WEBVTT - Baby Puffin Chucking 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.720 Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.920 of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology, devolutionary biology, 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.600 and today on this show, weird Animal Rescues the weirdest 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 way in which people have helped animals, from throwing babies 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.720 off of a cliff to creepy Halloween costumes for the 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.240 sake of not letting anyone know you're a person. We 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:37.280 are talking about the weirdest, creepiest, and most heartwarmingest ways 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.680 people have rescued animals. Joining me today are friends of 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.360 the pod, hosts of the Dogga z Zone of the 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:51.520 website one nine hundred Hot Dog, Robert Brockway and Shan Baby. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:52.120 We did it. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.360 Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. Nobody ever knows it 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.280 ever gets it right. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.240 Right, they say, Rubert. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.960 Yes, that's what I'm complaining about the French. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:10.759 Ever, Yeah, no, I'm I'm happy to gab you guys 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.840 back on the show. This is a this is a 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.840 fun one. It's it's all about saving animals. In the 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.720 least it seems like we're tormenting them in these stores, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.920 which is what's funny, but it is actually I don't 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.200 want to say no animals were harmed in this because 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.720 in some of these situations like there is uh, it's 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.800 not that the rescuers are hurting the animals, but the 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.800 animals are in a dangerous situation. But all the things 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.119 that the people are doing are helpful for the animals. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:45.679 Uh. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.520 So, first we got to start off in Iceland, which 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:58.040 did you guys know that it's got plants on it too. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.080 In additions to Byork. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:06.200 In it, addition to buyork the beautiful orchid of a woman. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.840 So yeah, people live there. People live on Iceland. But 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.240 guess who else lives there? 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.520 Guys other than Man's Mickelson. He just seems like it. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:18.680 I don't actually know. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.200 I you know what, I have face, He's got an 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:22.960 Iceland face. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.560 I have Nordic. I have Nordic blindness. This is a 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.839 this is a terrible thing. But I get very confused 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.799 among the Nordic countries and I cannot tell them apart, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.799 so I wouldn't know. I thought he was Swedish, but. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.640 No, I think I think like Doutsch or something. But 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.960 he's got the bleakness in his face that I think 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.160 he probably lives there, Like I think he has to 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.880 go there. To be exempted. Well, he recharges. The answer. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:54.600 The answer is the answer is puffins, puffins. That was 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.880 my second guest on Iceland. So uh, in Iceland, people 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:05.280 are checking puffins off a cliff, and not just any puffins, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.760 but baby puffins called pufflings. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.120 Oh you say they're chucking them off a cliff like 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.240 as a sport, yeah, or maniacs for the good. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.520 It's for good. No, No, they're doing it from kindness 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.760 and empathy. I will explain it. So baby baby puffins, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.880 also known as pufflings, are lovingly tended to by their parents, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:33.720 fed fish throw up as they grow into fledglings. Once 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.880 they're fledglings, the parents are like all right, and they 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.640 leave and they're like bootstraps time, baby, uh, get out 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.240 of there. You're you're you're old enough. And the parents 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.120 just go back to the sea and trust that the 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.600 pufflings will make their way out to sea on their own. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.000 The problem is sometimes they're dumb and they don't really 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.200 do this, so they get lost on the way from 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:08.160 the rocky crevices in which they were nesting to the sea. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.400 So this is where the Icelanders come in. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.200 I would really I would like to meet the first 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.039 guy who came up with this, who saw like a 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.560 little puffling, which is a very cute name and a 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.880 very cute little thing, and he said, I'm gonna throw 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.240 this into the ocean benevolently. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.920 It's like, well, like it's it would be very funny 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.640 if the first guy was just like, I'm gonna throw 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.880 this bird off a cliff and then it survives, and 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:40.640 then someone's like and he he kind of goes, huh, yeah, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.360 I guess I did save it. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.000 I know you said it wasn't a sport. Is there 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.800 any reason it can't be? Though, Like, if it saves 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.720 the puff you could still. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.120 Honestly, when I was reading about this, it kind of 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.039 seems a little bit like a sport, to be honest, right, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.480 people get into it. There's like there's like these sisters 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.279 who have been doing it for a really long time 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.400 and they're really good at it and they're known as 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.359 like the Puffling Queens. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:14.240 That's a sport, for sure, but it's it's it's do 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.840 they have matching costumes? I mean, that's I think that 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:17.760 would really push. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.840 It over the they they they don't. It's cold there, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:21.280 they got a. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.479 Weird I mean, you know, you know somebody has the record, Like, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.119 at the very least, anytime two people throw anything, somebody 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:28.520 is going. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.000 To be like, how far do you would I would 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.640 kind of like to know that. I want to know 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.560 these birds how many times it skips on the one 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:36.080 and is it. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.560 Like is it is it skipping technique that helps you 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.479 the most or is it like you're handed like cricket. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.320 They can fly, So this means that they're not just 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.000 throwing aless lightly. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.839 I'm going to really have to change gears in my 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.880 brain to see. I always picture just falling like bowling 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:52.800 balls into the ocean. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.320 Yeah, I mean took. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.400 Yeah, they can fly like their fledglings. They're not great 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.640 at flying. That's why a lot of the time they 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.560 have trouble. But once they're tossed off the cliff, they 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.800 can fly, so they're not It's not what was that 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.400 TV show or the as good as my witness I 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.120 thought turkeys could fly or they just throw it and 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.240 it falls to the ground. Now these ones actually can fly, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.760 so they're okay. Most of the technique I see is 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:24.080 actually underhand, like sort of a I watched a video cricket. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.400 I watched a video of this and it's like this 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.480 woman with her with her child, like showing them how 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.080 to toss the puffin, but the kid is kind of 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.679 balancing against her. So when she like tosses the puffin, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.080 kid falls over and I thought, I like legitimately thought 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.359 he fell off the cliffs. But then I realized it 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.159 was just like a little it was just a little 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:50.800 like hill before the cliffs. So he was all the time. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.000 Yeah, I feel like you're throwing puffins. You mix him 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.560 up with your kids. I feel like that happened probably 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:58.960 twice a week in Iceland. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.640 They they apparently there's apparently not any actual reason for 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.320 throwing them off the cliff, Like you can just go 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.200 down to the you can go down to the beach 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.880 and just gently put them in the water. It's fine. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.880 But but they they really like the cliff things. It 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.880 doesn't it doesn't hurt the burde. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.440 Person throw their kid. Now there's a record involved and 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:25.520 that becomes a sport. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:26.000 Mm hmm. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.000 Right, do the puffins note like when they hear the 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.360 entrance music for the Puffling Queens, like did they know 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:32.960 what's coming? 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:34.559 They get a hype? 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.400 Oh damn, they get Apparently they they can when they're captured. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.480 They're a little stressed, so they the puffin. The puffin 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.760 hunters have learned a technique of like they put their 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.320 hand like on kind of gently on their head and 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.720 then that just sort of deactivates the puffin. It's just 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:53.920 like power. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:58.920 What a torrible creature. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.360 Yeah, the babies. The babies are like a little different. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.480 So you know what an adult puffin looks like. It's 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.960 like black with the white tummies and then the orange 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.120 beaks with the coloration. The the baby ones are they 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.440 do have the white tummies, but there their heads are 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.200 gray because they're not sexually mature. Uh So they're just 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.440 these kind of like little innocent gray uh blops. But 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.239 they'll like once in a while realize like, wait a minute, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.640 I'm being held by someone. In their little legs start 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.240 kicking and then the person just like it's okay, a 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.680 little puffin. They just like power down again, just like 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:37.640 oh yeah, as soon as. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.840 They're comfortable, you whip them into the same in your hand. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:45.480 For the record, yeah exactly. But I really encourage everyone 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.600 to like look at like there's an article about this 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.520 and nat GEO with a bunch of photos and videos. Uh. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.600 The article is called quote, it's throw a baby puffin 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.960 off a cliff season in Iceland. It's uh this by 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.840 Marty oh Man. Marty, why you got this last name? 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.079 I think it's. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:08.160 Puff Slutter. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.640 I think it's Govich. I think it's Govich, but it's 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.959 got a tr at the beginning there, so it could 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.840 be to Goovich. But I'm gonna say Govic, who took 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.240 some amazing videos and photos of people catching and tossing pufflings. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.520 I really do encourage you to check that out. It's 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:32.480 a videos are very good. So essentially what they do 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.800 is they like watch they go on puffin patrols, and 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.840 these are like families. These aren't all professional rescuers. These 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.160 are local families. The locals all join in on this 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.520 and they look for signs puffin signs, which is basically 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.240 a baby a puffling shooting through the air and landing 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.600 somewhere that is not the ocean, and then they have 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.480 to like follow that to where the trajectory of the 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.800 puffling to like find where. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.040 They land, like scavenger hunt, like ultimate frisbee, an ultimate frisbee. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.760 Exactly, yes, exactly, And they'll find them in a variety 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.440 of locations and people get really intense about it. They'll 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.920 like climb up onto roofs, they'll climb up onto like 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:21.040 these sort of they it's apparently like a harbor light tower, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.760 but it looks like a cell phone tower. So just 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:28.280 really intense. People really take it seriously to try to 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.000 get puff these pufflings. They don't immediately throw them off 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.880 the cliff. What they do is they take them to 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.280 the rehab center where they're checked out for their health, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.960 their weight. Sometimes they're banded, given the little ankle bracelets 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.520 so that they can be they can track their population, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.040 and then they get like a fish, like here's a 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.600 fish puffling. And then the next day they will go 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.760 back to they'll go to the cliff and then that's 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:01.640 when they check the pufflings into the ocean. Right. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.440 Yeah, Modernizing it like maybe building a device that could 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.480 shove a fish in your mouth and your mouth, pat 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.640 you on the head, chebbyche into the ocean. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:18.640 Yeah, a drone that goes around snatching the pufflings. Yeah, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.520 I mean I think that, uh, certainly that's possible. If 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.120 you want to suck out all the joy, the joy 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.240 on the children's faces, like you just put. What we 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.000 should do is like replace the this this because like 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.920 these kids will describe like, oh, you can hear its 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.600 heartbeat and its warmth, and it fills me with joy 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.040 that I can help this living creature. What you need 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.679 to do is take the puffling away, put in their 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.800 hands a phone with TikTok on it, so then you know, yes, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.839 that's they can raise a virtual Such little weirdos who 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:58.080 care about a bird? Yeah, I think. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.160 One kid with the phone, another kid throwing an air I'm 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.080 under the ocean. I feel like that's equally weird depending 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.000 on who's making the case. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.640 I mean, one kid films together. That's how got invented. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:07.560 That's what TikTok's for. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.840 Yeah, I it would be nice if we started throwing 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:20.880 phones into the ocean, am I right? Kids these days? Yeah? 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.840 It's so the human intervention in this case is actually 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.400 really good because the whole reason the baby the pufflings 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.360 get confused is that in order to know where the 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.080 ocean is at night, they look at the movement reflecting 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.880 on the water, and there's artificial lights in the town, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.440 so they get confused they go towards town instead, And 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:47.080 so if humans were never there, the pufflings probably wouldn't 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.600 get so confused. So the fact that we intervene is 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.079 probably for the best because we inadvertently cause the problem 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.720 in the first place, and there they're threatened species, like 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.559 their population has suffered in recent years. So yeah, it's 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.479 it's a really good thing to like save these pufflings. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.840 It's not just that the pufflings are stupid and it's like, hey, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.360 like you're going against natural selection because these pufflings are 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.480 pretty dumb. If they can't see the ocean, they they 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.440 only know to like look for light. And if the 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.840 light is like coming from a you know, I don't know, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.880 salted cod shop. I'm sorry, Iceland, they'll go in that direction. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.800 It's salted cotton, icelandic thing. I know that there's a 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:31.440 lot of preserve. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:37.400 The light is coming from Maud's Michelson's dazzling smile. Well, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.160 it's not their fault. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.319 It does have he does have a fluorescent smile. Uh, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.040 there's yeah, there is Wait, is it Iceland, I gotta 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:51.280 there's a dish called a carl hi carl uh? Uh 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.800 it is Icelandic. Yeah, it's high carl. Uh it's a 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:01.080 it is a fermented shark. So yes, uh, that's which 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:07.040 is apparently very strong, so not for the casual, give the. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.719 Little puffling Pi Carl and then fire them out of 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:10.880 the tuffling canon. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:11.880 It gets it's so drunk. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.880 Never leave it, just keep coming back, and then you 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.920 have infinite puffling launching. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:24.080 I love God Collins the ocean. How you worry? Yeah, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.000 well so this it's a very sweet thing. It looks like, uh, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.600 it kind of looks like a horror thing, right, like 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.600 a scene from Midsommer with them like throwing birds off 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.280 of a cliff. But the birds are fine. It's good 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.480 for the birds. The kids love it. I think it's 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.800 very very heartwarming and beautiful. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.600 Plus we got the puffling queens, got puffling queens. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.960 Plus we got the puffling queens. They apparently their children 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.720 are quite good at it too. So there might be 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.920 a puffling dynasty dynasty that would be so much better 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.440 than the much can you imagine puffin dynasty? 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.560 Come on, like picturing in them like matching bedazzled parkas. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.240 Oh my god, that would be incredible. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.400 Be just cutting sick promos. I'm gonna throw those birds 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.880 into the ocean better than you, brother. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.760 Okay, it's Annie, because I was gonna say it's like 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.600 I thought maybe it was an Animal Planet, which would 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.520 have been really bad. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.320 Now it's the Arts and Entertainment Channel, which is so 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:27.880 much better. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.480 Well, we're going to take a quick break and when 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:36.760 we get back, we are going to talk about animals 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:42.880 who get very lost and confused and sometimes you've got 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.960 to hitch a ride on a banana for over four 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.720 thousand miles. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.920 Oh, it's the best of us. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.120 So we're back. And there have been a number of 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.640 instances where a wild animal accidentally hitchhikes and winds up 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.040 in a strange new land. Some times this kills the animal, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:05.480 right like transporting an animal is not always safe. Sometimes 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:10.240 the animal survives and just ends up escaping to the 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.400 wild and becoming an invasive species. Uh. And sometimes people 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:19.480 actually notice, hey, there's an animal here that's not supposed 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:24.040 to be here, and both rescues the animal and prevents 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:29.440 there from being a new invasive species. So this first 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:36.240 story is in Staffshire, England. I think I said that right, Staffordshia, Stafford, Staffordshire, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:44.760 Stafford Shia, Staffordshi. Yeah. So they found a frog from 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:49.760 the Dominican from the Dominican Republic in their Beninese that 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:58.120 they got from Saintsbury, which is a grocery store. So 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:04.600 the frog was a Hispaniola common tree frog. They are small, tan, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.760 innocent froggies. The family did the right thing, which is 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.119 they did not touch it out of concern that there 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.520 might be some transfer pathogens or it could be toxic. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.520 The frog is not, in fact toxic, but they did 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.919 make the right call and not touching it directly because 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.240 you know, it can be it could potentially be transferring 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.720 pathogens one way or the other. And yeah, it came 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:35.240 from over four thousand miles in a plastic bag of bananas, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.720 and so the family was like, well, that's not supposed 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.679 to be in there. So they gave the frog to 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:48.920 the RSPCA, which described the frog as bright and alert 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:55.120 and has since been feeding. Well holds me, yeah right, yeah. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.800 He just made the greatest frog escape of all time. Congratulations, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:17:59.639 it was the prize. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.520 To be honest, I'm glad they recognized that, right. That's 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.600 how they do it. In the Dominican every bag of 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.040 bananas comes with a free frog. 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:13.840 Bananas come with free frog. Yeah, I hate bananas. 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:16.320 I was so mad. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.639 This is this is a fascinating anecdote from my life. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.679 I was so mad. I got a smoothie from a 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.439 store which was just like a bottle of it, and 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:32.160 it said it had Kiwi's apples and cucumber and match 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.879 in it. I was like, great, these are all things 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.760 that I enjoyed a varying extense. And then I tasted it. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.800 I was like, this is a this is banana. There's 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:44.560 banana in this. And the second ingredient was banana, Like 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.879 there was no indication there was any banana on it 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.080 in it by the label of it. I had to 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.920 look on the ingredients, which is stuff that I don't 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.600 read because I don't have time. And I got I 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.399 got stealth banana much a. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.920 Frog invasive banana, and you gotta And then. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.480 They were like and then the the third ingredient was 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.119 the hispanical. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.600 Tree frog and some frog was in there. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.720 Why am I getting right? So that's the best part 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.600 of it. Uh, it's just you know, it's it's a 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.040 nice textural difference, like a boba. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.399 I think Harry Belafonte should add a verse to his 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.520 song about picking bananas, because there's the one about Tarantula's. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.879 I think it could use a verse about about a 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.359 frog making a daring banana escape across the ocean. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:33.479 Just A. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.000 That's a beloved children's movie, is what that is? 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.960 There's this there's so there's a song about Tarantula is 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.400 escaping from bananas. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.600 Well, it's about picking bananas. It goes day. Oh you 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:45.360 probably heard it. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.960 Oh well, I know, I know that song. I didn't. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.719 Well, there's in the second verse he goes tiny, deadly 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.280 black TORRENTIALA. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.960 Oh yeah, okay, Now remember I probably should remember when 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.879 I was in high school and I weighed like five pounds. Uh, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.560 I took a weightlifting class because I wanted to feel strong, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.960 and uh, the guy would play that every single day. 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.560 Oh my god, that's a cult. I don't know what. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:16.560 I don't know what that's up to, but it's no good. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.359 I feel like it was to fortify us. It was 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.240 to fortify us mentally as well as physically. 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.520 Like it was for the purposes of like torture. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.840 Well, I think it was too inur us to torture. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.399 So if we're ever if we're ever tortured, we're like, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.480 I'm good. I listened to day. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.720 Or come to come to the y for my CIA 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.560 Interrogation Resistance Techniques SLASH Weightlifting class for young women. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:50.000 Exactly that's a training high school super soldiers. So yeah, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.399 the frog was saved onto the next animal hitchhiker. The 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.960 Colorado Zoo had an animal accidentally bring itself into the zoo, 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.280 which does not use happened a marmot hid in the 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.840 wheelwll of a truck bound from the Rocky Mountains all 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:13.440 the way to Denver to the zoo, which is it's 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.680 like it's it's kind of like the whole Shawshank redemption, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.119 but like in reverse, like you're sneaking in to the 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:22.000 animal jail. 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:25.320 It's like climbing into the wheelheel of a plane or something. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.120 You just right just going to on an adventure. 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:30.919 Do you guys know what a marmot is? 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:32.000 Vaguely? 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.720 Yeah, it's like, I mean, groundhogs are a type of marmot. 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:38.720 It's a species of marmot, and then there's a lot 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.920 of various other species of marmot there. Usually the other 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.840 species are bigger than a groundhog. But yeah, just like 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.199 think of a groundhog and maybe a bit bigger, just 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:55.240 a large, chunky rodent. And so this thing, yeah, it 0:21:55.320 --> 0:22:00.240 was like like almost got its way into Colorado. Do 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.080 free meal ticket, never having to scrounge around for food 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.879 again in his life. But they caught it and. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.159 Inspect they gave him a little like I'm sorry, just 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.240 not the right fit for our zoo. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:15.720 They're not. 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:19.879 Interesting enough, Damon, you know. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.160 What I mean. It was Matt. Yeah, it was Matt 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:27.320 Damon trying to get to a little sum exactly. They 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:29.919 caught him. I do think that, well, damon. 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.720 Mark, I could see a kid being a little disappointed 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.560 running into a marmot at the zoo. I think it's 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.040 a there's an amazing that San Diego has an amazing zoo. 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:38.800 But I'm pretty sure there's like a raccoon exhibit and 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:41.880 you're like raccoons what like, like I left my trash out, 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.200 Like this isn't a this is no special treat. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.600 Yeah, that's why. That's why they give them cotton candy, 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.720 so that we can be entertained by their existential suffering. 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.320 Every time they try to wash the cotton candy. It's 0:22:55.359 --> 0:23:00.200 the only way to make the raccoon really really pop up. 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:03.520 Yeah, I gotta be honest, those get to me. Those 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.880 I when I see that, I really understand the cruelty 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.479 of man to give a raccoon cotton candy. It's just 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:11.960 it's just so sadistic. 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:16.800 I disapprove. I I too disapprove. I really don't think 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.199 it's mean. 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:20.399