't

767
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: think that was That was a long hesitation. I feel

768
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: like if you had, you would have known. I had

769
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: to think back at like Disney cartoons and stuff like

770
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: that to see if I've at least seen a cartoon

771
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: have you seen I didn't ask have you seen a

772
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: cartoon walrus whistle? That one was on me. That was

773
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: my bad. I could have meant, like if someone dressed

774
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: a furry dressed as a walrus like kind of whistling

775
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: at you. Yeah, I could have meant that. Um, well,

776
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: if you check out that link I have provided, then

777
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: you can hear the walrus whistle. I'm hearing it. Nice.

778
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: It's like a flute. Yeah, So walrus is will actually

779
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: make a variety of calls, typically to woo a female.

780
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 1: Females will react to both physical and vocal displays when

781
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: choosing a mate and to whistle. If you saw in

782
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: that video, Dave, they actually use their lips like a

783
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: human does. So like with a bird when they whistle,

784
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: they're not they don't have lips, so they don't use

785
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,240
Speaker 1: their lips. They use their syrinx, which is the bird

786
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: version of a larynx um. But with the walrus, they

787
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: actually purse their lips and whistle much like you know

788
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 1: one of us would. That's somehow really horrifying or so.

789
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, because yeah, I always

790
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: imagine the bird thing where it's like, yeah, they have

791
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: weird throat stuff. It's like, how does the waters whistle?

792
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it just you know, puts his lips

793
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: together and it does. It does make you face the

794
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: fact that walrus is have big, thick, juicy lips, which

795
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't really want to necessarily think about,

796
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: but here it is, and that's what they say. They

797
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: when they're whistling, they're like, hey, hey baby, I got

798
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: look at my juicy lips. How you doing. So here's

799
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: another one. Um. This is et the orphaned walrus at

800
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: point defines zoo and aquarium, making a whole variety of

801
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: sounds it's the lesser known sequel to the Spielberg class

802
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: less sexy or is it more sex or is it

803
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: more It's a matter of perpective. The face. Oh my god,

804
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: oh god. That one whistle at the end, that's like

805
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: a fire alarm. Yeah, what baffling creatures. These are, like

806
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't If I like I heard

807
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: someone cat call me and I turned around and it

808
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: was a walrus, I feel like i'd be a pleasant surprise.

809
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: Actually oh yeah, absolutely, It's like, no, it's not just

810
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: some dude. It's a walrus who's into you, and I

811
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: would be kind of honored actually a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,

812
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: the walrus is crossing species. It's it's defying nature for you.

813
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,399
Speaker 1: I'm just showing my appreciation. Come on, on the other hand,

814
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: if you heard walrus sounds and you turned around and

815
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: it was a human, horrifying Yeah, unless it's that guy

816
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: who was the guy in that movie Tusk. Justin Long, Yeah,

817
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: justin Long. You turn around, it's justin Long. It's like, yeah, nice,

818
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: good job, justin Long, good job. I know you deserve

819
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 1: some recognition for that movie. I get it. Yeah. Yeah,

820
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: it's a big that's a big swing I do wish

821
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: that like in that movie they had just justin long

822
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: doing like these walrus noise tricks, So just like whistle

823
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: justin and just doing a walrus tricks in general, yeah, exactly,

824
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: honking some horns, yeah, yeah. Do they play with falsly?

825
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: Probably you could. Probably a walrus will probably have a

826
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: lot of fun with like a blow up ball hanging around.

827
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: Was was that supposed to be a sad ending though?

828
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: Because like if you could just like live the rest

829
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: of your life like eating fish and being a walrus,

830
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, it sounds cool, right, yeah, especially

831
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,479
Speaker 1: now like the more and more I go to life,

832
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I wish, man if I could just

833
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: be a walrus lifestyle looking better and better, Yeah, sort of.

834
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: I mean the oceans aren't great so well, but like

835
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: in general, like that the concept of just being a

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00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: exactly doing walrus stuff, having walrus chores, I don't know,

837
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: wiggling around do they is there? What do they do?

838
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: They get up in there? Like time to wiggle? That

839
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: is kind of the walrus day is like you get

840
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: up and it's like time to wiggle, and then they

841
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: kind of like heff themselves a few inches over and

842
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: they're like, well, that's it. That's all it is for today. Yeah.

843
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: I guess maybe tomorrow I'll go to the beach and

844
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: scream until I find a mate. I'll just make crazy sounds. Yeah.

845
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: So there is an animal that has been our constant

846
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: companions for a long time that I think is completely

847
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: sick of our crap and is mocking us. And that

848
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: is the horse. So get a good old horse raspberry

849
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:06,919
Speaker 1: in your life. Oh screw you too, horse. So that's

850
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: a horse literally pursing its lips, sticking out its tongue

851
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: and blowing like a raspberry. And uh, there's a the

852
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: It's not just that one horse. It's not like the

853
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: one weird old horse going around going um, but there are.

854
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: It is a noted thing that horses occasionally do. And

855
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: that second video also shows another horse behavior of the

856
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: horse just kind of flapping its gums by tossing its

857
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: head up and down. I'm watching watching the little jerk jerk.

858
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: That's just I I think the behavior is from horses

859
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: just being like, hey, did you know we could do this? Oh? Cool?

860
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: Kind of like how babies like blow bubbles and like

861
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: blow raspberries, just be like, look at what I can do. Yeah,

862
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: I figured this out. We shake our heads violently or

863
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: are just just go wild it's hilarious. Well, I went

864
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: on a deep dive to find out why horses would

865
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: blow raspberries or like flap their gums like this, and

866
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: I couldn't really find like a direct answer. But this

867
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: is what I have gathered from my research. And what

868
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: I suppose is I think they're probably doing it out

869
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: of boredom. So flapping lips can be a sign of stress.

870
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: But if they're just standing there otherwise relaxed, I think

871
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: it means their board um or it could just be

872
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: for fun, and I think but here's the thing is, like,

873
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: while I don't have any direct evidence of it, I

874
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: do think a lot of it is just mocking us.

875
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: I think it's making fun of us. Yeah, well, yeah,

876
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: they must think we're maniacs, because if horses communicate with

877
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: each other at all, there'll be like, hey, what did

878
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: you do today? And they're like, well, you know, they

879
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: all like everybody dressed up around me and like pretended

880
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: to like get into fights, and there was all this

881
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: equipment and I don't know what was happening. What did

882
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: you do? Like, oh, yeah, I was in front of

883
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: a crowd, and I like, and they made me like

884
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: Prance and everybody, I don't know, everybody applauded. And then

885
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: their other friend is like, yeah, I'm at this, Like

886
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're all like it's like a hockey rink,

887
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: but they're like eating and watching me, and like they

888
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: got guys dressed up in metal. I don't know what

889
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: they're doing. I don't know what any of this is. Like,

890
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: there's no no, there's no context for any of the things.

891
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: But we do so many different things with horses. Yeah,

892
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: I just like I like the idea of like an

893
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: adult horse explaining this to young horse. It's like, well,

894
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: how do I put this? They're gonna sit on you? What? Yep,

895
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: there they're they're gonna sit on you. But but why, well,

896
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know. We don't know. There's no pattern.

897
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:04,959
Speaker 1: Sometimes we just run in circles. Yeah, just like I'm

898
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: sure that what I think what these horses are saying

899
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: is like, look, I'm a human. I'm a human. Look

900
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: at me. I'm a human thing. So it's interesting you

901
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: mentioned goats earlier, because I do want to talk about

902
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: goats if you would like There is a video I

903
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: have here of a man arguing with a goat. Sounds

904
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: like it sounds like a man at rock bottom. Let

905
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: me click up. I'm about like two days away from

906
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: arguing with a goat, so I'm not one to judge

907
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: that's fair. Goats constantly have that that dark crystal energy,

908
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: like the Jim Henson muppets that are like meant to

909
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 1: like traumatized kids. So in that audio clip, if you

910
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: couldn't tell who was the human and who was the goat,

911
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: the one screaming was the goat, it would be messed

912
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: up if the goat was the one who was like talking. Perfect. Yeah,

913
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: a lot of these screaming goat videos are actually sheep,

914
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: so I wanted to make confirmed that this was a goat.

915
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: And I think I'm not a goat goat expert. I'm

916
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: not a goat girl, but I think this is a

917
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: Parinian goat. They have long hair, a mop head and

918
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 1: those curly twisted horns, and um, here's another video of

919
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: a goat screaming. It is the most it is the

920
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 1: most shocking thing nature does, right right, You don't you

921
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: really don't expect it to just kind of we've kind

922
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: of come full circle back to the Lynxes where they

923
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,919
Speaker 1: just kind of scream at each other there, Yeah, where

924
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: they sound like just deeply pained by their existence. It's

925
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: I really think it's the most horrifying. It's like it's

926
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: like it's like goats screaming then like the existence of

927
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: sharks under it. Like it's the most it's the most shocking.

928
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, it's I can't get over it.

929
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: Every time I hear it, I'm like, surely that's not true.

930
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 1: It does seem like they're having an existential crisis. Um,

931
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: But I wondered about this. I was like kind of

932
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: concerned for the goats. So I did a little bit

933
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: of research and Dr. And Pischal of Tennessee State University

934
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: was interviewed by Slate to explain the goat situation because

935
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: apparently other people have noticed that goats just scream into

936
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: the void. So Dr Anne Pischal has a pretty grim

937
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: outlook on the whole goat screaming thing, she says, because

938
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: like the interviewer was saying, like, oh, people find these

939
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: videos really funny, and she says, quote maybe for some

940
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: it's entertained. I am a goat producer and don't consider

941
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: it entertainment at all. And I'm just starting to realize, like, yeah,

942
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: for us, like we click on a YouTube video, goat screams.

943
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny for someone who has to beer

944
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: around these goats constantly, just unending screaming. It's there. It's

945
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: their little defense, it's their little revenge. But my ears

946
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 1: are too long. I'm a buster. Yeah, So I wanted

947
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: to look into why they yell, and what I could

948
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: find is that they yell for a whole bunch of

949
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 1: different reasons. So they yell to call, they're young, They

950
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: yell when they want to be fed. They yell if

951
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: you touch them and they don't want you to touch them.

952
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: They yell when they want food. They yell when they're

953
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: getting food and they're happy. They yell when they see

954
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: another goat getting food and they're jealous. They yell when

955
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 1: they're lonely. So basically most situations, they either respond by

956
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: yelling or bleating. And even though it may be hard

957
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: for a human to tell the difference between all these bleats,

958
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: researchers found that goats do know the difference, and they

959
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: react either calmly or with agitation, depending on if the

960
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: bleat is a happy bleat or a I guess frustrated

961
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: or sad bleat. So why do why does the goat yell?

962
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: Who knows many different reasons because it feels like it,

963
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: reason like it? I think the most common explanation I

964
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: saw as they yell at you when they want you

965
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: to feed them, or especially if you see them feeding

966
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: another goat first and they get really mad and so

967
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: so it's like just them going like like why feed me? Why? Hey, hey, human, hey,

968
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: get over here. It's a good acting. I think it is.

969
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: It is it's uh. Or again back to my theory.

970
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: They could just be mocking us and we have we've

971
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: domesticated them, Like you said, this is their revenge, Like, well,

972
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: you want to keep us and use all our milk

973
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: and turn us into cheese and stuff. Well, unending yelling,

974
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: just relentless, endless screams. If aliens come and they take

975
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: us into like a human zoo, let's learned from the

976
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 1: Majestic goat and scream NonStop, I would do the worst

977
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: thing I could think of to annoy the aliens, which

978
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: would be to seeing smash mouth constantly on a loop.

979
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: What if they love it? Though, well, that's just a

980
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: risk I will be willing to take. I suppose, but

981
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: that that would be a real grim, grim future if

982
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 1: like the aliens come to Earth and not only are

983
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: they immune to our diseases, they're also immune to smash

984
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 1: mouth and please on and and they're really they're really

985
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: into like that era that was our only defense was

986
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: like crappy nineties early two thousands music. But if they're

987
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 1: also immune to that, we have literally no defense against daily. Well,

988
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me today, Dave and

989
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:23,880
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