1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: here's Kel. A new transcontinental NonStop flight speed record has 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: been broken, according to the Global Flyaway Network. To be clear, 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 1: the g f M doesn't track people. They track shorebird 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: migrations by following individual shorebirds fitted with a five gram 7 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: satellite tracker. Five grams, for those of you who want 8 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: to know, is about a US nickel in wade, which 9 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: oddly enough is kind of a rarity these days. So 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: two dimes, Well, there is this coin shortage going on. 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: Uh So remove an average sized human eyeball and scoop 12 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: out about three tenths the eyeball, and you'll be left 13 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: with about five grams of eyeball. I had to throw 14 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: that disgusting one in there because we're getting close to Halloween. 15 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: I guess I should throw in another disclaimer in regards 16 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: to taking an average human eyeball. Just trust me on 17 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: the five gram way, and don't try to prove me 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: right or wrong. I ate his liver with some father 19 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: beans and a nice candy. Anyway, the g FM, the 20 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: Global Flyway Network, tracks birds and they happen to recently 21 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: track a real speed demon. A bar tailed godwit recently 22 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: hit speeds of fifty five miles per hour over the 23 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: course of its eleven days, seven thousand, five hundred and 24 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: eighty one mile trip. The bar tailed godwit is a 25 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: long legged shore bird part of the sand piper family. 26 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: Individuals will typically weigh in between a hundred and ninety 27 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: grams and four nine grams. Oddly enough, four hundred and 28 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: ninety grams would be about half as heavy as your 29 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: average hamster who doesn't know that. They preferred to nest 30 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: on hummocktops on the tundra, and according to the Auto 31 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 1: Bonnd Society, they're big, noisy, and cinnamon colored, which kind 32 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: of reminds me of my older sister. A particular bar 33 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: tailed godwit, a male referenced as four B b RW, 34 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: left southwest Alaska in late September and seven days later 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: touched back down on land for the first time, just 36 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: outside of Auckland, New Zealand, a distance again of seven thousand, 37 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty one miles that's roughly sixty three 38 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: hundred miles of open ocean. Then a left turn at 39 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: New Caledonia, where the mail. Godwitch chose not to stop, 40 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: then proceeded another twelve hundred plus miles of open ocean 41 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: to New Zealand. How come amfortable would you feel with 42 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: directions like that? Yeah, just head on out over the 43 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: open ocean. Keep going. You know you'll be getting close 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: when you start to realize you haven't seen land in 45 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: six days. Then when you do see land, don't stop, 46 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: turn left and fly for another twelve miles. I know 47 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: exactly where we are. We're in the middle of No wait, 48 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: how do you please? Well, you'll likely never be in 49 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 1: that position, so it doesn't matter. What does is these 50 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: little obese, hamster sized, noisy cinnamon colored birds do. Another 51 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: interesting fact to digest is that the godwit will double 52 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: in size prior to migration. As you may know, heavy 53 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: things don't fly so well. I mean, look at the turkey, 54 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: so the godwit can shrink its internal organs to accommodate 55 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: the fat without putting on the pounds. Sounds kind of 56 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: like the new fab diet and we are approaching Thanksgiving. 57 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: To bring this one home theme to the hunting side 58 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: of things, the fact that migratory bird hunting seasons have 59 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: started in most of the US you cannot hunt bartailed godwit, 60 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: so don't ruffle those tail feathers anyway. The big migrators 61 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: you can hunt, such as sandhill cranes tundra swanse, for instance, 62 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: are big birds, but they have a disappointing amount of meat. 63 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: I've found that meat is heavy and big birds still 64 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: have a weight limit for long distance migrations, whereas a 65 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: non migrator like a wild turkey or even a sharp 66 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: tailed grouse seems to be all meat. In fact, if 67 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: you really want to get birdie. A recent study published 68 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: in the journal Experimental Biology takes a look at the 69 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: birds that make the biggest weight gains prior to migration 70 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: across the three types of bird flight. The three types 71 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: of bird flight are of course, you're continuous flappers like 72 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: the bar tailed godwit, you're flap and sores like the hawks, 73 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: and you're flapping gliders like the sparrow. The more you flap, 74 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: the more weight you need to put on. In fact, 75 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: but an increased fuel load has increased cost. Eating more 76 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: to put that fat on exposes the birds more to predation. 77 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: Have your fuel loads mean increased drag and more wing beats? 78 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: One would think that are really big birds. The ones 79 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: like the lasing albatross, for instance, that will cover over 80 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: a million miles a year would be the hard workers. 81 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: But remember the Arctic turn, who is a fraction of 82 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: the size of the albatross, has a yearly migration of 83 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: fifty six thousand miles. I just want to throw that 84 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: out there. Something interesting we discuss, you know, idle chit chat. 85 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: One more fun fact for you. That migratory bird stamp 86 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: you can buy helps the bar tailed god with a 87 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: bird you cannot legally kill an eat just as much 88 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: as those birds you can kill an eat. Buy your 89 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: darned duck stamp. People. A marsh is a place full 90 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: of life, not all of it edible, but hut in 91 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: life just the same. This week we've got kiddies, Squalen 92 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: and the mail bag. But first I'm gonna tell you 93 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: about my week. And my week, as you know, is 94 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: sponsored by Steel Power equipment makers, the world's finest chainsaws. 95 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: We are back, in fact, bouncing around in the truck 96 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: and pursuit of birds and antalope time year. And as 97 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: you already know, I like to have my steel Battery 98 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: power chainsaw on the truck because it is clean and 99 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: stink free. It can ride in the back of the 100 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,119 Speaker 1: truck with the dog and my hunting gear, no gas 101 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: vapors invading the last of the puppy smell or my 102 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: hunting clothes. I throw in steel limb loppers, which are 103 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: fantastic for cutting through antelope ribs and shanks. Even I 104 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: always bring all the bones home from an antelope hunt, 105 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: the lightest big game bones you can carry, and one 106 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: of the tastiest animals. Antalope bone browth or demiglaze is 107 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: a real treat for those of you fall going along. 108 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: Here is a quick quote snort report snort. Now five 109 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: and a half month old yellow lab has been moving 110 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: up ever so slowly on the game bird size scale. 111 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: We've moved from hungarian partridge up to sharp tail grouse. 112 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: She's working hard and seems to love it. I cooked 113 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: up a last minute paea, which, as you know, is 114 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: no way to make PIEA used a couple of huns 115 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: and a couple of sharp tails, and my goodness, it 116 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: was pretty and delicious in what a way to break 117 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: up all that red meat consumption. Alright, moving onto the 118 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,559 Speaker 1: mail bag, A couple of real thinkers in here. First 119 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: from Huguenot, New York A listener, right, Sam, I'd like 120 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: to get your input on private lands that blue collar 121 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: workers like myself and friends hunting for years and recently 122 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: lost permissions due to the owners getting serious bucks to 123 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: lease the ground. I used to deliver frozen turkey and 124 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: bottles of wine as a friendly offering to hunt. Now quote, 125 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: rich people are offering cash that I can't even comprehend. 126 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: They're cutting down trees and making food plots, just like 127 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: every hunting show I see. Do you see a way 128 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: around this? First fun fact, Huguenot in New York was 129 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: named after Huguenots that settled there. Huguenots fled France due 130 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: to religious persecution. A couple of Huguenot families landed in 131 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: what is now Huguenot, New York. Back in now, onto 132 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: the question at hand, the white Tail industrial complex is 133 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: a beast, and yes, I would like to think there 134 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: would be some ways a nice group of hunters without 135 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: deep pockets can play the game, but you'll have to 136 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: knock on a lot of doors and make a compelling case. Fortunately, 137 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: New York does have a lot of public land, so 138 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: it does neighboring Pennsylvania. The public ground has its own challenges, 139 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: but at least it's more stable than a single landowner's decision. 140 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: This is not for the record of discussion. I really 141 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: enjoy because I really don't like mixing economics and hunting. 142 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: But if you had to, you and your buddies could 143 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: try and barter hours of labor to offset the property 144 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,359 Speaker 1: taxes and provide upkeep and improvements. A lot of landowners 145 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: I know see very beneficial to the whole leasing for 146 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: hunting rights game. The other factor that big money typically 147 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: does not provide is the ability for the landowner and 148 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: their family to also hunt the land. So this may 149 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: be a question of how many concessions you're willing to make, 150 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: how much time you're willing to put in, and what 151 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: you can offer that others cannot. Perhaps, you know you 152 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: could try a holistic approach and lieu of cash, like 153 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: building and putting up bird boxes, documenting all the other 154 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,959 Speaker 1: wildlife on a place, removing old singing, pay to have 155 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: the soil sampled or the ground properly surveyed and documented, etcetera. 156 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: You know, you can bring a lot of joy landowners 157 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: by showing them what you see out there's neighbor retail. 158 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: It's a tough one. This probably isn't the answer you want, 159 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: but I'd love to hear the rest of the story 160 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: and here out it turns out for your good luck 161 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: out there. This next one is from Hawaii and it 162 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: is a hot topic. House Bill eighteen sixty two, which 163 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: would prohibit the Hawaii Department of Land of Natural Resources 164 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: from implementing bag limits for game animals on all public 165 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 1: lands sounds crazy, right. Hawaii is in some cases overrun 166 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: by invasive non native species goats, pigs, sheep, hybrid sheep, chickens, cattle, 167 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: access dear, just to name a few for those species 168 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: that the state considers a game animal. House Bill eighteen 169 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: sixty two, at face value, is saying we want to 170 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: a limit these animals from the landscape. This will now 171 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: be a free for all hunters. Please take as many 172 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: as you want. Help us remove these animals a pro 173 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: native wildlife move now. After looking through the house bill, 174 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: which can be found at leges scan dot com, forward slash, 175 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: wife forward slash comments HB one six to forward slash, 176 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: there are no provisions for reinstating the Hawaii Department of 177 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: Land Natural Resources ability to implement big limits in the future. 178 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: Nor are there any accompanying bills that would prohibit landowners 179 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: for monetizing these same animals, which we know would be 180 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 1: necessary if eradication is actually the goal. In fact, making 181 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: legal public hunting illegal would likely be necessary to eradicate 182 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: these species, if eradication is actually the goal. To be clear, 183 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't hunt in Hawaii. That's not 184 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: what I'm advocating for. As my friend Mark Healey over 185 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: there likes to point out, of what is eaten on 186 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: Hawaii is brought in by ship. Wouldn't we be eliminating 187 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: our food security? Now? The reason that I think folks 188 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: should pay attention to HB one eight six two is 189 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 1: simply this. It's not a holistic plan. It's not a 190 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: whole island plan. This deal specifically with public lands, and 191 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: for those folks who aren't keen on jumping the neighbor's 192 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: fens to go hunt, that's what you got. And this 193 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: kind of piecemeal thing of trying to put the smack 194 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: down on mammals on public land when the mammals don't 195 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: recognize boundaries such as three strand barbed wire fence, is 196 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: only going to hurt the folks hunting that public land. 197 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: As animals are removed off that public land, that void 198 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: will likely consistently be filled by the animals moving off 199 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: of private land. I just don't see this as a 200 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: long term solution. Here's another interesting thing to think about, 201 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: a topic I hope to keep exploring. When do these 202 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: destructive non native animals become accepted as native? The Polynesians 203 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: brought pigs to Hawaii roughly one thousand, six hundred and 204 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: twenty years ago in canoes across the ocean, and just 205 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: as they did then, pork chops taste good still Hawaiians 206 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: love eating and hunting. Access Dear, Access Dear were introduced 207 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: to Molokai in the eighteen sixties, Lanai shortly after, and 208 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: Maui after that. Goats, cats, chickens, mongoose, and an even 209 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: more staggering amount of vegetation have all been introduced, and 210 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: thus lee compete with hawise native flora and fauna. It 211 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: has always been interesting to me to see which of 212 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: these exotics we embrace and for what reason. Now, in 213 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,359 Speaker 1: completely non related news, happy pheasant opener everybody, or more accurately, 214 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: happy Chinese ringneck pheasant opener next up. This one's for 215 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: two folks. One the listener that was compelled to send 216 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: me a review that another listener left telling me that, uh, 217 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: I shouldn't talk about climate change unless I have a 218 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: solution to climate change, and I should quit talking about 219 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: feral cats because of feral cats were bad? When't people 220 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: get rid of them? Uh? Inside the time span of 221 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: a week, I got two emails, one from Florida and 222 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: one from Utah, stating that their local animal shelters had 223 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: instructed these listeners to release cats or, in the case 224 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: of the Utah Animal shelter, come pick up cats at 225 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: the shelter to release. In both instances, the group Friends 226 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: of Animals had been working to turn both states into 227 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: quote no kill states, which I had to laugh at. 228 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: I got a hold of a spokesperson for Friends of 229 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: Animals in Utah. Their statement was, Friends of Animals is 230 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: limited to cats and that is the only animal that 231 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: really matters. They feel that releasing cats to kill wildlife 232 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: is more humane than killing the cats. Now, it has 233 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: been well established on this show that free arranging domestic 234 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: cats are the top human caused threat to wildlife in 235 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: the United States. Outdoor cats kill an estimated one point 236 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: three to three point seven billion birds and twenty two 237 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: point three billion non bird lives, including small mammals and reptiles. 238 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: The point is, if you are so kind to take 239 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: cats to a shelter, make sure they are not just 240 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: re releasing the cats that you already picked up from outside. 241 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: And of course, if you do want a cat, keep 242 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: your cat inside. And if you don't want to keep 243 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: your cat inside, well listen up, because we're gonna jump 244 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: right head over to the cat desk, and this next 245 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: one we'll leave you purring, I promise. A new study 246 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: confirms that cat owners can bond with your pets, how 247 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: you might say, with slow and probably creepy blinking. I 248 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: added the probably creepy regardless, maybe we can blink our 249 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: way to peace. Probably not, but let's give her a try. 250 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: This study, published in a journal called Scientific Reports, posits 251 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: that by narrowing your eyes, you can generate the equivalent 252 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: of a smile for a cat, which might make you 253 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: more attractive to the pet. Researchers and animal experts at 254 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: the University of Sussex did two experiments to study what 255 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: they call the cat smile theory. First, they studied twenty 256 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: one cats from fort ten different households to see how 257 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: they responded when their humans shot a slow blink in 258 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: their direction from about three feet away. I just have 259 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: to briefly pause here to highlight the totally absurd mental 260 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: picture of some researcher with a clipboard taking notes as 261 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: some guys stares at his cat from across the room. 262 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: Man that cat must be thinking what the heck is 263 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: wrong with humans these days? But I digress. Next, they 264 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: looked at an additional group of twenty four cats from 265 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: eight different households to see how they responded when the researcher, 266 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: who was unfamiliar to them, sent a slow blink. These 267 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: incredibly strange and non scientific findings seemed to show that 268 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: cats are more likely to send their owners a slow 269 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: blink when their owners give them the slow blank. They 270 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: also showed that the researchers who sent cats a slow 271 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: blink before offering them their hand were more likely to 272 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: be approached. These quote smiles, researchers concluded, could be described 273 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: as a positive communication between cats and humans, whether you 274 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: are a stranger or an owner. It's unclear whether these 275 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: behaviors are learned or innate, meaning that it's anyone's guests 276 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: to whether these cats are just copying or if they 277 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: have been communicating this way long before we domesticated them. 278 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: Domesticated cats all come from wildcats called Felis sylvestrous liboca. 279 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: These cats originated in the Fertile Crescent in the Near 280 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: East Neolithic period and in ancient Egypt in the Classical period. 281 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: The idea that ancient Egyptians worshiped cats gets thrown around, 282 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: but it isn't all that accurate. Cats weren't literally worshiped, 283 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: but the ancient Egyptians did associate many of their cats 284 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: characteristics with aspects of the divine. Egyptian depictions of cats 285 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: seem to be full of personality and even the occasional smile. 286 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: What does this all mean? Well, for one thing, you 287 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: might be able to slowly blink your way into a 288 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: friendship with one of these murderous feelines living in the 289 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: wild and convince them to stop killing so many birds. 290 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: Please just don't post any video of you doing this socially, 291 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: It's not a good look for you and you'll just 292 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: be embarrassing them too. Moving on and back to Utah, 293 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: a trail runner had a run in with a mountain 294 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: lion mama who pursued him up the trail for a 295 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: total of six minutes. Utah Department of Natural Resources is 296 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: not going to kill the cap and has suggested the 297 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: jogger learn how to slowly blink. Moving on to the U. 298 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: S d A desk where we're gonna talk numbers. U 299 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: s d A released last week recent totals of animals 300 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: that were either killed, euthanized, freed, and relocated by wildlife 301 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: services in the US in the year two thousand nineteen. 302 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: This included over sixty two thousand coyotes, twenty four thousand, 303 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: five hundred beavers. Is it's eight hundred bobcats, thirteen hundred 304 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 1: gray foxes, twelve hundred red foxes, four hundred black bears, 305 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: three hundred gray wolves, three hundred cougars, eighteen thousand brown 306 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: tree snakes, thirty one bald eagles, ten thousand black vultures, 307 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: three hundred, sixty thousand red wing blackbirds, it's twenty five 308 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: thousand Canadian geese, and a single grizzly bear. I'm not 309 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: real great at math, but I think that adds up 310 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: to around one point two million wild animals killed last year. 311 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: That might seem like a crazy amount of death at 312 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: the hands of our government. But when you think of 313 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: the number of human wildlife conflicts that needs solved around 314 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: our country or on any given day, you can start 315 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: to see how we might top the one million mark here. 316 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: According to U s d A APHIS Wildlife Services, their 317 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: mission is to provide federal leadership and expertise to resolve 318 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist. That's 319 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: a sticky job at best, though APHIS employees operate under 320 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,959 Speaker 1: a strict code of ethics in the field and are 321 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: dedicated to data and common sense driven wildlife management methods. 322 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: There's a long list of duties that you wouldn't probably 323 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: consider to be in the purview of the U s 324 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: d A, but they're relevant to all of us. Nonetheless. 325 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 1: Take urban rodent management programs or feral free ranging and 326 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: hybrid dog damage management, for example, and you can even 327 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: throw in a little double crested cormorant damage management for 328 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: good measure. Some are surely not happy with the death 329 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: toll reported here, arguing that North America's iconic wildlife is 330 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: being needlessly killed using taxpayers money. But look deeper and 331 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: you'll often find it's those taxpayers making phone calls instead 332 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: of closing their garage doors and bringing in their garbage 333 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: that end in the death of a black bear. So 334 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: in lieu of us folks being responsible picking up after 335 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: ourselves and keeping animals out of these quote conflict situations, 336 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: somebody has to come in and deal with it. One 337 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: thing US Americans seem to need is to have somebody 338 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: pick up the phone. So the next time you leave 339 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: the dog food out on the porch, or you're going 340 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: out to fill up yet another bird feeder that's been 341 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: knocked over, please consider bringing the bird feeder in for 342 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: a while or just feeding the dog inside. Because there 343 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: is a phone number you can call, and as the 344 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: reality TV hero of The Working Man Micro once said, 345 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: somebody's got to do it. Moving onto the shark desk, 346 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: where some are protesting a new proposed COVID nineteen vaccine 347 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: because it would kill too many sharks. Oddly enough, has 348 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: been the deadliest year in regards to shark attacks on humans. 349 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 1: Maybe they saw this vaccine coming. If only the writers 350 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: of Shark Nado one, two, three, four, and five and 351 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: the last Shark Nado would have gotten their hands on 352 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: a storyline like this one, we would all have been 353 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 1: highly entertained. A group of great white sharks targets humans 354 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: in response to humans targeting great white sharks. All jokes aside, 355 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: this debate is very real. It all started with a 356 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: substance known as shark squaling, a natural organic compound found 357 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: in shark liver oil. This compound is a common moisturizing 358 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: ingredient in cosmetics, and it's used in malaria and flu 359 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: vaccines as an agent that boost the immune system's response. 360 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: They call it an adjuvant, a chemical that kick starts 361 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: the immune system into action, driving stronger, longer lasting protection 362 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: against disease. Katherine McDonald, a shark biologist in Florida, told 363 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: NPR that between sixty three million and two hundred and 364 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: seventy three million sharks die at the hands of humans 365 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: each year, and liver oil is harvested from at least 366 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: a couple million of them. Two companies, Glaxo Smith Klein 367 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: and Sequarists manufacture adjuvants that contain about ten milligrams of 368 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: squaling per dose in a number of coronavirus vaccines currently 369 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: being tested in humans. So we're already using this stuff 370 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: seems only natural to apply it to a desperately needed 371 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: vaccine for COVID. As you might imagine, it ain't that simple. 372 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: A group called Shark Allies recently created waves on social 373 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: media and beyond as they mounted a campaign calling on 374 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: the Food and Drug Administration to stop companies from sourcing 375 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: the compound from sharks. The group says that a mass 376 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 1: distribution of the COVID vaccine would mean extracting tissue from 377 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: more than five hundred thousand sharks. The group started hashtag 378 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: free Vaccines an initiative in an online petition which has 379 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: over sixty thousand signatures. Their hope is for companies to 380 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 1: transition from shark derived squaling to alternatively derived squaling as 381 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: it is sustainable and environmentally friendly. Evan Berland, director of 382 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: US corporate communications for g s K, said the company 383 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: is committed to environmental stewardship and is actively exploring the 384 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: potential for alternative sources of its raw materials when possible. 385 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: The company also told NPR and others that the squaling 386 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: they provide comes from sharks typically caught for other purposes. 387 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: As of this recording, this debate rages on, and Shark 388 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: Allies continue their pr campaign on behalf of Sharks Everywhere. 389 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: Fact is there were one hundred and ninety three coronavirus 390 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 1: vaccines and clinical and pre clinical evaluation, and only five 391 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: of those vaccines contain shark squaling. Shark Allies Executive director 392 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: Stephanie Brendel says is that when it comes to a 393 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: potentially life saving vaccine, she isn't saying that shark populations 394 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: are worthier of protection than humans. But here's what she 395 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: did say about sharks. They keep our fish stock healthy, 396 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: they keep the food chain intact, they keep diseases out 397 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: of other animal populations. Good luck trying to replace that 398 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: when we lose them. We'll keep a close eye on 399 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: this one as it rages on, with hopes that we 400 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: can have the best of both worlds an effective vaccine 401 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: that doesn't kill sharks. That's all I've got for you 402 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: this week. Thanks for listening. As always, let me know 403 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: what's happening in your neck of the woods by writing 404 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: in to a s k C. A. L Let's asked 405 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 1: cal at the Meat Theater dot com. Thanks again, I'll 406 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: talk to you next week.