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Speaker 2: It's time for Why It's the Way it Is. Today.
Speaker 2: On Why It's the Way it is, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about eyeballs, which seems kind of funny, but we're
Speaker 2: not gonna talk about how eyeballs work necessarily. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about where eyeballs sit on an animal's head, Okay, meaning,
Speaker 2: why are a rabbit's like picture a rabbit in your mind.
Speaker 2: Why are a rabbit's eyes kind of buggy and they
Speaker 2: stick out in their position way out on the sides
Speaker 2: of his head, all right? Compared to why are your
Speaker 2: eyeballs in the front of your head and real close together?
Speaker 2: The answer to that question is where your eyeballs sit
Speaker 2: on your head or where an animal's eyeballs sit on
Speaker 2: its head. Has to do with whether the animal is
Speaker 2: a predator, meaning it hunts for other animals to eat,
Speaker 2: or it's a prey animal or a vegetarian or herbivore
Speaker 2: meaning it eats vegetation and gets hunted by predators. Let's
Speaker 2: start for a minute with your own head. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: think about your own head for a second. Your eyes
Speaker 2: are a predator's eyes. You have a couple predator things
Speaker 2: on you. You have eye teeth or like canine teeth,
Speaker 2: pointy teeth. Okay, that's a predator adaptation. And you have
Speaker 2: eyes that sit close together on the front of your head.
Speaker 2: So as a predator, what you're pretty good at is
Speaker 2: you're good at focusing on something and telling how far
Speaker 2: away it is. Okay, that's your specialty. Now let's jump
Speaker 2: to a rabbit. A rabbit has eyes, buggy eyes, way
Speaker 2: out on the side of its head. Here's the crazy
Speaker 2: thing about a rabbit. A rabbit can pretty much see
Speaker 2: straight behind it. If you imagine a circle. We describe
Speaker 2: a circle as a three hundred and sixty degree loop. Okay,
Speaker 2: a rabbit can see most of that three hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty degree circle around itself. It can't see directly right
Speaker 2: behind its skull, but it can see behind itself okay,
Speaker 2: because those eyes that are stuck out to the sides
Speaker 2: of its head are looking all around. The right eye
Speaker 2: is seeing its own world off to the right, and
Speaker 2: the left eye is seeing its own world way off
Speaker 2: to the left. The eyes don't do a lot of
Speaker 2: what we call binocular vision, meaning the eyes don't work
Speaker 2: together to aim and concentrate on a specific item. A
Speaker 2: rabbit's eyes or a deer's eyes or a cow's eyes
Speaker 2: are just surveying all around them. They need to detect
Speaker 2: a threat movement, right. So if it's a rabbit, he
Speaker 2: is looking in an almost complete circle around him while
Speaker 2: he eats, while he does whatever he does. If he
Speaker 2: just sits there and rests, he's looking at almost a
Speaker 2: complete circle around him, and his eyes are really good
Speaker 2: at picking up on a movement which signifies the approach
Speaker 2: of a predator. The rabbit doesn't need to stare at
Speaker 2: the predator. The rabbit doesn't need to tell exactly how
Speaker 2: far away the predator is. He just needs to know
Speaker 2: so it's there and what direction it is so he
Speaker 2: can run the other way. He's a prey animal and
Speaker 2: he's watching out for predators. Let's jump to a predator's
Speaker 2: eyes for a minute. How they sit really close together.
Speaker 2: So let's jump to say the fox. And if you
Speaker 2: kind of want to understand the eye placement on a fox,
Speaker 2: if you have a pet dog, very very similar, they're
Speaker 2: both canines. Your dog's eyes are really close together on
Speaker 2: his head. Now, your dog has okay, peripheral vision, like
Speaker 2: he can see off to the side pretty good, right,
Speaker 2: But his specialty is is that he can use both
Speaker 2: of his closely placed eyes to focus on something. And
Speaker 2: you'll notice if you watch a dog or watch a
Speaker 2: cat and they're watching something moving around, both of their
Speaker 2: eyes are moving to track its motion. They're using binocular vision,
Speaker 2: meeting their eyes are working together. What that does is
Speaker 2: that it gives you something called depth perception. Okay, so
Speaker 2: let's jump to a cat. For instance, a cat is
Speaker 2: watching a mouse go across the floor. He's watching it
Speaker 2: with both of those eyes. He's using his binocular vision,
Speaker 2: which is giving the cat depth perception, meaning that cat,
Speaker 2: by using both of its eyes, knows that when it jumps,
Speaker 2: it knows exactly how far away that mouse is.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Because it's using both of his eyes to look at it.
Speaker 2: It knows exactly how far that mouse is, and he's
Speaker 2: going to jump on it and grab it. So that
Speaker 2: explains a little bit about why your eyes are positioned
Speaker 2: where they are, or why an animal's eyes are positioned
Speaker 2: where they are on its head. But let's talk for
Speaker 2: one quick second about their pupils. Now, if you look
Speaker 2: in the mirror at your own eye, your pupil is
Speaker 2: the dark spot in the center of your eye. Your
Speaker 2: pupil could be brown, it could be blue, maybe you
Speaker 2: have green eyes. Whatever it is, that's the pupil. That
Speaker 2: circle thing, it's a circle on you, on a human,
Speaker 2: but on a lot of predators and prey, the pupils
Speaker 2: have a different shape. They're like a long slit. They're
Speaker 2: kind of like a bar. Okay, now on a lot
Speaker 2: of prey animals. Like if you go look at a
Speaker 2: let's say a horse or goat, you go look at
Speaker 2: its pupil. Its pupil is horizontal, so it's like a
Speaker 2: flat bar that runs horizontally. If you look at a cat,
Speaker 2: its pupil is a vertical bar that runs up and down.
Speaker 2: This is another way that the structure of the eye
Speaker 2: helps you do what your main job is. That horizontal
Speaker 2: pupil is meant for looking way around in a circle,
Speaker 2: all around you. It's meant to have really good peripheral vision.
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is if you watch, like let's say
Speaker 2: you're watching a horse and he's got that slit pupil,
Speaker 2: that horizontal bar pupil. When a horse drops his head
Speaker 2: down to eat grass, his eyes are not staring at
Speaker 2: the ground. His eyes roll almost like roll back into
Speaker 2: the back of his head so that that horizontal bar
Speaker 2: stays horizontal. So he's always scanning. So even when his
Speaker 2: head's down eating grass, he's scanning all around him for predators.
Speaker 2: These other animals with the vertical slid are animals sometimes
Speaker 2: that hunt at night, so that vertical slit is good
Speaker 2: for gathering light, and it also seems to be really
Speaker 2: good for determining distance and depth perception. Again, because he's
Speaker 2: focusing on something he wants to jump on and kill,
Speaker 2: and that eye, that shape of that pupil and where
Speaker 2: his eyes sit on his head allows him to focus
Speaker 2: on it and know how far away it is, so
Speaker 2: that when it makes its attack, when it makes its leap,
Speaker 2: it's very accurate. So here's the thing you can do.
Speaker 2: As you drive around with your parents, or you walk
Speaker 2: around or whatever. You look at different pets you might have,
Speaker 2: or you go and you're at a farm and you
Speaker 2: look at different farm animals. Take a look at their
Speaker 2: eyes and think about where those eyes are placed down
Speaker 2: their head. And take a look at their pupils and
Speaker 2: see how their pupils are shaped. And see if what
Speaker 2: I'm telling you makes sense. There are exceptions to these
Speaker 2: rules i'm giving you, so you might catch me where
Speaker 2: you think I was wrong, because there are some exceptions.
Speaker 2: But what I'm telling you is generally true. Predators have
Speaker 2: eyes in the front of their head that are close together.
Speaker 2: Prey animals have eyes off the side of their head
Speaker 2: that are spread away out, and they look kind of buggy.
Speaker 2: They're kind of sticking out so they can see all
Speaker 2: around them real good. So pay attention out there when
Speaker 2: you're looking at animals, and you tell me if I
Speaker 2: seem like I'm kind of right or if I seem
Speaker 2: like I'm kind of wrong. I think I'm kind of right.
Speaker 4: What's the shark's favorite?
Speaker 5: Say, peanut butter and jellyfish.
Speaker 2: Now it's time for how to make a critter. Call Clay,
Speaker 2: here's going to teach you how to make the sound
Speaker 2: of a barred owl.
Speaker 6: Hey, kids, my name is Clay Nukem, and I want
Speaker 6: to teach you today about how you can call animals
Speaker 6: with your own voice. There are some animals that the
Speaker 6: human voice box is really good at mimicking. And today
Speaker 6: I want to teach you something that I love to do,
Speaker 6: and that is to call barred owls b a r
Speaker 6: r ed barred owls.
Speaker 2: The bard owl lives in North.
Speaker 6: America and it typically lived in the eastern deciduous forests
Speaker 6: like the East half of America, but in the last
Speaker 6: period of time they've migrated and moved and spread into
Speaker 6: the Spacific northwest all the way up into Alaska. I
Speaker 6: heard a bard owl in Alaska the other day. The
Speaker 6: barred owl is an incredible animal and it's a raptor.
Speaker 2: It's a predator.
Speaker 6: It catches mice and small mammals, and to me, the
Speaker 6: most unique thing about it is that they are almost
Speaker 6: completely nocturnal, which means they only come out and hunt
Speaker 6: at night. That's primarily when they're out and when they hunt,
Speaker 6: and they have incredible vision. But here it is when
Speaker 6: they fly, they don't make a sound. The tips of
Speaker 6: their feathers are built in such a way that when
Speaker 6: it flows across the air, it doesn't make a noise.
Speaker 6: I think that's really cool. But the barn owl is
Speaker 6: very vocal. They make noises all the time. And my
Speaker 6: dad taught me how to barred out hoot. And there's
Speaker 6: a phrase that we can use that will help us
Speaker 6: remember the sequence and cadence of the noise, and it's this,
Speaker 6: who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all? Say
Speaker 6: that with me, say who.
Speaker 2: Cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?
Speaker 6: And so we're gonna replace each of those words with
Speaker 6: a hoot. And you make a hoot by making your
Speaker 6: lips into kind of an o shape and from deep
Speaker 6: down in your chest go So you make the barred
Speaker 6: al call by connecting hoots into that specific sequence and
Speaker 6: cadence of who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?
Speaker 6: And it sounds something like this, who cooks for you?
Speaker 6: Who cooks for you all? I want you to try it. Now,
Speaker 6: try that. And the reason that I like the barred
Speaker 6: ourt hoot is that if you're a turkey hunter, we
Speaker 6: use the barred our hoot to locate turkeys, which is
Speaker 6: kind of wild. But a male turkey will gobble at
Speaker 6: the sound of a barred owl hooting, and we call
Speaker 6: it a shock gobble. It's almost like they're shocks that
Speaker 6: they hurt an owl, and so they they gobble.
Speaker 2: And so that's the.
Speaker 6: Reason a bart our hoot is really important to a
Speaker 6: turkey hunter, and it's important to a lot of people
Speaker 6: that like to hunt. Let's try it again one last time,
Speaker 6: the barred ol hoot?
Speaker 2: Who cooks for you?
Speaker 6: Who cooks for you all?
Speaker 4: How did the bear feel after he ate the comedian?
Speaker 4: He felt funny.
Speaker 2: It's time for everyone's favorite game show, Trivia. Let's all
Speaker 2: join in.
Speaker 7: I'm joined by May Matthew, Rosie, Hayden, Conley, Sage, Hattie,
Speaker 7: and Bay. Each player will learn ten dollars for conservation
Speaker 7: with every question they get right today. There's a potential
Speaker 7: for this room to earn up to two hundred and
Speaker 7: forty dollars this week. That donation is going to the
Speaker 7: National Wild Turkey Federation, which publishes the kids magazine about
Speaker 7: wildlife conservation called Jake's Country. Let's see how much money
Speaker 7: our players can raise. Question one, what object in the
Speaker 7: night sky is known as URSA major. Is it the
Speaker 7: north Star, the Big Dipper or full moon? What object
Speaker 7: in the night sky is known as ursa major? Is
Speaker 7: it north Star, Big Dipper or full moon? Last week
Speaker 7: our players were very confident. They declared the questions were
Speaker 7: too easy, but this one may have stumped them.
Speaker 8: You're having three choices.
Speaker 7: Your three choices are north Star, Big Dipper or full moon.
Speaker 7: One of those things is called ursa major. Not so cocky, now,
Speaker 7: are we kids?
Speaker 9: Is everybody ready?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 8: Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Speaker 7: Bee north Star, Rosie Mabel north Star, Hattie Hayden, Big Dipper, Sage, Conley, Matthew.
Speaker 9: The correct answer.
Speaker 8: Is the Big Dipper.
Speaker 9: About half of you got that right.
Speaker 7: Ursa major is Latin for great bear or big bear.
Speaker 7: And although most look at the constellation and see a
Speaker 7: ladle for scooping water, the Greeks and Native Americans saw
Speaker 7: a large bear, while the Egyptians saw an ox pulling
Speaker 7: a plow. So if ursa major is the Big Dipper,
Speaker 7: then what do.
Speaker 9: You guys think the name for the little Dipper is?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 2: You go?
Speaker 9: You got it, Hayden, some minor is.
Speaker 4: The little Dipper?
Speaker 9: Question? Two.
Speaker 7: What's it called when an animal regrows a body part? Photosynthesis,
Speaker 7: regeneration or fermentation. What's it called when an animal regrows
Speaker 7: a body part photosynthesis, regeneration or fermentation?
Speaker 9: You got this one right, Matthew.
Speaker 4: No embarrassing?
Speaker 8: And why would it be so embarrassing?
Speaker 4: Well, because we talk about like things like grown stuff
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 5: And like.
Speaker 8: Mabel, how do you feel about your answer?
Speaker 4: I'm pretty pretty happy with it, just because I don't know.
Speaker 9: Okay, Sage, you're not You're not real kind.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't get it right.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 7: What's it called when an animal regrows a body part? Photosynthesis,
Speaker 7: regeneration or fermentation. What do you got Conley? Okay, you've
Speaker 7: narrowed it down to two of the three. Everybody ready, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: and reveal your answers.
Speaker 5: Bay regeneration, Rosy, Mabel regeneration, Hattie regeneration, Hayden regeneration, Sage regeneration.
Speaker 7: Conley, Matthew, the correct answer is regeneration.
Speaker 9: Room did pretty well.
Speaker 7: Moto synthesis is when plants turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Speaker 7: Fermentation is the chemical breakdown of a substance and Regeneration
Speaker 7: is the process of replacing damaged cells, tissues, or organs.
Speaker 7: Some animals with regeneration are salamanders who can regrow their tail,
Speaker 7: starfish who can regrow their arms, and axiltels who can
Speaker 7: regrow their legs.
Speaker 9: You love them.
Speaker 7: Now, if you could grow an extra leg or an
Speaker 7: extra arm, which would you pick?
Speaker 4: Leg?
Speaker 8: What do you do with the extra leg, Matthew, Well.
Speaker 4: If I regrowed my leg, I think it'd be more.
Speaker 5: Helpful, more help because I could just I could just
Speaker 5: get up.
Speaker 4: One of those robots.
Speaker 7: You're gonna need some extra shoes and think you might
Speaker 7: to an extra Yeah, now this side of the room
Speaker 7: wanted an extra arm.
Speaker 4: No, I want an extra brain because you could grab
Speaker 4: more stuff at the same time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, scare people, But like extra toe is just cool,
Speaker 5: like because like you could be like I actually have
Speaker 5: eleven toes, Like, well, everybody else has ten.
Speaker 8: I have eleven.
Speaker 9: I can't debate that that's.
Speaker 4: The same as like an arm, you have two arms,
Speaker 4: I have three? Yeah.
Speaker 9: I question three.
Speaker 7: Which of these states does not touch the Mississippi River?
Speaker 7: Is it Missouri, Mississippi or New York? Which of these
Speaker 7: states does not touch the Mississippi River, Missouri, Mississippi or
Speaker 7: New York.
Speaker 9: Okay, but you.
Speaker 4: Guys realized that it could actually be what you guys
Speaker 4: are thinking.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 4: Wow, New York is all the way like the top
Speaker 4: of the U S. I know, I'm not saying. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying that the Missouri River is in New York.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is.
Speaker 8: Do you think I tried to trick you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Okay. Is everybody ready which the states does not touch
Speaker 7: the Mississippi? Is it Missouri, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Or New York.
Speaker 7: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Babe, New York, Rosie.
Speaker 4: New York, Mabel, New York, New York.
Speaker 7: Hayden, New York, Sage, New York, Conley, New York, Matthew,
Speaker 7: New York.
Speaker 8: Everybody got it right.
Speaker 9: The correct answer was New York. New York is about six.
Speaker 7: Hundred miles miles away from the Mississippi River. Besides Missouri
Speaker 7: and Mississippi, the river flows through eight other states. So
Speaker 7: here's what we're going to do. For every state you
Speaker 7: guys can name that touches the Mississippi River, We're going
Speaker 7: to add an extra ten dollars to the donation. But
Speaker 7: it's three strikes and you're out. So everybody talk it
Speaker 7: over about what states you think could be and then
Speaker 7: Mabel will deliver the final answer.
Speaker 4: Mississippi, Mississippi, Missouri.
Speaker 8: So you know Mississippi and Missouri. There are eight other states, both.
Speaker 2: Of the Dakotas.
Speaker 9: Maybe what do you think it is?
Speaker 4: Think I'm gonna go as North Dakota. It's miss Oh
Speaker 4: my god, how do you know?
Speaker 7: You don't know that North Dakota is not one of
Speaker 7: the states that.
Speaker 9: Give us give us a second stick.
Speaker 4: Kentucky exact. Oh gosh, Okay.
Speaker 8: Matthew is pretty confident Minnesota.
Speaker 9: Do you trust him?
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't trust.
Speaker 4: I don't really don't trust.
Speaker 2: Trust.
Speaker 4: It's no no trust me. I swear it's right, it's right.
Speaker 7: The good news is if Matthew is wrong, you can
Speaker 7: he'll hear about it for the rest of his life.
Speaker 8: So but if he's right, you guys add ten.
Speaker 4: Dollars for trusting. You don't have to do it.
Speaker 5: But I'm just saying you could because I think nobody
Speaker 5: else giving me any help and I have matt White yet, Like,
Speaker 5: why do you know?
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, Minnesota, Minnesota.
Speaker 8: What it's correct that is one of them.
Speaker 7: That means there are seven more states to go or
Speaker 7: two strikes.
Speaker 9: Mabel, do you want to give us another staying?
Speaker 4: I don't really want to, but I don't know.
Speaker 8: Do you want to give the responsibility to someone else?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Okay has a responsibility? Give me a stay at Addie?
Speaker 9: You strike and seven states to go?
Speaker 4: This is kind of scary.
Speaker 5: I know it is all all trust stage Kentucky.
Speaker 7: Kentucky is correct, you guys, states and one strike?
Speaker 9: Who else wants to give us an answer? Hayden, do
Speaker 9: you want to be in charge.
Speaker 8: Of the next day?
Speaker 7: Rosie would like to be in charge in the church. Now,
Speaker 7: do you guys have any input for Rosie on what.
Speaker 9: The next stay?
Speaker 4: I think maybe the Virginia's is Alabama? Touching? Yes, ta Alabama?
Speaker 4: I agree with Mabel. Alabama Alaba Alabama?
Speaker 9: Alabama is incorrect. You guys, have.
Speaker 7: You want and six states to go? Say you're gonna
Speaker 7: be in charge of the next one? Do you guys
Speaker 7: have any input for Sage?
Speaker 9: I want the next Hio?
Speaker 4: No, don't do a high up No say Ohio? Don't wait?
Speaker 4: Wait wait wait?
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe like Georgia episode Wait does Montana No?
Speaker 9: Okay, sage, give us a state.
Speaker 8: Virginia is incorrect.
Speaker 7: That is your time strike. Idaho is incorrect. Back the
Speaker 7: other six. The other six states are Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Speaker 7: and Louisiana. But the good news is you guys added
Speaker 7: an extra twenty dollars to.
Speaker 9: The end, So fill the engineer. How much money did we.
Speaker 8: Raise with that additional twenty dollars?
Speaker 1: They raised a total of one hundred eighty dollars, one
Speaker 1: hundred eighty dollars.
Speaker 8: Going to the National Wild Turkey Federations. Well done, kids.
Speaker 8: Join us next week for more.
Speaker 7: Meat Eater Kids Trivia, the only other game show where
Speaker 7: conservation always winds.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to everyone, See you next week on
Speaker 2: Meat Eater Kids.