1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediators 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 Kell and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: here's cal super Bowl is still a few weeks away, 4 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean you should put down the old 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: snake skim. In order to promote the Florida Python Challenge, 6 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: which I'll explain in a couple of minutes, Florida Governor 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: Rhonda Santas, the NFL in the Florida Fish and Wildlife 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Conservation Commission are giving away python skin footballs to v 9 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: I P super Bowl guests. Super Bowl fifty four will 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: be in Miami this January. Miami is known for many things. 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: Cubano's art deco fashion and the average elevation of six feet, 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: those little coffees made with espresso and sweet and condensed 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: milk that give minor heart attacks, drag shows, beaches, stone crabs, 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: the movie star face, and all that stuff you already know. 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: But here's something you probably didn't know. Miami is the 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: only major US city to be founded by a woman. 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: Citrus grower Julia Tuttle lobbied to reroute a rail line 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: to the then town of three hundred in eighteen seventy six. 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: Miami grew like crazy from there. That happened about forty 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,639 Speaker 1: four years before women were allowed to vote in the US. 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: Imagine that, of course, for some of US. Miami and 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: Florida in general are known for invasive species. About of 23 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: the life that crawls or swims in South Florida isn't native. 24 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: That doesn't include the non native plants, well over a 25 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: thousand of which are thriving in the nearby Everglades. Quick 26 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: side note for you, there's a difference between exotic species 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: and invasive species. An exotic species is a non native 28 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: with minimal impact, something we enjoy and are willing to 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: put up with, like the Chinese ringneck pheasant, Hungarian partridge, 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: rainbow trout in a lot of air is, or maybe 31 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: even the Sika deer. An invasive species is a non 32 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: native that we find to be a pain in the ass, 33 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: something that destroys and sometimes eliminates native wildlife, like the 34 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: common house cat or more specific to this story, and 35 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: back to that catchy opening phrase of throwing the old 36 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: snake skin around the python. In an effort to curb 37 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: the spread of pythons throughout the state, the Florida Python 38 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: Challenge has been held every three years since two thousand thirteen. 39 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: There are prizes for the longest, heaviest, and most pythons captured. 40 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: In two thousand thirteen, the largest python measured fourteen ft 41 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: three inches long. In two thousand sixteen, six hundred snake 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: hunters participated. The winners brought in thirty three snakes, including 43 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: one big Lady. She measured fifteen feet and a hundred 44 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds, which was the biggest of the competition. 45 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: The combination prize for most and biggest netted the team 46 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars. Though that team's bag sounds impressive, most 47 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: of the old apparently didn't know what they were doing, 48 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: since only a hundred and six total pythons were caught. 49 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: Hunters in Snake Bowl will have to go through a 50 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: mandatory thirty minute online python identification training course, as well 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: as adhere to the listed humane means of capture and 52 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: killing the pythons. One humane means of take listed is decapitation. 53 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: Peter the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took 54 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: issue with this particular method, saying quote allowing hunters to 55 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: decapitate pythons who remain alive and an agony and who 56 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: will writhe for an hour even after their heads are 57 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: cut off, is despicably cruel. I reached out to a 58 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: veterinary friend of mine to make sure snakes do not 59 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: remain alive and an agony after their heads are cut off. 60 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: She assured me they do not, and in her opinion, 61 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: as far as animal death and rights go, snake decapitation 62 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: has nothing to lose your head over. In all seriousness, 63 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: I think it is incredibly cool that during something like 64 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, an event that encourages apathy and laziness, 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: the state of Florida is taking the opportunity to promote 66 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: ecosystem health by highlighting invasive species issues and encouraging folks 67 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: to get motivated. They're in estimated, and keep in mind, 68 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: nobody actually knows three hundred thousand burmese pythons in Florida. 69 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: They have no natural predators and do an incredible amount 70 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: of damage to the native wildlife by eating it. You 71 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: do not need to participate in the Python Bowl to 72 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,239 Speaker 1: get in on the action, as Florida's Python Challenge actually 73 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: goes on all year long. The state incentivizes python removal, 74 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: So if you find a snake, kill it and document 75 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: the where and when of when you encountered the snake. 76 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: You will receive a Python Pickup Program T shirt and 77 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: be entered into a grand prize winner announced October. Read 78 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: all about it at www dot my f WC dot com. 79 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: So next time you head for the Sunshine State, have 80 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: this question in mind. What are the kids going to 81 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: remember more another beach side stand with overpriced ice cream 82 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: and obnoxious T shirts or mom hip deep in the 83 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: Everglades wrestling of fourteen foot Python. Make this next one 84 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: a conservation vacation. As per usual, Col's we Can Review. 85 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: This podcast is powered by Steel Power Equipment. They make 86 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: a wide range of awesome stuff for folks who like 87 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: to do things with their hands, including these super clean, quiet, nifty, 88 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: little backpackable and extreme situations battery powered chainsaws that pack 89 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: a lot of power. This week we've got the surprisingly 90 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: diverse sex lives of mccox, What on the Prowl means, 91 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you 92 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: about my week. I went to Nebraska to hunt for 93 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: the first time ever, took part in the late muzzleloader 94 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,239 Speaker 1: season outside of Chadron, Nebraska. Have pretty darn good time. 95 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: That portion of the state has really cool spots, fairly 96 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: diverse terrain, big rock bluffs, deep and varied history. Crazy 97 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: horse entered there and was killed there, all sorts of stuff. 98 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: The deer had been chase for a few months prior 99 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: to our arrival, and we're quite sensitive to human activity, 100 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: so you really had to be on your toes. Pretty 101 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: good snow storm arrived just before we did, followed by 102 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: a warm sunny stretch with freezing tempts at night. The 103 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: result of all this was snow everywhere, covered in a heavy, 104 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: loud crust, especially loud since the storm seemingly took all 105 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: the wind with it when it left. In short, finding 106 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: deer was relatively easy. Getting within muzzleloader range, however, proved 107 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: relatively hard. As often as the case on these types 108 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: of trips, some of the side stories made for the 109 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: best memories. We stayed at the Westerner Motel about sixty 110 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: bucks a night for a single room. The Westerner prides 111 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: itself on Western hospitality, and although the rooms don't have 112 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: kitchen ats, they don't mind if you cook on the 113 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: tailgate in front of your room. Spencer new Hearth made 114 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: a couple of batches of turkey soup Sam long grun 115 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: stirred Fred's milk, and we, in true Midwest fashion, even 116 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: got the West and deep Friar out for something the 117 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: South Dakotains called chisslick, which is cube fried meat served 118 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: with saltenes and toothpicks. I also met a whole pile 119 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: of cool old ranchers in that area, which I have 120 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: a tendency to do. At a restaurant called Helen's that 121 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: advertises steaks and pancakes, we ran into a group of 122 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: ranchers average age about seventy eight guests who were playing 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: dice for money at eight am. Uh. They seemed to 124 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: be pretty serious about it, so I didn't chat him 125 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: up too much. I hopped a flight out of Chattering 126 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: via boutique Care, which appeared to be an old private 127 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: plane repurposed as a commercial buddle jumper. Chatted with a 128 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: rancher on board who was very excited his wife finally 129 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: pride him lose from the ranch to attend the NFR 130 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: in Vegas. That's National Finals Rodeo for those of you 131 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: who are not in the know. We got to talking 132 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: and I found out that he and his wife both 133 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: worked in Alaska before settling in chattering. They worked for 134 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: an oil company and taught school, and said the key 135 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: to living up there was to have a plane and 136 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: no machines, which they did. I was quite interested in 137 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: the plane, as anyone with their head on straight as 138 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: at some point which they lived in Alaska and owned 139 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: a plane, preferably with a set of tund retires and skis. 140 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: Mind you, this conversation was going on in a very 141 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: cramped airplane and included three other people who don't fly often. 142 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: The ex pilot rancher got excited started telling stories about 143 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: all these different places. He took his piper cup, which 144 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: made one of the other passengers noticeably uncomfortable. Eventually, one 145 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: of these uncomfortable passengers turned to the pilot rancher and said, 146 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: just so you know, none of this sounds good to me. 147 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: The pilot rancher responded, you know that cub only has 148 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: a top speed about eighty miles per hour, so you 149 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: can't get into too much trouble with them, although I 150 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: did crash it a few times which left me crying 151 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: in laughter. All in all, real good flight if you 152 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: are interested. My muzzleloader hunt ended without a bang, more 153 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: like a pop and a fizzle. But it was a 154 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: good time and cool country. You can look forward to 155 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: seeing all of it in a future episode of Meat 156 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: Eater Hunts, which will air on the Meat Eater YouTube 157 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: channel in the new year. Some quick housekeeping I've gotten 158 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: quite a few emails from the state of Delaware sent 159 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: me straight on Sunday hunting. Had previously included Delaware and 160 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: a list of states where Sunday hunting is illegal. Well, 161 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: it turns out that this hunting season, Delaware has allowed 162 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: Sunday deer hunting specifically on private land and some public land. 163 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: You can get the specifics and you should before you 164 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: take to the hills at www dot d n R 165 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: e C dot Delaware dot gov. Need to offer some 166 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: clarification on heavy duty three mill painters Latex gloves, which 167 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: is my glove of choice for my little kill kit. 168 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,319 Speaker 1: I learned from a listener named Dave that three mill 169 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: gloves are not the same as three millimeter gloves. The 170 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: three mill on the box is not millimeter. Three millimeters 171 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: is roughly an eighth of an inch, which is pretty 172 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: damn thick glove. According to Dave, the three mill actually 173 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: refers to three thousands of an inch or point zero 174 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: zero three A mill is one thousand. That's really picking 175 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: the ant crap out of the pepper boys. I'm just kidding. 176 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: This is a knowledge based podcast, so thank you for 177 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: sending me straight for my weekly call to action. I'm 178 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: gonna land pretty darn close to home. If you're one 179 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: of those folks who's into trout fishing, then you've probably 180 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: heard of the Madison River. Folks travel from all over 181 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: the world to our backyard here in Bozeman to fish 182 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: this ditch, probably because it boasts some ridiculously high trout numbers, 183 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 1: upwards of five thousand per mile. The thing is, it 184 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: also boasts some ridiculously high numbers of people fishing for trout, 185 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: and over the past decade that number has been skyrocketing. 186 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: In two thousand eleven, there were eighty eight thousand anglier 187 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: days on the Madison, but by two thousand seventeen that 188 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: number climbed to two hundred and seven thousand, with most 189 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: of that traffic coming between mid June and the beginning 190 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: of October. Some stretches of the river have well over 191 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: one boats on them per day during peak season, and 192 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: all this crowding has led to the difficult conundrum of 193 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: if and how to regulate river use. This is a 194 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: public waterway that belongs to all of us. We all 195 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: have equal right to it. Anglers don't want their fishing 196 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: days limited, and guides and outfitters don't want the state 197 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: government to cap or shrink their businesses. But the numbers 198 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: clearly show that we've got a problem. So how do 199 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: we control the guest list to the party in a 200 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: way that feels fair and equitable. Montana Fish, Wildlife and 201 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: Parks is in the process of trying to figure that 202 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: out right now. They're conducting a survey until January six 203 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: to get as much public input on the matter as possible. 204 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: I don't have a solution, but I do know that 205 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: more people who contribute to their thinking, the better chance 206 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: we have of coming up with a fair solution. So 207 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: if you fish the Madison, or you'd like to fish 208 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: the Madison sometime in the future, go to the Montana Fish, 209 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: Wildlife and Parks website just to hammer this home. If 210 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: you like fishing where the incredible freedoms are public lands 211 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: and waters provide this does concern you, whether you live 212 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: in Montana or not. The public comment link will be 213 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: right there on the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park's homepage. 214 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: Moving on, Japanese macoux are the most northern living non 215 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: human primates in the world. If you're familiar with Japanese macoux, 216 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not saying this right, which I have no doubt, 217 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: I am incorrectly pronouncing macox, I punched it into like 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: the Google Translate thing, and that's what I came up with. 219 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: Knowing sea otters hold hands while they sleep makes my 220 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: algorithms feel all warm and fuzzy. Anyway, They're far northern, 221 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: snowy habitat has also earned them the nickname snow monkeys. 222 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: These are the cute brown furred, red faced monkeys that 223 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: Nature shows always feature grooming each other, nipple deep and 224 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: snow bound hot springs. What isn't shown or necessarily cute, 225 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: depending on who you are, I guess, is the fact 226 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: that adolescent female macoux have set with adult male seek 227 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: a deer called stags. Now, this sexual behavior consists of 228 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: the adolescent females jumping up on the stags back and 229 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: performing some pelvic thrusts. The stag in some cases got 230 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: a few parasites picked off of them in return, although 231 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: it would be hard to say that's what the stag expects. 232 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: Just take a minute and get over yourselves. It's damn 233 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: near twenty. We all know by now that sex isn't 234 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: always done with reproduction in mind. If it were, I 235 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be here. That may be unfair or inaccurate. 236 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: Let me back up. If you were to take my 237 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: three sisters in me as a sample set, I'm willing 238 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: to bet that if reproduction were the primary goal, at 239 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: least one of us wouldn't be here. That is to say, 240 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: sex isn't always done with the intention of population increase. 241 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: If that anecdotal evidence isn't enough for you, nonreproductive sex 242 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: has been documented in all types of animals, from penguins 243 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: to brown bears. The reason the Japanese macoq sex scene 244 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: is being documented now is simply that this may be 245 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: the for documented case of non human primates having sex 246 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: with non primates in the wild. This group of macox 247 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: has been observed for a very long time, and this 248 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: deer mounting behavior has just recently started to occur. One 249 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: theory goes that this could be a form of safe 250 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: sex for the young females, as they are not of 251 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: breeding age, and sex with a male macaque could be 252 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: harmful to them. A recent study in the journal Archives 253 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: of Sexual Behavior also noted that only the mature seeka 254 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: stags tolerate this behavior. The females and young males did not. 255 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: The researchers attributed this simply to the fact that older 256 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: stags were more docile. How's that for monkey business? Sticking 257 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: with the things we do for love, desk Uh Indian 258 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: tiger went on an eight hundred mile walk, about the 259 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: longest ever recorded for any of India's big cats. Adult 260 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: males can attain weight it's beyond five hundred pounds, with 261 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: the largest over seven hundred. The two and a half 262 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: year old male that went on the long trek dispersed 263 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: from the Tepeeshuar Wildlife Sanctuary and over the course of 264 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: five months of wandering through the jungle and agricultural areas 265 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: where he picked off a few cattle, eventually ended his 266 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: trek at another wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra, approximately a hundred 267 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: and eighty six miles from his start. As the crow flies, 268 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: tepehu War Sanctuary is home to a dominant male, which 269 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: left the young tiger little chance of finding a mate 270 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: in his home range. They need to establish his own 271 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: hunting territory as well as finding potential females, is the 272 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: likely reason for his trek. That's what they mean by 273 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: being on the prowl. Enough about cats, We're moving on 274 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: to trustworthy, helpful, and reliable creatures. Dogs. Dogs, the obviously 275 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: superior pet choice, can smell diseases like avian bird flu 276 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: Researchers and biologists from Colorado State University, the National Wildlife 277 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: Research Center, Idaho Fishing Game, and Local Sportsman collaborated in 278 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: an effort to train dogs to detect avian influenza in 279 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: waterfowl this past week in Idaho. Hunter harvested birds were 280 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: a common source of testing for early detection of bird 281 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: flew up until two thousand and ten. According to the 282 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: u s g S, bird flew outbreaks and domestic foul 283 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen called for 284 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: the killing of over five million birds in the US. 285 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: These researchers hope to train dogs to detect the disease, 286 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: with the idea that early detection might help prevent such 287 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: large scale impacts on domestic foul as well as mitigate 288 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: the human disease risk. There have been one thousand five 289 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight confirmed human cases and six hundred 290 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: and sixteen deaths worldwide from the H seven and nine 291 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: strain of bird. Flew that since two thousand thirteen, dogs 292 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: have been trained to detect malaria, cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis 293 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: and humans. Those are good boys. Jumping over to our 294 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: international desk. Peter O'Halleran was snorkeling about four hundred meters 295 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: from shore off Australia's northwest Cape when he felt something 296 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: come up and bite his arm and give him a 297 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: good shake. The fifty seven year old O'Halleran then swam 298 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: for shore, drove himself to the hospital received immediate care 299 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: for the shark bite that quote goes through the meat 300 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: and took off a bit of bone. Then he hopped 301 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: a domestic flight for surgery. The type of shark doing 302 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: the biting is unknown, but I just wanted to include 303 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: this to say Mr Hlleran, I like your style. Study 304 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: out of Hebrew University and the Shawn Brune Zoo in 305 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: Vienna revealed a couple of very interesting things about giant tortoises. 306 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: The giant tortoise can weigh up to nine hundred pounds 307 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: and measure about four and a half feet in length. 308 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: Although giant tortoises were widely distributed prior to human proliferation, 309 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: our ancestors couldn't resist over harvesting these slow moving mounds 310 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: of meat. A famous example from the US came out 311 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: of a sinkhole called Little Salt Spring in Florida, complete 312 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: with a possible spear between its lower plate and carapasts, 313 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: dated to about twelve thousand years ago. Now, however, there 314 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: are only three groups of giant tortoises, two of which 315 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: are distinct, the Aldabra atoll and Frigate Islands and Sayshells 316 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: being one distinct group, and the Glopagos tortoises being the other. 317 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: Aside from being slow moving and apparently easy to kill 318 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: with a stick, the giant tortoises had a few other 319 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: things going against them. By the time pirates and whalers 320 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: crossing the oceans on ships came along. The tortoises can 321 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: survive for a year without food or water, making them 322 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: an ideal sort of livestock to stuff into a ship's 323 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: hold for sailors running short on water. The tortoises next 324 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: stores drinkable water, which could be used as an emergency reserve. Also, 325 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: their meat and oil was apparently delicious. The Glopagos and 326 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: Aldabra tortoises do not hit sexual maturity until thirty years 327 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: of age, at which point female tortoises may only lay 328 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: one clutch of up to twenty four eggs per year. 329 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: Turtle eggs are soft and are buried relatively shallow, making 330 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: them an easy meal for all the introduced rats and 331 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: dogs that came off the ships of explorers like Darwin, whalers, merchants, 332 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: and buccaneers. All of these factors led the wholesale decimation 333 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: of giant tortoises, including the extinction of four species known 334 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: in modern times. At the beginning of this year, we 335 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: did get one species back, so to speak, that was 336 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: previously thought to be extinct. The Fernandina giant tortoise, a 337 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: one year old female, was found on the two d 338 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: thirty four square mile Galapagos Island. The last sighting had 339 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: been recorded in nineteen o six. Although not necessarily a swimmer, 340 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: the giant tortoise can float with its head stretched high 341 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: above the waves, which is how the species is thought 342 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 1: to have distributed itself. A slow but apparently effective method 343 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: of transoceanic tortoise dispersal. In two thousand four, and aldabra 344 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: tortoise covered barnacles was found walking ashore in Kimbiji, Tanzania. 345 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: The tortoise traveled four dred thirty five miles as the 346 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: crow flies. Who knows how far that thing actually plodded 347 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: along before washing ashore. This flies in the phase of 348 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: past theories of tortoise dispersal. Basically that this big, bulky 349 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: critter that moves really slow couldn't have gotten all the 350 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: places it's been found, meaning that people had to move 351 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: them there for a means of future food, or that 352 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: a faster moving turtle than evolved to a tortoise wherever 353 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,239 Speaker 1: they're found now, or possibly that the tortoises have been 354 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: around long enough to where they actually just hitched rides 355 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: on moving tectonic plates. Either way, very cool critter, and 356 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: the aforementioned research makes them even more so. The authors 357 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: found that tortoises were able to be trained to bite 358 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: the same color ball blue, green, or yellow. When tested 359 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: three months later, the tortoises remembered their training and bit 360 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: the appropriate ball. When tested nine years later, the tortoises 361 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: again remembered their appropriate color. What's more, the authors found 362 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: that tortoises that were trained individually took longer to learn 363 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: than tortoises that were trained in a group, suggesting that 364 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: tortoises learn from each other. Some tortoises in captivity have 365 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: survived beyond two hundred years. So the next time you 366 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: think I think he remembers me, you may be right 367 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: when it comes to giant tortoises. Anyway, that's all I've 368 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: got for you this week. Thanks for listening. If you 369 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: like what you hear, tell your friends, share the wealth. 370 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: Let me know what I've got right and what I've 371 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: got wrong. That ask cal at the meat eater dot com. 372 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: That's a s k C A L at the meat 373 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: eater dot com and leave me a review by hitting 374 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: that furthest right hand star. Thanks for listening.