Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host A Many Parasites Katie Golden. I studied psychology
Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show Terrible Teeth
Speaker 1: chilling chompers mouths straight from Satan's sketchbook. Every animal handles
Speaker 1: eating in slightly different ways, and some decide to turn
Speaker 1: meal time into an mc escher hr Geiger crossover event.
Speaker 1: From adorable penguins to innocent looking fish, these animals are
Speaker 1: hiding a mouth straight from your dentist's nightmares. Discover this
Speaker 1: more as we answer the angel question, which animal do
Speaker 1: you least want to see with human teeth? Joining me
Speaker 1: today is friend of the show Garfield Expert, Award winning
Speaker 1: Indie filmmaker and writer for the show Spirit Rangers, Joey Clift. Welcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how's it going everybody? And thanks so much for having
Speaker 1: me back. Um yeah, I gotta say, um I am.
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm a teeth expert now because
Speaker 1: I actually started in Visible Line a few months ago
Speaker 1: and my teeth were just a little crooked at the
Speaker 1: start of the pandemic, and I was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: take care of that. So now I've just become hyper
Speaker 1: aware of like, uh, teeth care and all things teeth.
Speaker 1: So I think you could add teeth expert to to
Speaker 1: my title too. I my expertise, My expertise, My expertise
Speaker 1: in teeth is that, um, I like to grind them
Speaker 1: down into nubs because of anxiety. Wait, do you have
Speaker 1: a mouth guard? Wait? You like that? No? I don't. Well,
Speaker 1: you know it is something that I am prone to do.
Speaker 1: Now I have a brux is. Um, so I clench
Speaker 1: my teeth and grind them. Um. So I do have
Speaker 1: a mouth guard that I have to wear at night,
Speaker 1: and I must say it looks very good and cool.
Speaker 1: I'm very I think, um way cooler than in visile
Speaker 1: line because like you can see it. You can see
Speaker 1: my mouth guard and it makes like my mouth poke
Speaker 1: out weird, so I look awesome. Um Something that I
Speaker 1: love about having in visi line is that you have
Speaker 1: to take it out whenever you eat or drink anything
Speaker 1: that's not like cold water. And um, I feel like
Speaker 1: when I first started having in visiline, if I was
Speaker 1: ever like you know, eating around friends or something like that,
Speaker 1: I would always like very shyly be like I'm taking
Speaker 1: my visil line out and I would like, don't look,
Speaker 1: and like then I realized that it's really gross when
Speaker 1: you pull it out. There's like always like a like
Speaker 1: just like a line of slobber, like a second sound.
Speaker 1: So like now I've taken power from that, and I
Speaker 1: just stare the person down and I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take my invisi line out. Now. You could watch if
Speaker 1: you want. If not, I guess, turn your head. Put
Speaker 1: the onus on them to turn their head right, like,
Speaker 1: don't want to get little bits of this shrimp cocktail
Speaker 1: stuck in my visiline. Excuse me one moment um. It's
Speaker 1: also like you like, um, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: friends who have also started in Visilene kind of during
Speaker 1: the pandemic because we're all wearing masks, and also just
Speaker 1: like because you know, we're largely in our homes now,
Speaker 1: like there's a less pressure to like go to events
Speaker 1: where you know, taking out your teeth to like you're
Speaker 1: taking out your invisil line to you know, drink at
Speaker 1: a party or whatever. It isn't necessarily a thing you
Speaker 1: have to worry about. So oftentimes when I'll pull my
Speaker 1: invisil line out, just like in the open. The person
Speaker 1: I'm talking to will be like, I actually took mine
Speaker 1: out quietly in the bathroom, and I was like, you coward.
Speaker 1: I mean, proud, be proud that you're grossing people out
Speaker 1: with your mouth. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: when we're in a pandemic where we have to cover
Speaker 1: our mouths all the time, we might as well do
Speaker 1: some like some work on our mouths, you know, some refurbishment.
Speaker 1: You know, I did get. I had to wait until
Speaker 1: the worst of the pandemic was over to even get
Speaker 1: my mouth guard replaced because I could not go to
Speaker 1: the dentist. So that was It's great to have both
Speaker 1: the anxiety of a pan dimmick combined with like untamed
Speaker 1: brux is um um for waking up with a sore job.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm I'm doing better now um and so yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's just with our our the fun stories that
Speaker 1: can happen with our human teeth and humans have. You know,
Speaker 1: our teeth are interesting because we are we're omnivores, right,
Speaker 1: so we have fac molars that are good for grinding
Speaker 1: up plant matter, and our front teeth, like our canines,
Speaker 1: is decently good at tearing up meat. So our teeth
Speaker 1: are themselves fairly interesting. But once you go and explore
Speaker 1: some of the darker alleys of the Annual Kingdom, you'll
Speaker 1: find some mouths that are way weirder than Joey taking
Speaker 1: out is invisiligne, like when you're out with him for lunch. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: uh do you like sea turtles? I think I do
Speaker 1: like sea turtles. They seem fairly friendly. They've got those
Speaker 1: flipp ers. They can I think that they can be
Speaker 1: you know, crazy old, right, like sea turtles can be
Speaker 1: like hundreds of years old. Yeah, I mean they tend
Speaker 1: to live. They can live around fifty years, but you're
Speaker 1: right that there can be really old ones that live
Speaker 1: up to around like a hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Like, I've never interacted with a sea turtle,
Speaker 1: but I would say that I am an admirer from afar,
Speaker 1: which is the right thing to do. You should not
Speaker 1: directly touch and hold a sea turtle because that is
Speaker 1: not good for the sea turtle. Um. But yeah they are.
Speaker 1: They're adorable, sweet ocean babies that we love and cherish. Um.
Speaker 1: But if you look them in the mouth, like you
Speaker 1: should never look a gift sea turtle in the mouth,
Speaker 1: because you will be met with a nightmarish horror like
Speaker 1: the Sarlack pit in Star Wars. It's just a gaping
Speaker 1: mam of spikes. So Joey, what do you think like
Speaker 1: looking down this, now, this is a leather back uh turtle,
Speaker 1: sea turtle mouth that you are staring into. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this is probably the first time that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen an animal with teeth in its neck.
Speaker 1: Like usually you just have teeth in your mouth, but no, no, no,
Speaker 1: sea turtles have us beat. Um yeah, definitely this looks
Speaker 1: like um but it looks like the Starlac pit from
Speaker 1: Star Wars, but somehow more scary because instead of having tentacles,
Speaker 1: it just has more teeth. Um. Yeah, like it really
Speaker 1: looking at this like I'm getting some zeno, moreh vibes
Speaker 1: and that, like you know, you can picture that like
Speaker 1: the neck teeth like extending out of the mouth for
Speaker 1: like even more bites. It's really I mean, it makes
Speaker 1: sense as to what they eat, as to you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they probably like eat on the go and
Speaker 1: digest on the go, so why not chew in your
Speaker 1: neck too, I guess. But yeah, looking at it. That's
Speaker 1: that's a real scary Yeah. So there are few things
Speaker 1: that I want to clarify about this whole sea turtle
Speaker 1: mouth situation. Yes, it is true that you are looking
Speaker 1: down into like a spiky tube of death. Um, but
Speaker 1: these protrusions are actually not teeth, even though they are
Speaker 1: so tooth like, They're not made out of denton like
Speaker 1: our teeth are made out of. Um. These are actually
Speaker 1: called esophageal papilla, So we actually have papilla on our tongues.
Speaker 1: They're the little bumps that you have on your tongues
Speaker 1: or taste buds. Um. But yeah, just these like little
Speaker 1: bumps and uh, those are called papilla. But on sea turtles,
Speaker 1: these have grown into these enormous spikes and they are
Speaker 1: all down their throat, on the top of their mouths,
Speaker 1: on the bottom of their mouths. Uh. It's pretty horrifying
Speaker 1: to look at, especially leather back turtles. So leather back
Speaker 1: sea turtles are the largest species of sea turtle and
Speaker 1: they have the most frightening mouths I think. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so these uh, these quote unquote teeth are actually made
Speaker 1: out of keratin, so they're more like a bunch of
Speaker 1: throat claws than throat teeth, which I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's worse in a way. Yeah, So basically,
Speaker 1: like this reminds me of I want to say, lions
Speaker 1: have such coarse tongues that if you were to be
Speaker 1: licked by a lion like once or twice, it would
Speaker 1: like your muscles and skin would be gun. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. And it's a great comparison because those
Speaker 1: spines on their tongues I believe, are also made out
Speaker 1: of keratin, and they are also extruded papillae from the tongues,
Speaker 1: And you're also great that they those are designed to
Speaker 1: tear meat off of bones from their price, so when
Speaker 1: they're licking a bone and licking their prey, they can
Speaker 1: actually rend meat from these bones. So if it licks
Speaker 1: your arm, it's just kind of pull your skin off.
Speaker 1: What is what is of greater interest to you petting
Speaker 1: a lion or having skin? Because I feel like I
Speaker 1: would really like to pet a lion, and if it's
Speaker 1: like if my if my if my trade off for
Speaker 1: petting a lion is that they got to is that
Speaker 1: they got they got to lick me once, and it
Speaker 1: was just like oh goodbye for arm skin? Would like that?
Speaker 1: Would I trade that off? Would you trade that off?
Speaker 1: It depends on how I guess it depends on how
Speaker 1: much skin I have in the game here. Um, so
Speaker 1: like how much skin I gotta I gotta give this
Speaker 1: line because if it's all of it, no, because I
Speaker 1: need that to keep out pathogen and keep my meat,
Speaker 1: you know, keep my meat safe. Um, if it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of skin, you know, they want to lick,
Speaker 1: give me a little kiss and it takes off, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like parmesan grads off a little bit of
Speaker 1: my cheek. Like you know, all right, fine for the
Speaker 1: to get a kiss from a lion, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Not really, that's a joke. Don't do that. Nobody do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that, like but like, but think about it,
Speaker 1: if like if a lion gives you, guys, just like
Speaker 1: a little little peck on your cheek, just a little
Speaker 1: lick on your cheek, and it just like shears off,
Speaker 1: just like a chunk flesh off your cheek. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like it would It would probably be more like
Speaker 1: if you rubbed your cheek with some coarse grits sand paper,
Speaker 1: right like it wouldn't maybe tear off chunk out. It
Speaker 1: would just be like if you took the really core
Speaker 1: sandpaper and rubbed it on your cheek, you're gonna start
Speaker 1: to take a little bit of skin off. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like but like if you had that scar, but like
Speaker 1: in exchange, if anybody asked how you got that scar,
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, I got it from my lion friend, right,
Speaker 1: I gotta kiss from a lion. That's pretty good. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good trade off. Yeah, that would be tough.
Speaker 1: I would have to think about that trade off. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so that's exactly a great comparison because the
Speaker 1: lion does have similar keratin structures on its tongue. Of
Speaker 1: course this uh, the turtles have it all throughout their
Speaker 1: mouth and all down their throat, and they actually use
Speaker 1: it in a much different way than something like a
Speaker 1: lion uses its tongue or like we use our teeth.
Speaker 1: So it's not really for chewing, but it is for trapping.
Speaker 1: So um. One of these sea turtles most favorite foods
Speaker 1: is jellyfish, which seems surprising, like it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: jellyfish would be that good to eat, but sea turtles
Speaker 1: love them. In fact, some species, like the leather back
Speaker 1: sea turtle, almost exclusively eatjelly fish, and they're hunting method
Speaker 1: is being a vacuum cleaner, so they suck in seawater
Speaker 1: along with their jellyfish prey. But they don't want all
Speaker 1: that extra seawater. In fact, it's too much salt, like
Speaker 1: they already deal with a lot of salt in their diets,
Speaker 1: so they regurgitate the seawater um. But when they regurgitate seawater,
Speaker 1: the problem is, well, they don't also want to regurgitate
Speaker 1: the jellyfish that they want to have in their tummies.
Speaker 1: So all these spikes that are actually facing downwards, so
Speaker 1: the spikes are facing towards the back of their throat,
Speaker 1: and when they regurgitate the water that has the jellyfish
Speaker 1: in it, the jellyfish gets stuck on the spines and
Speaker 1: there's only one direction that jellyfish can flow, which is
Speaker 1: down towards the turtle's stomach, and on its way to
Speaker 1: the stomach, the jellyfish is getting shredded by these spines,
Speaker 1: and it's also protecting the sea turtles throat from the
Speaker 1: jellyfish's stingers so it doesn't hurt it. And by the
Speaker 1: time the jellyfish reaches its stomach, it's been kind of mutilated.
Speaker 1: What that makes me think of is I feel like
Speaker 1: if I had those spines in my throat, the way
Speaker 1: that I would do that is I would like I
Speaker 1: would just shotgun like bubble bubble tea, like Boba tea,
Speaker 1: and then puke up the tea, but keep those sweet,
Speaker 1: sweet Boba bubbles trapped on my neck spines. That'd be
Speaker 1: like the most horrifying game of plank. Oh. I can
Speaker 1: think of boba things going down, the ding ding ding
Speaker 1: ding ding down the spikes. Yeah, but like what an
Speaker 1: efficient way of like you know, look, I can't drink
Speaker 1: a ton of bobas, but if I do that, I can,
Speaker 1: like I can eat a lot of the bubbles. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly how this works. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that sarcastically. It would be like
Speaker 1: if you want to eat the bobas, but you don't
Speaker 1: want the gross coffee or whatever, and so you toss
Speaker 1: it down and all your throat spikes catch those boba's. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I wanted to chug a chicken noodle soup,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't really want the broth. I just
Speaker 1: wanted the chicken. It's like this would be a great way,
Speaker 1: this would be a great salt. Okay, you get out
Speaker 1: of this show. You don't want the broth. Broth the
Speaker 1: best part out, get out. I mean, look, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying in theory, look I also like the broth. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying in a crazy world where I just want
Speaker 1: the chicken and noodles but not the broth, come on
Speaker 1: my show, tell me you don't want your chicken broth.
Speaker 1: My god. So uh, in places like Hawaii, you might
Speaker 1: actually spot a sea turtle on the beach which appears
Speaker 1: to be vomiting blood. But if you see that, don't
Speaker 1: necessarily panic. This could just be normal turtle feeding behavior.
Speaker 1: So they will regurgitate seawater like we talked about before,
Speaker 1: uh filtering out jellyfish. But during red tides where there
Speaker 1: are red algeile blooms, seawater can look red and like
Speaker 1: it's blood, and so you'll see these sea turtles that
Speaker 1: look like they've just, you know, exorcist style, vomited up
Speaker 1: this blood, but it's really just red sea water, and
Speaker 1: they're just doing that so that they can filter out
Speaker 1: the jellyfish, which you know, pretty metal sea turtles gotta
Speaker 1: hand it to you. Yeah, I mean there is also
Speaker 1: a chance, with like how polluted our ocean is, that
Speaker 1: like that also might be put well, the that's a
Speaker 1: good point in the real danger to sea turtles is
Speaker 1: plastic waste because the plastic bag floating in the ocean
Speaker 1: look exactly yeah. Uh, So they'll try to eat it
Speaker 1: and it'll get caught in their throats with the same
Speaker 1: mechanism that they used to catch jellyfish, and so they
Speaker 1: can't regurgitate it, so it has to go down through
Speaker 1: their digestive system where it can get and snagged and
Speaker 1: caused an intestinal blockage and killed them. Um yeah, that sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I heard that, I like all of a sudden
Speaker 1: felt really bad about using plastic bags and throwing them
Speaker 1: in the ocean, like I do. Joey stop that. Joey
Speaker 1: was the one. He was the one with all the
Speaker 1: plastic straws, just tossing him in the ocean. One by what,
Speaker 1: I was like cutting all my plastic bags specifically so
Speaker 1: they look like they have It was like jelly fish
Speaker 1: gotta cut these plastic bags up and then just like
Speaker 1: like a smiley jellyfish face off them. Wow. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: you're going to get in trouble with the I believe
Speaker 1: the TikTok TikTok girls really hate it when you mistreat
Speaker 1: the sea turtles. Or is that like a trend from
Speaker 1: a few years ago. I'm really not. They've moved on.
Speaker 1: They've moved on to something else. It's no longer about
Speaker 1: the plastic straws. It's about something else, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: they don't care about sea turtles anymore. It's probably something like, uh,
Speaker 1: and I don't care about like global warming or something
Speaker 1: something silly like global warming. Yeah, something something wacky like
Speaker 1: the future of the planet. Something wacky and silly, like
Speaker 1: they're very lives from the Yeah, something silly like them
Speaker 1: seeing that like will all be underwater and them being like, wait,
Speaker 1: it'll still be alive then, and then it'll be a
Speaker 1: good saying that that they like defended the sea turtles,
Speaker 1: because the sea turtles will remember and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: welcome underwater, thanks for not killing us with plastic straws.
Speaker 1: I guess you can join our cool kingdom. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: only worked that way penguins, though penguins have nearly the
Speaker 1: same creepy and cool mouth situation going on as sea turtles.
Speaker 1: They also have esophageal pepilla made out of caraton, lining
Speaker 1: their mouths, throats, and even on their tongues. Uh. And
Speaker 1: like the sea turtles, these spines are angle downwards and
Speaker 1: inwards towards the stomach. Instead of eating jellyfish, penguins eat fish,
Speaker 1: and their spines act like a bunch of fish hooks
Speaker 1: that trap the fish and only allow the fish to
Speaker 1: move in one direction, one direction down towards the final
Speaker 1: resting place of a penguin's hungry Tommy. So, penguin's adorable
Speaker 1: on the outside, horrible on the inside. Um, I gotta
Speaker 1: say with penguin's um. So this this first photo that
Speaker 1: we're looking at, is that the penguin's tongue. That's like
Speaker 1: that we're seeing That's like kind of okay, got it?
Speaker 1: Got it? Because the way that looks looking at it
Speaker 1: is it looks like the penguin has two sets of jaws.
Speaker 1: Once again, very easy and influence, you know, more esque. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it kind of looks like a comb. It's like,
Speaker 1: I guess that I'm less scared of a penguin's mouth
Speaker 1: than I am a sea turtle's mouth, because like, I
Speaker 1: recognize the penguin's mouth as like not being eldric horror,
Speaker 1: whereas like the sea turtle's mouth just looks like like
Speaker 1: just a hell mouth, you know, just a tunnel to hell. So, Joey,
Speaker 1: we've talked about horrifying teeth being used against jellyfish and
Speaker 1: against fish, but some fish have their own oral horror
Speaker 1: show that I want to talk about. Uh. Fish are
Speaker 1: one of the most diverse groups of animals in the world.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's kind of weird to even call fish fish. Um.
Speaker 1: But given that, all right, given that they're so diverse,
Speaker 1: the situation going on with their mouths is always going
Speaker 1: to be pretty interesting. So uh, one fish I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is the Pacific link cod, which are
Speaker 1: ill tempered, omnivorous oceanic fish who grow to be about
Speaker 1: four ft long. Uh. They have two sets of jaws. So, Joey,
Speaker 1: earlier you we're looking at this penguin mouth and since
Speaker 1: its tongue has spines on it, it kind of looked
Speaker 1: like it had to two mouths. Well, lincod actually do
Speaker 1: have two sets of jaws. They have a front set
Speaker 1: that they can extrude to grab prey, and a rear
Speaker 1: pharyngeal set of teeth that are these rows of teeth
Speaker 1: un modified gill ridges for tearing and grinding. So grabbing,
Speaker 1: tearing and grinding. It's like a really cool kitchen utensil
Speaker 1: you can use to shred a potato. Yeah, what this
Speaker 1: looks like to me is um, I can definitely recognize
Speaker 1: the first set of Jaws and that you can clearly
Speaker 1: see teeth on it. It makes a ton of sense
Speaker 1: the second set of Jaws. Is that what we're seeing
Speaker 1: kind of in the far back of the image around
Speaker 1: kind of the red spot. Yeah, exactly. So you see
Speaker 1: you see that front and then you see the back.
Speaker 1: You see those rows right like they they are these
Speaker 1: like concentric circles going down into the throat and they
Speaker 1: those are actually modified gill ridges that have teeth on them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a it's not good to look at
Speaker 1: or to matchin going inside. Yeah, what's terrifying um to
Speaker 1: me about this is it looks like it's like you
Speaker 1: can see their rib cage within their mouth, So it
Speaker 1: kind of looks like it's basically like if we did
Speaker 1: not have a head or a neck, but like our
Speaker 1: shoulder blades opened into a mouth, and then we had
Speaker 1: like a hollow chest cavity where you could see the
Speaker 1: rib cage, and then like our pelvis, there was another
Speaker 1: set of teeth. Um Like, it looks kind of like
Speaker 1: that where it's like it looks like it's also like blue,
Speaker 1: which is weird. Um Yeah. And also I think I
Speaker 1: can see like gill openings on the side, so that
Speaker 1: looks crazy, yeah, because these things that look like ribs
Speaker 1: are actually gill ridges. So it's like if we just
Speaker 1: had rib like structures going all the way down, but
Speaker 1: then they open out into the air because that you
Speaker 1: breathe through them. I mean that's like, that's like less
Speaker 1: that's okay, So that's less scary to me because I
Speaker 1: feel like in a world where I'm a tiny fish
Speaker 1: that um is, you know, swimming right through this thing's mouth,
Speaker 1: I feel like you could like escape patch out through
Speaker 1: the gill. I mean, that's why they have so many
Speaker 1: teeth for first grabbing you with the front set of
Speaker 1: jaws and then grinding you down with the second set
Speaker 1: of jaws. So I feel like by the time you
Speaker 1: see a potential escape route through the gills. You've already
Speaker 1: been pulverized pretty bad. Because these guys have four hundred teeth,
Speaker 1: which you know, that's more than humans have. Um. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have. We have easily half that. Um yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna say any fish that gets bit by
Speaker 1: the first jaws and then doesn't try to like escape
Speaker 1: through the gills, there's a word for that, and that's
Speaker 1: a quitter. That is, you know, counting your teeth before
Speaker 1: they've hatched. I don't know, but yeah, a quitter fish. Um.
Speaker 1: But because of all this chomping and chewing, and they
Speaker 1: are truly vicious fish. They love to eat anything that moves,
Speaker 1: including their own species. They can be cannibals opportunistically. Um.
Speaker 1: But because of all of this, they do lose teeth.
Speaker 1: These they can be these little spine like teeth that
Speaker 1: just break off with all this chewing and chomping. But
Speaker 1: because they lose teeth so quickly, they also replace them.
Speaker 1: So they lose and replace around a day, which is
Speaker 1: an insane turnover of teeth. Um. Okay, so what would
Speaker 1: if you replaced your teeth that quickly, Like if every
Speaker 1: day you like shed twenty teeth is there something that
Speaker 1: you would do with your teeth. Would you like to
Speaker 1: make a necklace out of them? Yeah? That makes sense,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, crown. I feel like we're hitting a point
Speaker 1: where it's like a brooch. I would I feel like
Speaker 1: I would make it just like a shirt out of
Speaker 1: my own teeth Chaine mail out of teeth, Yeah, teeth
Speaker 1: Chaine mail, teeth gown. Imagine the sound as you rustle
Speaker 1: on by and your teeth gown. That genuinely gave me
Speaker 1: the shiver. It's basically like it's basically like your teeth grinding,
Speaker 1: but like while you're moving and it's your clothes. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a it's an interesting, uh, interesting situation to think
Speaker 1: about for a long period of time when you're in
Speaker 1: bed at night and it's dark and you look in
Speaker 1: the corner of the room and you think about someone
Speaker 1: wearing the teeth dress just slowly moving towards you. Um. Anyways,
Speaker 1: to talk about something less horrifying, how about a frilled
Speaker 1: shark that has rows and rows of teeth like fields
Speaker 1: of corn. So. The frilled shark is an old old
Speaker 1: species of shark, sometimes called a living fossil due to
Speaker 1: its primitive form. They live near the ocean floor in
Speaker 1: the Pacific and Atlantic outer continental shelves. So these aren't
Speaker 1: exactly These aren't like deep deep sea fish, but you
Speaker 1: know they're they're deeper than like coastal fish. Um. They
Speaker 1: like to eat fish, cephalopods and sea slugs. It's called
Speaker 1: a frilled shark because of the rows of gill slits
Speaker 1: that make them look like they've got these frilly sideburns.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cute. Um, you know, all things considered, Hey,
Speaker 1: frilled shark, take those sideburns back where they belong. The
Speaker 1: seventies got them. You have roasted this shark. Males can
Speaker 1: grow to be up to about five and a half
Speaker 1: feet or one point seven meters, and females can grow
Speaker 1: to be about six and a half feet or two
Speaker 1: meters long. Another wind for feminism in the animal kingdom.
Speaker 1: I say that, ye, yes, I stand a frilled shark. Queen,
Speaker 1: Yes you toothy queen. So um, So what I like
Speaker 1: about the frill shark is like it looks like besides
Speaker 1: the frill sharks very large wind for feminism is um,
Speaker 1: it looks like the frilled sharks teeth have teeth, If
Speaker 1: it makes sense, Yeah, it kind of looks like that.
Speaker 1: It's like they're these trident shaped teeth, so like they
Speaker 1: have three prongs like a trident, and not only that,
Speaker 1: but then there's a whole row of them. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: I would say in iimidating, um. They're these vertical rolls
Speaker 1: of pointy, tried and shaped teeth. There's about three hundred
Speaker 1: teeth in total in this mouth of theirs. How often
Speaker 1: do they shed their teeth? I don't know that, but
Speaker 1: I think like most sharks, they do shed them and
Speaker 1: then they can sort of replace them. So these rows
Speaker 1: may kind of push upwards over time as they're getting replaced.
Speaker 1: Like like most sharks do actually have teeth behind their
Speaker 1: teeth that come in to replace the front teeth. They're
Speaker 1: just not as many as say the frilled shark, because
Speaker 1: these go back all the way down their mouths. I
Speaker 1: feel like, based on our previous animal, now I'm sizing
Speaker 1: up every shark's teeth to be like, what article of
Speaker 1: clothing would I turn that into? And I feel like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like pacific Ingrid's teeth, Like yeah, that'd probably
Speaker 1: make for like a really cool, like you know, chain
Speaker 1: mail shirt. I feel like, uh, frilled shark teeth. That's
Speaker 1: like that's a crown. That's like a really nice crown
Speaker 1: because like it's like the tridents give it like a cool,
Speaker 1: like you know effect to it. Like I feel like
Speaker 1: that would be like I'm not saying I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that I would hold down a frilled shark and yank
Speaker 1: out their teeth to make my crown. I'm saying I would.
Speaker 1: I would hang out around one and as it like
Speaker 1: its teeth naturally fall out, I wouldn't a crown. I
Speaker 1: like the the image of you just like hanging out
Speaker 1: with this frilled shark with like a little net, just
Speaker 1: being like, come on, eat the hard candy, Eat the
Speaker 1: hard candy. I need this. Come on your sideburns. Sorry
Speaker 1: about the sideburn burn. I think that so uh, they
Speaker 1: can actually extend their mouths. Their mouths and jaws are
Speaker 1: very flexible, and they can eat prey larger there and
Speaker 1: larger than their bodies by extending their jaws and distending
Speaker 1: their bellies. Um. And so not only do they have
Speaker 1: these rows of trident teeth, but they have this flexible
Speaker 1: jaw that can just chomp down like a pac man,
Speaker 1: and it helps snag prey, so like once they've got
Speaker 1: it in their mouth, it's going to be hard for
Speaker 1: the prey to pull away from the shark because it
Speaker 1: is now sort of fish hooked in there. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: Like looking at other pictures of frillish sharks, seem like
Speaker 1: an animal that is like all spine and no ribs,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, and that like you can see
Speaker 1: that there's like a distinct spine, but then like everything
Speaker 1: else seems like I don't want to say structure lists,
Speaker 1: but like it kind of feels like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like if you can bind a shark and a snake
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I mean that's an interesting observation
Speaker 1: because they are very very primitive. Uh they you know,
Speaker 1: when you have these early fish. Some of the earliest
Speaker 1: fish didn't even have a spinal cord. They just have
Speaker 1: out of note a chord, and they were more of
Speaker 1: these kind of eel like not quite as bony, but
Speaker 1: more cartilage filled. Fish and sharks have a lot of cartilage,
Speaker 1: even the more evolved shark. But this one is pretty
Speaker 1: pretty primitive, pretty old. So yeah, it is even it
Speaker 1: does have a spine, but it is you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of this kind of these cartilignus cartilaginous structures.
Speaker 1: You know, they have more of that snake or eel
Speaker 1: like structure than say a ray finned bony fish. Um um. Oh.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that their teeth can accomplish is, uh,
Speaker 1: some biologists think it may act as allure. So because
Speaker 1: their teeth are so white and they come in these rows. Uh,
Speaker 1: that contrasting white and dark pattern is thought to maybe
Speaker 1: trick fish into thinking that there's some kind of food
Speaker 1: food or something interesting to look at, and so they
Speaker 1: wander closer to the mouth and then the last thing
Speaker 1: they know is like, hey, this is a mouth, and
Speaker 1: that's it. Lights out there there, They're done. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is something that I appreciate about. Like really, I think
Speaker 1: that that's something that you can say about like our
Speaker 1: last to fish, the pacific ingrid and the frilled shark,
Speaker 1: in that like, their mouths look very like I know
Speaker 1: that they're the mouths lilding creatures. So to call them
Speaker 1: organic seems obvious, But they seem like organic in like
Speaker 1: more of a natural environmental way. Like there's definitely a
Speaker 1: way with the pacific ingrid's mouth, which is very blue,
Speaker 1: could look like a cave or something like that. And
Speaker 1: like same with the frilled shark's mouth. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of blacks, a lot of reds, Like the structures of
Speaker 1: the teeth kind of seemed like coral a little bit
Speaker 1: like where that could seem like it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: a safe space to hide and not the least safe space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting. It like it kind of looks it
Speaker 1: looks like a plant, maybe like the spines of a cactus,
Speaker 1: not the teeth of a fish. Yeah, for sure, speaking
Speaker 1: of teeth that look like other things or other teeth
Speaker 1: or teeth that shouldn't go in the animal that you
Speaker 1: think it should go in, sheep's head, sheep's head fish,
Speaker 1: uh have. I'm sorry to say it human like teeth.
Speaker 1: It looks like you photoshopped a bunch of human teeth
Speaker 1: onto a fish. And I don't like it. I don't
Speaker 1: like it one bit. Um. Yeah, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: speaking of it, viz. Line, somebody you got to give
Speaker 1: this fish line. Um, Joey is really on a roll
Speaker 1: roasting these fish. Hey, I mean, look, somebody's got to
Speaker 1: what's that nice smell? It's Joey roasting a bunch of fish. Yeah, Look,
Speaker 1: if I can't roast them literally and eat them, I
Speaker 1: am going to roast them with jokes. Fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 1: This is why I constantly have food poisoning. Is the
Speaker 1: way that I try to cook my meat is I
Speaker 1: just make fun of the animals. But yeah, something that's
Speaker 1: wild about the sheep said fish is that like, yeah,
Speaker 1: their mouth their teeth are very human like. Um. So
Speaker 1: by extension, they're like, you know, their mouths. It looks
Speaker 1: like they have lips that are very human like. Um.
Speaker 1: But something that's crazy about them in very Uncanny Valley
Speaker 1: is they also have teeth, like on their tongues basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: teeth on the bottom of their their mouths, and teeth
Speaker 1: on the top of their mouths. Also, so teeth, it's
Speaker 1: going back there. It's like if you had multiple rows
Speaker 1: of teeth on both the top and but yeah, on
Speaker 1: the top and the bottom of your mouth, instead of
Speaker 1: just one row on the top and one bottom, which
Speaker 1: is very freaky. It's very unsettling because it not only
Speaker 1: looks like human teeth, but way too many human teeth. Um.
Speaker 1: I also just like, I don't trust fish with human teeth.
Speaker 1: That's not right. That's probably why I really didn't like
Speaker 1: that old movie shark Tail, Remember that? Yeah? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: basically what you're saying is that if a fish with
Speaker 1: human teeth was like Katie, will you co sign my loan?
Speaker 1: You'd be like, no, there's something about you and untrust. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, like anyone else I would. But as a
Speaker 1: fish with teeth, no, yeah, other than their uncanny valley mouths,
Speaker 1: Sheep said fish are relatively normal looking gray and white
Speaker 1: striped fish that can grow to be a little over
Speaker 1: a foot long about um point five meters. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: body is sort of disc shaped, but it's sort of
Speaker 1: like when its mouth is closed, it's a pretty normal
Speaker 1: looking fish. Uh. They're found along the coast of southwest Florida,
Speaker 1: which you know, of course, as well as the western Atlantic.
Speaker 1: But as soon as they open their horrible little mouths,
Speaker 1: they reveal that front row of human like teeth and
Speaker 1: then those rows of little nubby teeth. So they're not
Speaker 1: really sharp teeth, they're these sort of nubs, and they
Speaker 1: actually use these teeth for grinding. So they like to
Speaker 1: eat barnacles, fiddler crabs, clams, oysters, and other small hard
Speaker 1: shelled prey, and so they use these like rows of teeth,
Speaker 1: sort of blunt teeth to grind the shells up so
Speaker 1: they can eat their prey, which you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's scarier like a sharp a bunch of sharp
Speaker 1: teeth or a bunch of dull teeth that just grinds you. Hey,
Speaker 1: rise and grind, I get it. Wait. Also, wait, we
Speaker 1: talked about this earlier as somebody who grinds their teeth,
Speaker 1: and I'm speaking to somebody who also grinds their teeth. Um,
Speaker 1: do you look at this fish and feel like a
Speaker 1: sense of empathy or are you just like acculate with fire. Uh?
Speaker 1: Not empathy because they grind their teeth on purpose to
Speaker 1: get a delicious meal. More jealousy, because it's like if
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of if I had way more
Speaker 1: teeth right to grind, then I probably wouldn't wear down
Speaker 1: my My pathetic set of teeth is quickly. Yeah. Like,
Speaker 1: as we've established, you love grinding your teeth. It is
Speaker 1: your favorite favorite thing to do. I love the sound,
Speaker 1: especially on the jaw fields. Apparently the sheep's had fish
Speaker 1: taste really good. But there's not a chance, no way
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat a fish that has a human mouth.
Speaker 1: That's no. Yeah, I mean that's sort of the like
Speaker 1: that's the mermaid conundrum, right, and that like if you eat,
Speaker 1: like what kind of meat is a mermaid? If you
Speaker 1: eat the top half of a mermaid? Is it human meat?
Speaker 1: If you eat the bottom half, is it fish meat?
Speaker 1: Is it canimalism if you eat the top half? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I really I agree with you in that. Like, I like,
Speaker 1: if I saw a picture of this fish, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's way too close. Yeah, yeah, it's too much. It's
Speaker 1: too close to a mermaid that I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: eat it. Related question, do you think the sheep's head
Speaker 1: fish floss is as much as they should? Uh? Uh? Now, Joey,
Speaker 1: they're fish, they don't they don't do that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of fish, they definitely don't flies. So hey, Joey,
Speaker 1: I heard you like teeth, So I put some teeth
Speaker 1: on your teeth so you can chew while your chew.
Speaker 1: So that's my way of introducing the crab eater seal.
Speaker 1: So crab eater seals are adorable sea puppies with psychedelic
Speaker 1: nightmare teeth. Crab eater seals live in Antarctica and are
Speaker 1: very cute, blubbery little guys with light cream colored coats.
Speaker 1: They grow up to over two meters so about six
Speaker 1: and a half feet long, and they weigh up to
Speaker 1: your round two hums around a four hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 1: so you know, just a little bill, blubbery bobs of cuteness. Um.
Speaker 1: So what I love about crab eater or seals teeth
Speaker 1: is that, um, if you think back to like drawings
Speaker 1: of sea monsters, you know, in you know, kind of
Speaker 1: medieval times on maps, oftentimes those creatures would have like, yeah,
Speaker 1: weird teeth, horns and things like that, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: you can look at that and think about it as
Speaker 1: just like abject craziness. Um. But like I've seen, I
Speaker 1: think this exact drawing of a tooth on those old
Speaker 1: medieval paintings. So it's like, you know, it kind of
Speaker 1: makes you think. It's just like, oh, do they just
Speaker 1: like see a crabber ear seal and like half remember
Speaker 1: what that's a dragon? Like get a crab eater or
Speaker 1: seal skelton. I was like, yeah, this is a seed
Speaker 1: dragon for sure, and I wouldn't blame them. So their
Speaker 1: teeth are these they curve backwards, so they are sort
Speaker 1: of this triangular shaped tooth that curl backwards. But then
Speaker 1: on the teeth they have smaller curved teeth jutting out
Speaker 1: from them. And it's it's kind of interesting too because
Speaker 1: it's sort of like comb like and but it's kind
Speaker 1: of pretty almost in a weird way. The patterns these
Speaker 1: make it kind of looks like an mc essure drawing
Speaker 1: of sort of interlocking uh curves and then smaller interlocking
Speaker 1: curves like a Pacific linkad teeth are chainmail teeth and
Speaker 1: a frilled sharks teeth are our crown teeth. These are
Speaker 1: for sure necklace teeth right here. These are some high
Speaker 1: quality necklace teeth. What's interesting is that you would think
Speaker 1: that then they would use these really wild like medieval
Speaker 1: sea dragon looking teeth to chomp into things, maybe like
Speaker 1: they're name like their crab eater seals. Maybe they use
Speaker 1: them to crack open crab shells, but actually they don't
Speaker 1: eat crabs. Whoever named this seal should be arrested. Um,
Speaker 1: So they like to eat krill, not crabs. And krill,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of the smallest, wimpiest creatures of
Speaker 1: the sea, So why do crab eater seals misnamed crab
Speaker 1: eater seals or maybe we should call them krill eater
Speaker 1: seals have such wild, dastardly looking teeth, and like a
Speaker 1: lot of our weird mouthed friends on this show, their
Speaker 1: teeth are actually used not for biting but for filtration.
Speaker 1: So they use the same method that actually baling whales
Speaker 1: use where they second sea water and then push it
Speaker 1: out and filter out this teeny tiny krill, which it
Speaker 1: because their teeth with all these little protrusions actually for
Speaker 1: once they've clamped it down, forms this like sieve or
Speaker 1: sieve that the krill get trapped in, that the krill
Speaker 1: get trapped in wild the seawater can escape. Um. Something
Speaker 1: I feel like scientists don't think about enough in terms
Speaker 1: of like evolution and why things evolve. Is just evolving
Speaker 1: so it looks the most metal as it can. So
Speaker 1: I feel like, yes, I'm sure these are. I'm sure
Speaker 1: these are. There's the practical use of filtration, which only
Speaker 1: makes sense, but also just like this is just nature
Speaker 1: being like, hey, you want to have a mouth that
Speaker 1: looks cool? Yeah? Yeah, man, I'd love to have these
Speaker 1: weird Fibonacci teeth honestly, Uh, those would be fun to grind.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. At the end of this, we have to
Speaker 1: have a rating of like would you grind it if
Speaker 1: you had these teeth, would you grind? Uh? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I guess the sheep said. Fish in terms of
Speaker 1: grinding is probably you know, the one built the most
Speaker 1: for grinding. But yeah, no. So so these crabb eat
Speaker 1: or seals amazing looking teeth. And I think it's also
Speaker 1: interesting because while these are definitely teeth and not something
Speaker 1: like bailen, whereas like bailen is actually made out of keratin,
Speaker 1: similar to the turtle and penguin mouths we talked about earlier.
Speaker 1: But you can see this convergent evolution of like two
Speaker 1: mammals who both separately made their way from the land
Speaker 1: back to the sea. Like seals and whales are actually
Speaker 1: not that closely related. They both independently, uh, had a
Speaker 1: journey from land to see and then of those there's
Speaker 1: a seal that has also evolved a filtration system for krill,
Speaker 1: as did baleen whales, just using very different mouths. So
Speaker 1: I find that pretty interesting, pretty fascinating. It's sort of like, um,
Speaker 1: something that's something that's really fascinating to me is seeing
Speaker 1: the different technology that the Soviet Union and the United
Speaker 1: States used in the space race. So like you see, um,
Speaker 1: like they built Soviet USSR space suits kind of like
Speaker 1: independently of United States space suits for like moonwalks. There's like, um,
Speaker 1: there's a Soviet Union moonlander moon were over that we're
Speaker 1: like not used because they didn't make it to the moon.
Speaker 1: But it's like you can kind of see the thing
Speaker 1: of like, oh, these are both like coming, these are
Speaker 1: both doing the same job, but they're clearly coming from
Speaker 1: like different minds and schools of thought is to like
Speaker 1: how to do it, but they like don't look dissimilar.
Speaker 1: You know. Is that parallel of invention though? Or is
Speaker 1: it spying spycraft? Um, it's probably a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying is the crab eater seal.
Speaker 1: They've been spying on whales. They've probably been spying on
Speaker 1: whales for a long time. Yeah, it's got them. We
Speaker 1: busted them. The last couple of animals I want to
Speaker 1: talk about, um, are not because of the teeth that
Speaker 1: they do have, but because of the teeth that they
Speaker 1: don't have, which is all of them so mammals without
Speaker 1: certain teeth or any teeth are known as identate mammals.
Speaker 1: All identate mammals lack canines and incisors, but some have
Speaker 1: no teeth at all. Ant Eaters and pengulins have no
Speaker 1: teeth instead, they ditched their teeth for a long, sticky
Speaker 1: tongue instead, So ant eaters belong to the suborder vermin lingua,
Speaker 1: which actually means worm tongue. So I guess there either
Speaker 1: uh ant eaters are big Tolkien nerds or Tolkien was
Speaker 1: a big ant eater nerd b by Tolkien being an
Speaker 1: ant eater nerd. So they live in Central and South America,
Speaker 1: and there are multiple species, and they include the giant
Speaker 1: ant eater, the cute and tiny silky ant eater, the
Speaker 1: Southern Tamandua, and the Northern Tamandua. Pengulans, meanwhile, are an
Speaker 1: instance of convergent evolution. They look a lot like an
Speaker 1: ant eater, but they live in sub Saharan Africa. Um
Speaker 1: they also have no teeth. They lap up ants with
Speaker 1: their really long sticky tongues, and their body shape is
Speaker 1: very similar to ant eaters, but additionally they have caratinous
Speaker 1: plates that armor their bodies like scale male armors, so
Speaker 1: they can curl up into a ball when threatened by
Speaker 1: something like a lion. So so it's like their bodies
Speaker 1: covered in teeth. So here's how crazy it is. Here's
Speaker 1: how amazingly close these are in terms of their conversion evolution.
Speaker 1: So both pengulins and ant eaters have prehensile tails, both
Speaker 1: have extra sticky saliva for lapping up ants. Both have
Speaker 1: really long tongues and tube shaped mouths, and their tongues
Speaker 1: actually have a base way back near their stern um um.
Speaker 1: Because like the high oid bone, which is where your
Speaker 1: tongue connects, actually has a bunch of muscle on it
Speaker 1: and it's the base of the tongue. But because they
Speaker 1: have such a long tongue, it doesn't all fit in
Speaker 1: their mouths. So their high oid bone, for for pangul ins,
Speaker 1: their high high oid bone actually goes all the way down, uh,
Speaker 1: from their sternom down their abdomen, and like it's actually
Speaker 1: kind of this wishbone shape of these two prongs and
Speaker 1: then on those is all this muscle that can quickly
Speaker 1: retract and extend this really long tongue that sits in
Speaker 1: their mouth and throat but kind of folds up a
Speaker 1: little bit, whereas ant eaters also have a really long
Speaker 1: uh base of their tongue, but it just goes down
Speaker 1: to their stern um um and also both ingest small
Speaker 1: stones to help grind up their food because even though
Speaker 1: they don't have teeth, it does help when they can
Speaker 1: get that grinding in and it helps them digest their
Speaker 1: food more efficiently. So yeah, So a question that I've
Speaker 1: got about this, and it's just based on the photo,
Speaker 1: is like, is the way that they eat like it
Speaker 1: it looks like their tongue is yeah, like kind of
Speaker 1: in their abdomen a little bit. So did they essentially
Speaker 1: just like use their tongue to like grab ants and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then essentially their tongue deposits the
Speaker 1: ant into their stomach, deposits it into their throat and
Speaker 1: then down and then it goes down into their stomach. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: that sounds like such a convenient way to eat. I
Speaker 1: mean I feel like that's how I eat cereal, just
Speaker 1: kind of like lapping it up. Yeah, I just like
Speaker 1: I don't even show it. I just try to cram
Speaker 1: into my throat. I'm choking all the time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I'm starting to understand why you might have needed
Speaker 1: in bus a line. Yeah, because I just don't use
Speaker 1: my teeth. I just try to like I just sort
Speaker 1: of guzzle down like entire fish or whatever I eat,
Speaker 1: like Heathcliff, where I just take a fish, put the
Speaker 1: entire thing into my mouth behind my teeth, and then
Speaker 1: pull out the skeleton. Yeah, yeah, that's I've seen you
Speaker 1: do that. It's it's very disturbing, more disturbing than like
Speaker 1: when you take out your invisil line at lunch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very much. It's really painful and it's not efficient.
Speaker 1: And I choke a lot, and uh do not cutting
Speaker 1: off your mouth to get them out with those fish bones?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, cutting up my mouth a ton also, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely not It's definitely a very painful process for like,
Speaker 1: I also have constant heartburn. This is not not good
Speaker 1: for whatever, not good for my insights to do this.
Speaker 1: But like, hey, I'm not going to learn a different
Speaker 1: What am I going to use my teeth like a sucker? Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: here I am grinding down my teeth into a fine
Speaker 1: powder because it's fun, good habits all around. Well, before
Speaker 1: we go, I want to play a game. It's called
Speaker 1: the Mystery Animal Sound Game or Guess Who's talking or
Speaker 1: guess who's squawking? I guess so good, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should change change my brand, my brand. So
Speaker 1: last week's hint, um or sorry? Last week I played
Speaker 1: an animal sound and the hint was is it win
Speaker 1: she windshield wipers, an owl or someone trying to find
Speaker 1: his damsel in distress? And here is the sound. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the question is was that windshield wipers, an owl
Speaker 1: or a man searching for his damsel in distress? I
Speaker 1: didn't say a man, I said someone, Oh got I
Speaker 1: gotta got it. Um, So I'm going to say that
Speaker 1: was okay, So I think it's the obvious answer is owl.
Speaker 1: But the rain makes me think wind shield wipers. Well
Speaker 1: it's not wind shield wipers and it's not an owl,
Speaker 1: and but it is someone trying to find his damsel
Speaker 1: in distress. And here's another hint. Actually, what you think
Speaker 1: it sounds like rain is the popping and crackling of
Speaker 1: little shrimp clip cliping little claws. Wait, so okay, wait,
Speaker 1: so it's a So it's a person searching for their
Speaker 1: damsel in distress. Also, there are shrimp. There. I didn't
Speaker 1: say a person. I said someone searching for his damsel
Speaker 1: in distress. Wait someone, wait, someone or something? I mean
Speaker 1: someone something, some kind of animal. So you know, we're
Speaker 1: all we're all, uh, we're all the brotherhood of life
Speaker 1: here on this on this planet. I'm so confused, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's an animal of some kind of making this sound? Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: is it? Is it a Balian shark? Um? I mean
Speaker 1: that's actually I shouldn't laugh at you. I was laughing
Speaker 1: at your tone because you were so scared. But no,
Speaker 1: that's not a it's not a bad guess. In fact,
Speaker 1: you are right that it is a fish. Um, and
Speaker 1: it is actually a damselfish mating call. Oh I see
Speaker 1: what you did. Yeah. So it's incredible because we don't
Speaker 1: think of fish being able to make sounds underwater, but
Speaker 1: in fact they do. We just can't really hear it
Speaker 1: due to our human ears not being good underwater. Instead
Speaker 1: of using vocal cords, fish can make noise by wiggling
Speaker 1: their swim bladders or rubbing their fin bones against their
Speaker 1: bodies like crickets. And I wish I had a swim bladder. Uh.
Speaker 1: The winner of last week's mystery animal sound game is
Speaker 1: ery L, who asked me if it was cheating if
Speaker 1: they found the same article that the sound was from.
Speaker 1: And no, it's not cheating. Go ahead and use Google.
Speaker 1: He's Google all the time, so not cheating. Great job.
Speaker 1: So now onto this week's mystery animal sound. This is
Speaker 1: the hint. It may be related to an elephant, but
Speaker 1: you're in for a surprise when you see who's saying hello. Um,
Speaker 1: that sounds to me like, okay, so I heard like
Speaker 1: kind of a clip clop. So part of me wants
Speaker 1: to think that, wants to say that it's a horse,
Speaker 1: but like I think that that might be like a
Speaker 1: seal or something, maybe a crab eater seal with its
Speaker 1: weird teeth. I could have been the clip clopping is. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the answer to this week's mystery animal sound game will
Speaker 1: be revealed next week. Um and so if you think
Speaker 1: you know who is making this mystery sound, who is squawking,
Speaker 1: who is talking? You can write to me at Creature
Speaker 1: Feature Pod at gmail dot com. I'm also on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Creature Feature Pod and on Twitter at Creature feet Pod.
Speaker 1: That's f e T not ev et is something very
Speaker 1: different Joey, thank you so much for gift and on
Speaker 1: the show, where what are you up to? And what
Speaker 1: can people fall work? Where the heck? Where the heck
Speaker 1: are you? Where can people find me? Um? Yeah, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for having me. Um. You can follow me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Joey Tageman. You can follow me on
Speaker 1: Instagram at Joey Cliff And uh, if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this and you're also straightening your teeth during the pandemic, uh,
Speaker 1: tweet at me and tell me how it's going. Tell
Speaker 1: me what trade you're on. Uh yeah, I guess. I
Speaker 1: guess it's a weird thing we're like because it's something
Speaker 1: I'm constantly dealing with. I love talking about it. So
Speaker 1: I guess I'm a teeth straight and an influencer now sure,
Speaker 1: why not? Um so? And then things I'm working on.
Speaker 1: Um Katie mentioned I'm a writer such consulting producerper sperit
Speaker 1: Interest on Netflix that comes out sometime in two Um.
Speaker 1: I have a short film that's going through festivals right
Speaker 1: now called My First Native American Boyfriend that you can
Speaker 1: probably watch, you know, in a festival near you at
Speaker 1: any point in the future. And Um, I just released
Speaker 1: an animated short through Comedy Central called how to Coporative
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