Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied
Speaker 1: psychology and evolutionary biology, and did you know I'm a
Speaker 1: world class champion at doing giraffe calls? Here we go, ready, hmm,
Speaker 1: here it comes, April, fools. Giraffes don't really have a call. Well,
Speaker 1: researchers think they hum, but at a frequency that's pretty
Speaker 1: low and hard to hear as humans. But today on
Speaker 1: the show, we're going to listen to some animal sounds.
Speaker 1: These creatures have some of the most distinctive voices on
Speaker 1: the planet. We'll look at some lyrical links. Is possessive porcupines,
Speaker 1: chirping cheetahs, whistling walruses, and other very vocal critters. Discover
Speaker 1: this and more as we answer the age old question
Speaker 1: our this is mocking us. A lot of us are
Speaker 1: staying indoors right now, so I thought it'd be a
Speaker 1: great time to take some nature and put it inside
Speaker 1: your ear holes. Animals communicate for a whole variety of reasons,
Speaker 1: to find a mate, to call their young, to warn
Speaker 1: their peers, or to express happiness. But sometimes they're just
Speaker 1: plain old grumpy, and they aren't shy about letting you
Speaker 1: know it. Later in the show we'll cover some cuter
Speaker 1: and quirkier noises too, But for now, let's hear these
Speaker 1: animals who have a very unusual way of complaining. Joining
Speaker 1: me today to listen to some very opinionated animals as
Speaker 1: co host of game Fully Unemployed David Bell, Hello, hey, Dave,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me again. Animals he does for having me.
Speaker 1: I think last time we talked about turkeys, is that right? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great, great time we saw some really fluffy,
Speaker 1: really fluffy turkeys, unbelievably fluffy, like you can't handle it.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't handle it, Dave. Dave had to take a
Speaker 1: break from the podcast for a while because he couldn't
Speaker 1: handle it. It was like a forty minute uh yeah,
Speaker 1: where I had to sit and just breathe out in
Speaker 1: the balcony, deep breathing, and he was just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're so fluffy. My whole life changed. Had
Speaker 1: to reassess everything. Have you been watching Tiger King, the
Speaker 1: Netflix series? No, you're the tenth person to bring it up. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I guess I should watch it. Sorry, every everybody,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where, like everything I hear
Speaker 1: about it, it's like, that doesn't sound fun. Nobody sounds
Speaker 1: like a good person in the documentary. Nobody is a
Speaker 1: good person. Well, it's hard to tell. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if the documentarians are good people. It's I watched
Speaker 1: it because it seemed relevant and people were talking about it,
Speaker 1: and it it's about people who own big cats as
Speaker 1: I guess pets and as an attraction like these private zoos.
Speaker 1: And then another person who has a big cat rescue.
Speaker 1: But then she's got I guess some skeletons in her
Speaker 1: closet too. But the takeaway thing I think that I
Speaker 1: learned from watching it is definitely a tiger will eat
Speaker 1: your arm, and you know, so don't keep them as pets.
Speaker 1: I mean, you shouldn't keep them as pets because it's
Speaker 1: not nice to the tigers. They need much more life
Speaker 1: than being stuck in a cage and being paraded around
Speaker 1: for your entertainment. But for sure, they're going to eat
Speaker 1: your arm. And at that point I gotta say, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't be surprised. No, no, don't don't hang out
Speaker 1: with tigers, right right? They don't like you, have you
Speaker 1: seen the movie Roar, No, I haven't. It's um. It
Speaker 1: was directed by Noel Marshall and it's it's about like
Speaker 1: a family living with um with lions on a preserve
Speaker 1: and they just filmed it with lions and it is
Speaker 1: a terrifying film because the lions do not cooperate. The
Speaker 1: actors are in danger throughout the movie and many of
Speaker 1: them get hurt. Yeah, filming with lions. Just don't go
Speaker 1: near lions, don't. Lions do want to chomp you. That
Speaker 1: is a thing I know about lines. I'm not like
Speaker 1: specifically a lion expert, but I do know this. They
Speaker 1: want to chomp you. Yeah, they would love nothing more
Speaker 1: than to chomp you. Even if they like you, like
Speaker 1: say you you have some personal friendship with a lion,
Speaker 1: they still want to chomp you sometimes. Right, I think
Speaker 1: any friendship with a lion there like I like this human,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a lot of fun with it until
Speaker 1: I eat it, right. I mean it's like your cat.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what your cat thinks too. It's just they're
Speaker 1: so tiny and small they can't actually eat you. But
Speaker 1: it is the same thought process where it's like I
Speaker 1: love you, chomp but I love you. Chomp, chop, chomp.
Speaker 1: It's just waiting, is just waiting for me to drop dead,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, this is my time. So I
Speaker 1: want to talk first about lynxes because they are a
Speaker 1: big cat, I mean, one of the smallest of the
Speaker 1: big cats. But they have a very interesting call that
Speaker 1: surprised me when I heard it. So they've you know
Speaker 1: what lynxes are, right, I believe, So I have a
Speaker 1: I have a mental image that I'm now going to
Speaker 1: google so I don't feel like a dummy. They're the
Speaker 1: ones with the ears. Yeah, they're the one with ears
Speaker 1: exactly unlike other cats. They have ears and no, no,
Speaker 1: they have they have the big tufts on their ears,
Speaker 1: is what they've talking about. So they're found in the
Speaker 1: cold northern forests of North America, Europe, and Asia. There
Speaker 1: are several species, and this includes the Canada lynx and
Speaker 1: bob cats are also in the Lynx genus. Uh. They're
Speaker 1: found all over the US and even in parts of Mexico,
Speaker 1: and they typically are in warmer ranges of climates than
Speaker 1: their other Lynx cousins. So all lynxes are carnivores and
Speaker 1: active hunters. The biggest difference physically between Bobcats and the
Speaker 1: Canada Lynx. Is that a Canada lynx is a bit
Speaker 1: bigger and it's got bigger, fluffier mutton chops. So it's
Speaker 1: it's big old fluff ball ball, and the Canada Lynx
Speaker 1: is the one we're gonna be primarily looking at or
Speaker 1: listening listening to, listening to. So lynxes are generally solitary
Speaker 1: except for mother offspring relationships and temporary mating relationships. Otherwise
Speaker 1: they kind of keep to themselves, and so when they
Speaker 1: do encounter each other, the meeting is often pretty tense
Speaker 1: because they're highly territorial. So when male Canada lynxes fight
Speaker 1: over territory or mating, they screaming each other's faces like
Speaker 1: they are a toxic family at Thanksgiving. So let's take
Speaker 1: a listen to these links. Is having an argument give
Speaker 1: me give me them lynxes? Hm? Okay, that that really
Speaker 1: got me. It's because it's because they're like four ft
Speaker 1: from each other in that video, right, and they're just
Speaker 1: screaming in each other's faces. And when I saw this,
Speaker 1: I worried that, Okay, maybe this is just a prank.
Speaker 1: Like someone voiced over this and made it sound like
Speaker 1: they're screaming at each other, you know, in classic YouTube
Speaker 1: form of doing funny videos. So I found another video
Speaker 1: that is the exact same thing. It doesn't get old.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's like almost a people's voice, like
Speaker 1: have you seen the the c g I Lion king? H? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't. It doesn't work in my opinion, and one
Speaker 1: of the main reasons is that their photo realistic. So
Speaker 1: when uh spoilers, Scar kills um Mufasa, Uh, he falls
Speaker 1: to his death and it's a lion like it looks
Speaker 1: like a lion falling to his death, but it's just
Speaker 1: going ah. It's like it's this tragic moment that just
Speaker 1: you you burst into laughter watching because it's just got
Speaker 1: a yeah, it's so funny. It's so it's can't watch
Speaker 1: this without laughing. It's so unexpected. I don't expect that
Speaker 1: noise to come out of a bobcat. Well, it does
Speaker 1: make sense because there are like housecats that will make
Speaker 1: like a maniac sounds sometimes right, but they like even
Speaker 1: the weirdest sounding house cat they I don't know, like
Speaker 1: like the cat, the cat that sounds like he's going
Speaker 1: like we're all all there, you know, And this is
Speaker 1: like screaming goat level. Yeah, yeah, it's it's I don't
Speaker 1: know why the whole podcast isn't about this. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's it's someone. It's like, you don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't expect a Bobcat to sound like someone screaming
Speaker 1: at your face because you accidentally cut them off in
Speaker 1: traffic or something and you know it, or like Gilbert
Speaker 1: Gotfreed like getting really mad at you. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like if all like all Bobcats are voiced by Gilbert
Speaker 1: Gotfreed and it's freaking me out. And imagine being attacked
Speaker 1: by one and this is like the last thing you hear.
Speaker 1: It's got like a face like at the ending of
Speaker 1: Invasion of the Body Snatchers like that Donald Sutherland meme. Um,
Speaker 1: And I can't. I just can't imagine like running into
Speaker 1: one at night and its just being like and just
Speaker 1: coming straight at me. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: They aren't very dangerous to humans. Actually, they're quite small.
Speaker 1: They typically can't do much damage to a person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like if if I saw that
Speaker 1: coming at me and they were screaming at me, like
Speaker 1: like a body snatcher or like Gilbert Godfrey or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I would run that that'd be it. I'm done
Speaker 1: they are. I mean, it's boy nature is is sure weird?
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It never feels to surprise me. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know the I know these links is
Speaker 1: I I've seen those before. You know, it screamed. It
Speaker 1: screamed like a muppet in trouble Well. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons that the bobcat sounds so insane is that it's
Speaker 1: very high stakes for them when they are competing with
Speaker 1: each other, because females only mate with one male per year,
Speaker 1: and so competition for territory inform is very fierce, and
Speaker 1: that's why they scream at each other like those uh
Speaker 1: screaming chicken toys. And I would say, it is. I
Speaker 1: can imagine what they're saying too. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: just like it's my babe. So wait the males are yelling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's typically are like you know, what really does
Speaker 1: it for me? Like a sound like Fozzy Bears on fire,
Speaker 1: like I want to I want to hear a guttural,
Speaker 1: distressful sound. Yeah, I wonder if the females are really
Speaker 1: into just hearing it, like like the two males sounding
Speaker 1: like golden girls yelling at each other really attractive. The
Speaker 1: next animal I want to talk about is the gray
Speaker 1: go away bird, and this is a bird that is
Speaker 1: found in Africa, Madagascar, Iran, and Pakistan. It is a
Speaker 1: medium sized gray bird with a gray mohawk, which in
Speaker 1: bird lingo of those little mohawks that birds have are
Speaker 1: called crusts. Their social with each other, but really antisocial
Speaker 1: with everybody else. So when they're disturbed, they'll issue a
Speaker 1: call that sounds kind of like they're saying go it's horrible.
Speaker 1: It's so cranky, it sounds like sad. Yeah, oh I
Speaker 1: I love It's a It's basically every aging punk rocker
Speaker 1: right now. It's got a gray mohawk. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: to go away from it. So there are other species
Speaker 1: of go away bird in the same genus. There's the
Speaker 1: bare faced go away bird, which actually doesn't say go away.
Speaker 1: This all makes sense very much. Uh. The white bellied
Speaker 1: go away bird and the white belly go away birds
Speaker 1: do say go away. Uh. And I want to tell
Speaker 1: you the tale of Mr mcbouncy pants, who is a
Speaker 1: white bellied go away bird. At the Houston Zoo. I
Speaker 1: just want to note while you're loading it up, white
Speaker 1: bellied go away bird sounds like an insult Joe Biden
Speaker 1: would give somebody. That's very true, isn't it. You're a
Speaker 1: white bellied go away bird. You're you're a son of
Speaker 1: a white belly go away bird. But they've named this
Speaker 1: bird Mr mcbouncy pants. The reason why he named Mr
Speaker 1: mcbouncy pants is because school children would come by his
Speaker 1: exhibit at the Tropical Birdhouse that he ston zoo and
Speaker 1: watch him, and he would fly down to the glass
Speaker 1: to greet them and run back and forth along the
Speaker 1: glass with the school children watching, bouncing back and forth
Speaker 1: trying to get their attention. So he he just hated
Speaker 1: school children, or I guess maybe loved them. I just
Speaker 1: love that. So this is a from the Houston Zoo.
Speaker 1: They named their white bellied go a bird Mr mcbouncy pants,
Speaker 1: which I like to think that he absolutely hates that name,
Speaker 1: given the fact that they seem like such grubby birds,
Speaker 1: and it's like, are you a Mr mcbouncy pants. He's like,
Speaker 1: go away, O kill all of you. Are you a
Speaker 1: grumpy Mr mcbouncy pants die, you all die. So another
Speaker 1: cute little animal who has a little bit of of
Speaker 1: the Mondays a case of the Mondays is the porcupine.
Speaker 1: So so porcupines. There are many different species of porcupines.
Speaker 1: They are large rodents, they're sharp, quills are modified hairs
Speaker 1: covered in hardened keratin, and they are used to defend themselves.
Speaker 1: One of the myths about porcupines is that they can
Speaker 1: shoot quills at predators, and as awesome as that would be,
Speaker 1: they don't shoot them at people. Uh, quills don't shoot people.
Speaker 1: People shoot people. Uh. So the quills can be detached though,
Speaker 1: so if you you know, like say, you shove your
Speaker 1: face in a porcupine butt and all the quills get
Speaker 1: stuck in your face. When you pull back, the quills
Speaker 1: will come off and into your face. And the quills
Speaker 1: are barbed, which allows them to more easily stick into flesh.
Speaker 1: So that's cool. Yeah. As someone who grew up with
Speaker 1: a dog in the country, I'm very familiar with porcupine
Speaker 1: quills and the removal of them. Uh. Luckily, my dog
Speaker 1: was smart and it only happened to her once and
Speaker 1: then whenever there was a porcupine in our yard. So
Speaker 1: we had apple trees, so it would go. It would
Speaker 1: wattle in the yard eat the apples, and my dog
Speaker 1: would lose her mind because she knew so she would
Speaker 1: stand about three feet away from it, barking and like
Speaker 1: those you know, those high pitched barks with the desperation barks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the porcupine did not care. It would just waddle along,
Speaker 1: enjoying its day, would stay as long as it pleased.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. There's such They're like chill animals because
Speaker 1: they kind of can be right they know, Yeah, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: see what happens. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, take a Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat these apples. Oh you don't want me
Speaker 1: to eat these apples? Will see what happens. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, there are many different species of porcupines. They're
Speaker 1: found in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Speaker 1: They're actually one of the longest living rodents. They live
Speaker 1: into their twenties and they're herbivores and apparently they love corn.
Speaker 1: So Teddy is a porcupine at a wildlife education center
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas called University. And Teddy is a porcupine
Speaker 1: who loves corn and gets very mad at anyone who
Speaker 1: tries to interfere with his corn habits. Yes, it's more
Speaker 1: than fair the corn situation, Teddy, can you share your
Speaker 1: coin with me? Can I have it? No? We had it.
Speaker 1: You won't share really, Lets use this little more pass
Speaker 1: like people that corn. Oh no, okay, you have your corn.
Speaker 1: Disney characters, Oh my god, don't take its cord away.
Speaker 1: Let it have its corn. It's so grumpy. It's got
Speaker 1: that gremlin sound like there's this stop watching it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be watching this one later. Uh, it's got that
Speaker 1: thing like my cat will do this to where it's
Speaker 1: like there's the high pitched squeaks, but then it'll go
Speaker 1: to the like like the weird addition that animals are
Speaker 1: apparently capable. You like, I'm just a cute little animal
Speaker 1: I will destroy. Yeah, I like how at one point
Speaker 1: in the video, one of his squeaks sounds like he's
Speaker 1: saying my card, and so many animals are on the
Speaker 1: verge of talking, that's right. Yeah, It's like I understand
Speaker 1: that porcupines can't really imitate human language, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's getting a little spooky. It's like, can't like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's she's taunting him so and can I have the corn?
Speaker 1: And it really sounds like he's saying, oh my god, right,
Speaker 1: Like I'd love to be able to check in with them,
Speaker 1: like a thousand years ago to see if it's still
Speaker 1: if it's been like this the whole time, or if
Speaker 1: we should be concerned, right, or maybe we discovered corn
Speaker 1: from the porcupine. I have no evidence of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely true. So the North American porcupine who
Speaker 1: you just heard complaining a lot about someone, some lame
Speaker 1: person trying to steal with corn. They are also interesting
Speaker 1: animals because their skin is covered in a natural antibiotic,
Speaker 1: which is important because if they fall on their butts
Speaker 1: and they get poked by their own quills, they can
Speaker 1: get injured. And so by having that antibiotic on their skin,
Speaker 1: it prevents them from getting infected by their own quills,
Speaker 1: which I think is really funny when you basically evolution
Speaker 1: has designed this animal that is covered in spines, and
Speaker 1: then there's the problem of like, well, what if you
Speaker 1: get poked by your own spines. It's like, we'll cover
Speaker 1: your skin in medicine. I don't know. I like I
Speaker 1: like the the idea of the trial and error of
Speaker 1: that of like, dang, they're just dying because I mean
Speaker 1: it is I do. I am joking about it. But
Speaker 1: you know, evolution doesn't like I think the way a
Speaker 1: programmer does in terms of like there's no overarching plan,
Speaker 1: but it is but through trial and air that is
Speaker 1: how it works. So, like, you have a bunch of
Speaker 1: porcupines that like probably it's like great, we have the
Speaker 1: quills now, and then they just impale themselves on their
Speaker 1: own quills. So the ones that have these antibiotic properties
Speaker 1: to their skin are more likely to survive a self skewering.
Speaker 1: So um, when it's threatened, it will bristle its quills obviously,
Speaker 1: but it also chatters its teeth together. So one thing
Speaker 1: people might not know about porcupines is their teeth look
Speaker 1: a lot like beaver teeth. They are along and they're
Speaker 1: capable of eating through tough vegetation and absolutely destroying a
Speaker 1: corn cob, and they are because of their quills. Few
Speaker 1: natural predators are able to overcome its defenses. There is
Speaker 1: one predator that's really good at getting porcupines, and it's
Speaker 1: the fissure, which is a relative of the weasel. And
Speaker 1: we've actually talked about the Fisher on the show before,
Speaker 1: and it is known for being able to also attack
Speaker 1: bobcats and kill bobcats, which is crazy. It's a it's
Speaker 1: not a very big animal there, about ten pounds, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty scary that they're able to both kill bobcats
Speaker 1: and porcupines. They are really really evil, little weasel like animals.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say evil. No animal is evil,
Speaker 1: but no, these ones are. I'm sorry. If you, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you, if you, if you're able to destroy an
Speaker 1: animal that like the bobcat which screams in each other's faces,
Speaker 1: and the porcupine he gives in my carn't, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That's it's wrong. It's wrong. It's morally wrong. It's morally wrong.
Speaker 1: This is probably not a helpful question. Do you remember
Speaker 1: that porcupine mutant and X men? I do? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I was hilarious because he well, if you remember,
Speaker 1: like he was made up for the movie and he
Speaker 1: had his only power was putting out quills. So he
Speaker 1: kills a woman by hugging her. I remember that. That's
Speaker 1: the only way. Yeah, that really sticks in my memory
Speaker 1: is is like it's not a great superpower. If your
Speaker 1: only way of killing someone is to convince them to
Speaker 1: hug you, like, come here, give me a hug. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: you're you're evil. No, come on, really, come on, bring
Speaker 1: it in. There's a scene where like I think, like
Speaker 1: Juggernaut or someone's fighting Wolverine and Storm is fighting someone
Speaker 1: else and they all they all like meet each other
Speaker 1: and this name hood and they like Storm like creates
Speaker 1: a tornado and Juggernaut and Wolverine like collide and they
Speaker 1: cut to porcupine man and eat his quills come out
Speaker 1: like he's gonna do something with them. It's it's adorable.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's it's fine because it's even worse than
Speaker 1: an actual porcupine because like with actual porcupines, their quills
Speaker 1: are quite long and they always are sticking out, so
Speaker 1: you you know who you're messing with. But his were
Speaker 1: like sort of the length of acupuncture needles or something.
Speaker 1: So it's like really like, oh, real tough guy, Mr
Speaker 1: Pencushion over there, huh Right, you just have to stay
Speaker 1: at like six inches away from him, and you're good,
Speaker 1: Like you just like give me a high five, and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you almost got me this time. Well,
Speaker 1: when porcupines mate here, here's I'm gonna leave leave us
Speaker 1: with this one last tidbit for this section, which is
Speaker 1: that they will actually flatten their their quills so they
Speaker 1: don't shish kababi each other, which I also love because
Speaker 1: it's just there's all these these things of like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, if you're covered in spikes, how do you mate?
Speaker 1: And then they're like, oh, well, you know, we uh,
Speaker 1: we just flatten them out. We can do it at
Speaker 1: anytime we choose not to. Yeah, it sounds like a
Speaker 1: child or I guess a writer for the X Men
Speaker 1: trying to come up with the things at hawk, like, well,
Speaker 1: how do they hug each other? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They lay their quills flat or something. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: it is like nature. It's some bad writing on nature's part,
Speaker 1: but it works. It works. Apparently there's more there there.
Speaker 1: There is more than just one porcupine. They're making other
Speaker 1: I would say they're quite successful if there are several
Speaker 1: species of them. Yeah, they did it. Like you said,
Speaker 1: they live, They live pretty long. I think we would too,
Speaker 1: if you're covered in spikes. Tell the voices something used
Speaker 1: by animals and humans to make suggestions about mood and
Speaker 1: to convey other information. Dogs and humans are uniquely well
Speaker 1: suited to communicating with each other. Our body language and
Speaker 1: vocal language, generally speaking or barking makes sense to each other.
Speaker 1: A low growl from a dog means back off, A
Speaker 1: lowe no from a human means get that thing out
Speaker 1: of your mouth, and we can get ideas across to
Speaker 1: each other fairly well and interestingly, this isn't where our
Speaker 1: shared understanding of sounds ends. You know, in cartoons, where
Speaker 1: there's a high pitch that goes up like an upward
Speaker 1: slide whistle, it directs your attention upwards. Researchers found that
Speaker 1: dogs share the same instinct. In a similar evolutionary mechanism.
Speaker 1: Dogs were able to track the movement of a rising
Speaker 1: ball better when it was accompanied by a high pitch
Speaker 1: directing their attention upwards. Could it be that we associate
Speaker 1: high pitches with the sky because of birds, or low
Speaker 1: pitches with the ground because of large predators slowly sculping
Speaker 1: towards us. One thing is for sure, you should definitely
Speaker 1: bring a slide whistle with you next time you play
Speaker 1: fetch with your dog. When we return, we're going to
Speaker 1: look at some ridiculously cute noises that don't always come
Speaker 1: from an animal that you'd expect. Why do we consider
Speaker 1: some noises cute? One reason could be that we find
Speaker 1: any noise reminiscent of a baby to be cute, much
Speaker 1: like the baby schema, that is, finding facial proportions similar
Speaker 1: to a baby, like big eyes and a big forehead
Speaker 1: to be cute. High pitched noises are more similar to
Speaker 1: baby sounds. In fact, even babies prefer the voices of
Speaker 1: other babies to our stupid adult voices. Researchers found babies
Speaker 1: liked to listen to fellow babies longer than an adult
Speaker 1: woman's voice. This could mean that we have some sort
Speaker 1: of innate preference for cute baby sounds, or maybe it
Speaker 1: just means the babies are plotting something. I don't know, Dave.
Speaker 1: If you think those babies they're up, they're up to something.
Speaker 1: I don't trust a baby. Never trust a baby, Never
Speaker 1: trust a baby from you. That's all they want, exactly.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust a baby as far as you could
Speaker 1: throw a baby, and you shouldn't throw a baby. So
Speaker 1: I don't trust a baby at all. Yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 1: I want to talk about another big cat, this time
Speaker 1: the cheetah, which is most famous for being the one
Speaker 1: of the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. They can
Speaker 1: run up to fifty eight miles per hour, which I
Speaker 1: would say is a little faster than I can run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too fast, it's too fast, a little too fast.
Speaker 1: They're found in Africa and sparsely in Iran. They mostly
Speaker 1: prey on anteloe uh and the way they do this
Speaker 1: is by outrunning and exhausting them, tripping them over, and
Speaker 1: then biting their necks to suffocate them. But I also
Speaker 1: like the idea this is not what happens. But if like,
Speaker 1: a cheetah is chasing an antelope and another cheetah is
Speaker 1: nearby with its paw stuck out, so the antelope like
Speaker 1: trips over its paw and then they kill it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the cheetahs like leaning against a locker, looking real, looking, real, casual,
Speaker 1: and just exactly like exactly. They actually don't always hunt together,
Speaker 1: so unlike lions and some other big cats that are
Speaker 1: more social hunters, cheetahs tend to be somewhat solitary, although
Speaker 1: they do form mother offspring groups that will hunt together,
Speaker 1: and sometimes males will form little boy bands that hunt together.
Speaker 1: And there they're these small coalitions and they work together
Speaker 1: because life. Life can be pretty tough for a cheetah.
Speaker 1: And despite being ferocious killers of antelope, they're pretty kind
Speaker 1: of a lightweight and they have some adorable vocalizations. So
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons to love a cheetah is there's
Speaker 1: no records of cheetah's ever killing humans, and they're also
Speaker 1: victims of bullying by other animals, so lions, leopards, hyenas,
Speaker 1: and wild dogs will often steal their kills and even
Speaker 1: kill their cubs, So cheetahs are real underdogs. Now, I
Speaker 1: do want to point out to the listener that Dave
Speaker 1: has just been joined by another guest of the show,
Speaker 1: uh cat named Kitty little cat. What's her name? Kitten?
Speaker 1: There we go, that's the right. Yeah, she came up,
Speaker 1: she sniffed the microphone. She decided she wasn't interested and
Speaker 1: please please leave a rating though, kitten. Please? Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: try if she comes back, I'll try to get her
Speaker 1: to me now in the microphone. She's not gonna I
Speaker 1: don't think she's going to leave me a rating or
Speaker 1: review or stars or subscribe. But unlike Kitten, you can
Speaker 1: leave a rating, review or subscribe and download, and that
Speaker 1: actually really helps me. Don't be like kitten and and
Speaker 1: review review it. So like like a kiddy cat or
Speaker 1: like a house cat, Cheetahs can purr when they're content.
Speaker 1: So here's a cheetah purring. It's a good kitty cat.
Speaker 1: And they make a lot of interesting noises, so they
Speaker 1: do growl, but they can't roar. Roaring and purring are
Speaker 1: actually mutually exclusive, so lions can't really purr because they
Speaker 1: can roar. But cheetahs bleat when they're in distress. So
Speaker 1: here is a bleeding cheetah. Not bleeding, but bleat like
Speaker 1: a goat. Yeah, taken out of the cage. K. So
Speaker 1: it's it's in a trap set up by conservationists to
Speaker 1: relocate him so that he can be dispersed into another
Speaker 1: territory without being threatened by humans and to prevent inbreeding.
Speaker 1: So it's they're actually doing a nice thing, but he's
Speaker 1: kind of upset about it, so he's letting it, letting
Speaker 1: them know by these really cute little little little hm katy,
Speaker 1: I want you to know that my cat started pawing
Speaker 1: on your face my monitor, that she's trying to she's
Speaker 1: trying to write, she's trying to subscribe. She's subscribing to
Speaker 1: my face. I think she's interested in these cheetah sounds,
Speaker 1: to be honest. So here's one that that your kitten
Speaker 1: is gonna like. So cheetahs also chirp. So here's a
Speaker 1: cheetah chirping. It sounds unbelievable. Yeah, my cat does this too. Um,
Speaker 1: the cats do more like the clicking like and they
Speaker 1: see something they want. Yea, cheetahs sound like they're basically
Speaker 1: the biggest house cat, like in terms of their anatomy,
Speaker 1: Like you said, the purring roar and the chirping they sound.
Speaker 1: But they sound even more like like bird chirps than
Speaker 1: I've ever because, like I had a cat who would
Speaker 1: do the little chirpy thing like we did see a
Speaker 1: burden do that little sound. But cheetahs just straight up
Speaker 1: bird tweet chirp like it's it's adorable and well, they
Speaker 1: chirped like that to locate each other, like a mother
Speaker 1: calling her young or a cub calling for its mother.
Speaker 1: So here's here's a cub calling for its mother. It
Speaker 1: just it sounds like a bird call. So that's that's
Speaker 1: a juvenile it's like a teenager calling for its mom,
Speaker 1: and it just sounds like it's chirping. And they also
Speaker 1: sometimes will bark like a puppy to find mates or
Speaker 1: to locate their young or their family. Mhm m that's cute.
Speaker 1: And why don't you do that? My cat has completely
Speaker 1: taken over my work area right now. She does this
Speaker 1: thing where she walks over the keyboard constantly like am
Speaker 1: I gonna step on a key and I'm going to
Speaker 1: stop everything. She's really interested in these cheetah noises. Yea,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it sounds remember those little toy dogs
Speaker 1: you'd get, like at the mall where they would go
Speaker 1: like and then like it's flipping a little black backflip.
Speaker 1: That's what they sound like. Um. They also just do
Speaker 1: a straight up meal. So here's here's the meal. H
Speaker 1: h h yeah, and it kind of sounds like a
Speaker 1: person pretending to be a cat and mewing like it
Speaker 1: doesn't quite sound like a domestic or a house cat's meal.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it just sounds like sound going yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's I don't believe them. I don't believe you cheetah.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it sounds like a jungle cat trying
Speaker 1: to convince a human to get close to it so
Speaker 1: it can eat it. Like, I feel like cheetahs would
Speaker 1: have a good racket going if they just slowly approached
Speaker 1: humans and what yeah, we would, I would pett it.
Speaker 1: I mean they are interesting because they there aren't any
Speaker 1: records of cheetah's killing humans. But maybe it's just because
Speaker 1: they get away with it so easily. They're just so cute.
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're all like you know those stories
Speaker 1: when people jump in the like the zoo fences. I'm
Speaker 1: that person. I know. I'm that person. I'm the person
Speaker 1: who sees a lion and I think like it'll like
Speaker 1: me though, like you know, it'll make an exception, it'll
Speaker 1: absolutely it'll absolutely like you, especially like how your flesh tastes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but cheetahs. Cheetahs aren't man eaters. They're kind of they
Speaker 1: are like I would say, sort of the whimps of
Speaker 1: the big cats. They're pretty pretty, just like little scrawny,
Speaker 1: nerdy ones and chirping around and doing little puppy barks.
Speaker 1: And it's no wonder they get bullied by almost every
Speaker 1: other predator that shares their region. I've seen the videos
Speaker 1: of them getting like Golden retrievers to hang out with
Speaker 1: emotional support. Yeah, at Zeus they need they need a
Speaker 1: dog for emotional support because they really struggle. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: hard to house cheetahs together again because they are often solitary,
Speaker 1: and even though they do sometimes form these groups, it's
Speaker 1: hard to simulate that because they have these smaller territories
Speaker 1: in zoos, and so to keep them occupied and to
Speaker 1: keep them calm, they have Golden retrievers or other dogs
Speaker 1: raised with them and hang out with them at Zeus.
Speaker 1: And they don't eat them. They I don't think a
Speaker 1: cheetah could eat. Well, maybe they could, but I doubt it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like they really do. It's mostly like like
Speaker 1: little antelopes that they again, they have to trip them
Speaker 1: over in order to get the upper hand. I remember
Speaker 1: there was there was a news story that I only
Speaker 1: followed in headlines and it was the first one was
Speaker 1: something I'm are we going to mess it up? But
Speaker 1: I know the general idea. It was like local lion
Speaker 1: at zoo befriends pig and then like and then like
Speaker 1: there was a couple more like watch this video of
Speaker 1: the lion hanging out with the pig and then the
Speaker 1: final headline like a week later, it was like, sad
Speaker 1: turn for the lion. I wonder what what was it was?
Speaker 1: Did the pig break up with the lion? I assume
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Again, I never I never clicked
Speaker 1: on it, and it's like, yeah, that's I wonder what
Speaker 1: that is. That does happen a lot when they're these
Speaker 1: stories of like lion adopts an antelope as its pet
Speaker 1: and then it's like sad turn of event for antelope
Speaker 1: adopted by lion. But these do legit seem to like
Speaker 1: their little doggie friends. No, yeah, they don't. Cheetahs Again,
Speaker 1: they're not. They are predators. And again I would never
Speaker 1: suggested cheetah as a pet, mostly for the cheetah's sake.
Speaker 1: It will, it can mal it has malden people. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't typically kill them. But yeah, it's it's not
Speaker 1: a good pet, but it is not. It's a Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a in a way, it's kind of
Speaker 1: a delicate animal. And you know, the probably they feel
Speaker 1: safer with the dog around, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: they would want to attack the dog. And I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure, like if it's a big golden retriever, Like
Speaker 1: the golden retriever is going to be able to hold
Speaker 1: its own with thee always. I feel like the if
Speaker 1: I were a domesticated cheetah, seeing a golden Retriever would
Speaker 1: not make me feel better because you're seeing like the
Speaker 1: end result of domestigation happened. What have they done to you? Wolf? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: am I going to turn into this high like tenose balls?
Speaker 1: What have they done to you? Okay, so Dave, now
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about rhinos. So what
Speaker 1: kind of noise do you think rhinos make? Like the
Speaker 1: rhino rhino like Pokemon rules just say your own name,
Speaker 1: or like some sort of you know, rall like a
Speaker 1: dinosaur noise right like raw? Yeah? Yeah that's what I
Speaker 1: thought too. Um did you think it would sound like
Speaker 1: air being lit out of a balloon though, like like
Speaker 1: slowly lit out like an elephant trunk a little bit?
Speaker 1: So if you, if you uh, take a look, see
Speaker 1: at this this treat I gave you, Is this what
Speaker 1: you hear when they're charging? Well? So these are baby
Speaker 1: white rhinos that are being taken care of by a
Speaker 1: wildlife veterinarian in South Africa and they're really really peeved
Speaker 1: that they haven't been fed yet, so they are squeaking, squeaking,
Speaker 1: some real mad squeaks there. While rhinos are dangerous to
Speaker 1: animals or people who threaten them, they are much more
Speaker 1: chilled than they're given credit for, especially white rhinos. So
Speaker 1: here's some some quick rhino facts. Females and young males
Speaker 1: will live in small herds of up to about fifteen individuals.
Speaker 1: Adult males are the ones that are the most aggressive.
Speaker 1: They're typically solitary and they defend their territory and they're
Speaker 1: not actually excessively violent, but they will charge at you
Speaker 1: if they since that you are encroaching on their territory,
Speaker 1: and it's usually a warning charge, but they can do
Speaker 1: serious damage if you don't get out of the way,
Speaker 1: and they will demarcate their territory with dung and urine
Speaker 1: of course, just like we all do, right like as
Speaker 1: as soon as we had to, like are like self quarantining.
Speaker 1: It was like peeing on it all the things that
Speaker 1: I wanted to keep for myself. Oh yeah, well, my
Speaker 1: maintaining eye contact with my cat exactly. So they are
Speaker 1: a lot more swift and agile than you might think
Speaker 1: they can run up to forty miles per hour, and
Speaker 1: if they feel sufficiently threatened, they can definitely kill with
Speaker 1: that horn. But white rhinos, compared to other rhino species,
Speaker 1: are actually the most socially gregarious and they have the
Speaker 1: most diverse calls. One reason that they're so vocal with
Speaker 1: each other is that their eyesight isn't great, so having
Speaker 1: a wide range of calls helps them communicate. And a
Speaker 1: recent study found that they can actually tell the sex,
Speaker 1: social status, and age of another rhino just based on
Speaker 1: their call. And that little squeaky wine is characteristic of
Speaker 1: young white rhinos who want to let their mom know
Speaker 1: that their hungry and they want milk, and they want
Speaker 1: it now, and they're not going to stop until you
Speaker 1: pull over and give them some milk. Um. So adults
Speaker 1: will kind of use grunts and huffs to communicate, and
Speaker 1: so to demonstrate this, here's a video of a baby
Speaker 1: whining and then then adult, probably small, sort of like
Speaker 1: grunting back. And it's really funny. Give it what it wants.
Speaker 1: I just imagine that conversation being like, but man shut up,
Speaker 1: but man shut up foraging squeak. That sounds a lot
Speaker 1: like my cat. I feel like everything we've talked about
Speaker 1: sounds like your cat, well, high pitched squeak. That's that's
Speaker 1: what it is. She's got that real high pitched yeah,
Speaker 1: so like that. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's
Speaker 1: probably for a similar purpose. She's trying to get you
Speaker 1: to feed her milk. Milk. Yeah, she wants my milk,
Speaker 1: your dave milk, fresh from the day. Weird, That got weird.
Speaker 1: Well that's what these rhinos are doing. They want they
Speaker 1: want fresh mall milk. Yeah that's fair. Uh So here's
Speaker 1: an animal that I think we all expect it to
Speaker 1: sound this cute because I'm going to talk about baby seals.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Baby Seal Corner. Everybody, come on in, get all,
Speaker 1: get all settled in, because we're about to listen to
Speaker 1: some baby seals and it's gonna make you happy. So, uh, Dave,
Speaker 1: do you want to explode from just sheer delight? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. It's got that puppy dog face staring
Speaker 1: right at me, beady little eyes. Oh it's blinking, the
Speaker 1: little blinking oh little squeaks. Oh. I want it. I
Speaker 1: want it in my house. Yeah, I want to hold it.
Speaker 1: I want to hold it. I want to like a baby.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna it's not gonna be good for anyone
Speaker 1: to keep this as a pet, but you know I do,
Speaker 1: I do want to hold it. I want good for
Speaker 1: us to keep it. You know, like, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: a you'd have like a day of really enjoying it
Speaker 1: until you realize you don't know how to feed it,
Speaker 1: and like you don't even know who to call to
Speaker 1: like get it out of your house. It'd be a solid,
Speaker 1: it would be a solid, good hour until the reality
Speaker 1: sets in that you have an actual seal in your house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it's a real problem. Have you seen that
Speaker 1: a video of the fisherman waking up in his boat
Speaker 1: to a seal curled up like a dog at his feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has to chase it off the boat. But it
Speaker 1: made me think because there's also those videos of seals
Speaker 1: getting chased by the sharks and they jump on the
Speaker 1: boat and they're just like, everybody, be cool, all right,
Speaker 1: just let me sit here a little bit, don't guys,
Speaker 1: don't knark on a seal. Come. It makes me feel
Speaker 1: like seals are ready, they're ready for our love and
Speaker 1: to be domesticated, Like they're like please, it sucks in
Speaker 1: the ocean. I think they're What they're most ready for
Speaker 1: is for us to like not freaking tell on them
Speaker 1: to a shark that wants to eat them. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, um, So that seal that you watched is
Speaker 1: a baby harp seal and those are those adorable fluffy
Speaker 1: white little balls of flufe and they grow up into
Speaker 1: those gray, chunky adults that are they look like little
Speaker 1: orbs with maybe a couple of flippers. And they live
Speaker 1: in the Northern Atlantic an Arctic ocean. And the sounds
Speaker 1: that you were hearing it make were it calling for
Speaker 1: it's mommy. But they also make cute noises when they're playing.
Speaker 1: They do kind of a mumbling, so even when mom's nearby,
Speaker 1: they kind of will mumble to themselves and just like
Speaker 1: roll around in the snow and have a good time.
Speaker 1: M this is getting my cat's attention. She's looking over
Speaker 1: at me like what are you doing. I feel like
Speaker 1: listeners who have cats, you should play this without headphones
Speaker 1: on and see how your cat enjoys it. It's so moby.
Speaker 1: It's such a moby little stamp. Well, so while these
Speaker 1: baby calls are adorable, seals have even more complex vocalizations underwater.
Speaker 1: So harp seal adults have over nineteen different calls underwater
Speaker 1: for mating and courtship. And it sounds completely crazy. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a synthesizer. Those are some sick beats. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a synthesizer, right, sounds like sounds like some scrillics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds it's got like spaceship sounds spaceship. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: a like a Moog synthesizer. Water synthesizers. What are they
Speaker 1: doing down there? They're they're jaming, They're they're doing those
Speaker 1: scynth beats. You are, Yeah, you are waiting because you
Speaker 1: hear like it's you're waiting for the like and like
Speaker 1: maybe the ice some like strobe like colored lights to
Speaker 1: start like like y these mysterious lights. We we always
Speaker 1: thought the Aurora borealis was a natural phenomenon. It's actually
Speaker 1: seal raves seals, Oh, seals just odeon in the bathrooms.
Speaker 1: So harbor seals are a related seal that also live
Speaker 1: in the North Atlantic Arctic Ocean, but on more temperate coastlines,
Speaker 1: and their pups are gray to blend in with gray rocks.
Speaker 1: And there here is a video of a harbor seal
Speaker 1: being cared for by that veterinarians, and he really strongly
Speaker 1: objects to having having to get his shot of medicines.
Speaker 1: Poor a little guy. Oh my god, what a little
Speaker 1: Oh what a little nugget. Oh my god, it's delicious too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. They're first so velvety and smooth. I
Speaker 1: just want to rub it now, the first little when
Speaker 1: when it's the first sound of me, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't imagine being the doctor and having
Speaker 1: to give this little guy a shot. I think I
Speaker 1: would just melt. Yeah, I would fall to my knees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds just like. You're right, seal. You're right. You
Speaker 1: don't need a shop. I'm sorry. So, just to cap
Speaker 1: this section off, I want to quickly visit the difference
Speaker 1: between a seal and a sea lion. So here is
Speaker 1: the scientific difference. Seals are little blobs with almost no
Speaker 1: neck and have to flop around on land and kind
Speaker 1: of do the worm, whereas sea lions have longer necks,
Speaker 1: ear flaps, and can walk on land by rotating their
Speaker 1: limbs under them. So seal is little blourb sea lion
Speaker 1: is like ocean. Ocean labradors is the scientific term for it.
Speaker 1: And the sea lions are like, you've got to be
Speaker 1: a seal or a sea lion bro, and they like
Speaker 1: give motivational speeches like seminars. Sea lions are definitely the
Speaker 1: frat bros. And the seals are like the little little
Speaker 1: d and d nerds are like, I have a level
Speaker 1: chevity night elf though nerd seal nerd they ducked their
Speaker 1: heads and water. But doesn't really it's not really affective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doing swirlies. I don't think works on sales. Can the
Speaker 1: sounds of nature actually help our bodies? Researchers at Brighton
Speaker 1: and Sussex Medical School conducted a very relaxing study. They
Speaker 1: had participants listened to nature sounds while measuring their heart
Speaker 1: rate and their brains response with an m r I.
Speaker 1: They compared these results to a control group who listened
Speaker 1: to artificial sounds. The researchers found that nature sounds caused
Speaker 1: outward directed brain activity, that is the brain focusing on
Speaker 1: external stimuli, whereas the artificial sounds caused in word directed attention,
Speaker 1: which is often associated with anxiety and stress disorders. And distingly,
Speaker 1: the nature sounds caused relaxation of the autonomic nervous system
Speaker 1: for participants who started out stressed, but for those who
Speaker 1: were already relaxed just chilling out in the m r I,
Speaker 1: the nature sounds slightly stimulated their bodily response. So here,
Speaker 1: why don't you try it for yourself. I'm going to
Speaker 1: play some nature sounds for the next twenty seconds right
Speaker 1: before the ad break, and when we returned, after you've
Speaker 1: had a chance to relax, we'll talk about some goofy
Speaker 1: animals who are clearly mocking us. Will be right back well.
Speaker 1: Nature sounds can help relax us. Cubans sounds seemed to
Speaker 1: have the opposite effects on some animals, even those whom
Speaker 1: we might consider to be fearsome beasts. You see Santa
Speaker 1: Cruz study found that human speech was enough to frighten
Speaker 1: mountain lions, making them avoid areas where they've heard human voices,
Speaker 1: or at least to tread more cautiously. This was a
Speaker 1: great benefit to the mice and small rodents. He used
Speaker 1: the opportunity to be more active. Of course, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's a good thing that we played these human voices.
Speaker 1: The balance between predator and prey is very delicate, and
Speaker 1: the fact that our voices alone can have such a
Speaker 1: dramatic impact on the environment is a bit alarming. So
Speaker 1: maybe we deserve a bit of mockery from the animal kingdom,
Speaker 1: like from these animals, who, if I didn't know any better,
Speaker 1: I would say, are making fun of us. So, Dave,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard oh walrus whistle? No? I don't
Speaker 1: think that was That was a long hesitation. I feel
Speaker 1: like if you had, you would have known. I had
Speaker 1: to think back at like Disney cartoons and stuff like
Speaker 1: that to see if I've at least seen a cartoon
Speaker 1: have you seen I didn't ask have you seen a
Speaker 1: cartoon walrus whistle? That one was on me. That was
Speaker 1: my bad. I could have meant, like if someone dressed
Speaker 1: a furry dressed as a walrus like kind of whistling
Speaker 1: at you. Yeah, I could have meant that. Um, well,
Speaker 1: if you check out that link I have provided, then
Speaker 1: you can hear the walrus whistle. I'm hearing it. Nice.
Speaker 1: It's like a flute. Yeah, So walrus is will actually
Speaker 1: make a variety of calls, typically to woo a female.
Speaker 1: Females will react to both physical and vocal displays when
Speaker 1: choosing a mate and to whistle. If you saw in
Speaker 1: that video, Dave, they actually use their lips like a
Speaker 1: human does. So like with a bird when they whistle,
Speaker 1: they're not they don't have lips, so they don't use
Speaker 1: their lips. They use their syrinx, which is the bird
Speaker 1: version of a larynx um. But with the walrus, they
Speaker 1: actually purse their lips and whistle much like you know
Speaker 1: one of us would. That's somehow really horrifying or so.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, because yeah, I always
Speaker 1: imagine the bird thing where it's like, yeah, they have
Speaker 1: weird throat stuff. It's like, how does the waters whistle?
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it just you know, puts his lips
Speaker 1: together and it does. It does make you face the
Speaker 1: fact that walrus is have big, thick, juicy lips, which
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't really want to necessarily think about,
Speaker 1: but here it is, and that's what they say. They
Speaker 1: when they're whistling, they're like, hey, hey baby, I got
Speaker 1: look at my juicy lips. How you doing. So here's
Speaker 1: another one. Um. This is et the orphaned walrus at
Speaker 1: point defines zoo and aquarium, making a whole variety of
Speaker 1: sounds it's the lesser known sequel to the Spielberg class
Speaker 1: less sexy or is it more sex or is it
Speaker 1: more It's a matter of perpective. The face. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh god. That one whistle at the end, that's like
Speaker 1: a fire alarm. Yeah, what baffling creatures. These are, like
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't If I like I heard
Speaker 1: someone cat call me and I turned around and it
Speaker 1: was a walrus, I feel like i'd be a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 1: Actually oh yeah, absolutely, It's like, no, it's not just
Speaker 1: some dude. It's a walrus who's into you, and I
Speaker 1: would be kind of honored actually a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the walrus is crossing species. It's it's defying nature for you.
Speaker 1: I'm just showing my appreciation. Come on, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: if you heard walrus sounds and you turned around and
Speaker 1: it was a human, horrifying Yeah, unless it's that guy
Speaker 1: who was the guy in that movie Tusk. Justin Long, Yeah,
Speaker 1: justin Long. You turn around, it's justin Long. It's like, yeah, nice,
Speaker 1: good job, justin Long, good job. I know you deserve
Speaker 1: some recognition for that movie. I get it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big that's a big swing I do wish
Speaker 1: that like in that movie they had just justin long
Speaker 1: doing like these walrus noise tricks, So just like whistle
Speaker 1: justin and just doing a walrus tricks in general, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: honking some horns, yeah, yeah. Do they play with falsly?
Speaker 1: Probably you could. Probably a walrus will probably have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun with like a blow up ball hanging around.
Speaker 1: Was was that supposed to be a sad ending though?
Speaker 1: Because like if you could just like live the rest
Speaker 1: of your life like eating fish and being a walrus,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, it sounds cool, right, yeah, especially
Speaker 1: now like the more and more I go to life,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I wish, man if I could just
Speaker 1: be a walrus lifestyle looking better and better, Yeah, sort of.
Speaker 1: I mean the oceans aren't great so well, but like
Speaker 1: in general, like that the concept of just being a
Speaker 1: exactly doing walrus stuff, having walrus chores, I don't know,
Speaker 1: wiggling around do they is there? What do they do?
Speaker 1: They get up in there? Like time to wiggle? That
Speaker 1: is kind of the walrus day is like you get
Speaker 1: up and it's like time to wiggle, and then they
Speaker 1: kind of like heff themselves a few inches over and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, that's it. That's all it is for today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe tomorrow I'll go to the beach and
Speaker 1: scream until I find a mate. I'll just make crazy sounds. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there is an animal that has been our constant
Speaker 1: companions for a long time that I think is completely
Speaker 1: sick of our crap and is mocking us. And that
Speaker 1: is the horse. So get a good old horse raspberry
Speaker 1: in your life. Oh screw you too, horse. So that's
Speaker 1: a horse literally pursing its lips, sticking out its tongue
Speaker 1: and blowing like a raspberry. And uh, there's a the
Speaker 1: It's not just that one horse. It's not like the
Speaker 1: one weird old horse going around going um, but there are.
Speaker 1: It is a noted thing that horses occasionally do. And
Speaker 1: that second video also shows another horse behavior of the
Speaker 1: horse just kind of flapping its gums by tossing its
Speaker 1: head up and down. I'm watching watching the little jerk jerk.
Speaker 1: That's just I I think the behavior is from horses
Speaker 1: just being like, hey, did you know we could do this? Oh? Cool?
Speaker 1: Kind of like how babies like blow bubbles and like
Speaker 1: blow raspberries, just be like, look at what I can do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I figured this out. We shake our heads violently or
Speaker 1: are just just go wild it's hilarious. Well, I went
Speaker 1: on a deep dive to find out why horses would
Speaker 1: blow raspberries or like flap their gums like this, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't really find like a direct answer. But this
Speaker 1: is what I have gathered from my research. And what
Speaker 1: I suppose is I think they're probably doing it out
Speaker 1: of boredom. So flapping lips can be a sign of stress.
Speaker 1: But if they're just standing there otherwise relaxed, I think
Speaker 1: it means their board um or it could just be
Speaker 1: for fun, and I think but here's the thing is, like,
Speaker 1: while I don't have any direct evidence of it, I
Speaker 1: do think a lot of it is just mocking us.
Speaker 1: I think it's making fun of us. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they must think we're maniacs, because if horses communicate with
Speaker 1: each other at all, there'll be like, hey, what did
Speaker 1: you do today? And they're like, well, you know, they
Speaker 1: all like everybody dressed up around me and like pretended
Speaker 1: to like get into fights, and there was all this
Speaker 1: equipment and I don't know what was happening. What did
Speaker 1: you do? Like, oh, yeah, I was in front of
Speaker 1: a crowd, and I like, and they made me like
Speaker 1: Prance and everybody, I don't know, everybody applauded. And then
Speaker 1: their other friend is like, yeah, I'm at this, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're all like it's like a hockey rink,
Speaker 1: but they're like eating and watching me, and like they
Speaker 1: got guys dressed up in metal. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I don't know what any of this is. Like,
Speaker 1: there's no no, there's no context for any of the things.
Speaker 1: But we do so many different things with horses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just like I like the idea of like an
Speaker 1: adult horse explaining this to young horse. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: how do I put this? They're gonna sit on you? What? Yep,
Speaker 1: there they're they're gonna sit on you. But but why, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know. We don't know. There's no pattern.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we just run in circles. Yeah, just like I'm
Speaker 1: sure that what I think what these horses are saying
Speaker 1: is like, look, I'm a human. I'm a human. Look
Speaker 1: at me. I'm a human thing. So it's interesting you
Speaker 1: mentioned goats earlier, because I do want to talk about
Speaker 1: goats if you would like There is a video I
Speaker 1: have here of a man arguing with a goat. Sounds
Speaker 1: like it sounds like a man at rock bottom. Let
Speaker 1: me click up. I'm about like two days away from
Speaker 1: arguing with a goat, so I'm not one to judge
Speaker 1: that's fair. Goats constantly have that that dark crystal energy,
Speaker 1: like the Jim Henson muppets that are like meant to
Speaker 1: like traumatized kids. So in that audio clip, if you
Speaker 1: couldn't tell who was the human and who was the goat,
Speaker 1: the one screaming was the goat, it would be messed
Speaker 1: up if the goat was the one who was like talking. Perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of these screaming goat videos are actually sheep,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to make confirmed that this was a goat.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm not a goat goat expert. I'm
Speaker 1: not a goat girl, but I think this is a
Speaker 1: Parinian goat. They have long hair, a mop head and
Speaker 1: those curly twisted horns, and um, here's another video of
Speaker 1: a goat screaming. It is the most it is the
Speaker 1: most shocking thing nature does, right right, You don't you
Speaker 1: really don't expect it to just kind of we've kind
Speaker 1: of come full circle back to the Lynxes where they
Speaker 1: just kind of scream at each other there, Yeah, where
Speaker 1: they sound like just deeply pained by their existence. It's
Speaker 1: I really think it's the most horrifying. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like it's like goats screaming then like the existence of
Speaker 1: sharks under it. Like it's the most it's the most shocking.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, it's I can't get over it.
Speaker 1: Every time I hear it, I'm like, surely that's not true.
Speaker 1: It does seem like they're having an existential crisis. Um,
Speaker 1: But I wondered about this. I was like kind of
Speaker 1: concerned for the goats. So I did a little bit
Speaker 1: of research and Dr. And Pischal of Tennessee State University
Speaker 1: was interviewed by Slate to explain the goat situation because
Speaker 1: apparently other people have noticed that goats just scream into
Speaker 1: the void. So Dr Anne Pischal has a pretty grim
Speaker 1: outlook on the whole goat screaming thing, she says, because
Speaker 1: like the interviewer was saying, like, oh, people find these
Speaker 1: videos really funny, and she says, quote maybe for some
Speaker 1: it's entertained. I am a goat producer and don't consider
Speaker 1: it entertainment at all. And I'm just starting to realize, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: for us, like we click on a YouTube video, goat screams.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny for someone who has to beer
Speaker 1: around these goats constantly, just unending screaming. It's there. It's
Speaker 1: their little defense, it's their little revenge. But my ears
Speaker 1: are too long. I'm a buster. Yeah, So I wanted
Speaker 1: to look into why they yell, and what I could
Speaker 1: find is that they yell for a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different reasons. So they yell to call, they're young, They
Speaker 1: yell when they want to be fed. They yell if
Speaker 1: you touch them and they don't want you to touch them.
Speaker 1: They yell when they want food. They yell when they're
Speaker 1: getting food and they're happy. They yell when they see
Speaker 1: another goat getting food and they're jealous. They yell when
Speaker 1: they're lonely. So basically most situations, they either respond by
Speaker 1: yelling or bleating. And even though it may be hard
Speaker 1: for a human to tell the difference between all these bleats,
Speaker 1: researchers found that goats do know the difference, and they
Speaker 1: react either calmly or with agitation, depending on if the
Speaker 1: bleat is a happy bleat or a I guess frustrated
Speaker 1: or sad bleat. So why do why does the goat yell?
Speaker 1: Who knows many different reasons because it feels like it,
Speaker 1: reason like it? I think the most common explanation I
Speaker 1: saw as they yell at you when they want you
Speaker 1: to feed them, or especially if you see them feeding
Speaker 1: another goat first and they get really mad and so
Speaker 1: so it's like just them going like like why feed me? Why? Hey, hey, human, hey,
Speaker 1: get over here. It's a good acting. I think it is.
Speaker 1: It is it's uh. Or again back to my theory.
Speaker 1: They could just be mocking us and we have we've
Speaker 1: domesticated them, Like you said, this is their revenge, Like, well,
Speaker 1: you want to keep us and use all our milk
Speaker 1: and turn us into cheese and stuff. Well, unending yelling,
Speaker 1: just relentless, endless screams. If aliens come and they take
Speaker 1: us into like a human zoo, let's learned from the
Speaker 1: Majestic goat and scream NonStop, I would do the worst
Speaker 1: thing I could think of to annoy the aliens, which
Speaker 1: would be to seeing smash mouth constantly on a loop.
Speaker 1: What if they love it? Though, well, that's just a
Speaker 1: risk I will be willing to take. I suppose, but
Speaker 1: that that would be a real grim, grim future if
Speaker 1: like the aliens come to Earth and not only are
Speaker 1: they immune to our diseases, they're also immune to smash
Speaker 1: mouth and please on and and they're really they're really
Speaker 1: into like that era that was our only defense was
Speaker 1: like crappy nineties early two thousands music. But if they're
Speaker 1: also immune to that, we have literally no defense against daily. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me today, Dave and
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Speaker 1: ruled by birds. And can you blame me? Can you
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